Sa’ad al-Faqih, the head of the Movement for Islamic Reform in Arabia, said on Wednesday that the number of jailed activists ranged from 25,000 to 30,000. Faqih also accused the government of stepping up the crackdown on dissent since the beginning of the year. The Saudi activist said the crackdown is a response to online […]
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By Felicity Arbuthnot “We gather tonight knowing that this generation of heroes has made the United States safer and more respected round the world.” (President Barack Obama, State of the Union address, 24th January 2012.) As Easter was celebrated in the US and UK with, for believers, the message of hope, Fallujah, the region and much
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April 23, 2014 “ICH” – It is unsurprising that public opinion in the UK and elsewhere, resents the notion that we should engage with the politics of the Middle East and beyond. We have been through painful engagements in Afghanistan and Iraq. After 2008, we have had our own domestic anxieties following the financial crisis. And
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By Lindsey German & Robin Beste Protest when Tony Blair gave evidence to the Iraq Inquiry, 21 Jan 2011. In a keynote speech on 23 April 2014, Tony Blair blamed Islamic extremism for failures of western intervention in the Middle East. Here are ten things he neglected to mention about the extremism of
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