Revolutionaries Outflanked by Tribe and Sect
Revolutionaries Outflanked by Tribe and SectElections in Tunisia and Egypt gives influence on the highest levels to long-suppressed Muslim parties – Al Ikhwan al Muslimiyya (Muslim Brotherhood or MB),...
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Egypt - The second phase of parliamentary elections give 30% of votes to the Muslim Brotherhood, and 30% for Salafi candidates. We are surprised that the figures are so low. These elections are taking...
View ArticleAN INTENSIFICATION OF THE VIOLENCE
AN INTENSIFICATION OF THE VIOLENCEThe winter solstice, like September's equinox, features an acceleration of events, each fraught with implications for the future. Will the protesters succeed in...
View ArticleThe Arab League Visits Syria
Syria -Demonstrations break out all over Syria after Friday prayers, today, 30 Dec.Violence dropped for one day as the monitors from the Arab League finally deploy. But the next day the Syrian regime...
View ArticleThe Role(s) of the Armed Forces in Egypt, Yemen and Syria.
Nasser's Legacy Hard to ReverseBack in 1952, the Free Officers were just a small slice of political life in Egypt. They were surrounded by leftists, Islamists, Wafd party activists, businessmen big and...
View ArticleGeopolitical Changes in the Middle East
Egypt - The first Anniversary of the Revolution of January 25One year after Egypt's revolution, Egyptians are still trying to sort things out. Just a month ago we saw more demonstrations in Tahrir...
View ArticleGenocidal Projects Underway
ARAB LEAGUE meets in Cairo: Will Monitoring Continue?The question is whether the League monitors will be renewed, and if renewed, how it will change in Syria. Monitoring is something the League is...
View ArticleThe Revolutions after One Year
Egyptians Celebrate Anniversary -The anniversary extended over a week, as demonstrators are searched by Brothers (Ikhwan al Muslimiyya, the Muslim Brotherhood , before entering Tahrir Square. The army...
View ArticleAssessing Arab Revolutions After One Year
As if the year were itself a new, more intense octave, violence flared up in Syria, Egypt, Libya, Sudan, Somalia and the Yemen. Iraq too, seems to be descending into chaos. One hopes for countervailing...
View ArticleHigh Noon in Arabia: The Rise of Islamic Democracies
Scholars in Islamic lands and non-Muslims outside, together debate whether or not Islam is democratic. It certainly is in spirit: there are no priests, and everyone is equal essentially. But in the...
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After a year of revolution we can look back and see played out on the streets what we noted ten months ago, that the demonstrations were taken over by radical groups having no role in their...
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Is Syria a Civil War? Or Just Genocide? When non-combatants are slain because of their religion, ethnicity or by exercising their rights of speech and assembly, we call this genocide - a killing of the...
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Egypt: Politics Suspended, Coup d'Etat, or What?The government's electoral commission announced on June 22 that Muhammad Morsi (Morsy) has defeated Ahmed Shafiq in the presidential election. Morsi won...
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Arab Revolutions 2011-12Posting Sept. 29 2012Behind the ReligionsThe film “The Innocence of Muslims” was produced for the purposes of defaming the prophet Muhammad. It is hate speech and has to be...
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ARAB REVOLUTIONS 2011-2013 November 25, 2012Hypocrisy in Bright SunlightEgypt –President Morsi goes for it, grasping for absolute...
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Egypt's Bizarre Islamist ConstitutionLate on November 29th, 2012, after sixteen hours of debate, President Muhammad Morsi and Egypt’s Constituent Assembly, signed into law a new national constitution,...
View ArticleNotes on the Prophet's Way
معظم المسلمين يتوقون للاتصال مع التدريس النبي نفسه. حتى يتم إصلاح الدين والشركة، التي تم استبعاد المعرفة الحقيقية. البشر لا يسوا الحيوانات. مصنوعة تماما عن الحيوانات بيئاتها. الإنسان هو كائن خلق...
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The Seven (7) Steps to Democratic GovernmentThe first step is the ceasefire.The second step is to release all the political prisoners.The third step is to talk, discuss needs, issues, events and...
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Iraq violence peaks, with eleven bombs killing over 200 innocent Iraqis. Terror is back, big time. Nur al Maliki talks of a manacing sectarian strife. All those warm feelings for Iran are now pushing...
View ArticleMiddle East Nations Break Up
Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, Israel, Libya, Egypt, Yemen all come apart...add to this Daghistan, Serbia, Sudan and Pakistan.Iraq's central Shia-led government in Baghdad has lost control of Kirkuk...
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High Noon in CairoThe Egyptian army overthrew President Morsi July 3 2013. He had been in office for year. The army acted after an unprecedented two-week long demonstration, a big protest against Morsi...
View ArticleAn Attack on Syrian chemical rocket forces?
We argue against a symbolic strike as too risky. Hitting any chemical detail is fraught with risk. Most chemical agents have to be mixed in the warhead. Hitting these missile sites and/or chem depots...
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Egypt: Police and Interior Ministry troops open fire on a mass illegal rally by the Muslim Brotherhood (MB), killing some 50, wounding some 160. Their manifestation was seen as a provocation by many....
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Syria –The moderate secular leadership of the Syrian resistance met with European leaders today, on the 12th of January 2014. The growing prominence of Al Qaida-linked Jihadi militants is largely...
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Vicious Vortexes: a Line of Dancing Winds, from Xinchiang Province of China through Western Asia into Africa as far a Mauritania on the Atlantic.Let us list the cyclonic 'winds' now whipping up dust in...
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