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Cross-posted from View from Outside Iran

For the four years I spent in Iran, a dominant question from the “Western Street” was a variation of “Why don’t the world’s Muslims go to the streets to protest bombings?” The question presumes, of course, that the non-Muslim West knows all there is to know about the conversations, debates, [...]

Paul Craig Roberts was assistant secretary of the Treasury during Ronald Reagan’s administration and played a key role in creating the economic policy known as “Reaganomics.” He was an editor and columnist for the conservative Wall Street Journal.
He was also an enthusiastic supporter of the murderous Pinochet regime in Chile.
More recently Roberts has been an [...]

The new year will be marked in Islamist style at the East London Mosque’s London Muslim Centre (LMC). On January 1 2010 it will host an event titled “Dark Forces – The Enemy Within”. Here’s the suitably sinister flyer.

Readers of this blog may recall an “End of Time” event at the LMC on [...]

This is a cross-post from The Spittoon

Earlier today the Spittoon received this undercover footage of the MCB Christmas party, where it seems like things got a bit out of hand.
Oh my.

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This is a cross post by Mark Gardner from the CST Blog
The theft of the Arbeit Macht Frei sign from the entrance to Auschwitz is a reminder that the vast consumer market for Nazism owes far more to the pornography of horror than it does to either military history, or sympathy for Nazism.
Thankfully, the sign, stolen [...]

This is a crosspost by Alex Hitchens from Standpoint
The Times reported yesterday that Hamas is “masterminding efforts to have senior Israeli leaders arrested for alleged war crimes when the visit European countries.”  The recent arrest warrant issued for Tzipi Livni by a British Court is certainly tied to this, and it is no surprise that the [...]

Depressing news for those political commentators who believed that the Muslim Brotherhood, was capable of embracing pluralist democracy.
The results of the Muslim Brotherhood executive have just been announced, and it is a stunning victory for the hardliners. Marc Lynch reports:
The Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood has just announced the results of its internal electionsto the 16 member Guide’s Office [...]

This is a cross post from Arash at Observing Iran
Ayatollah Hossein-Ali Montazeri died on Sunday (English,Farsi). I refrained from immediately posting about it, because I wanted to get my own opinions in order about what I really thought.
Now I’ve considered it, my own opinion can be very simply summed up that Montazeri lived and died [...]

This is a cross post by Edmund Standing
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Israeli pathologists took body parts without permission from dead Israelis and Palestinians in the 1990s, Israeli authorities have confirmed.
The story emerged in an interview with Dr Yehuda Hiss, former head of the Abu Kabir forensic institute near Tel Aviv. The interview was conducted in 2000 by an American academic who released it because of the [...]