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Racism - Arabism - Asia

Culture of Hate: A Racism which Denies the History and Sufferings of its Victims

26 June 2009

This hate, which suppresses freedom of thought, and condemns difference, calls itself "Islamic jihad." It draws on religious texts whose interpretation other Muslims dispute. Moreover, because these moderate Muslims challenge this interpretation of jihad, wishing to live in peace with the non-Muslim peoples and nations of the world, their lives are threatened. There is constant bloodshed in (...)continue

Israel - Asia

23 June 2009

Mousavi, Ahmadinejad, and Israel

You know, this really isn’t difficult to understand. But, some background first... One would think, with all the hatred towards Jews and Israel spewing forth out of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the Iranian (...)continue

Algeria - Kabylia - Democracy

22 June 2009

Singer-activist Ferhat Mehenni’s campaign for liberal self-government.

On the margins of the Arab world, the United States has some little noticed allies. These are ethnic or religious minorities who have never accepted the inevitability of strongman rule. Some of them have fallen on hard times-the (...)continue

Colonialism

19 June 2009

Kabylia before the French Colonialism

Before the French occupation in 1830, Kabylia was in perpetual rebellion against the Ottoman oppressors. It often succeeded to make of its autonomy an accomplished fact. This was evidenced by events such as that where At-Umeqwran (...)continue

Autonomy - America

16 June 2009

The Political Visit of President Ferhat Mehenni to Quebec

Account of the Political Visit of Ferhat Mehenni to Quebec Association Quebec-Kabylia Sunday, 14 June 2009 / MAK During his last visit to Quebec, Mr. Ferhat Mehenni, President of the Movement for Autonomy of Kabylia (MAK) has had to (...)continue

14 June 2009

The MAK Commemorates the Anniversary of the Historic March of 14 June 2001

TIMANIT I TMURT N YEQVAYLIYEN Movement for the Autonomy of Kabylia M-A-K The March of 14 June 2001 On 14 June 2001, Kabylia sent more than two million of its citizens in the streets of Algiers to hand the “Platform of (...)continue

Conflict - Tamazgha

11 June 2009

Jeez, Ain’t That Nice?

I mean, all that balanced moral equivalence and stuff. I just get goosebumps. I recently received my Jerusalem Online Updates on the computer and, sure enough, there’s President Obama’s Mid East envoy, George (...)continue

Celebration

6 June 2009

The movement for the autonomy of Kabylia eighth anniversary

On 5 June 2001, a new hope was born in Kabylia: That of a regional autonomy. Now the Kabyle people will no longer turn in circles as he used to do previously, like someone lost in history. The blocked horizon of the linguistic claim (...)continue

Dictatorship - USA

6 June 2009

Obama, Settlements, and the Missing Two-State-Solutions

President Barack Obama’s long-awaited speech to the Muslim World in Cairo had some important, positive elements in it. He is to be commended for that. Among other things, he spelled out the need for Arabs and other Muslims (...)continue

France

4 June 2009

The french revolution and the autonomy of Kabylia

EDMUND BURKE VERSUS THOMAS PAINE OR ABDELAZIZ BOUTEFLIKA VERSUS FERHAT MEHENNI “History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance (...)continue

Genocide

2 June 2009

Amnesty Int’l Report 2009 on Algeria, Misfocused on Christian Convert, Oblivious of Berber Nation

Dr. Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis May 31, 2009 I have repeatedly defended religious groups that happen to be targeted, marginalized and persecuted, from Iraq’s Aramaeans to the Najran Oasis’ Yemenite Shias of Saudi (...)continue

30 May 2009

Speech of Ferhat Mehenni before the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues

United Nations The United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues Eighth Session Coordination of the French-speaking Indigenous Peoples (CAF) Algeria (...)continue

Identity - Japan

19 May 2009

Of the Importance of Strong Relations between Japan and Kabylia

When I arrived in Japan (Nihon) last year, I was surprised to see that no Japanese has heard of our existence as Kabylians (Kabylian-jin). The majority of the friendly Japanese people (Nihon-jin) with whom I have had the pleasure to (...)continue

Morocco - Racism

19 May 2009

Ayyur is a forbidden name

On Monday,May 11th, I felt discriminated and humiliated when I went to the Civil Status Service to register my newborn (boy) with the name ( Ayyur Adam) in Beni Mellal. The agent said “Adam is accepted but Ayyur is (...)continue

13 May 2009

’Berbers, Where Do You Stand on Palestine?’

Throughout the recent fighting in Gaza, the mainstream North African press was nearly unanimous in its support for the Palestinians and its condemnation of Israel. Some Amazigh (Berber) activist groups, though, made a point of (...)continue

Research - Africa

3 May 2009

The sun investigate lost city Atlantis

Despite lying lost beneath the waves since the dawn of civilization, the mythical home of an ancient utopian society has never been forgotten. Indeed, interest in the legend is very much alive today - as has been proved by the global (...)continue

Islam

21 April 2009

Algeria, a country of misery

What I feared most happened. I was asked to give my opinion on the upcoming April 9 presidential election. I thought about it very seriously and frankly, I found nothing to say. Besides, it is dangerous to say anything. Recess has (...)continue

12 April 2009

An election against change- By Hocine Ait Ahmed

Paper Of Hocine AIT AHMED about the masquerade of 09 April. « Yet, the danger which not just the regime but the country itself are exposed to - a political, economic and moral defeat resulting from the disastrous decisions taken by a (...)continue

Religion

25 March 2009

It’s too late...

