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Airstrikes: The Ridiculous Revenge Strategy Against ISIS

February 6, 2015 By Mohammad Tomazy 2 Comments

ISIS recently released a footage showing the captured Jordanian pilot being burnt alive in a Hollywoodish scene.

Technically, the brutal scene was professionally filmed. It was taken from various angles with high-resolution lenses. They also prepared the scene very well, as there was a cage and the fighters wore military uniforms inspired by traditional Afghani dress. ISIS succeeded in sending a brutal message to the world.

The message is also intended to terrify members of the coalition against them.

Airstrikes against ISIS’s locations are, so far, the mainstay strategy. However, al-Qaida affiliated groups have no pyramidal command, but are cluster groups that share a common ideology. They often fight each other for zones of influence. For example, ISIS and Jabhat al-Nusra are bitter enemies, although they have the same ideology.

Filed Under: Foreign Affairs Tagged With: Afghanistan, Africa, Al Qaeda, al-Anbar, al-Qaida, Amman, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Baghdad, blowback, Daesh, death penalty, endless war, Human Rights, i24news, Iran, Iraq, Iraq National Army, Iraqi News, ISIL, ISIS, Islamic State, Jordan, Jurf al-Sakhr, King Abdullah II, Kurdistan, Kurds, League of the Righteous, Maath al-Kassasba, MENA, Middle East, Peshmerga, propaganda, Qasem Suleimani, Sajida al-Rishawi, Salafism, Saudi Arabia, Shiite, Shiite Islam, Sunni, Sunni Islam, Syria, Takreet, terrorism, The Independent, Tikrit, Wahabism, War, Yadollah Javani

Refugee Rights in the Mother of the World: Perspectives on Darfuri Activism in Exile

December 31, 2014 By Matt Hanson Leave a Comment

From 1996 to 1997, Abdel Rahman first lived as an exile in Libya. There, he bore witness to a bleak reality, where human rights held little to no ground. From the outset, he endured what he calls “the grim choice to stay and die, or leave and risk it:”

In Libya, there were continuous arrest campaigns, and arbitrary detentions and deportations of illegal and legal migrants. They were migrants who came to Libya at the request of Colonel Gaddafi, who had declared that his country welcomed all Arabs, as well as the oppressed and poor Africans.

There was permanent persecution and discrimination against black Libyan and Sudanese migrants in particular. The racism against blacks in Libya was a practice of the Libyan state, and society. They publicly called the Sudanese “slaves”, and if you tried to defend yourself you were beaten by every Libyan present at that moment. The police would not interfere to protect you because it was mentioned in “Holy Koran of the Arab Muslims” that the blacks are slaves of the Arabs.

Filed Under: Civil Liberties, Foreign Affairs Tagged With: Abdel Rahman, Africa, Cairo, Civil Rights, Darfur, Egypt, El-Wafaa Refugee Culture Center, Gaddafi, Geneva Convention, Geneva Refugee Convention, Human Rights, Libya, MENA, Middle East, racism, refugees, Sudan, Sunni Islam, surveillance, UNHCR, United Nations

Great Women In Muslim History: The Women of Khariji Islam

December 29, 2014 By Dr. Milena Rampoldi 1 Comment

In this article I would like to present a small chapter of the book written by the Tunisian writer Nadjia al-Wazami Bu ‘Adjila, who teaches at the University of Tunis, entitled “al-Islam al-Khariji” in English translation.

For months I had not even dared to write about the small sect of the Kharijites because many people in Islamic circles mention the Khariji sect as the anticipator of the “takfir” ideology perpetuated by ISIS today. They would like to link ISIS to this small group at the beginning of Muslim history, even if ISIS today is something completely different. To some it seems to represent Iraqi and Syrian Sunni Islam as a whole, even if beyond the curtain it is the opposite.

I am convinced that introducing an interesting historical analysis of the Khariji women and their military, political and social involvement in early Islam will make these scholars reconsider their position. It will help them understand that ISIS is an absolutely post-modern, pseudo-political, and anti-religious construction. It is positioned on the new-imperialist chess board the Middle East has become since 1948. On the same basis, Zionist Israel can be defined as an anti-Jewish nation based on apartheid, colonialism, militarism, occupation, and linked with neo-colonialist actors in the Western nations.

Filed Under: Foreign Affairs, Media & Culture Tagged With: al-Islam al-Khariji, American imperialism, Bashar Assad, Erdogan, history, imperialism, Iraq, ISIS, Islam, Islamic State, Khariji Islam, Muslim history, Nadjia al-Wazami Bu ‘Adjila, R.T. Erdogan, Saudi Arabia, Shiite Islam, Sunni Islam, Syria, takfir, Turkey, University of Tunis, Wahhabi Islam

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