Archive for 'Islamists'
Terror and truth
By Alastair Crooke, The Guardian, June 1, 2008
Sir Hugh Orde speaks rarely heard truth when he says that he has never heard of a terrorist campaign that was “policed out”, adding that he could not think of one that had not ended through negotiation.
There has been an unshakeable faith in Europe that western law-enforcement officers […]
Posted: June 3rd, 2008 under ARTICLES, Al Qaeda, Alastair Crooke, Dialogue, Islamists.
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“But what if nobody takes notice?”
By Alastair Crooke, Conflicts Forum, May 11, 2008
“But what if nobody takes notice?” is the question posed by Robert Malley and Hussein Agha in an article in the recent New York Review of Books concerning the putative ‘shelf agreement’ being discussed between President Abbas and Prime Minister Olmert. A ‘shelf agreement’ is an exercise in […]
Posted: May 11th, 2008 under ARTICLES, Alastair Crooke, Fatah, Islamists, Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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The naive armchair warriors are fighting a delusional war
By Alastair Crooke, The Guardian, March 24, 2008
The French philosopher Michel Foucault notes that in all societies discourse is controlled - imperceptibly constrained, perhaps, but constrained nonetheless. We are not free to say exactly what we like. The norms set by institutions, convention and our need to keep within the boundaries of accepted behaviour and […]
Posted: March 24th, 2008 under ARTICLES, Alastair Crooke, Islamists.
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Arrest of Khaled Hamza Salam
By Ibrahim El Houdaiby, Conflicts Forum, March 4, 2008
I woke up on Wednesday February 20th on the news of the arrest of Khaled Hamza Salam, IkhwanWeb.com co-editor in chief. I was on a short visit to Egypt and had met Hamza on Tuesday night, where we went over several contentious issues including the ongoing military […]
Posted: March 4th, 2008 under ARTICLES, Democracy, Egypt, Islamists, Muslim Brotherhood, Political Islam.
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Crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood
By Ibrahim El Houdaiby, Conflicts Forum, February 25, 2008
Those who believe that the ongoing crackdowns on the Muslim Brotherhood by the Egyptian regime will cause a major setback for the country’s largest and most powerful civil opposition group are definitely mistaken. Brotherhood members are an integral living part of the Egyptian society who can never […]
Posted: February 25th, 2008 under ARTICLES, Democracy, Egypt, Islamists, Muslim Brotherhood, Political Islam.
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Language - a tool to transform different into dangerous
Alastair Crooke interviewed by Christian Porth, Daily Star, February 2, 2008
“If thought corrupts language,” the English author George Orwell wrote in his famous 1946 essay “Politics and the English Language,” “language can also corrupt thought. A bad usage can spread by tradition and imitation, even among people who should and do know better.” Alastair Crooke, […]
Posted: February 9th, 2008 under ARTICLES, Alastair Crooke, CF Interviews, Dialogue, Islamists, Political Islam.
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