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Where the West Ends
FrontPage Magazine 8 October 2012
By Jamie Glazov
Frontpage Interview’s guest today is Michael J. Totten, a contributing editor at World Affairs and City Journal. The Middle East is his regular beat, and his book about Lebanon, The Road to Fatima Gate, won the Washington Institute Silver Book Prize last year. His new book is Where the West Ends: Stories from the Middle East, the Balkans, the Black Sea, and the Caucasus. Most of the book takes place in the post-communist world, along the fringe of Europe and just beyond, where Western civilization begins to merge with Russian and Islamic civilizations. 
Islamic leader says Romania could be target of terrorist attacks
Romania-Insider.com 5 October 2012
Romania and its neighbor Bulgaria are targets for terrorists, sheikh Omar Bakri (in picture), a Syrian Islamic leader, told a Bulgarian newspaper. Bakri led the Al-Muhajirun
Muslim rioting, violence in Israel, Gaza, Libya, Egypt, Yemen, Sudan, Tunisia, Morocco, Iraq, Iran and Kashmir
Jihad Watch 17 September 2012
The film is just a pretext. This is an all-out push to intimidate the West into restricting speech so that Islam and Muslims are established as a privileged class beyond
Muslim rioting, violence in Israel, Gaza, Libya, Egypt, Yemen, Sudan, Tunisia, Morocco, Iraq, Iran and Kashmir
Jihad Watch 14 September 2012
The film is just a pretext. This is an all-out push to intimidate the West into restricting speech so that Islam and Muslims are established as a privileged class beyond
How Muslim Men Are "Helping" Syrian Refugees
Gatestone Institute 13 September 2012
By Khaled Abu Toameh
Syrian female refugees aged 14 and 15 who fled their country to Jordan and Iraq are being forced into "pleasure marriages" [Nikah al-Mut'ah] -- a pre-Islamic custom allowing
BACKGROUND: Middle East Christians suffer persecution and expulsion
Europe Online Magazine 11 September 2012
Berlin - More than 15 million Christians are thought to be living in the Arab world, although estimates are complicated by the fact that official statistics often put
Wave of blasts kill 34 in Iraq, French consulate hit
The Week 10 September 2012
Baghdad: At least 34 people were killed in a series of attacks and blasts across Iraq on Sunday, including a car bomb outside a French consular building, as the government
Video: Cruelty of Islam
youtube 10 September 2012
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Muslim Persecution of Christians: July, 2012
Gatestone Institute 3 September 2012
By Raymond Ibrahim
Several reports appearing in July indicate that Christian minorities all around the Muslim world—especially women and children—are being abducted, tortured, raped, forced to convert to Islam, and/or enslaved. In Egypt, at least 550 such cases have been documented in the last five years, and have only increased since the revolution. Christians who manage to escape back to their families often find the government siding with the Muslim abductors. One young mother who recently testified before the Helsinki Commission explained how she was snatched in broad daylight, as her abductor shouted to bystanders while dragging her to a waiting taxi, "No one interfere! She is an enemy of Islam."
Iraqi Kurdistan: Law Banning FGM Not Being Enforced
Human Rights Watch 30 August 2012
(Erbil) – The practice of female genital mutilation continues in the Kurdistan region of Iraq a year after a landmark law banning it went into effect because the Kurdistan Regional Government has
Turkish Jets 'Bomb Kurdish Rebel Targets in Iraq'
AINA (press release) 17 August 2012
Turkish warplanes bombed areas of north Iraq in a bid to target rear bases of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) overnight into Thursday, a spokesman for the rebel group
Iraq blocks US extradition for Hezbollah commander
Miami Herald 3 August 2012
By LARA JAKES
An Iraqi court has rejected a request to send a Hezbollah commander to the United States for trial, a decision that likely ends the Obama administration's push to prosecute the
Are Iraq and Turkey Models for Democratization
Middle East Quarterly 30 July 2012
By Ofra Bengio
In the wake of the upheavals that have shaken the Arab world since December 2010, activists, politicians, and analysts have all been searching for new, democratic models of
Islamists attack Christians, Iraqi refugees in Damascus
Catholic News Agency 24 July 2012
The Syrian rebels’ attack on Damascus has allowed radical Islamist groups to attack Iraqi refugees, Christians allegedly loyal to the Syrian government and other civilians. Local Christians have
Attacks bring Iraq's deadliest day in 2 years
myfoxal.com 24 July 2012By LARA JAKES
BAGHDAD- A startling spasm of violence shook more than a dozen Iraqi cities Monday, killing over 100 people in coordinated bombings and shootings and wounding twice as many in
Scores killed by bomb blasts in Baghdad, northern cities
France24 24 July 2012
A wave of attacks across Iraq on Monday killed 107 people in the country's deadliest day in more than two years after Al-Qaeda warned it would mount new attacks and sought to retake
Muslim revenge warning to West
Sydney Morning Herald 17 July 2012
By Nick Hopkins
A BRITISH woman who worked at the top of the US military during the most troubled periods of the Iraq war has said she fears the West has yet to see how some Muslims brought up
Appendix B: Stalin's Blind Spot
danielpipes.org 25 June 2012
By Daniel Pipes
We must remember that we are always within a hairsbreadth of invasion.
- Joseph Stalin, 15 February 1939[1]Surely we have not deserved that!
- Foreign Commissar Molotov, responding to the German declaration of war, 22 June 1941[2]
Women’s rights law no match for Kurdistan tradition
DAWN.com 20 June 2012
In what is a conservative society even by Middle East standards, the passage of the law last year was hailed by rights groups and NGOs as a major step forward after years of
Norway: Somalis, Afghans and Iraqis top list of new citizens
Islam in Europe 31 May 2012
Norway: Somalis, Afghans and Iraqis top list of new citizens The original article's headline is a bit misleading, since the three groups together make up about 30% of new
