Posted on Mon, January 16, 2012 at 15:48 pm CET
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Iran: Severe Conflict between Government, leading Film Industry Figures

leading figures in Iran’s film industry released a memorandum of opinion condemning the Islamic Guidance Ministry’s decision to close the House of Cinema, the main trade union for those employed in the local film industry… Continue reading

Topics: Culture • Human Rights • Iran • Shi'ism • The Media 
Posted on Mon, January 16, 2012 at 15:47 pm CET
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Iran’s 2012 Parliamentary Elections: first vetting stage ends; Khamenei calls for mass participation

Iran’s top regime officials are stepping up efforts to ensure the highest possible voter turnout in the March 2 elections. Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei called for mass participation in the elections… Continue reading

Topics: Democracy • Iran • Politics • Shi'ism 
Posted on Sun, January 15, 2012 at 16:39 pm CET
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Turkey and Cyprus’ Gas: More Troubles Ahead in 2012

New tension is brewing between Turkey and Cyprus after Cyprus’ and Israel’s enormous gas finds in the Eastern Mediterranean… Continue reading

Topics: Cyprus • Diplomacy • Energy • Israel • Politics • Russian Federation • Turkey 
Posted on Sun, January 15, 2012 at 15:47 pm CET
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US, Israel in open rift over Iran

US-Israeli discord over action against Iran went into overdrive when the White House called off the biggest joint war game the US and Israel have ever staged… Continue reading

Topics: Diplomacy • Economy • Iran • Israel • Politics • Security and Defense • United States of America 
Posted on Sat, January 14, 2012 at 15:20 pm CET
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Egypt: If Tourists Can Wear Bikinis But Local Women Must Wear Chadors Does That Prove the Muslim Brotherhood is Moderate?

What if a democratically elected government decides to enforce such a system in a law legally passed by a democratically elected government? I guess that’s just democracy in action… Continue reading

Topics: Democracy • Egypt • Feminism • Human Rights • Islamic Fundamentalism • Muslim Brotherhood 
Posted on Sat, January 14, 2012 at 13:25 pm CET
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The Visit of a Hamas leader to Tunisia, the Arab Spring, and crass pro-Palestinian apologism

When Ismail Haniyeh, Hamas’ leader in the Gaza Strip, visited Tunisia, he was met with an ecstatic welcome from both the Tunisian public and authorities alike… Continue reading

Topics: Anti-Israelism • Arab Spring • Hamas • Islamism • Jew-Hatred • Rob Harris • Tunisia 
Posted on Fri, January 13, 2012 at 13:22 pm CET
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U.S. Military Build-Up Around Iran Continues

The Pentagon is substantially building up its combat power around Iran… Continue reading

Topics: Iran • Security and Defense • Syria • U.S. Middle East Policy 
Posted on Fri, January 13, 2012 at 01:11 am CET
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The Changing Objects of Fear: The Arrest of Ilker Basbug

In the early hours of January 6, General İlker Başbuğ, chief of the Turkish General Staff from 2008 to 2010, was arrested and imprisoned on allegations of “founding or directing an armed terrorist organization, inciting the overthrow of the government of the Turkish Republic or the prevention of it fulfilling its duties”… Continue reading

Topics: Ergenekon • Politics • Turkey 
Posted on Thu, January 12, 2012 at 20:44 pm CET
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Friedman Cheers as Egyptians Are Enslaved

Many in the West have so acted toward Egypt during the last year… Continue reading

Topics: Culture • Democracy • Egypt • Islamism • Leftist-Islamic Alliance • Muslim Brotherhood • Religion • Sharia Law 
Posted on Wed, January 11, 2012 at 20:23 pm CET
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Iranian Nuclear Scientist Assassinated in Tehran

Prof. Mostafa Ahmadi-Roshan, deputy director of the first uranium enrichment facility at Natanz, was killed early Wednesday… Continue reading

Topics: Economy • Iran • Saudi Arabia • Security and Defense • U.S. Middle East Policy 
Posted on Tue, January 10, 2012 at 22:11 pm CET
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How I Learned About Courage From an Arab Marxist and About Cowardice From Western Phony “Liberals”

A little man stood on the stage in a British university hall… Continue reading

Topics: Arab-Israeli Conflict • Islamophobia • Leftist-Islamic Alliance • Miscellaneous • Multiculturalism • Political Correctness • Western Culture 
Posted on Mon, January 9, 2012 at 23:20 pm CET
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Egyptian Coptic billionaire faces trial for contempt of Islam

A member of the ultra-conservative al-Gamaa al-Islamiya group filed a legal complaint against… Continue reading

