Posted on Mon, April 23, 2012 at 19:28 pm CEST
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The General who Staged the 1980 Coup is Put on Trial, But His Legacy Reigns Supreme

The trial of the two surviving members of the junta that seized power on September 12, 1980, in a coup that altered Turkey’s course, is an historic event, but… Continue reading

Topics: Democracy • History • Turkey 
Posted on Wed, April 18, 2012 at 19:23 pm CEST
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Hillary Clinton Implies: Pro-Israel Sentiment Doesn’t Reflect America

Sometimes a secretary of state is asked tough questions. How they are answered shows the underlying philosophy of official and government… Continue reading

Topics: Anti-Americanism • Anti-Israelism • Democracy • Israel • Political Correctness • Tunisia • U.S. Middle East Policy • United States of America 
Posted on Wed, April 11, 2012 at 22:26 pm CEST
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Muslim Brotherhood’s “Nahda Project”

After his release from prison in March 2011, the Deputy Guide of the Muslim Brotherhood Khairat Al-Shater was reportedly tasked by the Brotherhood’s Guidance Council to perform a comprehensive review… Continue reading

Topics: Democracy • Egypt • Egyptian Revolution • Human Rights • Islamism • Muslim Brotherhood • Religion • Sharia Law 
Posted on Wed, April 11, 2012 at 20:47 pm CEST
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The Iraqi Model: As Good As It Gets

Iraq is in a mess. Violence continues. Factionalism leads to endless bickering. Corruption is at high levels. Christians live in fear or flee altogether. Islamism is constantly creeping forward… Continue reading

Topics: Arab World • Democracy • Iraq • Islamism • Muslim Brotherhood • Turkey • U.S. Middle East Policy 
Posted on Sat, April 7, 2012 at 18:46 pm CEST
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After the Arab Spring, Salafists are Moving Closer to Changing the Face of the Maghreb

Now the initial euphoria about the Arab revolts has subsided, it’s clear the ‘Arab Spring’ will not bring a liberal, secular, Western (or Islamic) model of democracy to the Arab world… Continue reading

Topics: Arab Spring • Arab World • Crethi Plethi • Democracy • Islamism • Maghreb • Mauritania • Religion • Salafism 
Posted on Sat, March 31, 2012 at 15:31 pm CEST
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The Damascus Declaration for Democratic National Change

The Damascus Declaration was a statement of unity by Syrian opposition figures issued October 16, 2005 criticizing the Assad regime… Continue reading

Topics: Democracy • Historical Documents • History • Human Rights • Syria 
Posted on Sat, March 31, 2012 at 13:45 pm CEST
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The Syrian Uprising: Syria’s Struggling Civil Society

Authoritarian regimes have traditionally been disinclined to accept any political or social opposition and have been hostile to the development of an independent civil society that could form a counterweight to state power… Continue reading

Topics: Arab Spring • Arab World • Culture • Democracy • Syria • Syrian Revolution • Turkey 
Posted on Tue, March 27, 2012 at 22:21 pm CEST
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No Escape from Authoritarianism? Turkey Suffers from the Lack of a Constituency for Liberal Change

Turkey’s old habits of state authoritarianism persist under the rule of the AKP… Continue reading

Topics: Culture • Democracy • Kurdish People • Turkey 
Posted on Mon, March 26, 2012 at 20:19 pm CEST
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Obama Hearts Turkish Leader Erdogan As He Oppresses His Own People and Stabs America in the Back

President Barack Obama is continuing his love affair with Turkish Islamist leader Recep Erdogan… Continue reading

Topics: Democracy • Diplomacy • Islamism • Politics • Security and Defense • Turkey • U.S. Middle East Policy 
Posted on Thu, February 16, 2012 at 00:36 am CET
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Good-Bye, Middle East! Quietly, Liberals and Minorities are Fleeing

I wonder how much higher are the number of visa applications from Egypt, Tunisia, and Turkey to North America, Europe, and Australia… Continue reading

