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egyptians to liberate occupied al quds arabic for jerusalem wael ghonim the google executive who came to embody the revolution for western audiences was barred from addressing the square that day islamist forces have since scored one triumph after another in egypt the islamist bloc composed of the muslim brotherhood and the salafi al nour party has won overwhelming control of both houses of parliament the rise of islamist parties has been accompanied by ever worsening violence against coptic christians assaults on the israeli embassy and threats to nullify anwar sadat s peace in tunisia the brotherhood linked ennahda party has won a decisive plurality a once tolerated gay and lesbian community has come under severe attack and the country s robust secularist and feminist traditions have been on the retreat amid growing anti western sentiment in libya some rebel forces have traded their nato flags for al qaeda s black banner others have targeted the country s vulnerable black african and amazigh minorities torture is reportedly rampant in the prisons of free libya clearly something went wrong with the arab spring basically what went wrong was the arab liberalism the moral and cultural crisis of which says sohrab ahmari is serious it threatens nothing less than the future of freedom in the middle east yet as daunting as it may seem in light of recent developments there really is no other path than the freedom agenda as far as u s policy should be concerned after the arab spring the u s led order in the region is frayed but it still stands if it is to persist and thrive that order must be decoupled from classical arab authoritarianism our liberal allies in this fight are deeply flawed disengaging from the region and adopting a humble posture however will only leave them more vulnerable to the islamists and to their own worst urges as a number of writers have already suggested the middle east today is desperately in need of an ideological plan similar to the marshall plan deployed in postwar europe but to make the investment worth its while the united states should not hesitate to assume the role of the democratic teacher as it did in europe to shape and articulate a middle east liberalism that is at peace with israel that refrains from anti western rhetoric and prioritizes individual and minority rights over the whims of demagogic mobs there is no other cure for the algiers syndrome sohrab ahmari is an iranian american journalist and nonresident associate research fellow at the henry jackson society he is also co editor of arab spring dreams a new anthology of essays by young mideast dissidents palgrave macmillan h t john podhoretz posted by s r piccoli a 9 50 pm 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest etichette world april 22 2012 the global war on christians i know time is precious but please take an hour and a half to watch the video see below of a talk given by john l allen jr at the recent los angeles religious education congress 2012 on the global war on christians a senior correspondent for the national catholic reporter and a vaticanologist of cnn and npr john l allen jr carefully explains on the basis of facts and evidence not opinions that what is at stake today for christians worldwide is nothing less than their own survival yes christians are the most persecuted group in the contemporary world via the metaphysical peregrine posted by s r piccoli a 3 14 pm 3 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest etichette religion world february 2 2012 arab spring or islamist winter protesters in tahrir square in cairo in habib bourguib av in tunis in sana a yemen and in douma syria picture wikimedia commons michael j totten in the january february issue of world affairs the phrase arab spring is a misnomer the political upheavals sweeping tunisia egypt libya and syria are concurrent yet different phenomena and it s premature to assume that any of them let alone all of them will bring their respective countries out of the long arab winter of authoritarian rule in the medium term the number of genuinely liberal democracies to emerge in the arab world is likely to be one or zero i ve been to all three countries that overthrew tyrants last year tunisia egypt and libya and i rented an apartment in lebanon while the government of syria which may well become fourth on the list waged a murder and intimidation campaign against lebanese journalists and elected officials the only things these countries have in common with each other is that they re in turmoil and that they are arab take tunisia and egypt large parts of tunisia appear so westernized at least on the surface that visitors might think they re in greece or even in france if they didn t know better egypt is an ancient and crushingly poor nation ruled as it has been more often than not by a military dictatorship most tunisian women in the cities eschew the headscarf and dress like europeans alcohol is widely available and consumed more by locals than tourists the economy is almost as advanced as those of southern europe and large parts of the cities actually look like southern europe the mediterranean is a recognizable place despite the civilizational boundary that separates its northern and southern shores tunis on the coast has more in common with provence than with its own saharan interior and its vineyards produce wine that is almost as fine imperial france left a powerful imprint on tunisia s cultural dna as did rome long ago the explanation for tunisia s success robert kaplan wrote in the atlantic in 2001 begins with the fact that modern tunisia corresponds roughly to the borders of ancient carthage and of the roman province that replaced it in 146 b c after a third and final war between the two powers africa originally a roman term meant tunisia long before it meant anything else this little wedge of a country in central north africa has been at least partially oriented northward for most of its history ever since egypt is in so many ways the anti tunisia almost every woman who goes out in public wears a headscarf i see more men in just one single day with bruised foreheads acquired by hitting their heads on the floor during prayer than i have seen in all other muslim majority countries combined in almost a decade the country is as far as i can tell the most islamicized place in the world after saudi arabia it used to be oriented more toward the mediterranean as tunisia still is but that was more than a half century ago cairo was once a must see city like paris and rome and vienna but today it s a crowded polluted and grinding third world megacity animated by reactionary and authoritarian politics its liberal epoch is over libya and syria in turn have their own peculiarities but what do these four countries have in common in the middle east almost all secular governments have failed spectacularly in the modern era as a result radical islam looks good on paper to millions the full article is worth a read posted by s r piccoli a 2 46 am 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest etichette world january 26 2012 burning for freedom in tibet no people should be forced to live in such desperate circumstances that they feel they must resort to desperate means like suicide writes the christian science monitor commenting the tragic type of protest that has become