Topics: Copts • Crethi Plethi • Democracy • Egyptian Revolution • Human Rights • Islamism • Religion • Sharia Law 
Posted on Mon, January 9, 2012 at 21:18 pm CET
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US, Russian, French and British air and naval forces are gathering around the Syrian and Iranian coasts

US, Russian French and British air and naval forces streamed to the Syrian and Iranian coasts over the weekend… Continue reading

Topics: Britain • France • Iran • Russian Federation • Security and Defense • Syria • United States of America 
Posted on Sun, January 8, 2012 at 21:24 pm CET
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Such a “Great” Idea It Can Now Be Proclaimed But Not Criticized: Obama Supports the Muslim Brotherhood

The Obama Administration, as I’ve written for the last year, is favoring radical Islamist forces… Continue reading

Topics: Egypt • Islamism • Leftist-Islamic Alliance • Muslim Brotherhood • Politics • The Media • U.S. Middle East Policy 
Posted on Sun, January 8, 2012 at 20:33 pm CET
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Iran: Rafsanjani’s official website blocked — another stage in his exclusion from politics

The official website of Ayatollah Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani was blocked by the Iranian authorities last weekend… Continue reading

Topics: Iran • Politics • Shi'ism 
Posted on Sun, January 8, 2012 at 20:05 pm CET
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Why Is an Anti-American Islamist Obama’s Favorite Middle East Leader?

For the first time in forty years, Israel is not the American president’s favorite Middle Eastern ally… Continue reading

Topics: Economy • Politics • Turkey • U.S. Middle East Policy 
Posted on Sat, January 7, 2012 at 15:09 pm CET
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Identity Among Middle East Christians

In the course of the present unrest across the Middle East and North Africa… Continue reading

Topics: Christianity • Copts • Culture • Egypt • Human Rights • Iraq • Lebanon • Religion • Syria • The Middle East 
Posted on Fri, January 6, 2012 at 17:33 pm CET
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Goodbye Democracy: My Political Analysis is Banned By A European Government’s Computer Program As “Hate Speech”

Western democracies have finally accepted censorship based on the clever lie that they are only protecting people from racism… Continue reading

Topics: Democracy • Europe • Global Islam • Human Rights • Leftist-Islamic Alliance • Multiculturalism • Political Correctness 
Posted on Fri, January 6, 2012 at 16:47 pm CET
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Hamas Chief: “Islamic Spring”; Brotherhood Chief: Caliphate Soon; Western Media: Islamists Moderate, Israel Bad

A 27-year-old American-Israeli law school student decides he’s going to go to Egypt… Continue reading

Topics: Egypt • Hamas • Islamism • Media Bias • Muslim Brotherhood 
Posted on Fri, January 6, 2012 at 02:21 am CET
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What happens to terrorism suspect Ali Musa Daqduq: Will he be tried or be released?

Ali Daqduq was recently handed over to the Iraqi administration… Continue reading

Topics: Hezbollah • Iraq • Islamic Terrorism • Security and Defense • Shi'ism • U.S. Middle East Policy • War on Terrorism 
Posted on Thu, January 5, 2012 at 02:16 am CET
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Hamas says Gaza ‘not occupied;’ UN disagrees

The UN continues to label the Gaza Strip “occupied” by Israel… Continue reading

Topics: Gaza and Westbank • Hamas • United Nations 
Posted on Wed, January 4, 2012 at 21:47 pm CET
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Sunni versus Shia: The Middle East’s New Strategic Conflict

Conflicts between Sunni and Shia Muslims are not at all new, but… Continue reading

Topics: Arab Spring • Egyptian Revolution • Iran • Iraq • Islamism • Jasmine Revolution • Lebanon • Libya War • Politics • Religion • Security and Defense • Shia Islam • Sunni Islam • Syrian Revolution • The Middle East 
Posted on Wed, January 4, 2012 at 20:42 pm CET
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Military tensions building up on Syria’s borders

Military tensions are building up on Syria’s borders… Continue reading

Topics: Israel • Israel Defense Forces • Security and Defense • Syria • Turkey 
Posted on Tue, January 3, 2012 at 22:02 pm CET
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South Sudan, Israel’s New Ally

It’s not every day that the leader of a brand-new country makes his maiden foreign voyage to Jerusalem… Continue reading

Topics: Christianity • History • Israel • Jihadism • Slavery in Islam • South Sudan • Sudan 
Posted on Tue, January 3, 2012 at 14:07 pm CET
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Hamas Openly Joins Muslim Brotherhood; Muslim Brotherhood Openly Joins Hamas’s War on Israel

Hamas, the Palestinian Islamist group which rules the Gaza Strip and… Continue reading

Topics: Anti-Israelism • Egypt • Hamas • Islamic Terrorism • Jihadism • Muslim Brotherhood