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War on ISIL Pits Big Oil against American People Sadly, the UK became the first “world power” to join the USA in agreeing to bomb Iraq again, and Syria for the first time. Member of UK Parliament, George Galloway, a longtime ally for peace, resisted the vote and in his statement, carried in Middle Eastern papers, he explained much we have not been told about who and what ISIL (“The Islamic State”) really is and who finances it. This reader thinks it will eventually be revealed that ISIL is using mostly recirculated US
made war weapons and Saudi dollars, and that we are now paying to destroy our own weapons with more US made Weapons. This is how the War-Based Economy works, as we explained 24 years ago in “Iraq: Americans Prepped for ‘War’.” Except for the UK, all the Arab states who have thus far joined the USA, are oil exporting dictatorships, including Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. All of them benefit from the further stifling oil production from Iraq, Syria, and Iran. Yesterday the U.S. Defense Department announced the “coalition” was bombing oil refineries in Syria! It is an open secret that the Saudi/Kuwait group is supplying
and financing the ISIL insurgency. Yes, they are on both sides, and it’s reasonable to assume it is with the knowledge of the U.S. Department of Defense, if not the President. Galloway mentions the Saudis as “head choppers” because it practices an extreme form of Wahhabi-Islam, similar to what ISIS seems to practice, which makes for dictatorial control over their own people. The second victim of the bombing is the American consumer, for the price of crude oil was on a downward trend before we first heard about ISIL. Now it’s going back up, and gas with it. Smile America, and pay your war tax at the pump!
ISIS vs. the coalition: The Mideast’s endless wars ISIS, ISIL, the extremists, the war on terror 2.0 – there are many titles for the renewed threat. Did we see this threat retreat after the fall of the iron curtain? Was there a lull after the September 11, 2001 attacks and the U.S. war on the Taliban and also the war on Saddam Hussein? We are being told that the ISIS, ISIL, the extremists, the war on terror 2.0 – there are many titles for the renewed threat. Did we see this threat retreat after the fall of the iron curtain? Was there a lull after the September 11, 2001 attacks and the U.S. war on the Taliban and also the war on Saddam Hussein? We are being told that the threat level is rising in the post Arab Spring Middle East amid a new order in Egypt and Tunisia and disorder in Libya, Yemen and Iraq. That is not to forget the constant crisis in Syria and the recruitment campaigns by ISIS, the al-Nusra Front, al-Qaeda and other extremist
groups. These fighters are now threatening their Western homelands and this is what encouraged the international coalition to take action against the terror performed by ISIS, extremists or the founder of ISIS himself. The threat could even spread within the Arab world – Yemen to Libya, who knows! Ah, and another reason for this odd and mismatched alliance against the terrorists is Nouri al-Maliki. Iraq’s national army evaporated after a push by militants in Mosul and Tikrit. A replacement for Maliki was selected hastily after months of stalling, coupled with sectarian calls to arms. Perhaps this scared the militants and forced them to turn away from Baghdad and seek a new target. Kurds, Turkmen and Yazidis in northern Iraq were attacked. Minorities are once again in the eye of the storm – a simple story for Western media to fixate upon. Innocent Yazidi Iraqis and Turkmen were stranded with no food no water on Mount Sinjar. Such images constituted a turning point as the West issued statements of solidarity with the Yazidis, from the
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White House, to Whitehall and Canberra, Australia.
a result of a GR4 Tornado fighter Jet strike on his base.
Loose coalition
So, slowly but surely it seems that the bombing campaign is producing results. The end may not be near – as world leaders have predicted that the fight could last for years – and the enemy will constantly be redefined during this time, as will the endgame and objectives.
