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Archive for 2011|Yearly archive page
France Bans Face-Covering Islamic Veil
In Discussion on April 11, 2011 at 1:38 pm(PARIS) — France’s new ban on Islamic face veils was met with a burst of defiance Monday, as several women appeared veiled in front of Paris’ Notre Dame Cathedral and two were detained for taking part in an unauthorized protest.
“Al Nakba”—The Palestinian Catastrophe of 1948 (videos)
In Discussion on April 10, 2011 at 1:16 pm“Al Nakba”—The Palestinian Catastrophe of 1948 (videos)
On May 15th, sixty-one years later, Palestinians throughout the world commemorate the Nakba, “the catastrophe”. The narrative of the Jewish state began with an ethnic cleansing in 1948, which aimed to erase the history of an entire people and falsely create that of another. We hear how the Palestinian suffering caused during the Gaza war invokes memories of the first Nakba. Read the rest of this entry »
Facebook bans pages calling for Palestinian uprising
In Discussion on April 10, 2011 at 1:15 pmFacebook bans pages calling for Palestinian uprising
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg (photo) shut down pages on his social network that were calling for an uprising in Palestine to begin on May 15, the date marked by Palestinians as the Nakba.
Since the 6th of March, several Facebook pages have called for a third intifada. They garnered up to half a million supporters. Read the rest of this entry »
Egypt: After the Revolution
In Discussion on April 9, 2011 at 3:06 pmGuest Author: Samuli Schielke
As I write these final notes from the Egyptian revolution on my way back to Germany, I once again curse my amazingly bad timing regarding key events of the revolution. I arrived in Egypt on my first visit three days after the Friday of Anger, was dramatic key moment that made the old system lose its balance. I left five days before Hosni Mubarak resigned. I arrived on my second visit one day after the Essam Sharaf’s caretaker government took over. And I am leaving in the early morning hours of the constitutional referendum that will determine which way Egypt will be going in the coming months.
In Egypt, Even Islamists Want a Piece of Democracy
In Discussion on April 9, 2011 at 1:41 pmDemocracy, Egyptian Style
To listen to Kamal Habib extol the democratic ideal is to slip into a parallel universe where down is up and black is white. This is, after all, the co-founder of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad, who was jailed for years — some of them alongside his classmate from university Ayman al-Zawahiri, now al-Qaeda’s No. 2 — for allegedly helping organize the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. His democratic credentials are, at best, slim. And yet here’s Habib, on the fourth floor of Cairo’s Journalists’ Union, along with a few dozen men sporting long beards and Islamic garb, to discuss plans for a political party. “Most of these men are jihadists who were detained and tortured,” he says. Habib himself was released 20 years ago, and he has renounced the armed struggle. Now they all want to get into politics.
The “Deep State” behind U.S. democracy
In Discussion on April 8, 2011 at 1:54 pmPeter Dale Scott’s exclusive interview for Voltaire Network
The “Deep State” behind U.S. democracy
In his book The Road to 9/11, now available in French, Professor Peter Dale Scott traces back the history of the “Deep State” in the United States, that is to say the secret structure that steers defense and foreign policy behind the facade of democracy. His analysis lifts the veil on the group that organised the September 11 attacks and which finances itself through international trafficking networks. Regarded as a reference book, The Road to 9/11 already features as recommended reading at military-diplomatic academies.
