Archive for June, 2009
Liberty leads the people, even in Tehran
By Mark Perry, Bitter Lemons, June 18, 2009
We in the “the West” have a special place in our traditions for anniversaries. We celebrate two important ones just now. It was twenty years ago that thousands of children arrived in China’s Tiananmen Square to petition their leaders for greater rights. They built a papier-mache statue of […]
Posted: June 20th, 2009 under ARTICLES, Democracy, Iran, Mark Perry.
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Why the Saudi Shiites Won’t Rise Up Easily
A Conflicts Forum Monograph, by Leo Kwarten*, June, 2009
Shiite citizens face considerable religious, political and social discrimination in Saudi society. In the 1970s and 1980s, this situation has instigated bloody street protests and Shia calls for an Islamic revolution. Although the Saudi Shiites have considerably moderated their position since, these incidents still feed speculations about […]
Posted: June 12th, 2009 under MONOGRAPHS, Saudi Arabia, Shiites.
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The essence of Islamist resistance: a different view of Iran, Hezbollah and Hamas
By Alastair Crooke, New Perspectives Quarterly, June 2, 2009
Most Western analysts of political Islam make the same mistake. They instinctively assume that conflict with the West has mainly to do with specific foreign policies, particularly of the U.S. with respect to Israel, the Arab world and Iran, and, if those changed, all would be well.
In […]
Posted: June 11th, 2009 under Alastair Crooke, Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, Islamists.
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