The loose coalition of 40+ nations began shipping weapons to fight the monsters wreaking havoc in Amerli, Kobane, Mount Sinjar and areas of Iraq. Air sorties and bombing missions were flown over Syria, with or without Assad’s agreement and despite the condemnations heard from his allies in Tehran and Moscow. The language used by world leaders could only have been scripted by Hollywood’s best screen writers as images of bombing missions flooded TVs everywhere. Yet, as an observer I could not see one dead monster, or masked knife wielding fighter. After air sorties and skyrocketing costs, where are the results? Then came the supposedly reassuring news, British fighter jets and the intelligence gatherers say they have located so called “Jihadi John” in Raqqa, Syria. For those who forgot, he is the British accented masked fighter allegedly responsible for the slaughter Western hostages held by ISIS. I think that he may have already perished as
Why ending child marriage in Africa can no longer wait During the trial of former president Hosni Mubarak, his sons and senior officials – known in the media as the trial of the century – defence lawyer Farid ElDeeb stood up to rebut the accusations against his client. He denied Mubarak gave any orders or directives to shoot peaceful demonstrators, arguing that the Muslim Brotherhood was the one who killed these protesters. He reminded everyone that Mubarak is a symbol of the glorious October War who did not sell out his country or betray it as others have done. This was all under the assumption that everything that took place was a conspiracy plotted by the US and carried out by the Brotherhood and their allies to harm the people. A few days later, in his comments to the court former Minister of Interior Habib El-Adly followed the same course and presented evidence, from his perspective, of the conspiracy theory and the responsibility of the Brotherhood for killing demonstrations. Adly asserted he did not issue any orders as Minister of Interior for the use of weapons, neither did the former president. He claimed the most Central Security Forces in charge of securing Cairo on Friday, 28 January, were sanctioned to use was water cannons and teargas, which do not kill but only disperse protesters. In court, the comments by the prosecution on the defence’s argument focused on the fact that what occurred was a revolt by the people against a president who wreaked corruption, and against an elite who looted, stole and was preparing the son for succession. Thus, the people revolted and overthrew the regime. Naturally, everything that was said in front of the venerable judges included many details, documents and figures. The general context of such sensational trials that polarise public opinion and touch on matters of fate are a mixture of subjective emotion and objective assessment. Fanatic and extreme opinions are a norm, especially when we are putting the president on trial for the first time in Egypt’s modern history, along with his two sons and a minister of interior who served for a long 14 years in office and was responsible for the security of the regime and society during a difficult and tense period. If we believe the defendant
By: Chuck Carlson
The mismatch in objectives is clear, the definition of the enemy is loose as all parties have different views. for the U.S, the threat emanates from the likes of ISIS, al-Qaeda and the Taliban at the moment, while France fears ISIS, al-Nusra and Assad’s government. Regarding Arab countries, some fear ISIS, Assad, Hezbollah and Ansar Allah in Yemen and Iran. Turkey in particular views ISIS as a threat and perhaps also the Kurds of Iraq and Syria. To wrap up, I imagine myself as a fly on the wall in the war rooms of those countries united against ISIS and extremism - strewn with empty coffee mugs and littered with ever changing maps of enemy lines in the campaign to ensure the defense of the free and democratic world from the emerging evil doers who live in caves and slums all over the world.
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is innocent until proven otherwise, which is a key legal and humanitarian principle, I believe anyone who wants to comment on what the defence or prosecution have said should measure their words and not jump to final or semi-final conclusions. The trial is still in session and the judges have not yet uttered their final judgment. Personally, I am deeply concerned about opinions that complimented
a final decision and allow all sides to present their evidence, proof and defence. Thus, it is the right of the defence to say what it wants and the prosecution has the right to say what it wants, and the decision is left to the judges and their conscience. If we are aspiring for governance based on justice, equity, and absolute truth that pleases God and the conscience of judges and those seeking their rights, no one has the
of what happened at that time will remain the property of the people themselves before anyone else, and will be decided by history after some time. A few months after the collapse of the Mubarak regime, in the corridors of a prestigious university, I saw someone who is counted in the Mubarak camp. He was questioned by the prosecution about charges of financial corruption, profiteer-
the defence and feel it succeeded in proving the innocence of its client. I am just as concerned, however, about opinions that attacked the defence and believe it undermined the great people’s revolution and therefore should be put on trial. I am also disturbed by those who have exaggeration admiration for the prosecution’s comments and believe it presented irrefutable facts about Mubarak’s corruption and responsibility for the killing of protesters. I believe all these assessments by lawyers, media, journalists and politicians are misguided and hasty, and could have the suspicion – even if indirectly – of influencing the judges on the bench. This is an unusual and unprecedented trial that primarily focuses on finding who killed protesters on 28 January. This trial is the continuation of the first trial that punished Mubarak, Adly and senior aides for not taking the necessary steps to prevent deaths among protesters. The verdict was appealed, which is why there is a trial today to make
