Islamophobia: A New Form of Colonialism By Ismail Salami In an organized act of brutality, a number of US soldiers went on a house-to-house shooting spree in Zangabad village, Kandahar in March and massacred 16 people including nine children while they were sleeping and all Washington had to say were a [...]
Gen Martin E Dempsey speaks during a briefing at the Pentagon. The course was suspended when a student objected to the material. Photograph: Susan Walsh/AP A course for US military officers has been teaching that America’s enemy is Islam in general and suggesting that the country might ultimately have to obliterate the Islamic holy cities of Mecca and Medina [...]
A cartoon included in the Joint Staff Forces College presentation on “Jihad: Defined and Operationalized” contains a number of ugly stereotypes.Hundreds of US military officers have enrolled in the course on Islamic radicalism since it was first offered four years ago at the Defense Department’s Joint Forces Staff College in Norfolk, Virginia. US Military Taught Officers: ‘Hiroshima’ Tactics For [...]
Europe has been recently undergoing a wave of Islamophobic hysteria the past few years [AFP] London, United Kingdom - A new wave of anti-Muslim intolerance and antagonism is sweeping Europe. The far right political gains seen in some parts of the continent are alarming. Anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim and extreme right parties seem to be cashing in [...]
George Galloway: ‘Winning Bradford West, with the landslide that we did, was the best day of my life.’ Photograph: Christopher Thomond for the Guardian George Galloway: ‘I believe that on judgment day, people have to answer for what they did’ The newly elected MP for Bradford West strongly believes politics should not be secular, so [...]
The Ibrahimi Mosque is considered the fourth holiest site in Islam. HEBRON (Ma’an) — Settlers raised the Israeli flag on top of the Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron on Friday, in the first incident of its kind since 1967, a local official said. Zaid Jaabari, director of the Islamic Endowment, or Waqf, in Hebron slammed the [...]
Photo Credit: THOMAS WINJE / AGENCE-FRANCE PRESSE LIKE THIS ARTICLE ? Join our mailing list: Sign up to stay up to date on the latest headlines via email. The bloodthirsty attacks perpetrated by Anders Behring Breivik in Norway on July 22 last year (leaving 77 dead) provided a brutal awakening for all those in Europe [...]
Yusuf is currently working on a musical featuring songs he wrote as Cat Stevens [GALLO/GETTY] The artist formerly known as Cat Stevens is starting a new chapter – one that has been in the making since the day he first picked up a microphone.Rock icon Yusuf Islam – who goes by the single name Yusuf [...]
Breivik claims the attacks were necessary in a civil war against Islam in Europe [AFP] A new psychiatric examination has found that confessed mass killer Anders Behring Breivik is not criminally insane, despite a claim based upon an earlier assessment. Tuesday’s finding comes six days before the 33-year-old Norwegian is set to stand trial on terror charges a [...]
Pakistani Muslim women celebrating Eid al-Adhi in Lahore. Photograph: Arif Ali/AFP/Getty Images New wave of well-off Pakistani women drawn to conservative Islam Wealthy, educated women are increasingly embracing the trend for religious inquiry and observance Jason Burke in Lahore guardian.co.uk, Monday 9 April 2012 19.06 BST Article history All the women working in the information technology division of the Bank [...]
In 1953, a coup backed by the US and UK overthrew the democratically elected government of Iran [AP] Melbourne, Australia - With the momentous convulsion in the Middle East sparked by Mohamed Bouazizi’s martyrdom in January 2011, it is time to ask what happened to the question which for long dominated Western discourse on the Middle East: Is [...]
In addition to approving parliamentary candidates, the Guardian Council also selects presidential candidates [Reuters] Iran‘s March 2 parliamentary elections will mark the first time the country has gone to the polls since the disputed 2009 presidential elections in which President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad won his second term. There are 290 parliament seats up for grabs and the [...]
In a way the following article deals with a lot of matters that concern not just the US. The central theme is expressed as an “image problem”. Unfortunately the US and other lappdog toadies like Australia share the same problem. The real question is whether it can be so simply classified as [...]
