It could be a good analysis from Robert Fisk, and it contains many interesting insights: irrelevance of borders both ME and European ones, etc. However, Fisk, a long-time resident of Beirut, has gone native: there […]
In the past few weeks, both Russia and the United States have escalated their military campaigns against the Islamic State. As the brutal jihadist group… Source: Islam Is a Religion of Violence | Foreign Policy
After every Islamist outrage, every atrocity, a lament goes up, bemoaning Islamophobia, as if it was a fact and a real threat. Then people forget, until the next outrage. In the meantime, Islamophobia simply doesn’t […]
Brahma Chellaney repeats, in the “The Western Roots of Anti-Western Terror“, the theory that all evil and disorder in today’s world stems invariably and unavoidably from western interventionism. As if it was a given, the […]
The Guardian: Borderless terrorism can only be tackled by borderless intelligence by Guy Verhofstadt …our security services need to work together much more closely. Following the attacks in Paris, it’s been reported the French security services […]
Gordon Adams, in France Has Been No Friend to Muslims manages to make sound the 732 battle of Poitiers as only the first of many acts of aggression against Islam: “Indeed, France has been a central arena […]
A Muslim philosopher on the monster within Islam. English version. Time to start actually thinking, not just reacting. Trouble is that there are not many more voices like that. The solution can only come from inside […]
FIGAROVOX/GRAND ENTRETIEN : Dans son essai La pensée égarée, Alexandra Laignel-Lavastine explore plus d’une décennie de capitulation des « élites » face à la montée de l’islamisme radical. Après l’attentat de Saint-Quentin- Fallavier, elle a […]
Irrationality has its price. Irrational rejection and hatred of foreigners on one hand, unconditional and irrational love of strangers on the other. Instead of sitting down and discussing who deserves and truly needs our protection, […]
The paper examines the genesis of Al Qaida and, subsequently, ISIL in a rational way. However, missing from the conclusion is the simple fact that, were it not for the US often misguided meddling in Afghanistan, […]
Il Califfato ha il suo “esercito”, con gerarchie carriere, stipendi e un consiglio militare. L’antiterrorismo europeo ha ricostruito Source: Droga, 100 dollari al giorno e il bollino nero sulla licenza, così combatte un miliziano dell’Is – […]
In The Atlantic Graeme Wood provides an extensive (and long: 29 pages) analysis of ISIS: http://www.theatlantic.com/features/archive/2015/02/what-isis-really-wants/384980/ – best analysis I’ve seen so far on the subject.
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