popular in two different parts of the world in the past two years the kind of protest in question is setting fire to oneself and the two different parts of the world that the csm is referring to are tibet and some countries of the arab world perhaps the major difference among many others between the two cases is that generally speaking as far as i know what is happening in tibet doesn t seem to deserve being noticed or at least it is not getting the coverage it deserves with very few exceptions like this or this another tibetan in southwest china self immolated saturday in the latest in a series of apparent protests against chinese rule activist groups said the self immolation in the town of aba in sichuan province was followed by clashes between security forces and local tibetans said the london based group free tibet t protests against chinese rule activist groups said at least 16 buddhist monks nuns and other tibetans are now believed to have set themselves on fire in the past year including four in the past week mostly in traditionally tibetan areas of sichuan province most have chanted for tibetan freedom and the return of their spiritual leader the dalai lama who fled to india amid an abortive uprising against chinese rule in 1959 yes we are talking of buddhist monks setting fire to themselves of course in response to beijing s iron fisted grip over tibetan affairs and this notwithstanding the fact that any form of suicide is widely seen as contrary to the teachings of their religion you the chinese leadership will never address the genuine grievances of tibetans and restore stability in tibet through violence and killing the only way to resolve the tibet issue and bring about lasting peace is by respecting the rights of the tibetan people and through dialogue said lobsang sangay the prime minister of tibet s government in exile in dharamsala in india who denounced the shooting by police on hundreds of tibetan protesters in western sichuan this week of course he is right but at the same time it s pretty easy to predict that even though the tibetans struggle for freedom will continue whether the whole world is watching or not as the communist government in beijing struggles with issues of reform and modernization it has retained and even intensified its hard line policies against the tibetan people given china s growing importance as an economic power and a general sense of fatigue in the rest of the word for meaningful action in defense of human rights the people in tibet can expect little concrete support in their quest for political freedom and religious liberty candlelight vigil in dharmsala india after news reports of self immolation by two tibetan monks at the kirti monastery in sichuan province s aba prefectuture monday sept 26 2011 pic ap posted by s r piccoli a 8 02 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest etichette tibet world december 17 2011 r i p christopher hitchens christopher hitchens died thursday night at 62 journalist essayist and one of england s most celebrated yet controversial polemicists he waged countless battles on behalf of causes left and right the following excerpt from the full interview with him by richard dawkins in the new statesman that was trailed a few days ago is perhaps the most effective portrait of him it is not yet online and i m quoting from norman geras blog and yes along with norm and many others i will miss him i have one consistency which is being against the totalitarian on the left and on the right the totalitarian to me is the enemy the one that s absolute the one that wants control over the inside of your head not just your actions and your taxes and the origins of that are theocratic obviously the beginning of that is the idea that there is a supreme leader or infallible pope or a chief rabbi or whatever who can ventriloquise the divine and tell us what to do that has secular forms with gurus and dictators of course but it s essentially the same there have been some thinkers orwell is pre eminent who understood that unfortunately there is innate in humans a strong tendency to worship to become abject so we re not just fighting the dictators we re criticising our fellow humans for trying to short cut to make their lives simpler by surrendering and saying if you offer me bliss of course i m going to give up some of my mental freedom for that we say it s a false bargain you ll get nothing you re a fool posted by s r piccoli a 2 54 am 3 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest etichette uk politics us politics world december 1 2011 saudi women no more naked tempting eyes okay let s suppose they pull it off and that the orwellian entitled saudi arabia s committee for the promotion of virtue and the prevention of vice succeed in getting their claim approved namely that they have the right to stop women revealing attractive and particularly tempting eyes in public well do you think their problems will magically fade away if you think so you are wrong read this especially the last paragraph to find out why are we to assume that there will be guidelines set on which eyes are deemed the most alluring and will the thousands employed by the committee to ensure islamic laws are upheld get the job of deciding which eyes are sexy and which aren t it could lead to all sorts of trouble this those poor men landed with the job of gazing into all those sexy lash framed pools how will they stop themselves from being overcome with lust and what about the poor women whose eyes aren t deemed sexy they could be well offended can t they see that the only reason eyes become extra seductive is because everything else is covered up if saudi men cannot resist a pretty pair of eyes why don t they get the veils h t il mango posted by s r piccoli a 2 18 pm 3 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest etichette humor world october 20 2011 game over the first photo france press philippe desmazes captured or killed but the game is over aniway posted by s r piccoli a 2 54 pm 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest etichette world october 15 2011 occupy goes global and violent too see also here here and here however what do protests and riots in rome really mean well here is the answer from fr philip neri powell the best foreign correspondent in italy simply priceless posted by s r piccoli a 11 39 pm 5 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest etichette europa italy s politics somewhere in italy us politics world the arab spring hasn t yet begun the winner of the peace prize of the german book trade in 2011 boualem sansal is an algerian engineer an internationally acclaimed author and a straightforward man our choice this year said gottfried honnefelder chairman of the german publishers and booksellers association at the start of the 2011 buchtage berlin berlin book days is intended as a signal of encouragement for democracy movements in north africa yet boualem sansal is not as one might first think a supporter of the arab spring and this for the simple reason that in his opinion unfortunately the arab spring hasn t yet begun here is what he told the italian corriere della sera newspaper english translation mine the arab spring hasn t yet begun the big problems are still unsettled it s not only about dictators who of course must disappear no there is also the 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