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Professor Bayram Balci Analyzes Turkish elections Exclusive to The Arab Daily News: Q&A with Bayram Balçi Professor at l’Institut d’études politiques de Paris. By Abdennour Toumi Professor Bayram Balci is a non-resident scholar in Carnegie’s Russia and Eurasia Program, where his research focuses on Turkey and Turkish foreign policy in Central Asia and the…
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Yale Law Students Urge Democratic Members of Congress to Oppose Harmful and Discriminatory Refugee Legislation The Yale Law School Chapter of the American Constitution Society (ACS) sent a letter today (Monday Nov. 23, 2015) imploring House Democrats to publicly change their position on HR 4038 and urge Senate Democrats to oppose this legislation with their…
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What many Americans want to do to Syrian refugees, America did to Jews fleeing Nazi persecution just prior to the start of World War II. One civil rights leader, the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson believes that it is “unAmerican” to prevent Syrian refugees from seeking refuge in America By Ray Hanania There is a running…
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By Abdennour Toumi This law of exception was never repealed in spite of numerous criticisms leveled at its questionable constitutionality and its relevance to personal liberty. A week after the murderous attacks, which resulted in 130 deaths and 352 wounded in Paris and Saint-Denis, President Hollande delivered a speech on November 16th before in joint…
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By Mohammed Asad Palestinian children take part in a festival to mark “World Children’s Day” in Gaza City on Nov. 22, 2015.
On Thursday a study by ISIS the US based Institute for Science and International Security reported, “Israel developed its first nuclear weapon shortly before the 1967 Six Day War” corroborating an LBJ ‘VanunuLeak’ to this American in 2005. By Eileen Fleming David Albright is a Physicist and President of the non-profit Institute for Science and…
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No justice in Israel for Christians or Muslims, which is why Israel is increasingly being identified by its own actions as an Apartheid State. Palestinian “suspects” are murdered and brutalized with no justice, while Israeli “suspects” are soft-peddled and whitewashed by Israel’s judicial system to hide the truth about today’s Israeli society. By Ray Hanania…
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Why is there a difference between the coverage by the mainstream Western and American news media of the terrorism in Paris on Friday Nov. 13 compared to the absence of media coverage of the terrorism in Beirut the day before? The reasons involve a twisted form of journalism applied by Western journalists that distinguishes between…
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Mike Ghouse Indeed, war on Terror is the dumbest idea ever floated, there is another way to handle it; the Islamic way If a thief breaks into your home, would you ask him his religion? And if he were to says, he belongs to your faith; would you let him get away? When a terrorist…
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For a long time, I supported the election of Hillary Clinton as President. I supported her against Barack Obama and for a longtime believed we needed to elect her to help restore reason and sanity to dealing with the Middle East. But the Clintons’ views on the Middle East have changed much and I believe…
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Detectives have today, Thursday, 19 November arrested a man in connection with the fatal shooting of WPC Yvonne Fletcher in April 1984 and two others on suspicion of money laundering. Officers from the Met’s Counter Terrorism Command (SO15) carried out the arrests shortly after 09:00hrs. A man, who is in his 50s [A], was arrested…
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By James M. Dorsey Stadia have re-emerged as a preferred jihadist target in the wake of last weekend’s Islamic State (IS) bombing of the Stade de France stadium, a shootout five days later with jihadist militants in a Paris suburb adjacent to the stadium, a reportedly foiled plot against a stadium in the German city…
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In my weekly column at Creators Syndicate, this week, I analyze the factors that may be driving what I believe is the racism that is driving the Western response to terrorism in Paris and Beirut. Why is Daesh/ISIS terrorism in Paris different from Daesh/ISIS terrorism in Beirut? By Ray Hanania It’s a hot topic these…
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Palestinians protest Israeli violence with creative talents By Mohammed Asad Palestinian youths play music and paint murals during an event to show solidarity with the Palestinians in the West Bank and Jerusalem, in Gaza city on November 18, 2015. The surge in violence across Israel, Jerusalem and the Israeli-occupied West Bank has been fueled in…
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Why ISIS is able to attack Paris and European targets but will be very difficult to do the same in the United States
Fear-Mongering of the Worst Order from GOP and Some Democrats Republicans in Congress and on the campaign trail are using the terrorist attack on Paris to attempt to enact new immigration and refugee restrictions in the United States, using fear-mongering. Donald Trump and Rep. Steve King (R-IA), two of the men most responsible for the…
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AHRC urges the Arab and Muslim American community to be vigilant, and to report suspicious activity to the authorities: In light of the drastic increase of bigoted and misinformed anti- Muslim rhetoric and Islamophobia that recently increased as a result of the horrific terrorist attacks in Paris, AHRC urges the Arab and American community to…
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Victims of terrorism climb according to Global Terrorism Index 32,658 people were killed by terrorism in 2014 compared to 18,111 in 2013: the largest increase ever recorded Boko Haram and ISIL were jointly responsible for 51% of all claimed global fatalities in 2014 Boko Haram has overtaken ISIL as world‘s deadliest terrorist group Countries suffering over 500 deaths…
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