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18/10/2008 Article

Sectarian Tension: From Extremists to Moderates

/ Ayman Mohamad

Tags: Sunni-Shia tension

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Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi, a key Sunni thinker and religious commentator, has accused Iran of being behind a new wave of Shi’i ‘expansion’ that threatens the

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02/09/2008 Article

How are Thinktanks Shaping the Political Agenda on Muslims in Britain?

The role of think-tanks would be to supply policy suggestions, but also to popularise the idea of ‘Islamism’ as a threat that requires a Cold War-style response.

/ Arun Kundnani

Tags: Islamophobia, Multiculturalism

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Institute of Race Relations, September 2, 2008 Policy Exchange, the Social Affairs Unit and the Centre for Social Cohesion are driving the political agenda on

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22/08/2008 Article

Nasrallah Speaks on the Second Anniversary of the end of the July war

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Tags: Hezbollah, Israel-Hezbollah war, Lebanon

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On August 15, the Secretary General of Hezbollah Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah delivered a speech marking the 2nd anniversary of the July-August war. The following is

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12/06/2008 Article

America’s Victory in Lebanon

George Bush is not anything like Lord North: he may be out of his depth, but he’s not stupid.

/ Mark Perry

Tags: Bush Administration, Hezbollah, Lebanon

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Bitterlemons, June 12, 2008 The prime minister of His Majesty’s Government, the rotund Lord North–reputed (falsely) to be the bastard son of George III–once sniffed

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01/06/2008 Article

Terror and Truth

Mainstream Islamism, in its various manifestations, is an alternative political, social vision founded on rehabilitated human values.

/ Alastair Crooke

Tags: Al Qaeda, Dialogue, Islamists

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Article featured in The Guardian, June 1, 2008 Sir Hugh Orde speaks rarely heard truth when he says that he has never heard of a

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28/05/2008 Article

Nasrallah’s Speech Delivered on the Anniversary of the Resistance and Liberation Day

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Tags: Hezbollah, Lebanon

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The speech of the Secretary General of Hezbollah, Sayyid Hassan Nassrallah, delivered on the 8th anniversary of the Resistance and Liberation Day, Al Raya Playground,

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11/05/2008 Article

“But What if Nobody Takes Notice?”

Olmert’s ‘achievement’, if it comes, will be in terms of pocketing further Palestinian concessions. This is the ‘gift’ that Bush hopes to present to Israel on its 60th birthday.

/ Alastair Crooke

Tags: Fatah, Islamists, Israeli-Palestinian conflict

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“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

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01/04/2008 Article

Thoughts on the American Role in Palestinian-Israeli Peacemaking

A transcript of a paper presented at the Palestine Center

/ Frederic C Hof

Tags: Annapolis Conference, Bush Administration, Hamas, Israeli-Palestinian conflict

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Remarks of Frederic C. Hof, The Palestine Center of the Jerusalem Fund, March 20, 2008 Fred Hof, a keen Middle East observer and former member

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24/03/2008 Article

The Naive Armchair Warriors are Fighting a Delusional War

If radical Islam encompasses those who are not enamoured of secular society, and who espouse a vision of society grounded in the values of Islam, then these experts are advocating a war.

/ Alastair Crooke

Tags: Islamists

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The French philosopher Michel Foucault notes that in all societies discourse is controlled – imperceptibly constrained, perhaps, but constrained nonetheless. We are not free to

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