Month: April 2014

Iran is insulted by Ted Cruz’s successful legislative bid to smear the Iranian diplomat through guilt by association (because he allegedly was asked to serve as a translator for the people who seized American diplomats hostage: US: Iran UN Envoy Hamid Aboutalebi ‘Not Viable’ (BBC) “Snowden said the National Security Agency – for which he…

The new law guarantees the corruption of Mubarak’s crony capitalism will not be reversed by legal intervention: Egyptian Law Shielding State Deals Set to Go to Cabinet: Minister (Reuters) “211 voting centers out of 6,212 nationwide did not open due to security concerns. But in many cases Afghans surprised themselves – especially in urban centers…

Arun Kundnani’s “starting point is … ‘Terrorism is not the product of radical politics but a symptom of political impotence.’ The antidote … [is then] ‘A strong, active and confident Muslim community enjoying its civic rights to the full.’ Yet policy on both sides of the Atlantic has ended by criminalising Muslim opinion, silencing speech…

Flagrantly instituted to pander to Saudi Arabia, if Cameron’s proposed “investigation leads to a ban it may appease the Saudis, but it would also alienate the millions who never espoused violence”: David Cameron’s Muslim Brotherhood Inquiry Could Well Backfire (Guardian) … and while the MB’s “official English Twitter account … said it ‘welcomes any investigations by…

“Capitalism and Imperialism” Imad-ad-Dean Ahmad, Minaret of Freedom Institute A paper delivered on March 17, 2014 at the 2014 Istanbul Liberty Network conference in Istanbul Turkey I have noticed that the main opposition to capitalism in the Muslim world, as in the third world in general, is its association with imperialism. This association is unfortunate…