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Sunday, August 25, 2013

Christians being driven out of the Middle East...

I’ll be frank – I don’t think very highly of Peter Bergen, CNN’s 'security analyst'. For someone who’s certainly got more access to information than I have he’s made some rather foolish calls in the past. I remember his statements to the effect that al-Qaeda was a spent force (I’m paraphrasing; I... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, August 24, 2013

So Nidal Hasan has been convicted...

And many people, including myself, are asking, ‘What took so long?’ But the answer to that and many other questions is not an easy one! It is extremely complex, and goes to the very heart of who and what ‘we’ are and who and what ‘they’ are. The Nidal Hasan case (he is still referred to as Major... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, August 22, 2013

In Response to Annicita...

Yesterday our Annicita posted an item entitled ‘Response to Nautikos’, and when I read it, I thought there must be some kind of huge misunderstanding. I really like Annicita – among other things she’s one of the very few who like my stupid blonde jokes, or, to obviate any further misunderstandings,... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, August 21, 2013

A few words on Egypt...

The violence in the streets of Cairo and other cities is deplorable. But equally deplorable is the way in which the West, particularly the W.H. Amateur and the EU, is putting the blame squarely on the Egyptian Army for deposing Mr. Morsi, Mursi or whatever, whose name is never mentioned without the... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, August 20, 2013

The Second Siege of Constantinople...Part IV

Two of my four readers (the numbers are rising, LOL) of this blog commented that the previous post ‘read like a movie’, with one of them adding ‘Something to think about?’ I may be wrong, of course, but I had the impression that the ‘movie-like’ (dramatic and colourful) description of some of the... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, August 19, 2013

The Second Siege of Constantinople...Part III

Again, first a few remarks of my own. One of the two readers of this Blog, FSI, comments, “I never thought about the Middle East not having been under Roman Rule and its effect to this day...” Sorry if I didn’t make myself clear, FSI: The Middle East, North Africa and indeed virtually all the lands... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, August 18, 2013

The Second Siege of Constantinople...Part II

Just a few remarks about the first part of Ibrahim’s paper. He is certainly correct in identifying faith as one of the chief ways to identify oneself. But while ‘race’ and ‘ethnicity’ played less of a role, and while there is virtually no parallel in antiquity to the modern concept of ‘nation’, one... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, August 17, 2013

The Second Siege of Constantinople...Part I

Until a few years ago I didn’t know much more about Middle Eastern and Islamic history than anyone else; it just wasn’t my ‘bag’. That changed when I decided to study Islam – it is my conviction that to understand anything you need to understand its history. (Call it ‘a historian’s bias’, if you... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, August 14, 2013

The Amateur in Wonderland...

In the year 632, upon ol Mo’s death, all hell broke lose among Muslims over the successor to the ‘most perfect of men’. Without boring you with the details, let me just remind you of a historical fact: Shiite and Sunni have been at it ever since, with varying levels of violence. Which, of course,... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, August 13, 2013

Today Another Voice...

Yesterday I gave you a rare voice, the voice of a Muslim angry at the Islamic disease. Today you’ll hear the voice of the disease... Jihadist leader to U.S.: 'Islam is coming' During a radio interview Sunday, a representative of al-Qaida in the Gaza Strip sent a message to the United States: “Islam... Sign in to see full entry.

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