Alongside the battle of the radical Islamists to murder Jews is the battle to seize and maintain control of the Muslim community… Continue reading
Claude Guéant, the French interior minister, sparked a firestorm last month when he praised Western values as “superior” to the oppressive ones found elsewhere, namely the Islamic world… Continue reading
The murders in Toulouse should be a wake-up call for France and all of Europe… Continue reading
The French-born al Qaeda killer, Mohammed Merah, who shocked the world by murdering three Jewish schoolchildren and their teacher in Toulouse by shots to the head… Continue reading
A drive-by shooter in the beautiful, almost magical, city of Toulouse, France, murders three Jewish children and a teacher in front of their school… Continue reading
Born with the rise of Christianity and Roman Catholicism, anti-Jewish sentiment is an old and firmly entrenched phenomenon in Europe… Continue reading
Anti-Semitism may not yet be a litmus test for social acceptability in the US, but it has certainly become acceptable… Continue reading
The controversy sparked by Aliaa Magda ElMahdy after posting a nude photo she took of herself on her blog is followed by another controversial posting of a nude photograph… Continue reading
US, Russian French and British air and naval forces streamed to the Syrian and Iranian coasts over the weekend… Continue reading
Iran dismissed the threats increasingly made by European countries to impose new sanctions on its petroleum industry… Continue reading
A French junior minister said in an interview published Saturday there was no such thing as moderate Islam… Continue reading
During a conversation when they thought nobody was listening French President Nicholas Sarkozy and U.S. President Barack Obama said… Continue reading
Libya’s transitional leader Mustafa Abdul-Jalil was quite clear about his intentions for liberated Libya… Continue reading
Should such threats be made, France would immediately and wholeheartedly stand beside Israel… Continue reading
In a real sense, there was more intellectual freedom in the Arabic-speaking world in 1930 or 1940 then there is today… Continue reading
Opponents of the burqa and niqab had reason to celebrate on July 23 as Belgium became the second Western country to… Continue reading
A process described by some as the Islamization of Europe, by others as the failure of Europeans to integrate Muslim immigrants… Continue reading
Russia is opposed to any UN Security Council resolution on Syria,” Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich told journalists… Continue reading
Following G8 leaders’ call for resumption of Mideast talks, Canada’s PM Stephen Harper insists reference to “1967 borders” be removed… Continue reading
In his Libya address to Americans early Tuesday, March 29, President Barack Obama failed to resolve the inner contradictions in… Continue reading
Should the United States and Europe want Libyan dictator Muammar Qadhafi out of power? Sure. But the real question is… Continue reading
Muammar Gaddafi’s government says it will end military operations in line with UN resolution but reports of attacks continue… Continue reading
The United Nations Security Council voted Thursday to authorize military force against Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Gadhafi’s forces… Continue reading
During a three-day meeting in January 2007 of the OECD Working Group on Bribery, a separate session of the meeting was devoted to the U.K.’s termination… Continue reading
Hundreds of US, British and French military advisers have arrived in Cyrenaica, Libya’s eastern breakaway province… Continue reading
Dutch Deputy Prime Minister Maxime Verhagen said Tuesday in the Dutch television show “College Tour” that multiculturalism had failed… Continue reading
French President Nicolas Sarkozy said Thursday in a panel discussion that multiculturalism had failed. He is joining a growing number of world leaders… Continue reading
Iran’s conservative press blamed Western countries for the political crisis in Lebanon, saying they derailed the Syrian-Saudi initiative which attempted to find a solution to… Continue reading
The French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, was accused Monday of tacitly propping up dictatorship in north Africa and of botched diplomacy in France’s ambivalent response to… Continue reading
Members of the powerful Hezbollah movement and its allies brought down Lebanon’s unity government Wednesday after resigning from Prime Minister Saad Hariri’s Cabinet. Minister of State… Continue reading
A debrief on Nicolas Sarkozy’s visit to Chad reveals growing moves against Sudan. Chinese officials urge caution on prosecution president Omar al-Bashir, insisting it will only serve to destabilise Sudan… Continue reading
A commentary article which spoke in favor of the Iranian negotiating team in the nuclear talks held earlier this month in Geneva provoked strong reactions from those close to Iran’s former chief negotiator… Continue reading
The U.S. weakness in countering Iran and other radical forces in the Middle East is beginning to bear poisoned fruits. Jordan is already moving toward getting on Iran’s good side; Lebanon has been captured by the Iran-Syria camp; Turkey has moved into its… Continue reading
In quiet contacts, French President Nicolas Sarkozy warns that North Korea is using its crisis with the South to cover up its planned transfer to Iran of nuclear weapons systems parts and extra-fast centrifuges for uranium enrichment that could help Tehran go into bomb production in… Continue reading
Preparations continue for the so-called Freedom Fleet 2 flotilla. The Palestinian media reported that approximately 60 organizations were collecting donations to send a French ship to the flotilla. According to… Continue reading
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