Judith Latham Photo: ASSOCIATED PRESS Omayyad mosque in Damascus Afghan-American writer, lecturer, and teacher Tamim Ansary is man ideally placed to help Westerners see the history of our world through another set of eyes.  Growing up in Afghanistan as a young history buff, Ansary had an opportunity to read and learn about the world from dual perspectives.  A decade ago, when he was working as a textbook editor, a publisher in Texas hired him to develop a new world history textbook for high school students. “What that meant was that I had to select and arrange the mostconsequential events to … Continue reading World History Looks Different When Seen Through Islamic Eyes

Publication: Terrorism Monitor Volume: 8 Issue: 5 February 4, 2010 01:28 PM Age: 2 days By: Lieutenant General Talat Masood The United States has been pressuring Pakistan for several months to extend its counterinsurgency operations to North Waziristan. The U.S. perspective is that strong militant entities, especially the Haqqani group, the Hizb-i-Islami led by Gulbuddin Hekmaytar and Taliban forces under Hafiz Gul Bahadur are using the safe haven of North Waziristan to conduct raids on American, NATO and Afghan troops. Pakistan is resisting the immediate expansion of the conflict due to several factors, one of which is that Islamabad feels its … Continue reading Pakistan’s Military Examines its Options in North Waziristan

Geert Wilders to test British free speech with anti-Muslim film screening Geert Wilders, the radical anti-Muslim Dutch politician, will seek to test free speech in Britain next month when he makes a second attempt to visit the House of Lords to screen a controversial film equating Islam to Nazism. By Bruno Waterfield in Brussels Wilders’ visit is expected to spark protests from British Muslims Photo: REUTERS Mr Wilders has accepted an invitation from Lord Pearson of Rannoch, the leader of UKIP, and Baroness Cox, a crossbench peer, to show his anti-Islam film Fitna in the Palace of Westminster on March 5. His … Continue reading British Muslims ask for DEBATE NOW with GEERT WILDERS! Stop hiding behind the UK Parliament and two senile Lords

Publication: Terrorism Monitor Volume: 8 Issue: 5 February 4, 2010 01:26 PM Age: 2 days By: Brian Glyn Williams, Bilun Erim Turkish police apprehend al-Qaeda suspects in various raids on January 22, 2010. Turkish police units launched their largest anti al-Qaeda operation to date on the morning of January 22. The operation took place in a series of pre-dawn raids in towns throughout Turkey. It led to the arrest of as many as 140 people allegedly involved in an al-Qaeda ring that was plotting to carry out suicide bombings against Turkish troops in Afghanistan as well as attacks on the Turkish police … Continue reading Turkish Jihadis Respond to Ankara’s Anti-Al-Qaeda Operations

2010/2010: The Year We Make Contact (1984) ** There are two adjectives that are deployed almost every time anyone describes 2010/2010: The Year We Make Contact. The first of these is “long-awaited;” the second is “disappointing.” I was only ten years old in 1984, so I’ll have to take the critics’ word for it that folks were out there eagerly anticipating a sequel to 2001: A Space Odyssey, but if that’s true, then I can certainly understand their disappointment when 2010 finally showed up. As I believe I’ve already made sufficiently clear, I’m not one of the old movie’s fawning … Continue reading 2010/2010: The Year We Make Contact

Ban this ban! Farooq Sulehria Absurdities come in many varieties. The latest example is the French ban on burqa. Worse, the French action is proving contagious. In Denmark, Prime Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen, who heads a right-wing government, has hinted at a ban on burqa, even though no woman in Denmark wears it. The notorious rightwing Jyllands Posten newspaper had to retract a story that three or four women wear it in Denmark. Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt of Sweden is being quizzed by the press corps on the subject of burqa. But the respective countries’ media have found merely 100 … Continue reading Burka and the naked euro politicians