Month: May 2016

How Trump Is Corrupting Hillary’s Administration

The Levant News -- by Graham E. Fuller-- The scariest thing about Donald Trump’s candidacy is not that a guy like him is running for top office, but rather the disastrous impact he is going to have on a Hillary administration. Now, in this crazy year—actually non-stop circus for 18 months—the press has engaged in […]

Mustafa Badreddine Is Killed in Syria by Takfiris

By ANNE BARNARD and SEWELL CHANMAY for New York Times -- Mustafa Amine Badreddine died in a “huge blast” near the Damascus airport, the group’s television network said. Credit Hezbollah, via Associated Press BEIRUT, Lebanon — In his more than three-decade career as a militant operative, Mustafa Amine Badreddine embraced an array of real and […]

Mustafa Badreddine, Top Hezbollah commander killed in Syria

The Levant News -- Top Hezbollah commander Mustafa Badreddine has been killed in an attack in Syria, the Lebanese Shi'ite group said on Friday, the biggest blow to the Iranian-backed organization since its military chief was killed in 2008. Badreddine, 55, was one of the highest ranking officials in the group, and was believed by […]

Will the Cradle of Christianity be Without Christians?

By Dr. Najib E. Saliba* -- Those who follow current Middle East developments closely have probably reached the conclusion that Christianity and Islam are at war. This is certainly not the case. Christianity and Islam are not at war, but a fringe of “Muslims” who have gone astray from true Islam, do not speak for […]

Top 4 Reasons Iran will stand by Syrian gov’t despite High Casualties

By Juan Cole -- On Saturday, Iran announced that 13 members of the Revolutionary Guards Corps had been killed and 21 wounded when the al-Qaeda-led Army of Islam fundamentalist Sunni coalition took the village of Khan Touman near Aleppo. Iran will nevertheless continue to back the regime of Bashar al-Assad against rebels. An envoy of […]

Random Impressions from the Euro-Muslim Front

THE LEVANT NEWS -- by Graham E. Fuller -- Apologies to readers for some recent silences, but I’ve been away in Holland as a guest lecturer for three weeks at Leiden University in Holland, a charming and historic university town. During this period I worked to gain a few impressions of what is currently going […]

Il ruolo strategico degli jihadisti uiguri in Siria

di Dr. Haytham Mouzahem -- Migliaia di cinesi combattono in Siria col fronte al-Nusra (Jabhat al-Nusra), con Ahrar al-sham e con l’ISIS, molti di loro appartengono alla minoranza musulmana uiguri della provincia dello Xinjiang, nell’ovest della Cina. La loro base è nella provincia di Idlib, nel nord della Siria, ma si trovano anche nella campagna […]

This is What Will Happen at the Democratic Convention

by John Laurits -- Can Sanders do it? Or is Clinton truly inevitable? Math vs. Media: Part One Bernie Sanders has vowed to fight relentlessly for the 2016 Democratic Party’s nomination up to the convention and, despite the apparent consensus of the media’s talking heads that the campaign is a lost cause, he has held […]

Counterterrorism or Repression? China Takes on Uighur Militants

By Lauren Dickey for War on the Rocks -- China is trying to link Uighur militants to foreign-led extremist groups such as al-Qaeda and the so-called Islamic State. Well, Lauren Dickey isn’t buying it. The alleged linkages are truly opaque and don’t presage future Uighur attacks on Chinese soil. What they do point to, however, […]

A Conversation with Hamid Algar

by Russell Schoch for Campus Watch published in June 2003 -- Shortly after September 11, 2001, professor of Persian and Islamic Studies Hamid Algar hailed a cab in downtown Berkeley. The cab driver was an Indian Sikh, wearing a turban. When Algar got into the cab, the driver said: "Sir, don't worry, I'm not a […]

Khomeini’s Mind

By Hamid Algar - SEPTEMBER 23, 1982 ISSUE -- In response to: Conjuring with Islam from the May 27, 1982 issue To the Editors: I ought, I suppose, to be flattered that Clifford Geertz has devoted more space to my commentary on Imam Khomeini’s writings than to the writings themselves in his review of Islam […]

Do not fear use of Arabic

By Shazia Ahmad* -- Like many other first-generation Muslim kids in the Capital Region in the '90s, I grew up spending hours of my weekend at the local mosque, learning the ABCs of Arabic (or more accurately, Alif, Ba, Taa). Our parents came from a wide array of countries, but most, like mine from India, […]

Due to territorial losses, ISIS ‘boosting attacks’

The Levant News -- ISIS attacks have increased this year, particularly in Iraq and Syria as the group responds to substantial territorial losses, a US-based analysis firm IHS said on Sunday. There were 891 attacks during the first quarter of 2016 in neighbors Iraq and Syria, more than in any three-month period since the militants’ […]

L’Islam au cœur du terrorisme contemporain

Exclusive pour The Levant News - By Sarah Safa* -- Les origines du militantisme islamiste à l'époque contemporaine peuvent être retracées depuis la période de la guerre froide, après l'invasion soviétique de l'Afghanistan comme une réponse au soutien américain du Pakistan après son indépendance et face à l'émergence d'une Inde anticoloniale et anti-impériale qui ne […]

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