By Edward Yeranian, for the VOA News (*) CAIRO – With Britain set to exit the European Union (at 2300 UTC) on January 31, Arab media are speculating on potential repercussions on Arab states in the Middle East region. Some …
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London – Following an intensive 18-month governmental study, the United Kingdom issued on 17 December 2015 a startling indictment of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB). It described the organization as fiercely anti-democratic, openly supportive of terrorism, dedicated to establishing an Islamist …
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An uncomfortable blame-game has followed revelations that three British school girls were able to successfully navigate their way to Turkey and on to Syria via Gatwick airport. British politicians, security officials and members of the public have demanded answers as …
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Following the 2013 murder of Lee Rigby, Tony Blair offered a characteristically vacuous response: “there is not a problem with Islam…but there is a problem within Islam”. That is, while not quite bigoted enough to equate Islam with terrorism in toto, Blair (for obvious reasons) …
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The trap of cultural determinism “Ethnic identity, as much as any other collective identity, is an object of manipulation by individuals, who, being free, stay largely undefinable” (M.Giraud) The recent dramatic events in France have redirected public attention to the issues …
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