(MaanImages/Moti Milrod, File) JERUSALEM (Ma’an) — Uniformed Israeli soldiers entered the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound on Sunday, the Al-Aqsa Foundation for Waqf and Heritage said. Describing the forces as “behaving aggressively,” the foundation said ten soldiers walked around the compound with a tour guide. Such incidents are a violation of the sanctity of the compound, the [...]
Patrick Buchanan is one of those few writers I never like to miss. Having worked as a senior advisor to three US presidents, Buchanan has had a rare, ringside view of history. Six of his 10 books including The Death of the West, Where the Right Went Wrong, and more [...]
Any one in his/her normal senses would laugh away at the very thought of it given the tragedy – in terms of millions upon millions dead, maimed, orphans, households and businesses destroyed in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and (if you include indirectly) Pakistan over the past three decades – that recent wars inflicted upon [...]
A woman with her face painted in the colors of the Kingdom of Libya flag attends a protest against Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi.(Reuters/file) By Marie-Louise Gumuchian TRIPOLI(Reuters) — At a pre-wedding evening party in central Tripoli, a group of Libyan women sing traditional songs to the beat of a drum as they prepare to apply [...]
The dynamic of democratic, nationalist and class struggles throughout the Muslim world has set in motion a new constellation of alliances between the imperial West (US and European Union) andIslamist parties, leaders and regimes, dubbed “moderate” by US officials, propagandists and academics. This essay analyzes the changing contemporary context of imperial domination, [...]
Report From Egypt by Eric Margolis Recently by Eric Margolis: Dateline: Tahrir Square CAIRO – Tahrir Square, epicenter of the earthquake that ousted Egypt’s western-backed dictator, Husni Mubarak, is quiet – for the moment. Banner-wavers, speakers, and scruffy youngsters mill about. But the by now world-famous square has a forlorn, leftover look, with more [...]
People sit on a wall overlooking the Dome of Rock inside the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, Islam’s third holiest site. (AFP/Ahmad Gharabli, File) JERUSALEM (AFP) — Jerusalem’s city council has ordered the closure within a week of a wooden access ramp to the sensitive Al-Aqsa mosque compound in the Old City, saying the structure is “a [...]
Egyptians gather during a sit-in at Tahrir Square in Cairo on July 27. Thousands of people packed Cairo’s Tahrir Square, with Islamist groups dominating the protest meant to show unity during a fragile transition from ousted President Hosni Mubarak’s regime. (AFP/Khaled Desouki, File) CAIRO (AFP) — Salafi politicians, forecast to become powerbrokers in Egypt‘s first [...]
Is political Islam replacing Arab dictators? With a victory for Islamist parties in Tunisia and Morocco, is political Islam now spreading across North Africa? The Arab revolution spread accross the Arab world as the population demanded political change. But in Morocco protesters did not bring down the government. The Moroccan monarch quickly responded to their [...]
Saif al-Islam‘s capture worries Blair 20 November 2011 [this article originally appeared in Mail on Sunday 20 November 2011 page 7] Saif al-Islam Gadaffi has been captured by forces loyal to the new government of Libya on his way through the Sahara desert to Niger where his family had bought themselves many friends with their [...]
Abdullah al-Senoussi, former head of Libyan intelligence, was found at his sisters house, revolutionary fighters said. Photograph: Dario Lopez-Mills/AP Gaddafi’s intelligence chief captured, says Libyan minister Revolutionary fighters catch Abdullah al-Senoussi in southern desert region near where Gaddafi’s son Saif al-Islam was found reddit this Agencies guardian.co.uk, Sunday 20 November 2011 17.16 GMT Article history [...]
Libya pledges ‘fair trial’ for Saif al-Islam Prime minister promises “justice and transparency” in handling of case of former leader’s internationally wanted son This Al Jazeera article also comes with video coverage that you can watch at: http://www.aljazeera.com/news/africa/2011/11/2011112052915845986.html The article continues Libya’s prime minister has promised a fair trial for Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, [...]
