International
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Kabylia
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Media
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USA
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Islam
8 July 2010
New Ally in the War Against Al Qaeda?
They have largely been ignored by the rest of the world, but some analysts say the U.S. might soon need to reach out to a little known indigenous group in Algeria known as the Kabyles, for help in the war against al Qaeda and other (...)
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Human rights
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Arabism
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 (...)
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Opinion
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Algeria
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 (...)
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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 (...)
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International
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Morocco
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Discrimination
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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 (...)
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Opinion
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Religion
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 (...)
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Terrorism
2 December 2008
Al-Qaeda in Iraq Commander Urges Algerian Mujahideen to Fight Christian Berbers
Al-Qaeda in Iraq Commander Urges Algerian Mujahideen to Fight Christian Berbers
Abu Turab Al-Jaza’iri, an Algerian jihadist who claims to be a commander in Al-Qaeda in Iraq, recently posted a letter on the Shumukh Al-Islam (...)
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Human rights
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Dictatorship
17 October 2008
Happened in Algeria :Four Years Of Imprisonment For Non-Respect Of Ramadan
On Tuesday October 7, 2008, a human rights defender reported that six people in Algeria have been accused of non-respect of Muslims Ramadan fasting, and have been sentenced to four years in prison each by the court of Biskra (420 Km (...)
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International
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Democracy
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world
4 September 2008
Exclusive: Incredulous UN Bans Criticism of Islam
The Human Rights Council at the United Nations has now banned any criticism regarding Sharia Law and human rights in the Islamic World
According to President Doru Romulus Costea - and following the efforts of delegates from Egypt, (...)
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