Copyright 2012 Middle East Forum Thu, 02 Feb 2012 15:38:56 -0500 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Middle East Forum :: Writings http://www.meforum.org webmaster@meforum.org (Middle East Forum) webmaster@meforum.org en-us http://www.meforum.org/3168/running-over-egyptian-civilians Thu, 2 Feb 2012 15:37:53 EST How many are the lies that Egypt's military regime has forwarded concerning its role in attacking and killing Egyptian demonstrators since it usurped power a year ago? There were, for instance, the lies concerning the Maspero massacre, where the military http://www.meforum.org/3166/brief-reviews Wed, 1 Feb 2012 05:14:27 EST http://www.meforum.org/3165/the-prime-ministers Wed, 1 Feb 2012 05:11:30 EST Former Israeli ambassador Avner offers a literary, distinctive, and colorful look into the inner sanctums of diplomacy and politics of the Jewish state. As speech writer and secretary to prime ministers Eshkol and Meir, adviser to prime ministers Rabin, http://www.meforum.org/3164/the-mobilization-of-political-islam-in-turkey Wed, 1 Feb 2012 05:06:27 EST In an era when an overwhelming majority of articles and books published on Islamism are apologetic in nature and often fall short in terms of academic and scholarly integrity, Eligür's study constitutes a shift in research design, data, analytical http://www.meforum.org/3163/the-making-of-a-human-bomb Wed, 1 Feb 2012 05:01:35 EST The Making of a Human Bomb looks at suicide terrorism from the perspective of the perpetrator and the society from which the phenomenon emerges. The intersection of culture and violence is a significant marker of Palestinian society as evidenced by the http://www.meforum.org/3162/lebanon-pragmatic-politics Tue, 31 Jan 2012 05:53:12 EST Lebanese society has had a remarkable ability to overcome deep-rooted sectarian and religious divides that could readily have imploded less problematic countries. This has been largely due to its pragmatic political system, which avoids acting upon http://www.meforum.org/3161/islamists-security-clearance Sun, 29 Jan 2012 13:46:00 EST Federal departments and agencies tasked with safeguarding the U.S. must first safeguard themselves against Islamist infiltration. Recent news items about Muslims having security clearances rejected or revoked suggest that at least some government http://www.meforum.org/3160/jihad-when-elections-fail Thu, 26 Jan 2012 16:40:33 EST The Obama administration supports "democracy" and "self determination" in the Middle East—two euphemisms that, in the real world, refer to "mob-rule" and "Islamic radicalization," respectively. Yet, as Jimmy Carter recently put it: "I don't have any http://www.meforum.org/3159/sotu-religious-persecution Mon, 23 Jan 2012 14:35:50 EST On January 24, during his State of the Union Address, the president of the United States has a chance to expose the plight of religious minorities living in Muslim majority nations. Doing so would not merely shed light on one of the most ignored http://www.meforum.org/3157/christmas-under-islam Mon, 23 Jan 2012 03:08:28 EST Earlier I discussed how mosques, some of which breed radicalization and serve as terrorist bases, flourish in America, while churches are increasingly targeted and destroyed in the Muslim world, especially the Middle East, the cradle of Christianity. http://www.meforum.org/3155/thought-control-on-islam Sun, 22 Jan 2012 06:58:57 EST January 10, 2012 was a big day for terrorist Anders Breivik, the diagnosed paranoid schizophrenic (but now being reevaluated), who on July 22, 2011, bombed the Norwegian Prime Minister's office and, soon after on that same day, gunned down about seventy http://www.meforum.org/3154/circumstance-dictates-islamic-behavior Thu, 19 Jan 2012 11:36:19 EST Has there ever been a time when one group of people openly exposes its animosity for another group of people—even as this second group not only ignores the animosity, but speaks well, enables, and legitimizes the first group? Welcome to the 21st century, http://www.meforum.org/3153/iran-revolutionary-guards-strike-oil Wed, 18 Jan 2012 05:21:26 EST In July 2011, Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad appointed Maj. Gen. Rostam Qassemi of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) as oil minister,[1] bringing the number of former IRGC officers in his cabinet to twelve out of eighteen. Yet the http://www.meforum.org/3152/gaddafi-long-shadow Mon, 16 Jan 2012 15:25:17 EST Muammar Gaddafi was certainly more than prophetic during the summit of the Arab League (AL) in 2008 when he inquired about the fate of his Iraqi predecessor for Western military interventions: Saddam Hussein. "The ruler and head of an AL member has been http://www.meforum.org/3151/muslim-brotherhood-world-mastership Thu, 12 Jan 2012 15:58:23 EST Although many Muslim leaders openly articulate their efforts as part of a larger picture—one that culminates in the resurrection of a caliphate adversarial by nature to all things non-Muslim—many Western leaders see only the moment, either out of context http://www.meforum.org/3150/marc-fink-appointed-director-of-islamist-watch Thu, 12 Jan 2012 10:58:29 EST PHILADELPHIA – The Middle East Forum is pleased to announce the appointment of Marc Fink as director of Islamist Watch, the Forum's effort to combat the ideas and institutions of lawful Islamists in the United States and throughout the West. Mr. Fink has http://www.meforum.org/3149/yemen-saudi-arabia Tue, 10 Jan 2012 09:46:30 EST On August 11, 2009, the Yemeni government launched "Operation Scorched Earth," aimed at putting an end to the Huthi uprising that had destabilized the country's northern province of Sa'da for more than five years. As fighting spread to the province's http://www.meforum.org/3148/us-strategy-afghanistan Mon, 9 Jan 2012 07:34:01 EST As U.S. military operations in Afghanistan drag on inconclusively, it is becoming increasingly apparent that the Taliban insurgency is gaining ground. In the first six months of 2010, for example, there was a 31 percent rise in civilian casualties while http://www.meforum.org/3147/al-jazeera Sun, 8 Jan 2012 13:49:53 EST One of the principal beneficiaries of the Arab uprisings has been Al Jazeera television. Viewers are praising the English and Arabic channels' comprehensive coverage of the revolts while the Obama administration continues to court the network as part of http://www.meforum.org/3146/muslim-persecution-of-christians-december-2011 Fri, 6 Jan 2012 09:10:37 EST The Nigerian church bombings, wherein the Islamic group Boko Haram killed over 40 people celebrating Christmas mass, is just the most obvious example of anti-Christian sentiment in December. Elsewhere around the Muslim world, Christmas time for