Saif al-Islam Gaddafi sitting in a plane in Zintan after his capture. Photograph: Ismail Zitouni/Reuters Saif al-Islam Gaddafi: what next for Libya and the west? With calls for his transfer to the international criminal court, Saif’s treatment will be an important test for Libya’s changing profile reddit this Ian Black, Middle East editor guardian.co.uk, Saturday 19 [...]
FBI Reports Dramatic Spike in Anti-Muslim Hate Violence Anti-Muslim hate crimes soared by an astounding 50% last year, skyrocketing over 2009 levels in a year marked by the vicious rhetoric of Islam-bashing politicians and activists, especially over the so-called “Ground Zero Mosque” in New York City. Although the national statistics compiled by [...]
America’s troubling support for oil-rich Islamist regimes By BRAHMA CHELLANEY NEW DELHI — When Libya’s interim government announced the “liberation” of the country Oct. 23, it declared that a system based on the Islamic Sharia, including polygamy, will replace the secular dictatorship that Moammar Gadhafi ran for 42 years. “We, [...]
Supporters of the Islamist Ennahda movement celebrate outside Ennahda’s headquarters in Tunis October 25, 2011.(Reuters/Zohra Bensemra) By Tom Heneghan More democracy is bringing more political Islam in the countries of the Arab Spring, but Islamist statements about sharia or religion in politics are only rough indicators of what the real effect might be. The [...]
A Palestinian reads the Quran, Islam’s holy book, in Al-Omari mosque in Gaza City on the fifth day of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan on August 26, 2009. (MaanImages/Wissam Nassar) GAZA CITY (IRIN) — An increased flow of building materials entering the Gaza Strip via underground tunnels along the Gaza-Egypt border has allowed [...]
1) Ameril Umbra Kato (center), the leader of the breakaway Muslim rebel group, Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Movement (BIFM), brandishes his gun with his soldiers at Camp Omar, Maguindanao, August 28, 2011. Kato recently split from the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), citing his disagreement with the MILF’s ongoing peace talks with the government [Joe [...]
‘Ground Zero mosque‘ opens quietly Islamic cultural centre sparked debate last year for being planned near New York’s World Trade Center site. The Islamic cultural centre drew national attention when it was embroiled in controversy last year [EPA] An Islamic cultural centre close to the site where New York’s World Trade Center once stood has opened [...]
France‘s burqa ban: women are ‘effectively under house arrest’ Hind Ahmas, one of two French women facing a fine for wearing the niqab in a town near Paris. Photograph: Magali Delporte for the Guardian Since France introduced its burqa ban in April there have been violent attacks on women wearing the niqab and, [...]
FBI Teaching Counter-Terror Agents Anti-Muslim Fear by John Glaser, September 14, 2011 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum The FBI is teaching its counterterrorism agents that “main stream” [sic] American Muslims are likely to be terrorist sympathizers; that the Prophet Mohammed was a “cult leader”; and that the Islamic practice of giving charity is no [...]
Libya: rebel forces reach heart of Tripoli Libyans celebrate in Tripoli in an image taken from television after hundreds of rebel fighters surged into the capital, leaving Muammar Gaddafi facing the end of his 42-year reign. Photograph: al-Jazeera • Tripoli celebrates after rebels reach Green Square • Obama: ‘Tripoli slipping from the grasp of [...]
Abused Lebanese women also victims of legal system Published yesterday (updated) 13/08/2011 23:47 A Lebanese woman carries a placard in Arabic reading “a man is successful in dialogue” during a KAFA rally in December [AFP/Joseph Eid, File] By Khaled Soubeih BEIRUT (AFP) — It was only a few months after their wedding in Lebanon [...]
Is Islam Compatible with Capitalism? The Middle East’s future depends on the answer. BEBA/IBERFOTO/THE IMAGE WORKS A sixteenth-century Turkish bazaar. Muslim tradition has long accepted the marketplace, though sharia constrained its efficiency. The moment you arrive at the airport in Cairo, you discover how little Egypt—the heart of Arab civilization—is governed by the rule of [...]
You can view the video at http://www.democracynow.org/2011/7/29/norways_johan_galtung_peace_conflict_pioneer George Ikners ikners.com JUAN GONZALEZ: Police in Norway yesterday released the identities of another 24 people killed by Anders Behring Breivik last Friday as they ended their search for bodies around the island where he shot 68 of his 76 victims. Breivik has admitted to shooting people on Utoya [...]