right to malign the defence and its arguments and launch a general debate about these arguments. Neither does anyone have the right to praise the prosecution and its arguments with excessive fervour. Neither is it anyone’s right to take the initiative to file a complaint against the defence lawyer or sue him because he said an opinion that contradicts what we believe. If anyone does this, in my humble opinion, it simply means aborting the notion of justice itself and flouting the principles governing legal work without which justice cannot be achieved. If lawyers act while knowing they are open to prosecution if they said something that displeases public opinion, they would not fully and comprehensively defend their clients. Thus, their role would become meaningless and everything will be ruined. Everyone should realise that this is primarily a criminal trial, not a trial to judge the fate of what happened in January 2011, and whether it was a revolution or conspiracy. The fate
ing and other crimes at a time of great turmoil under the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces and growing popularity of the terrorist group. Out of curiosity, I asked him about his legal position. He said his personal position was well, but the position of the country was not. I asked what he meant; he answered that Egypt was facing extraordinary circumstances and the battle was not over yet. Those who are victorious, or believe themselves to be, still have a long way to prove their victory if it were true. And history will have its final say after some time still. Anyone who views themselves as an honest guardian of the revolution and Egyptian action, this is the crux of the matter. All Egyptians have the same right; some believe what took place was the epitome of revolutionary action, while others believe it to be the height of conspiracy. Each has their arguments and evidence. The final decision remains with history that has not yet passed final judgment. www.almashreqonline.com
Two offensive voicemails released by the Islamic Society of Greater Oklahoma City Almashreq editorial staff/ news analyst finder: CAIR released two voicemails that were sent to the Islamic Society of Greater Oklahoma City. The first call is from a man who references the beheading, and said that in re-
sponse, he will buy a Quran and urinate on it. In the second call, a man says he will have a “herd of pigs” run Muslims out of Oklahoma, and that he, and presumably others, will behead Muslims.
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Muslim leaders and advocates When Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson showed up recently at the Noor Islamic Cultural
Center here to offer a sympathetic ear and federal assistance, he faced a litany of grievances from a group of mostly Muslim leaders and advocates
Oklahoma Murder Incites Anti-Muslim Responses Almashreq editorial staff/ news analyst finder: An Islamic advocacy
group and area mosques are withstanding a large increase in hate mail and angry phone calls since a man claiming to be a Muslim allegedly decapitated a woman at a Moore food processing plant last month. Messages range from expressions of anger that local Muslims haven’t done more than
Oklahoma Muslims Receive Message from President Obama Almashreq editorial staff/ news analyst finder: An official from Washington
D.C. flew in to Oklahoma to present a special thank you to the Muslim congregation. He read a message from President Barrack Obama, extending warm greetings from the American people during the Muslim holiday. Your service is a powerful example of the powerful roots of the Abrahamic faiths and how our communities can come together with shared peace with dignity and a sense of justice, President Barack Obama said.
Media “debate” about Islam between Bill Maher and Ben Affleck attracts public attention Almashreq editorial staff/ news analyst finder: The latest media “debate” about Islam stems from American chat show host Bill Maher’s criticism of Islam, and the surprisingly passionate response of Ben Affleck, Oscar-winning actor and director, who, unlike many in mainstream media, recognizes bigotry and racism when it’s staring everyone in the face. Maher, generally anti-religion in his comedy and political commentary, has said on previous occasions that “all religions are not alike” and that Islam is worse than others because it calls for the death of those who criticise it. He also sup-
condemn last Thursdays attack to heated calls for a purge of the Islamic faith from America.
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duct, that it is forbidden to harm religious minorities like Christians and Yazidis, and that it is forbidden to practice slavery, destroy religious shrines or deny the rights of women.
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Blogger Pamela Geller and the far-right group American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI), which paid $100,000 to New York’s Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) for six advertisements with antiIslam messages, withdrew the spot at the 11th hour. The other five ads will run for four weeks beginning on Monday.
“Ms. Geller understands and feels intimately the pain your clients are suffering,” Yerushalmi said in a letter to the family’s lawyer. The AFDI is characterized as an “active anti-Muslim group” by the Southern Poverty Law Center, an organization which monitors hate groups throughout the United States. The five remaining ads are slated to appear on 100 New York City buses and two subway entrances starting on Monday. One of the spots
For those who missed the heated argument on Maher’s show, Real Time, last week, he and guest Sam Harris, a neuroscientist who has
Affleck came back solidly: “Hold on - are you the person who officially understands the codified doctrine of Islam?” On Maher and Harris’ stereotyping, Affleck continued, “It’s gross and it’s racist. It’s like saying ‘Oh, you shifty Jew!’”
equates the Washington-based advocacy group Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) with Hamas, the Palestinian-Islamist political and military group that the U.S. government considers a terrorist organization.
member, said his organization did not plan to launch a counter campaign because it did not want to draw additional attention to the messages. He also expressed shock that Geller and the AFDI agreed to pull one of the ads.
