L’année dernière, j’ai eu un engagement professionnel qui m’a mit en contact avec une activiste féministe Algérienne. Tout de suite, j’ai décelée de sa part, une attitude méfiante, distante, froide, presque hostile. Je n’ai accordée aucune attention à cela et j’ai travaillée normalement avec elle. A la fin de cet engagement professionnel, cette activiste féministe m’a présentée ses excuses pour son comportement, en me disant ceci : -Vous êtes différente des…

The Establishment has always made much of the 1945-46 Nuremberg trial of the Nazi leadership as a model for bringing international criminals to justice. Ironically, the fundamental criminality of the Nazis, as presented at Nuremberg, can also be detected in the recent actions of the United States in her world-imperial role, which is so much lauded by the very same Establishment. I can well imagine the conventional shocked reaction to that statement: Compare the United States to Nazi Germany? What ridiculous insanity! Where are the gas chambers, the human soap, the millions of bodies turned to ash? (Some people in…

An anti-Muslim group cannot post ads on buses in Washington state showing photos of wanted terrorists and wrongly claiming the FBI offers a $25 million reward for one of their captures, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday. A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected a claim by the American Freedom Defense Initiative that King County violated its First Amendment right to free speech by refusing to post the advertisements on buses. The group — whose leader, Pamela Geller, organized the Prophet Muhammad cartoon contest in Texas that exploded in violence in May — has similar bus ads in other…

Probably the most important group fighting the Syrian regime now is Ahrar al-Sham (Free Men of the Levant), a Salafi group fighting mainly in the north but also in central and southern Syria. Contrary to Western reports suggesting that the al-Qa‘ida-linked Nusra Front led the battle to capture the northwestern Syrian provincial capital of Idlib last March, Ahrar had more fighters in the battle—a fact demonstrated by its predominance in the subsequent military oversight council established for Idlib. Ahrar is a key force on the battlefield, but Western media allots little space to describe it beyond saying it is “hard-line”…

In 1922 I left my native country, Austria, to travel through Africa and Asia as a Special Correspondent to some of the leading Continental newspapers, and spent from that year onward nearly the whole of my time in the Islamic East. My interest in the nations with which I came into contact was in the beginning that of an outsider only. I saw before me a social order and an outlook on life fundamentally different from the European; and from the very first there grew in me a sympathy for the more tranquil- I should rather say: more mechanized mode…