The issue of homosexuality in the Arab world is a touchy one, often ignored, shunned or ridiculed. There is progress, but it’s slow and painful: The first gay book to have been ever translated into Arabic after being originally printed in English has run into problems straight off the press.… The book,… Gay Travels in the Muslim…
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It’s more than just beheading and murder
Foreign Policy informs of a new work about Islamism that challenges the oft-stated view of the movement: Yusuf al-Qaradawi, probably the single most influential living Sunni Islamist figure, has just written a major book entitled Fiqh al-Jihad (The Jurisprudence of Jihad) which decisively repudiates al Qaeda’s conception of jihad as a “mad declaration of war…
Iranian crisis is not about destroying the Islamic Republic
Robert Fisk, reporting from inside Iran, gave a remarkable interview to ABC Radio on Wednesday: No-one’s told me not to drive around so I go and see wounded people and go and watch these confrontations and no-one seems to bother me. I rather think an awful lot of journalists take it too seriously. If you…
How can we stop this madman?
Zionist fundamentalists are most displeased with that extremist, Muslim terrorist, Barack Obama: There is growing concern among the American Jewish community over Obama’s Mideast initiatives, this according to the executive vice chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, Malcolm Hoenlein. “President Obama’s strongest supporters among Jewish leaders are deeply troubled by…
Good Zionists are really hard to find
Any Jewish leaders want to condemn the rantings of confirmed Zionist Frank Gaffney, here writing last week in the Washington Times about Obama’s Cairo speech? No, didn’t think so, far better to keep crazy Israel lovers on our side: The man now happy to have his Islamic-rooted middle name featured prominently has engaged in the…
The Jews who really need an Iranian bad-man
MJ Rosenberg gets it in one: Foreign Policy’s Laura Rozen has a great piece on what might be happening in Iran. The madman could lose. It seems like almost too much to hope for. But, as I noted earlier, there is some evidence that the neocons are worried. They want Ahmadinejad in there because without…
Israeli society declines and what do we say?
Racism, my name is Israeli society: Lod’s Religions of Moses and Israel synagogue was burnt down seven months ago, but it’s manager has refused a generous donation to restore it, because the benefactor in a Muslim. Muhammad Abu-Matir, of the Muslim Waqf has offered to put up half the sum needed to rebuild the synagogue,…
Let the Muslims be heard
PBS Newshour invited four Arabs to dissect Obama’s Cairo speech a few days ago, including The Angry Arab. Watching these individuals discuss the pros and cons of the address was intriguing, not least because the vast majority of the US media used white talking heads instead:
The conflict the world forgot
A report from inside one of the most troubled nations on earth, Somalia.
So leave then
Fear works: Some 23 percent of Israelis would consider leaving the country if Iran obtains a nuclear weapon, according to a poll conducted on behalf of the Center for Iranian Studies at Tel Aviv University. This quote is the key: “The findings are worrying because they reflect an exaggerated and unnecessary fear,” Prof. David Menashri,…