Boycotts, Divestments and Sanctions (BDS)

Nasrin Amirsedghi: A Muslim-Programmed Inhuman Rights Council?

http://www.telospress.com/main/index.php?main_page=news_article&article_id=266 In 1990, the “Cairo Declaration on Human Rights in Islam,” adopted by the Organization of the Islamic Conference, set Sharia as the sole foundation for “human rights.” The UN’s Third International Antiracism Conference, which took place in September 2001…

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London’s Terror Bank

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121927458233958383.html In the war on terror, the U.S. has had no greater friend than the United Kingdom. And as the U.S. economy continues to suffer under the burdens of Sarbanes-Oxley, our British friends have demonstrated a more sensible approach to…

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Lori Lowenthal Marcus: The Moderate Muslim

http://www.weeklyblitz.net/index.php?id=373 There lives in Dhaka one of the elusive souls for whom most of the world, or at least most Western politicians, have been searching: a true Islam-loving moderate Muslim who believes in brotherhood among all religions and respect for…

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Bernhard Bartsch: Der andere Moslem

Anmerkung der Redaktion des deutschsprachigen Faculty Forums: Am 6. August begann ein gerichtliches Verfahren gegen Shoaib Choudhury. Es könnte gegen ihn die Todesstrafe verhängt werden. Bitte unterzeichnen Sie die Petition für die Befreiung von Shoaib Choudhury hier http://www.berlinonline.de/berliner-zeitung/spezial/dossiers/wie_soll_ich_leben/75561/index.php privat Salah…

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Khaled Abu Toameh: Analysis: Prisoner Release Does Nothing For Abbas

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1218710398030&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull It’s hard these days to find one Palestinian who regards Israel’s decision to release some 200 Palestinian prisoners as a “goodwill gesture.” It’s also hard to see how the release of the prisoners would “boost” the popularity of Palestinian…

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Ariel Cohen: The Russian-Georgian War: Implications for the Middle East

http://www.jcpa.org/JCPA/Templates/ShowPage.asp?DRIT=1&DBID=1&LNGID=1&TMID=111&FID=442&PID=0&IID=2402&TTL=The_Russian-Georgian_War:_Implications_for_the_Middle_East Moscow formulated far-reaching goals when it carefully prepared – over a period of at least two and a half years – for a land invasion of Georgia. These goals included: expelling Georgian troops and effectively terminating Georgian sovereignty in…

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The ‘One-State Solution’ Is Full Of Dangers

http://www.thenational.ae/article/20080811/OPINION/72633527/-1/ART Every so often comes a remorseful Israeli leftist academic, a well-meaning Western peace activist, or a frustrated Palestinian official like Ahmed Qurie, the head of the Palestinian peace delegation, who pronounces the death of the two-state formula and advocates…

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Michael Horowitz: Suicide bombers (f.)

http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/mesh/2008/08/suicide_bombers_f/ Lindsey O’Rourke’s recent op-ed in the New York Times, “Behind the Woman Behind the Bomb,” is an interesting attempt to describe some of the issues surrounding the use of female suicide bombers in Iraq and elsewhere. As she points…

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