In an article published February 1, 2007 in the English edition of the London daily Al-Hayat , columnist Hassan Haydar denounced the "culture of death" that Iran is spreading in the Arab world by means of the resistance movements in Lebanon and in Palestine . The following are excerpts from the article, as they appeared in English: 1 "According to a Reuters news report from Monday, a little Lebanese girl who appeared on a... children's show on Al-Manar - Hezbollah's TV channel - said that she ...
In reaction to the January 26, 2007 U.N. resolution condemning Holocaust denial, the editor of the Iranian daily Kayhan , Hossein Shariatmadari, who is close to Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, attacked the U.N. and accused it of acting against its own charter, and against human rights. The following are excerpts from the article: 1 "If the U.N. General Assembly's resolution of Friday was not the last nail in the coffin of this organization, then it at least drove one in, and it is ...
The following are excerpts from three interviews with members of Saddam Hussein's legal defense team. The interviews were aired on LBC TV and on Al-Arabiya TV, on January 14, January 18, and January 22, 2007 . TO VIEW THIS CLIP VISIT: http://memritv.org/clip/en/1365.htm . LBC TV, January 14, 2007: Wadud Shams Al-Din : "I met him near the airport. The meeting lasted over two hours. In the middle of the meeting, the Americans asked him to submit a request authorizing someone to receive his ...
Following the December 11-12, 2006 Holocaust denial conference in Tehran, Arab columnists condemned the conference's organizers and participants, calling them hate-mongers who spread propaganda and "criminals, enemies of freedom, and distorters of historical fact." The columnists challenged the claim that the conference was an academic research symposium, arguing that, from a moral point of view, it reflected a lack of human and cultural sensitivity, and that it could lead to conflict around ...
Islamist Video - 150 Bombings of American Targets On December 30, 2006, Islamist websites posted a nine-minute video titled "The Bombings that Destroyed the Myth of the American Military Machine on Iraqi Soil." According to the Islamist sites, the video shows "more than 150 bombings in fewer than nine minutes." The video shows a series of dozens of bombings of moving American targets (tanks, APCs, Humvees, trucks, and cars) carried out throughout Iraq at different times by various Sunni jihad ...
On September 30, 2005 , Denmark 's biggest daily newspaper, Jyllands-Posten, published a series of 12 cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad. One, which was perceived as highly offensive, showed the Prophet with a bomb on top of his turban. Several months later, mass demonstrations were held in the streets of the Muslim world to protest against the perceived insult to the Prophet; some of the demonstrations turned violent and dozens were killed. Arab countries recalled their ambassadors; ...
On December 10, 2006 , at an international conference on Islam in Europe held at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem , Prof. Menahem Milson presented the views of Arab reformist thinker Lafif Lakhdar on the issue of integration versus separate ethnic communal identity among Muslims in Europe . The following is the transcript of the lecture. Introduction: A Short Biography Lafif Lakhdar is a Tunisian intellectual living in Paris. The name "Lafif Lakhdar" is the French transcription of his Arabic ...
Introduction In contrast with the great number of reactions and criticism heard in the West at the execution of deposed Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, the Arab world's response was largely limited to minor diplomatic reactions focusing mostly on the timing of the execution - the first day of the Feast of the Sacrifice - and not on the execution itself. There were no statements on the matter from Arab leaders, except from Libyan ruler Mu'ammar Al-Qadhafi, who, in an unrelated speech, commented ...
In an article titled "Ban… Ban…," published in the Tunisian French-language weekly Réalités , 1 Tunisian columnist Zyed Krichen denounced the policy of censorship and denial of free speech that he said had been implemented by most Arab states and Islamist groups "since the advent of printing." In the second part of his article, he lists instances of censorship and persecution in the name of Islam from various Muslim countries, from 1925 to date, including banned works and writers and artists ...