Morocco has recently decided to sever ties with Iran, but what is the rationale of this surprising move? As we can read and listen it in mainstream media, this North African country is very worried about the spreading of Shiism, the (...)continue

Arabism

25 March 2009

The Makhzen will ban Morocco too!

The Moroccan regime has decided that the banning of Amazigh first names inside the country is not sufficient enough. Two or three weeks before, it has sent to all his corrupt consulates all over the world a racist notice forbidding (...)continue

Discrimination

24 March 2009

The Moroccan constitution negates the existence of the Amazigh people and its identity

Preliminary remarks about Morocco’s report on human rights practices that will be discussed with the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) in Geneva on 20 April,2009 Despite the fact that the country is (...)continue

22 March 2009

Hey Kristof...You’re Late!

While The New York Times’ Nicholas Kristof is no stranger to these positions throughout the year, he frequently comes out with his gems of Middle East wisdom right around Bike Week here in Daytona Beach, Florida, when tens of (...)continue

10 March 2009

Bhutan, Switzerland and Kabylia: Devaluation and Future

Sovereign Mountains As large as and more mountainous than Switzerland, it is located in the heart of the Himalayan chain between India and China. Its greatest asset is its Buddhist philosophy. This philosophy is based on a Tibetan (...)continue

7 March 2009

Berbers as Anti-Islamists and Anti-Arab Nationalists

I’ve been studying the Middle East and Islam since 1969 but there is still so much to learn. It was only on visiting Salem Chaker, professor of Berber studies at the University of Paris in March 2006 that I realized the vibrancy (...)continue

Rif

2 March 2009

Morocco: Rights group demands to know activist’s fate

Casablanca, 19 Feb. (AKI) - Human Rights Watch has called on Moroccan authorities to immediately disclose the whereabouts of human rights activist, Chekib el-Khiari who has not been seen since he reported to the judicial police in (...)continue

Diaspora

23 February 2009

Rabat forbids berber names

The Dutch from Morocco can’t give berber names to their children according to moroccan authorities. Thus, the Islamic identity is being emphasized. This week, the moroccan government sent a list of forbidden names to all the (...)continue

19 February 2009

Anti-kabylism of the Algerian regime: the dignitaries make their confessions

Early in December 2008, Chadli Ben Jedid, president of the Republic from Mars 1979 to January 1992, admitted that during the independence war (1954-1962), because it was not raised to the rank of Wilaya by the Soummam Congress, his (...)continue

Nederland

30 January 2009

Morocco Bans Unislamic Names, including Berber ones...in Netherlands

THE HAGUE, 29/01/09 - Moroccans in the Netherlands are not allowed to give their children any Berber names any more. In this way, Islamic identity is being stressed, Trouw newspaper reported yesterday. By far the biggest group of (...)continue

Portrait

30 January 2009

Islamists killed Tahar Djaout: We should give life to his ideas

The Algerian novel The Last Summer of Reason provides a powerful and strangely beautiful reminder of the danger of letting violent ideological fundamentalism fester. We would do well to heed this reminder now, not later. Algerian (...)continue

29 January 2009

Yennayer in New York

Yennayer in NYC is finally back. Please join ACAA to mark the comeback of our New York community to the center of the action! Here is the announcement for ACAA’s NYC celebration of the Amazigh New Year. Date and time: Evening (...)continue

Media - Migration

26 January 2009

The role of Kurdish intellectuals in the Diaspora

The emergence of the Kurdish Diaspora KurdishMedia.com - By Dr Rebwar Fatah What has driven the emergence of the Kurdish Diaspora community? An estimated two million Kurds now live in the democratic world, forming a sizable Kurdish (...)continue

Terrorism

19 January 2009

Deadliest weapon so far... the plague

Anti-terror bosses last night hailed their latest ally in the war on terror - the BLACK DEATH At least 40 al-Qaeda fanatics died horribly after being struck down with the disease that devastated Europe in the Middle Ages. The killer (...)continue

Kurdistan

19 January 2009

Between Ankara And Jerusalem...

Among other things, while hosting a banquet in honor of the visiting United Nations Secretary General, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoggan urged the world "not to turn a blind eye towards Israel’s savagery." In reality, the (...)continue

Education

4 January 2009

Massinissa

In the third century BC Massinissa was king of the Numidians. His Father, Gaia, was king of the Massylies. On the death of the father, the inheritance received allowed the son to achieve unity of the 2 tribes, the Masaesyles and the (...)continue

4 January 2009

We are looking for writers and translators

This Mediterranean people who contributed to the rise of civilization is now reduced to an endangered species. The most basic human rights er denied to them. The right to land, the right to speak their language, to choose their (...)continue

16 December 2008

The religions of the book and Islam

The tragedy is that Muslims feel to say things about a religion that is not theirs. Islam recognizes other religions only to better suppress and thus only Muslim religion is privileged. There is a semantic manipulation to say that (...)continue

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