Posted on Mon, January 2, 2012 at 19:36 pm CET
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The Muslim Brotherhood in the Arab World and Islamic Communities in Western Europe

This study examines the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and other Arab countries in the wake of the past year’s regional uprisings… Continue reading

Topics: Egypt • Europe • Islamic Countries • Islamism • Muslim Brotherhood • Religion 
Posted on Fri, December 16, 2011 at 19:46 pm CET
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Who’s the Leading Authority in Defining Islam? Ayatollah Western Media

The Washington Post has an article by Michael Gerson attacking Newt Gingrich’s warning that the imposition of Sharia law… Continue reading

Topics: Global Islam • Muslim Brotherhood • Religion • Salafism • Sharia Law • The Media • United States of America 
Posted on Tue, December 13, 2011 at 20:47 pm CET
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Middle East: We’re Going to Have a Revolution and We Can Do it the Hard Way or the Easy Way

Do I have to draw you a picture of how Islamism is just pretending to be moderate… Continue reading

Topics: Communism • Islamism • Jihadism • Muslim Brotherhood • Religion • Salafism • Slavery in Islam • Sunni Islam • The Middle East 
Posted on Sat, December 10, 2011 at 13:14 pm CET
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The ‘Angry Arab’ Goes Mad

As’ad AbuKahlil spoke last month at a day-long “teach-in” at the University of California… Continue reading

Topics: Anti-Americanism • Anti-Christianism • Anti-Israelism • Anti-Westernism • Anti-Zionism • Global Islam • Islamism • Jihadism • Multiculturalism • Religion 
Posted on Tue, December 6, 2011 at 21:26 pm CET
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Egypt: We’ve Heard What the Majority Thinks

Let’s figure out what the voting in Egypt means in concrete terms… Continue reading

Topics: Democracy • Egypt • Islamism • Politics • Religion • Salafism 
Posted on Sat, December 3, 2011 at 18:13 pm CET
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Overviewing Shi’a-Sunni Conflicts

As we approach the end of the first year of what has been called the Arab Spring… Continue reading

Topics: Alawis • Arab Spring • Bahrain • Culture • Iraq • Lebanon • Religion • Saudi Arabia • Security and Defense • Shia Islam • Sunni Islam • Syria • Yemen 
Posted on Wed, November 30, 2011 at 00:25 am CET
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Who Killed The Next One Hundred People Like Rafiq Tagi? You Did

Can a single moderate whether secularist or someone who wants to interpret Islam in a more liberal way feel safe… Continue reading

Topics: Azerbaijan • Human Rights • Iran • Islamism • Religion • The Middle East 
Posted on Sat, October 8, 2011 at 00:15 am CEST
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The Arab Spring and the Jews

Throughout the ongoing unrest in the Middle East and North Africa… Continue reading

Topics: Democracy • Global Islam • Iraq • Jew-Hatred • Libya • Libya War • Morocco • Religion 
Posted on Sun, August 21, 2011 at 00:55 am CEST
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Jesus Christ: The – politically correct – Way

A widely syndicated article by Reuters raises a number of important ethical questions about the media today… Continue reading

Topics: Anti-Christianism • Anti-Israelism • Anti-Westernism • Feminism • History • Multiculturalism • Religion • Rob Harris • The Media 
Posted on Sat, August 13, 2011 at 21:13 pm CEST
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Egypt: Why Are Christian Girls Converting to Islam?

Few things in Islam are as liable to provoke passion and violence as the issue of conversion… Continue reading

Topics: Christianity • Copts • Democracy • Egypt • Global Islam • Human Rights 
Posted on Sat, August 6, 2011 at 00:21 am CEST
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Are Judaism and Christianity as Violent as Islam?

There is far more violence in the Bible than in the Qur’an; the idea that Islam imposed itself by the sword is a Western fiction… Continue reading

Topics: Christianity • Global Islam • Global Jihad • Judaism • The Crusades 
Posted on Tue, July 19, 2011 at 23:30 pm CEST
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Sudan’s “Two-State Solution”

Good news from the Middle East is that rarest of all things… Continue reading

Topics: South Sudan • Sudan 
Posted on Tue, July 12, 2011 at 01:53 am CEST
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The Mediterranean Sea and Its Relationship to Cyprus: A Study of a Mediterranean Island to the Ottoman Empire

The Mediterranean islands, particularly Cyprus, proved invaluable to the expansion for the Ottoman Empire… Continue reading

Topics: Byzantine Empire • Christianity • Cyprus • Eastern Orthodox Church • Global Islam • Jared Feldschreiber • Ottoman Empire • Turkey 
Posted on Tue, June 7, 2011 at 01:19 am CEST
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My Education

When I was getting a great education they made us read Shakespeare and Dickens; Wordsworth and Keats; Hemmingway and Faulkner… Continue reading

Topics: Democracy • Multiculturalism • Western Culture 
Posted on Fri, May 27, 2011 at 23:15 pm CEST
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What is the Political Difference Between The West and Middle East?

In the West, moderate democracy — somewhere between social democrats and conservatives — trumps militant nationalism and religion… Continue reading

Topics: Christianity • Democracy • Global Islam • Islamism • Multiculturalism • The Middle East • Western Culture 
Posted on Fri, May 6, 2011 at 16:46 pm CEST
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The AKP’s Election Manifesto: The Silences That Ring Alarm Bells

In late April 2011, the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) and the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) announced their manifestos… Continue reading

Topics: Democracy • Europe • Islamism • Kurdish People • Neo-Ottomanism • Sunni Islam • Turkey 
Posted on Sat, April 16, 2011 at 22:12 pm CEST
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Explaining the Middle East to President Obama In One Sentence

How would you explain the Middle East to President Obama in one sentence? Here’s my take… Continue reading

Topics: Islamic Countries • The Middle East • U.S. Middle East Policy • United States of America 
Posted on Sun, March 27, 2011 at 13:45 pm CEST
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Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu: “We Need to Hinder the Despotic Ambitions of AKP”

In this exclusive interview for Turkish Policy Quarterly, Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu outlines his views and his Party’s position on the pressing foreign policy choices Turkey faces… Continue reading

Topics: Anti-Americanism • Arab Spring • Arab-Israeli Conflict • Cyprus • Islamism • NATO • The Middle East • Turkey 
Posted on Thu, February 17, 2011 at 17:54 pm CET
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Ex-Muslim Brotherhood Moderate Warns About…the Muslim Brotherhood

This is really interesting. All along we have been told that there is a moderate faction in the Muslim Brotherhood. And there… Continue reading

Topics: Egypt • Islamism • Muslim Brotherhood