Daniel Pipes
President, Middle East Forum and Columnist at Freelance
Historian, MidEast, Islamism & US foreign policy analyst. @MEForum president, @CIS_org senior fellow. Thatcher pic from 1996, Brunei 2018. Opinions personal.
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2 weeks ago |
meforum.org | Daniel Pipes
Starting on March 25, crowds of overwhelmingly young male Gazans have marched by the thousands through streets flanked by destroyed buildings, bellowing out slogans and carrying signs. Proceeding peacefully with uncovered faces in broad daylight, speaking angrily into close-up video cameras, they assail not Israel but Hamas, their jihadist overlords. If Jerusalem pays them attention, their protest could mark a positive turning point in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
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2 weeks ago |
danielpipes.org | Daniel Pipes
They assail not Israel but Hamas. Starting on March 25, crowds of overwhelmingly young male Gazans have marched by the thousands through streets flanked by destroyed buildings, bellowing out slogans and carrying signs. Proceeding peacefully with uncovered faces in broad daylight, speaking angrily into close-up video cameras, they assail not Israel but Hamas, their jihadist overlords.
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1 month ago |
israelnationalnews.com | Daniel Pipes
Solid green indicates an Alawite majority and partial green a significant Alawite minority. While Alawites constitute but a small religious community in Syria, perhaps 10 per cent of the country's 15 million resident population, they suffer from a unique prominence and vulnerability. Through a millennium, they stood out as Syria's most isolated, impoverished, despised and oppressed ethnicity. Only when generals from their community seized power in Damascus in 1966 did the power balance change.
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1 month ago |
danielpipes.org | Daniel Pipes
Solid green indicates an Alawite majority and partial green a significant Alawite minority. No one knows how many unarmed Alawites were killed in Syria between March 6 and 10, but University of Oklahoma Middle East studies professor Joshua Landis estimates more than 3000. While Alawites constitute but a small religious community in Syria, perhaps 10 per cent of the country's 15 million resident population, they suffer from a unique prominence and vulnerability.
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1 month ago |
danielpipes.org | Daniel Pipes
Bashir signals his outlook in the first paragraph: "Let us for a moment imagine a world in which Muslim seminaries are training scholars to actively challenge 'modern slavery' across the globe." Having established that, he poses a first question, one derived from Muhammad Abduh: Given that Islam "eagerly anticipates the liberation of slaves, why have Muslims spent centuries enslaving the free?" Then comes a second question: How did it come to be that "In the contemporary world, Muslim nations...
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#AldousHuxley: "There ought to be religious conscription for women—and for most men, too. It was grotesque the way these people thought they could stand by themselves—the fools, when there was the infinite authority of organized religion to support their ridiculous feebleness." https://t.co/MGKcANZ1N3
After Trump’s tariff announcement on April 2, the value of U.S.-listed stocks declined by $7,700,000,000,000. Asked if that lead to Trump's 90-day pause on tariffs, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick replied, “Absolutely not.” Don't you admire the honesty of our public servants? https://t.co/dKR14Sj733
Turkish Cypriots vent their feelings about Erdoğan's attempts to dominate them: — “Cyprus is secular, and it will remain so!” — “Ankara, take your hands off us!” Time to end Türkiye's 50 years of occupation. https://t.co/ED43pYTDXW