Topics: Arab Spring • Arab World • Democracy • Human Rights • Islamism • Salafism • The Middle East 
Posted on Fri, February 10, 2012 at 00:07 am CET
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Arab Liberals Lament: Here’s How the Muslim Brotherhood is Fooling the West

Since we can’t get good coverage of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood in the Western media, it’s necessary to turn to the Islamists’ intended victims — Arab liberals — to get a better picture… Continue reading

Topics: Democracy • Egypt • Islamism • Muslim Brotherhood • Religion • The Media 
Posted on Thu, February 9, 2012 at 23:04 pm CET
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A House Divided Against Itself: The Deteriorating State of Media Freedom in Turkey

Most international attention has focused on the more than 100 journalists who are now in jail in Turkey as a result of what they have written or said… Continue reading

Topics: Democracy • Ergenekon • Human Rights • The Media • Turkey 
Posted on Mon, February 6, 2012 at 14:29 pm CET
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Egypt: When the Moderates are Radicals You’re in Trouble

The Middle East is so strange in Western terms, so different, and having its own unique history and institutions that unless you are really aware of those differences please pick something else to be an expert on… Continue reading

Topics: Arab Spring • Democracy • Egypt • Islamic Fundamentalism 
Posted on Wed, January 25, 2012 at 16:51 pm CET
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America and the Arab Spring

A year ago this week, on January 25, 2011, the ground began to crumble under then-Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak’s feet… Continue reading

Topics: Arab Spring • Bahrain • Democracy • Egyptian Revolution • Human Rights • Iraq • Islamic Fundamentalism • Islamism • Israel • Jordan • Libya War • Muslim Brotherhood • Salafism • Syria • U.S. Middle East Policy • Yemen 
Posted on Mon, January 23, 2012 at 16:37 pm CET
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Islamist Parties Dominate Egypt’s Parliament

We’re starting to get a good picture of what the lower house of Egypt’s parliament will be like… Continue reading

Topics: Arab-Israeli Conflict • Democracy • Egypt • Islamism • Muslim Brotherhood • Politics • Salafism 
Posted on Sat, January 21, 2012 at 16:25 pm CET
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Arabism Is Dead! Long Live…?

Many of the arguments and assumptions that governed the Arabic-speaking world for six decades have simply vanished… Continue reading

Topics: Arab League • Arab World • Democracy • Global Islam • Islamic Countries • Islamism • Politics • Religion • Syria 
Posted on Fri, January 20, 2012 at 00:57 am CET
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Who’s Winning in the Middle East? Everyone Outside the West Knows It’s The Islamists

And the Americans brought them to power… Continue reading

Topics: Anti-Israelism • Arab Spring • Democracy • Islamic Countries • Islamic Fundamentalism • Islamism • Israeli–Palestinian Conflict • Religion • Security and Defense • The Middle East 
Posted on Thu, January 19, 2012 at 17:09 pm CET
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Iran: After Posing Nude, Iranian actress Golshifteh Farahani No Longer Welcome in her Home Country

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

Topics: Crethi Plethi • Democracy • France • Human Rights • Iran • Religion • Sharia Law • Shi'ism 
Posted on Mon, January 16, 2012 at 19:33 pm CET
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Ex-Muslim Sister gives insight into Brothers’s Subjugation, Discrimination of Women and Polygamy

In a time when Western intellectuals, politicians, and journalists are trying to explain that the Muslim Brotherhood isn’t a radical Islamist group… Continue reading

Topics: Crethi Plethi • Culture • Democracy • Egypt • Feminism • Global Islam • History • Human Rights • Islamism • Muslim Brotherhood • Religion • The Media 
Posted on Mon, January 16, 2012 at 15:49 pm CET
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Iran: “Big brother” comes to internet cafés, “national internet network” to be launched soon

The Iranian cyber police released new regulations imposing severe restrictions on Iran’s internet cafés… Continue reading

Topics: Cyber War • Democracy • 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 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 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 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 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