On December 21, 2007, MEMRI reported on a polemic between Iraqi liberal writers and the Egyptian sociologist Sa'ad Eddin Ibrahim, a well-known reformer who currently heads the Arab Democracy Foundation in Qatar. The Iraqis were angered by two articles Ibrahim wrote on the war in Iraq, in which he compared the Iraqi resistance to the liberation movements in Vietnam and Algeria. 1 The Iraqis were profoundly disappointed at Ibrahim's position, and claimed that he had abandoned the democratic camp ...
Visit the MEMRI Urdu-Pashtu Media Blog ( www.thememriblog.org/urdupashtu ) daily for news updates you will find nowhere else. We also encourage visitors to MEMRI sites to utilize our new RSS feeds. Now you can get the latest MEMRI content directly to your RSS reader or aggregator. Simply copy the URL of the RSS icon on any MEMRI site into your newsreader and you'll keep up to date with the most recent content from MEMRI. The following is a selection of entries from daily reports over the last ...
The following is a lecture delivered by MEMRI Chairman Menahem Milson at the opening of the annual international conference of the Global Forum for Combating Antisemitism held in Jerusalem on Sunday, 24 February 2008: Arab and Islamic antisemitism is today the form of antisemitism that poses the most danger to Israel and to Jews everywhere in the world. Numerous antisemitic attacks in France and elsewhere in Europe in recent years have made it very clear that the pernicious impact of this ...
Islamist Websites Monitor No. 118 The "Ansar Al-Islam in the Muslim Sahara" Group Declares Jihad Against the North African Regimes and Promises to Take Back Muslim Spain On June 28, 2007, Islamist websites posted a communiqué (dated late April) announcing the establishment of "Ansar Al-Islam in the Muslim Sahara, Land of the Veiled Ones." In the communiqué, the group declares jihad on the North African regimes and the Polisario Front, with special attention dedicated to Morocco. They also ...
Islamist Websites Monitor No. 124 Al-Qaeda in Algeria Announces Plan to Perpetrate Series of Terrorist Attacks, Warns the Muslims to Stay Away from Government Facilities to Avoid Getting Hurt On July 23, 2007, "Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb" posted a communiqué on Islamic websites announcing its intention to perpetrate a series of escalating terrorist attacks in Algeria against the "enemies of Islam" and warning all Muslims to stay away from government facilities in order to avoid getting ...
Introduction The Darfur region of Sudan first made headlines in February 2003 with news of massacres, rapes, mutilations, and other atrocities perpetrated by the Sudanese government and its allied armed Arab militia, the Janjaweed, against civilians in the black Arab and non-Arab south. Shortly thereafter, the Arab and Iranian media came out with reports explaining these events as the result of a conspiracy. The campaign was led by the most influential Arab and Iranian newspapers and TV ...
On November 17, 2007, the French daily Le Monde reported that French President Nicolas Sarkozy had received a belligerent letter from his Iranian counterpart, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. In the letter, which French diplomats called "blunt and full of veiled threats," Ahmadinejad called Sarkozy "young and inexperienced," and condemned France's attempts to persuade other EU countries to support further sanctions against Iran. He also stated that "destroying the long-standing relations between Iran and ...
Following are excerpts from an interview, in English, with Lebanese Druze leader Walid Jumblatt, which aired on Press TV on January 1, 2008. To view MEMRI TV's webpage on Walid Jumblatt, visit: http://www.memritv.org/subject/en/377.htm . "My Father Was Also a Victim of the Same Butcher, Hafez Al-Assad" Interviewer : "You always blame Syria for the killing, but yet, there is no hard evidence. Can we just continue... You keep on accusing, accusing, accusing, without hard evidence." Walid Jumblatt ...
