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Human rights - Arabism - Islam

16 July 2009

Muhammad’s Monsters: The War of Islam against Minorities in the Middle East and North Africa

The transformation of the broad Mideastern environment was a process of many centuries that culminated in the defacing and refashioning of many lands and peoples. Byzantine Asia Minor, Armenian Anatolia, and much of Kurdistan, became (...)continue

Human rights - Racism - Asia

26 June 2009

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

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 (...)continue

Politics - Morocco

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

Zoom - Tamazgha

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

Human rights - Identity - Discrimination - 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

International - USA - world

2 November 2008

Tales From The Inside...The Real Problem With Obama’s Khalidi

This is the weekend when Americans set clocks back an hour for daylight savings time. Thus, I guess it’s only fitting that, given all the current fuss about the Los Angeles Times’s refusal to make public even a (...)continue

Opinion - Colonialism

22 August 2008

A Lesson From Kosovars And Palestinians For Atlasians...

Now tell me...What would you do in the age of nationalism—which came relatively late to the Middle East—if your national group already had almost two dozen states on over six million square miles of territory (conquered (...)continue

International - Kurdistan

6 August 2008

Of Kurds And Arabs: Beyond Ignorance...The Allegedly Free Press

If it was just another State Department travesty, I could accept it. After all, I’m used to the Foggy Folks doing such things as fighting President Truman over his supporting Israel’s very rebirth; concocting latter (...)continue

Opinion - Genocide

28 April 2008

All In A Day’s News...

by Gerald A. Honigman Along with other related articles, three covering the Middle East and North Africa caught my eye on April 26th. The first was (...)continue

International

10 December 2007

The Problem With Darfur’s Muslims Is...

They’re Not Arabs. Like Iraq’s Kurds or North Africa’s Amazigh (Berbers). The title of a recent AP news brief read, “EU May Not Heed Darfur Call.” (...)continue

Politics - Conflict

7 December 2007

Berber Leader Belkacem Lounes: ‘There Is No Worse Colonialism Than That of the Pan-Arabist Clan that Wants to Dominate Our People’

Belkacem Lounes, president of the World Amazigh Congress, wrote an open letter to Libyan leader Mu’ammar Qaddafi in response to the latter’s March 1 speech in which he denied the existence of a Berber or Amazigh [1] people (...)continue

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