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Posts Tagged ‘Egypt’
February 11th, 2011 - 7:19 am § in Saudi Arabia
1300 years ago, the flag of Islam brought something eerily like democracy to a world ruled by currupt relics of a theocratic state. What if the fires of Islamic democracy spread back to Mecca?
Living in a Christian tradition, my view of history saw the 7th century explosion of Islam as a the first crusade, a holy war with the crescent and scimitar presaging than the cross and long sword . I missed the point. Today, I think our allies in Saudi Arabia may may be in for a […][...]
February 11th, 2011 - 3:54 am § in Politics
Listen to Christians and Muslims Together in Egypt
from Eman Sadoun in Qatar[...]
Beck on Egypt’s Caliphate
“This is Saul Alinsky. This is STORM from Van Jones,…The former Soviet Union, everybody, radical Islam, every—this is the story of everyone who has ever plotted to or wanted to fundamentally change or destroy the Western way of life. This isn’t about Egypt. Everything is up on th[...]
Cuba Blocks Expansion of Caliphate by Jailing Jew
Havana, Cuba – State media say prosecutors will seek a 20-year jail term for detained American contractor Alan Gross for “acts against the integrity and independence” of Cuba. The state-controlled website Cubadebate says that a trial date will be set shortly and that Gross’s family and U[...]
February 6th, 2011 - 11:36 am § in Politics
Al Qaeda’s Odd Silence on Egypt
Wouldn’t it be wonderful if we are seeing the dawn of the first Arab democracy? There is an historic irony here. Islam’s explosion out of Arabia under Umar, was more than a military conquest. The Byzantine empire was a rotten relic of Rome. It fell to a more rational, more “modern&[...]
February 4th, 2011 - 6:49 am § in Politics
I want the Egyptian people to win their revolution. And I say this as an Israeli.
Bradley Burston, blog at Haaretz I want our neighbors, the people of Egypt, to show us how it’s done. I want you to show us the last thing we expected to see. Because it is only when we see our best consensus assessments proven dead wrong, when the wholly unanticipated stuns us, when the incon[...]
February 3rd, 2011 - 2:46 pm § in Politics
What Happens to History as Egypt Erupts?
By Ursula Lindsey, Chronicle of Higher Education Cairo Archaeologists inside and outside Egypt are anxiously monitoring the fate of the country’s antiquities, after several museums and archaeological sites were looted following the pervasive protests and security vacuum that have gripped the c[...]
February 3rd, 2011 - 12:31 pm § in Politics
Egypt, Oil and Democracy
Read Political Economic Analysis by Nate Silver, NYT[...]
February 2nd, 2011 - 1:52 pm § in America
Letter to Obama from PEACE NOW,
Tom Friedman got it right in today’s New York Times: The huge political changes going on in the Middle East make a peace deal between Israel and the Palestinians more urgent than ever. ”I had given up on Netanyahu’s cabinet and urged the U.S. to walk away,” Friedman wrote. [...]