In response to questions about why the five ads will be permitted to appear within the MTA system, Kevin Ortiz told Al Jazeera: “We review every viewpoint ad under the standards, but a series of court rulings have made clear that our hands are largely tied.”
“I’m shocked that Pamela Geller was sensitive to anything,” said Ramadan. “Her ads are so outrageous and are intended to provoke the worst in people that I am actually shocked that she was willing to do that all.”
The MTA attempted to oppose previous anti-Islam ad campaigns sponsored by Geller and the AFDI, but Geller won a lawsuit in July 2012 against the agency on the grounds of her constitutional right to free speech. Zeyad Ramadan, a CAIR board
Nevertheless, Ramadan said all the ads were offensive and should not be displayed within the MTA system at all. “I don’t think anybody’s making a good enough effort, a valiant enough effort, to make sure that these nasty ads don’t get put up,” Ramadan said.
New York moves to limit federal deportations of undocumented immigrants
Almashreq editorial staff/ news analyst finder: The U.S. Department of Justice plans to sue the city of St. Anthony for rejecting a proposed Islamic center in 2012. Federal authorities recently sent the city notice of their intent to sue.
Almashreq editorial staff/ news analyst finder: A proposed New York City law would allow officials to decline requests by U.S. immigration authorities to detain immigrants for deportation proceedings unless a warrant is issued by a federal judge.
The Gun Cave Indoor Shooting Range in Hot Springs, Arkansas, has declared itself a “Muslim-free zone.”
vice broadly to Muslims. She explained to some media outlets that she was banning Muslims from the shooting range she owns, out of fear that one might go on a killing spree. ‘Why would I want to rent or sell a gun ... to someone who aligns himself with a religion that commands him to kill me?’
duced next week, has the support of Mayor Bill de Blasio, and will be put before the city council. In Illinois, the sheriff of Cook County, which includes Chicago, has also refused many ICE requests.
The announcement of the latest push back against deportation policies comes days after the Department of Homeland Security released official deportation figures for 2013. They show that well over 2 million immigrants have been
Even then, the city would only approve a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention request if the individual has been convicted of a violent or serious crime within the past five years. The White House has said that its deportation policy focuses on immigrants with criminal records, or recent border crossers. Nonetheless, the Obama administration has faced increasing criticism for his policies on deportations and stalled reforms.
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For proponents of this view, Islam is a blurred and conveniently adaptable category of general backwardness, and encompasses Islam, Arabs, and the Middle East as if they were the same thing. They also make the false assumption that there is such a thing as a single coherent “western” worldview and an “eastern” or “Muslim” one.
written about religion, claimed to be standing up for liberalism and liberal principles by criticising “the Muslim world”. Harris claimed that: “We’ve been sold this meme of Islamophobia where every criticism of the doctrine of Islam gets conflated with bigotry towards Muslims as people. It’s intellectually ridiculous.”
Almashreq editorial staff/ news analyst finder: A group that bankrolled a series of anti-Islam ads to be displayed on New York City buses and in its subway system decided to pull one of the spots after receiving complaints from the family of slain American journalist James Foley, who was executed by a member of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in August.
David Yerushalmi, Geller’s attorney, told the Associated Press that the Foley family was notified that the group would pull the ad featuring their son.
Almashreq editorial staff/ news analyst finder: Jan Morgan the owner of the range store claims that the ATF has asked her in the past to exercise judgment in refusing service to people who she feels might be unstable or a threat in general. This broad leeway, Morgan claims, offers her the authority to deny ser-
ports the idea of a “clash of civilisations”, which postulates that the western worldview is fundamentally incompatible with Islam.
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In its executive summary, the letter notes that Islam forbids the killing of innocent people, including diplomats, journalists and humanitarian aid workers. It also states that any jihad may only be defensive in nature with strict rules of con-
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“By further limiting ICE’s role in the detention and deportation of immigrant New Yorkers, we set the national standard for the treatment of our immigrant population,” Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito, a sponsor of the bill, said in a statement. “Families will no longer be needlessly torn apart by ICE’s dragnet enforcement efforts.” The legislation, due to be intro-
ICE said in a statement Thursday that its policy of detaining individuals arrested on criminal charges is meant to “ensure that dangerous criminals are not released from prisons or jails and into our communities.” New York City’s Department of Correction handed over 3,000 people to federal immigration agents between October 2012 and September 2013, according to the city council. It denied 1,163 requests during the same period.
deported under President Barack Obama’s time in office. “You can’t look at this report and conclude that this administration has not been serious about immigrant enforcement,” Marc R. Rosenblum, director of the United States policy program at the Migration Policy Institute, a nonpartisan think-tank in Washington, D.C., said according to the New York Times. “This reinforces the message that he has been the deporterin-chief.”