Political scientist Samuel Huntington‘s thought revolved around the idea that a “clash of civilisations” between East and West would define the post-Cold War era [EPA] The paranoid style in politics often imagines unlikely alliances that coalesce into an overwhelming threat that must be countered by all necessary means. In Clash of Civilizations, Samuel Huntington conjured an [...]
Norway: The Enemy Within Scandinavians have a dual reputation for tolerance and homogeneity: a population of pale, polite people who speak English perfectly. But that’s your grandfather’s Scandinavia. Over the last several decades, the region has become a great deal more diverse after a steady influx of immigrants from the east and south. And the [...]
There is a video of this interview at the Al Jazeera site at: http://english.aljazeera.net/programmes/insidestory/2011/07/2011725965994172.html Anders Behring Breivik, a 32-year-old Norwegian, was arrested this weekend in connection with the bombing of a government building and a mass shooting at a youth summer camp. The attacks, which have claimed upwards of 92 lives, came as a deep [...]
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By Mantiq al-Tayr * | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz 1. As is usually the case all of the experts on terrorism and all the Islam-hating bigots were wrong. Sometimes I am not even sure which group is the more loathsome and of course there is considerable overlap between the two. And even though Will McCants actually seems okay, he [...]
APNewsBreak: UK Muslims vigilant after Norway The Associated Press E-MAIL PRINTREPRINT 0 COMMENTS TEXT SIZE: LONDON — Extra security will be put up at mosques around the U.K. in the wake of the deadly attacks in Norway, British Muslim leaders said Sunday. Mohammed Shafiq, the leader of Ramadhan Foundation, one of Britain’s largest Muslim groups, [...]
Back to Basics in the War on the Muslim World John Glaser, July 25, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Comment | Antiwar Forum Arguments both for and against, say the war in Iraq, or in Afghanistan, tend to get clouded by whatever tangential political vocabulary is popular in any given week or month (surgical [...]
After Oslo was rocked by a deadly explosion and a shooting massacre killed dozens on Utoya Island, initial speculation blamed ‘Islamic terror groups’ – revealing fears and prejudices inherent to many in the West [REUTERS] A few years ago, the respected Cambridge scholar T J Winter, also known by his Muslim name of Abdal Hakim [...]
Valley Park Middle School in Toronto offers more than just lunch in their school cafeteria – they also offer a place for Muslim students to pray. One anonymous Canadian blogger caught wind of this and wrote a post that set off a furor in the Canadian blogosphere, debating whether Canadian schools should be accommodating this [...]
Hamas condemns Norway attacks Published yesterday (updated) 25/07/2011 05:28 BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Hamas on Saturday condemned the attacks in Norway that killed over 90 people, a statement posted on a website affiliated with the Islamist movement said. “Hamas is saddened by the terrible attacks which occurred in Norway,” the statement said. “We … denounce [...]
Killings in Norway Spotlight Anti-Muslim Thought in U.S. Emilio Morenatti/Associated Press The suspect behind the attacks in Norway said he believed multiculturalism to be a threat. Here, mourners at Oslo Cathedral.More Photos » By SCOTT SHANE Published: July 24, 2011 RECOMMEND TWITTER SIGN IN TO E-MAIL PRINT SINGLE PAGE REPRINTS SHARE The man accused of the [...]
Norwegian media have identified the suspect in custody as 32-year-old Anders Behring Breivik.Reuters Norway terror suspect attacked Islam, multiculturalism online Anders Behring Breivik, 32, has been charged for the attacks in Norway in which at least 91 people were killed. By ReutersTags: Islam The Norwegian charged with going on a killing spree in which at least 91 people [...]
What has become of the Egyptian revolution after the initial euphoria of Tahrir Square? Whilst the world’s attention may have shifted, Egypt is still on the march. The revolutionaries remain determined to keep up the momentum as new parties jockey for power and the old guard battles to preserve its influence. GUESTS Saad Eddin Ibrahim, [...]
