Archive for March, 2009
The China syndrome
By Mark Perry, Bitter Lemons, March 19, 2009
The late historian Barbara Tuchman was an accomplished writer, but her reputation rests more properly on her insights. Her seminal work, August 1914, was so filled with them that few historians can write of “the war to end all wars” without mentioning it. Its silver binding stands glimmering, […]
Posted: March 23rd, 2009 under ARTICLES, Dialogue, Hezbollah, Mark Perry.
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Why Hamas is no ‘extremist’
By Alastair Crooke, Open Democracy, March 11, 2009
In the mechanistic template imposed by western leaders on the Middle East, of ‘moderates’ who must be supported versus ‘extremists’ who must be isolated and undermined, Hamas has to be painted, by mechanical necessity alone, as ‘extremists’. Hamas has become the ‘extremists’ to answer in neat symmetry to […]
Posted: March 12th, 2009 under Alastair Crooke, Hamas.
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Wahhabism, Salafism and Islamism: Who Is The Enemy?
A Conflicts Forum Monograph, by Professor Ahmad Moussalli*, January, 2009
This essay constructs and deconstructs three main discourses created by different and opposing trends in modern Islamic thought that are normally and mistakenly lumped together as Islamism, fundamentalism, salafism, neo-salafism, Wahhabism, jihadism, political Islam, Islamic radicalism and others. I will compare and contrast between them by […]
Posted: March 12th, 2009 under Islamists, MONOGRAPHS, Salafism, Wahhabism.
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