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British-Iranian woman goes on hunger strike 100 days after being detained in Iran Almashreq editorial staff/ news analyst finder: Ghoncheh Ghavami, a British-Iranian woman has gone on hunger strike to protest(link is external) her 100 days of imprisonment in a Tehran prison. She was arrested twice, first on June 20 after she tried to watch a men’s volleyball game and again a few days later when she was
called back to reclaim confiscated items. Iranian women are banned from watching certain male sports events - a rule Ghavami was protesting outside the stadium where the match took place. Ghavami’s family says the law student has been on strike for six days, and is currently in solitary confinement.
US sharply criticises Israeli settlement plan White House spokesman says Washington is “deeply concerned” about construction of 2,600 settler homes in East Jerusalem.
Almashreq editorial staff/ news analyst finder: US President Barack Obama has told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Washington’s deep concerns over an Israeli plan to build 2,600 new settler homes in East Jerusalem. Obama raised the development in face-to-face talks in the Oval Office on Wednesday, White House spokesman Josh Earnest said. “The United States is deeply concerned by reports the Israeli government has moved forward” with planning for settlements in a “sensitive area” of East Jerusalem, Earnest said. Earnest said Israel would send a “very troubling message” by following through with the settlement project, and in noticeably blunt language said that the step was contrary to Israel’s stated goal of negotiating a permanent final status agreement with the Palestinians. “This development will only draw condemnation from the international community, [and] distance Israel from even its closest allies,” Earnest said. He added that it would also “poison the atmosphere” - not only with the Palestinians but with “the very Arab governments” with which Netanyahu had said he wanted to build relations. All Israeli settlements on occupied
Palestinian territory are illegal under international law. Netanyahu and Obama were meeting for the first time since their subordinates swapped some of the most pointed rhetoric in years between the allies, over the Gaza crisis. Obama said that he also wanted to discuss the rebuilding of Gaza with the Israeli leader following the war with Hamas this year that killed more than 2,100 Palestinians, most of them civilians, and 73 Israelis. “We have to find ways to change the status quo so that both Israeli citizens are safe in their own homes and school children in their schools, from the possibility of rocket fire, but also that we don’t have the tragedy of Palestinian children being killed as well,” Obama said. Discussing other issues in the Middle East, Netanyahu backed Obama’s campaign against the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant group in Syria and Iraq, but said the effort to prevent Iran obtaining a nuclear weapon was “even more critical”. Netanyahu had earlier used a photo opportunity with journalists in the Oval Office to deliver a broad hint that his government remained concerned about the direction of talks between Iran and world powers on constraining Tehran’s nuclear program.
In Yemen, ‘no one is in charge’ Almashreq editorial staff/ news analyst finder: For the past two weeks, talk in Yemen’s capital, Sanaa, has been of the “situation”. People have left the city, traders in markets complain, because of the “situation”; men who would normally go unarmed carry semi-automatic rifles in the street because of the “situation”; taxi drivers try to push prices up because of the “situation”. Yet nobody can fully vocalise what the “situation” is - perhaps because it is as much an expression of what is missing as it is of what is present. On Tuesday, these tensions seemed to have been eased when Yemeni President Abd Rabbu Hadi Mansour declared his choice of a new prime minister. But instead, the move led to even greater uncertainty as the Houthis quickly snubbed the new candidate, Ahmed Awad Bin Mubarak, on the basis that he was not selected through a consensus decision and that he was an “agent of the US”. “The selection makes a mockery of Yemen’s independence and sovereignty as well as the will of the people,” the group said in a statement
issued shortly after the appointment was made. They promised further ‘escalation’ of the kind that led to heavy fighting in the capital in September. The Houthis rejection of Bin Mubarak - who was appointed by presidential decree - raises questions about the fate of the peace deal which ended days of fighting and was supposed to lead to a Houthi withdrawal once a new, neutral prime minister and cabinet were named. On September 21, Hadi signed the deal with the Houthis, who had just taken control of a major military installation on the western edge of the city. As the agreement, which was aimed at getting the Houthis to leave the capital, was being signed, checkpoints manned by Houthi fighters blossomed across Sanaa. Two days after the deal was signed, Houthi leader Abdelmalek al-Houthi said the “People’s Committees” securing the city would not leave until the military, in disarray after the takeover of Sanaa, was able to fight the local al-Qaeda franchise. Since then, it has been clear who controls the capital.
