ISIS: Ankara’s spoiled child? – by Mahir Zeynalov: It was Dec. 25, 2013. A week after a major raid against suspects implicated in a corruption investigation in Turkey, including the sons of three ministers and pro-government businessmen, prosecutors ordered another wave of raids. Police chiefs appointed
Different Salafi movements and the growth of ISIL in Iraq: Turkish intellectuals are largely ignorant about the new threat that is bordering Turkey. The so-called Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) is still an unknown entity for Turks. We have been hearing comments declaring that
ISIS doesn’t represent Sunni Muslims – by Ali Raza: In 1801 and 1802, the Saudi Salafi militans under Abdul Aziz ibn Muhammad ibn Saud attacked and captured the holy cities of Karbala and Najaf in Iraq, equally revered by Sunni Sufis and Shias, began to massacre parts of
As bad as it gets: IRAQI military helicopters flying over Baghdad have been dropping leaflets. Unlike those that fluttered down from American helicopters at the start of the invasion 11 years ago urging Iraqi soldiers not to resist, these ones are meant to
NYT: Saudi engineered Christmas attacks in Iraq: Note by Agha Jafri: These facts and figures, indeed, do not include over 8000 Muslims, Sunni & Shia, who have been massacred just during the year, 2013 by the cruel and criminal agents of Al Qaida (takfiri deobandi salafis),
Weapons of Mass Destruction – by Qamar Rizvi: یہ ایک مسلمہ حقیقت ہے کہ دنیا کا مشکل ترین کام تعمیر جبکہ آسان ترین کام تخریب یعنی تعمیر شدہ کام کو تباہ کرنا ہے۔ مثلاً ایک عمارت کی تعمیر ہی کو لے لیجیئے۔ کئی ہاتھوں اور دماغوں کی
2003-2011: Half million Iraqis died in war, occupation: Iraqis gather at the site of a car bomb explosion in Baghdad’s al-Sadriyah neighborhood, 18 April 2007, in which over a hundred people were killed. (AFP Photo / Ahmad al-Rubaye) Almost half a million deaths in Iraq between 2003
America’s naked ambition – by Seema Mustafa: The writer is a consulting editor with The Statesman and writes for several newspapers in India The Americans are finding that it is not easy to conquer the world. Military power and diplomatic machinations can work only to a
Massive pro-democracy protest rocks Bahrain: Related post: Shouting in the dark: Al Jazeera’s documentary on Bahrain Tens of thousands of Bahrainis demonstrated on Friday (9 March 2012) to demand democratic reforms, stepping up pressure on the U.S.-allied, Saudi-backed Bahrain’s government with the biggest protest