Citizens International

December 2015

Britain’s misconceptions of the Muslim Brotherhood

By Basheer Nafi     The British review on the Muslim Brotherhood is another stratum in a long history of misunderstanding of the movement On 17 December 2015, British Prime Minister David Cameron submitted to parliament a summary of the conclusions of a review, which he himself ordered in April 2014, about the Muslim Brotherhood. The […]

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The countries where a majority of Muslims want to live under sharia law

  Countries where Islam is already favoured in law, like Afghanistan and Iraq, show the strongest backing for having Sharia as the official law of the land     The legal framework based on the moral and legal code of Islam is rarely out of the news. The most extreme interpretations of Sharia are being enforced by Isis

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Are Turkey and Iran reviving a 16th century conflict?

  A miniature from 1561 depicting Ottoman Sultan Suleiman I marching with an army in Nakhchivan, summer 1554, at the end of the Ottoman-Safavid War. (photo by Topkapi Palace Istanbul)   Are Turkey and Iran reviving a 16th century conflict? In an Al-Monitor article on Dec. 7, Metin Gurcan discusses Turkey’s latest and controversial move near Mosul that aroused

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Back-door diplomacy: Israel to open mission in UAE

By Rori Donaghy   Israel and the UAE’s strong relationship confirmed as Tel Aviv says it will open a diplomatic office through an energy agency in Abu Dhabi Director of Israel’s Foreign Ministry Dore Gold has arranged the Israel-UAE mission (AFP) Israel is going to open a diplomatic mission in the United Arab Emirates, in what

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Blaming Islam for ISIS: A convenient lie to prepare us for more war

by CJ Werleman   An appetite for war is being primed by absolving America’s guilt over the social chaos it has wrought on the Middle East    The recent Paris attacks have refocused the American mind on the threat posed by IS. Americans are demanding more boots on the ground, more bombing, more something, more anything

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