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Malala shares Nobel Peace Prize with Indian children’s rights advocate Almashreq editorial staff/ news analyst finder: Pakistani teenager Malala Yousafzai, who was shot in the head by the Taliban in 2012 for advocating girls’ right to education, and Indian children’s rights activist Kailash Satyarthi were jointly awarded the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday. Yousafzai, 17, is the youngest person to receive a Nobel Prize, by some margin. Satyarthi, 60, and Yousafzai were picked for their struggle against the oppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education, the Norwegian Nobel Committee said. The award was made at a time when hostilities have broken out between India and Pakistan along the border of the disputed, mainly Muslim region of Kashmir — the worst fighting between the nuclear-armed rivals in more than a decade. “The Nobel Committee regards it as an important point for a Hindu and a Muslim, an Indian and a Pakistani, to join in a common struggle for education and against extremism,” said Thorbjoern Jagland, head of the Norwegian Nobel Committee. Yousafzai was attacked in 2012 on a school bus in the Swat Valley in north-
western Pakistan by masked gunmen as a punishment for a blog that she started writing for the BBC’s Urdu service as an 11-year-old to campaign against the Taliban’s efforts to deny women an education.
The Bahrain News Agency (BNA) said on Monday that the Fourth Grand Criminal Court had found the men, who are all Bahraini-born Shias, guilty of smuggling weapons, including explosives, into the country in a case that dates back to December 2013. The court in Manama also found them guilty of having contacted an agent of an unnamed foreign country “to carry out acts hostile to Bahrain,”
the prosecutor general said in a statement. Three of the men were also sentenced to three years in jail on charges of assaulting public security personnel in addition to their life imprisonment, BNA said. In 2012, Bahrain stripped 31 people of their citizenship after they were convicted of damaging state security. Last month, Amnesty International said that 10 people among the 31 were facing deportation or imprisonment, a move the rights group said was part of an array of “arbitrary” powers that Manama had granted itself to punish opponents of the government.
“They have the right to receive quality education. they have the right not to suffer from child labor, not to suffer from child trafficking. they have a right to live a happy life,” she added.
Unable to return to Pakistan after her recovery, Yousafzai moved to Britain, setting up the Malala Fund and supporting local education advocacy groups with a focus on Pakistan, Nigeria, Jordan, Syria and Kenya.
Satyarthi, who gave up a career as an electrical engineer in 1980 to campaign against child labor, has headed various forms of peaceful protests and demonstrations, focusing on the exploitation of children for financial gain.
Responding to news of Nobel decision, Malala dedicated the award to “all those children who are voiceless, whose voices need to be heard.”
He has led the rescue of tens of thousands of child slaves and developed a successful model for their education and rehabilitation.
Sweden to recognize Palestinian state Almashreq editorial staff/ news analyst finder: Sweden’s new center-left government will recognize the state of Palestine in a move that will make it the first major European country to take the step. The U.N. General Assembly approved the de facto recognition of the sovereign state of Palestine in 2012 but until now, neither the European Union nor most EU countries have made the move. But in his inaugural address to the Swedish parliament, Prime Minister Stefan Lofven confirmed that it would designate Palestine as a state. “The conflict between Israel and Palestine can only be solved with a twostate solution, negotiated in accordance with international law,” he said Lofven added that peace “requires mutual recognition” and as such “Sweden will therefore recognize the state of Palestine.” For the Palestinians, the move will come as a welcome boost for its ambitions. With a reputation as an honest broker in international affairs and with an influential voice in EU foreign policy, the decision may well make other countries sit up and pay attention at a time when the Palestinians are threatening unilateral moves towards statehood.
However, there is likely to be strong criticism of Sweden from Israel, as well as from the United States and the EU, which maintain that an independent Palestinian state should only emerge through a negotiated process. Within the EU, some countries, such as Hungary, Poland and Slovakia recognize Palestine, but they did so before joining the 28-member bloc. If the center-left government fulfills its plans, Sweden would be the first country to recognize Palestine while being a member of the European Union. The Social Democrats and Greens hold a minority of seats in parliament
and the incoming center-left government is likely to be one of Sweden’s weakest for decades. The former center-right government would not recognize Palestine as the Palestinian authorities did not control their territory. The Palestinians want an independent state in the West Bank and Gaza, with its capital in East Jerusalem. While Gaza’s boundaries are clearly defined, the precise territory of what would constitute Palestine in the West Bank and East Jerusalem will only be determined via negotiations with Israel on a two-state solution, negotiations that are currently suspended.
