Archive for November, 2008
Loving the Enemy: Militant Visions of the West
A Conflicts Forum Monograph, by Faisal Devji, November, 2008
This paper makes the argument that militants associated with Al-Qaeda speak from within the world of their enemies and possess no place outside it. Whether these enemies are Western democracies or Muslim liberals, militants derive strength from exploiting their weaknesses and contradictions rather than from some alternative […]
Posted: November 28th, 2008 under Al Qaeda, MONOGRAPHS.
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Summary of Salafist web sites - October-November
October and November, 2008
Salafist websites persist in their acute verbal offensive against Hezbollah, Iran and the Shi’i generally - but now with greater ferocity:
Salafist websites have been quick to take advantage of rising sectarian tensions permeating into the sphere of moderate discourse - in the wake of recent remarks by Qaradawi - to expand the […]
Posted: November 20th, 2008 under CF REPORTS, Sunni-Shia tension.
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Little shop of horrors
By Mark Perry, Bitter Lemons, November 6, 2008
I once asked one of my Palestinian friends what he thought the United States should do to help the peoples of the Middle East. He was incredulous: “Haven’t you done enough?” In retrospect that pained reply seems the perfect answer to my presumption: I’m from America and I’m […]
Posted: November 20th, 2008 under ARTICLES, Mark Perry, Middle East.
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