A putsch against war
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Tag: "Elections"
Why Nations Start Dumb Wars: Is Israel Setting the Stage for Tragedy?
Netanyahu may calculate that an election-season Israeli attack might force the Obama administration to back a war and/or damage Obama’s re-election chances.
Mar 05, 2012 | 0 comments | View Post
Tunisia and Egypt One Year On
anuary 25 marked the one-year anniversary of the inception of Egypt’s revolution against the dictatorship of the Mubarak regime
Feb 01, 2012 | 0 comments | View Post
Don’t fear us: Tunisian Islamist leader
Tunisia’s Islamist party will uphold women’s rights and not try to impose strict Muslim values if, as many expect, it wins the first election since Tunisia’s revolution, its leader said.
Oct 03, 2011 | 0 comments | View Post
“I Stayed to Fight” — Being a Muslim Immigrant in Post 9/11 America
Watching the twin towers crumble on live television was the start of my deep bond with America that will endure the hate.
Sep 11, 2011 | 0 comments | View Post
The Muslim Brotherhood Can Be a Moderate Voice in Islamist Politics
If Egypt’s Islamists are able to successfully reconcile Islam and democracy, it would discredit extremist groups who rely on violence, and not the political process, to achieve their goals.
Aug 22, 2011 | 0 comments | View Post
Commentary: MB and Democracy, Mutually Exclusive?
Latest events in the Middle East, particularly Egypt following the January 25 revolution, have proven that the conservative Muslim Brotherhood is the true pro-democracy advocate, compared to liberal groups which ironically behaved so undemocratically after the fall of the regime.
Aug 20, 2011 | 0 comments | View Post
The dangers of secularism in the Middle East
Amid Arab Spring unrest, Western analysts tout secularism, fearing the rise of Islamists in the Middle East. But stability will come from including, rather than excluding, religious groups in politics.
Aug 11, 2011 | 0 comments | View Post
What Does the U.S. Want to Talk to the Brotherhood About?
To cut through the hype, it’s helpful to review the actual record of U.S.-Brotherhood contacts since the movement’s reemergence in Egypt in the 1970s. Until the 1990s, U.S. diplomats did not go out of their way to avoid Brotherhood members…
Aug 09, 2011 | 0 comments | View Post
The Stream: Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood
“The MB is not some kind of clerical temple of wisdom – it has doctors, engineers, lawyers, merchants, business people, teachers, the army and police force … all of Egypt is represented in its power base.”
Jun 21, 2011 | 0 comments | View Post
The Muslim Brotherhood After Mubarak
The Brotherhood has demonstrated that it is capable of evolving over time, and the best way to strengthen its democratic commitments is to include it in the political process.
Mar 18, 2011 | 0 comments | View Post
Five myths about the Muslim Brotherhood
What role the Muslim Brotherhood would play in a new Egypt and a changing Middle East. Yet much of what we know – or think we know – about the group’s ambitions, beliefs and history is clouded by misperceptions.
Mar 08, 2011 | 0 comments | View Post
We must engage Muslim Brotherhood, says Kevin Rudd
KEVIN Rudd, The Australian Foreign Minister, has said the international community “must engage” with the Muslim Brotherhood as Egypt prepares for democratic elections.
Feb 28, 2011 | 0 comments | View Post
Meet Radical Islam’s Tech Guru
Despite getting trounced in the most recent election, the Muslim Brotherhood’s Web geeks are transforming Egypt’s Islamist group from a shadowy organization with power bases in mosques and charities into a media-savvy machine.
Dec 29, 2010 | 0 comments | View Post
United States of Fear: How Right-Wing Lawmakers Will Use Absurd Terrorism Conspiracy Theories to Curb Your Freedoms
We are a fearful nation eating away at itself and the wolves are prowling the southern borders. Welcome to Congress, 2011.
Dec 23, 2010 | 0 comments | View Post
TIME: What’s So Scary About Egypt’s Islamists?
Egyptians will go to the polls on Nov. 28 to vote for positions in Parliament. In the last election, members of the Islamist political group, the Muslim Brotherhood, running as independents, won one-fifth of the seats.
Nov 24, 2010 | 0 comments | View Post
Mother Jones: Muslimophobia: Election Roundup
The good news: Many anti-Muslim candidates did not get elected Tuesday. Now the bad news: Alas, several anti-Muslim candidates won—mostly in the South.
Nov 07, 2010 | 0 comments | View Post
The Hater Party: How Right-Wing Candidates Have Turned Hate Into Political Currency
The running theme for campaigns supported by the Tea Party and other GOPers is hate: hate for us poor mamas, poor people of color, poor families and immigrants.
Islamaphobia Rapidly Spreads Through Europe
The European extreme right is more turbocharged than ever, peddling Islamic hatred from France to Denmark, from Italy to Sweden.
Oct 25, 2010 | 0 comments | View Post
How Radical Christian Conservatives May Succeed in Destroying Democracy
All ideological, theological and political debates with the representatives of the corporate state, including the feckless and weak Barack Obama, are useless.
Oct 17, 2010 | 0 comments | View Post
America’s Anti-Islam Hysteria
Sharron Angle is just the latest politician to stir up anti-Muslim feelings. Reza Aslan on the wacky movement to ban Sharia law in the U.S.
Oct 14, 2010 | 0 comments | View Post
Commentary: The real threat in Egypt: Delayed democracy
No one in Egypt is talking about demolishing the peace treaty with Israel, even the Muslim Brotherhood. The Muslim Brotherhood is standing against the Israeli violations against humanity.