Egyptian court postpones Mubarak verdict Almashreq editorial staff/ news analyst finder: An Egyptian court has postponed the verdict in the retrial of deposed president Hosni Mubarak on charges of corruption and killing of hundreds of protesters during the 2011 uprising that toppled him. The court on Saturday said for the 86-year-old Mubarak, Egypt for three decades, was until November 29 due to amount of evidence.
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The verdicts for seven of his former police commanders, as well as for his two sons, Alaa and Gamal, accused of corruption, were also delayed.
Question for Obama’s Syria plan: Who are the moderate rebels? Almashreq editorial staff/ news analyst finder: The Obama administration’s plan to pump a half billion dollars into arming and training yetto-be-identified “moderate” rebels has been criticized and satirized by commentators who believe that no armed faction in Syria could possibly share the U.S. vision for a postAssad state, and that backing any one of them is dangerous.
Almashreq editorial staff/ news analyst finder: A Bahraini court has sentenced nine people to life and revoked their citizenship for smuggling arms to be used in “terrorist acts,” the Gulf kingdom’s prosecutor general has said.
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Others more receptive to the strategy say that while searching for armed groups who espouse liberal democratic values is indeed futile, it’s certainly possible to find palatable U.S.-friendly factions who at least share Washington’s enemies in Syria. The Free Syrian Army (FSA), an umbrella name for a disjointed array of localized rebel militias fighting for a civil state in Syria, fits the bill — at least on paper. The problem, analysts say, is that turning the foundering FSA into a force capable of beating both the Assad regime and the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) would require far more help than anyone, including the U.S., is willing to give them. The FSA is currently the weakest force on the ground in Syria, a result not only of inadequate foreign backing compared with that of rival Islamist and extremist factions, but of its own internal divisions, byzantine leadership structure (based
previous FSA failures.” “We’re talking about random combatants who group in small numbers all across the country and fight under the FSA banner,” said Abdo Roumani, a blogger in Damascus. With no clear chain of command or defined ideology to bind the geographically scattered brigades, the FSA continues to suffer a steady stream of defections to better-funded rivals — including the Al-Qaeda-affiliated Jabhat al-Nusra and its rival, ISIL.
in Turkey) and rampant corruption. President Obama himself recently admitted it was a “fantasy” to believe a bunch of “doctors, farmers, pharmacists and so forth” ever had a chance of overthrowing the Moscowbacked regime of Syria’s Bashar alAssad by themselves. Even some of the FSA’s top commanders admit the group no longer enjoys the confidence of Syria’s political opposition. In an interview with the Washington Post, one commander called U.S. efforts to patch together the FSA’s disparate brigades into a united army a “cut and paste of
Even when FSA brigades have succeeded in capturing territory from Assad’s forces — an increasingly rare event — they have usually done so only by working alongside hardline groups, a complicating factor for Obama’s strategy. Worst of all, the FSA has shown an inability to hold the ground it seizes; in the north, ISIL has simply swooped in to take control of “liberated” territories and expand its own footprint. For these reasons and more, Obama’s plan to give limited backing to “moderate” rebels is more widely interpreted as a means of equalizing the balance on the battlefield in the hope of forcing Assad to the bargaining table, not defeating him, and of creating viable ground forces to partner the ongoing U.S.-led airstrikes against ISIL in northern and eastern Syria.
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Palestine nominates ‘Eyes of a Thief’ for 2015 Oscars
Almashreq editorial staff/ news analyst finder: Palestinian-Jordanian Najwa Najjar’s film starring Egyptian actor Khaled Abu el-Naga has been nominated by Palestine as its Academy Awards entry for this year, alAhram Onlinereported. “Eyes of a Thief,” which also stars Algerian singer and actress Soad Massi, has been nominated by the Palestinian Culture Ministry to compete for the “Best Foreign Language” category at the 2015 Academy Awards, or Oscars. Out of every country’s nominations, the Foreign Language Film Committee at the Academy will select five films to compete for the coveted award. The Committee selected Palestine’s entry last year, admitting Hany Abu-
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Abu Dhabi Film Festival unveils 2014 line-up
Assad’s Omar into the competition. Based on a true story, “Eyes of Thief” tells the story of Tarek, a Palestinian recently released from an Israeli prison who returns to his hometown to find his daughter missing. Amid realizing the transformation his town has undergone, the film narrates the reality of a contemporary Palestinian society. “Eyes of a Thief” premiered in September in Ramallah, occupied West Bank. Najjar’s first full-length feature film “Pomegranates and Myrrh” premiered at the Dubai International Festival in 2008. Earlier this week, Egypt nominated Mohammad Khan’s “Factory Girl” in the same category.
