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Full text of Hezbollah's new political document

Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah announced on Monday the Resistance party's new political document approved during the party's General Conference that lasted for months...

MEDIA ALERT: SWITZERLAND VOTES ON MINARET BAN

Proposal championed by right-wing parties to ban minarets in Switzerland goes to a nationwide vote on Sunday; latest polls show 37% in support of the ban...

Abbas’s militias kidnap 13 Palestinian citizens in Nablus and Tulkarem

Mahmoud Abbas’s militias reportedly kidnapped 13 Palestinian citizens affiliated with Hamas during the last two days in the districts of Nablus and Tulkarem...

Egypt: Update - 22 Muslim Brotherhood detainees released

Alkarama has received news from inside Egypt of the release of several members of Muslim Brotherhood, some of whose cases Alkarama had previously submitted to the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD). On 1 November 2009, Alkarama submitted 112 cases to the WGAD, all in connection with the Muslim Brotherhood...

Jordanians demonstrate against Israeli measures in Jerusalem

- About 3,000 Jordanians demonstrated in Amman on Friday to protest what they called an Israeli conspiracy against al-Aqsa Mosque in East Jerusalem, which the Jewish state seized from Jordan in the 1967 Middle East war. The rally, organized by the influential Muslim Brotherhood movement and its political arm the Islamic Action Front (IAF), was held under the slogan "al-Aqsa in Danger"...

ISLAMOPHOBIA: INCIDENTS - article collection

ISLAMOPHOBIA - Polls, statistics, and surveys relating to Islam and Muslims - Claim That All Terrorists are Muslims Ignores History (sections on Christian extremism and terrorism and Jewish extremism and terrorism were divided 4/08)..

Analysis: Egypt faces new dynastic struggle

Young King Tutankhamen followed a powerful predecessor to the Egyptian throne, made historic changes with the backing of his generals – and died before coming of age...

Discussion about christians in the middle east

Persecution, genocide, murder, discrimination, kidnapping, arrest, conquer, injustice, immigration … These and other cruel and bitter words I have heard yesterday evening during a conference which was held at the Political Academy of ?VP in the 12 district in Vienna about “Discrimination, Oppression and Persecution of Christians in the Middle East“...

Cairo life resumes its grind after World Cup hopes dashed

Nov 19, 2009 (AFP) - Loss and bitterness replaced triumph on Thursday as life in Cairo resumed its daily grind after Algeria ended the Pharoahs' World Cup hopes...

FAA and NORAD Changed Records to Accord with Cheney Lies

A senior Counsel for the 9/11 Commission, John Farmer, has written a book exposing the degree to which our response to 9/11 was disorganized and outdated–geared to respond to an attack from Russia rather than from terrorists...

Secretary Gates signs order barring release of torture photos

Pursuant to new powers delegated to him by Congress, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates has executed an order blocking the release of photos depicting the torture of detainees...

Ugly Truth: Most U.S. Kids Sentenced to Die In Prison Are Black

On Monday the U.S. Supreme Court heard two cases that could have major implications for the way juvenile offenders are treated in our criminal justice system...

Muslim Brotherhood to dissolve executive office - source

AMMAN - Internal differences in the Muslim Brotherhood resurfaced this weekend and Islamist sources confirmed the group is poised to dissolve its executive office before the end of the month, sources said...

Mauritanian Islamists: Political Islam beyond the War of Ideas

Tawassoul’s leader, Jamil Mansour, spent the better part of the last year in opposition to Ould Abdel Aziz, who came to power in a coup last August, as a member of the Front for the Defense of Democracy (FNDD), along with other opposition heavy weights. Of those men, Ahmed Ould Daddah, Messaoud Boulkheir, Badreddine and Mansour, he was the first to make moves to “defect” following defeat in the July presidential election. After last week’s senatorial elections, in which the opposition was dealt a certain defeat — Ould Daddah’s RFD lost in its traditional stronghold of Boutlimit — Mansour was seen to be making his best efforts to attach Tawassoul to the new ruling clique...

State appointments suggest curve turned on democracy?

The Obama administration has come under fire from democracy advocates for failing to match rhetorical commitments with appropriate policies and personnel. The administration has rejected the charge, and some recent appointments would seem to support their assertions...

Khater: Hamas is keen on achieving national reconciliation

AMMAN, -- Sami Khater, member of Hamas’s political bureau, said on Thursday that his Movement was keen to end the Palestinian political rift, but he accused certain parties of exploiting the reconciliation for election purposes only...

Alaa Al-Aswany: When women are sinners in the eyes of extremists

The Shabaab movement in Somalia controls large parts of the south and centre of the country, and because officials in this movement embrace the Wahabi ideology they have imposed their views on Somalis by force and have issued strict decrees banning films, plays, dancing at weddings, football matches and all forms of music, even the ring tones on mobile phones...

We Need More Erdogans

Turkey’s Ottoman Empire died an unwept death nearly a century ago. But the country continues to enjoy a unique eminence of leadership across the Middle East and in much of the Muslim world. And Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has repeatedly justified this love and respect for his country with his political courage and candor...

Robert Fisk’s World: The truth about the Middle East is buried beneath the headlines

Amira Hass was spot on when she said last week that her lifetime women's award was an award for failure. The West Bank correspondent of the Israeli paper Haaretz eloquently explained herself on al-Jazeera's English channel. She received an award for failure, she said, because despite all the facts that she and her journalistic colleagues had explained about Israeli occupation in Palestine, the world still did not understand what occupation meant and still used words like "terror" and "war on terror". Amira was absolutely correct. Most of our Western press and television are as gutless as ever when they have to participate in what Noam Chomsky described as "the manufacture of consent"...

How Arabs Transformed Western Civilization

The African and Middle Eastern Division of the Library of Congress is sponsoring a series of lectures on Iraq history and society. Jonathan Lyons, a researcher at the Global Terrorism Research Center at Monash University, Victoria, Australia, discussed his new book, “The House of Wisdom: How the Arabs Transformed Western Civilization.”..