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The Abu Dhabi Festival Festival (ADFF) unveiled on Monday the line-up for its 2014 edition, set to take place from October 23 to November 1 in Abu Dhabi’s Emirates Palace and Vox Cinemas Marina Mall. The line-up includes 197 films from 61 countries, embracing all participants in the high profile Narrative Competition, the New Horizons Competition for first and second feature length films, the Documentary Competition, as well as the Emirates Film Competition and the Short Film Competition, according to twofour54, which powers the Abu Dhabi Film Festival. The festival is also set to host the Child Protec-
tion Award for the second time. Organized in partnership with the Child Protection Center of the Ministry of Interior, the award aims to raise awareness about child abuse, through movies which shed light on it. ADFF has dedicated its Non-competitive Special Programs to “The Arab Diaspora,” through two movies: “Truffaut: The Man Who Loved Cinema” and “Restored Classics.” The ADFF had its first edition in 2007, with a goal to support the film culture in the region. The festival has showcased through the years of major regional and international cinema figures, including Sweden’s Ingmar Bergman and Egypt’s Naguib Mahfouz.
‘Game of Thrones’ starts shooting at historic Islamic fort Almashreq editorial staff/ news analyst finder: Film crews on Friday began shooting part of the fifth season of popular U.S. fantasy television series “Game of Thrones” in the southern Spanish city of Seville, delighting local authorities who expect a tourism boost. Onlookers held up umbrellas to protect themselves against driving rain as they tried to look over a pastel colored synthetic canvas set up around the gardens of the Real Alcazar palace. The barrier was set up to keep plot details of the Home Box Office series secret. The palace, a masterpiece of Islamic architecture in old Seville packed with columned courtyards and elaborately tiled halls, said on its website that it would undergo “partial closures” until the end of October during the filming of the series.
Cooking & Recipes Authentic Lebanese Fattoush “This recipe uses two unusual ingredients: sumac and purslane. I find them at farmer’s markets. Fattoush is a Lebanese salad, good for hot weather.”
ingredients • 1/2 cup water • 1 teaspoon cornstarch • 1/3 cup lemon juice
• 1 cup chopped purslane • 1/2 (5 ounce) package arugula • 4 pita rounds, toasted and torn into pieces
• 2 cloves garlic, minced • 2 teaspoons sumac powder • salt to taste • ground black pepper to taste • 1 head romaine lettuce, torn into bite-size • pieces 1 medium cucumber, diced • 2 large tomatoes, diced • 4 green onions, chopped • 1/4 cup chopped fresh flat-leaf parsley • 1/4 cup chopped fresh mint • 1 green bell pepper, seeded and chopped
Bazlama - Turkish Flat Bread ingredients • 1 (.25 ounce) package active dry yeast • 1 tablespoon white sugar • 1 tablespoon salt • 1 1/2 cups warm water (110 degrees F/45 degrees C) • 1/2 cup Greek-style yogurt • 4 cups all-purpose flour
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Preparation : 1. Mix the water and cornstarch in a small saucepan over medium-high heat until thickened. Remove from heat, and mix in lemon juice, garlic, sumac, salt, and pepper. Refrigerate until ready to use. 2. In a large bowl, toss together the lettuce, cucumber, tomatoes, green onions, parsley, mint, bell pepper, purslane, and arugula. Toss with the dressing, and serve with pita.
Preparation : 1. Dissolve the yeast, sugar, and salt in the warm water. Add the water and yogurt to the flour and mix well. The dough will be soft but not sticky. Turn the dough out onto a lightly floured surface and shape it into a ball. Cover the dough with a damp cloth and allow it to rise at room temperature for 3 hours. 2. Cut the dough into four portions. Shape the dough into rounds and flatten each round as though you’re making pizza dough. Cover the rounds with a damp cloth and let the dough rest for 15 minutes. 3. Heat a cast iron skillet or griddle over medium-high heat. Place one dough round in the skillet and bake until brown spots appear on the bottom, about 1 minute. Flip the bread and bake for an additional minute. Remove the bread and wrap it in a clean kitchen towel to keep warm. 4. Repeat with the remaining dough rounds. Store any leftover flatbreads in an airtight container.
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