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NASA, he went on, is pursuing "a new beginning of the relationship between the United States and the Muslim world." Continue to full text of posting... July 6, 2010 | Permalink | Comments (96) Erasing the George W. Bush Administration OnlineHere's a pet peeve: Through eight years of the two George W. Bush administrations, I linked hundreds of times to White House and Department of State documents, plus less frequently to other U.S. government departments and agencies. I made efforts to link to original documents (and not news articles, much less blogs) because, having earned a Ph.D. in history, I value primary sources. I assumed during those years that the documents, being part of the U.S. government's permanent record, would remain available so long as the government and the internet were functioning – in other words, a long time. Continue to full text of posting... June 25, 2010 | Permalink | Comments (23) Ah, the Joys of PolygamyBeing an occasional series reporting on the complications that accompany polygynous marriages. "Bangladesh Bigamist's Friends to Decide Faith as 'Wives' Fight Over Corpse": I cannot do better than to quote the news report.
Continue to full text of posting... June 21, 2010 | Permalink | Comments (12) American Muslims in the Liquor BusinessIn an anthropological study, The Arab Moslems in the United States: Religion and Assimilation (New Haven, Conn.: College & University Press, 1966), Abdo A. Elkholy presents field research he did in 1959 in two Muslim communities, in Toledo, Ohio and in Detroit. The book contains a very precious glimpse of Islam in the United States just before the immigration law was overhauled in 1965, leading to a permanent change in the nature of American Islam. One startling fact Elkholy discovered concerned the sometimes deep involvement of Arabic-speaking Muslims in the liquor business. Indeed, Muslims were attracted to Toledo Continue to full text of posting... June 20, 2010 | Permalink | Comments (6) A Military Strike on Iran's Nuclear Infrastructure?Whether or not Iran's nuclear buildup will be stopped is the most urgent topic in the Middle East these days. I note occasional developments here that point to the use of military force against the Iranian nuclear infrastructure. "Saudi Arabia gives Israel clear skies to attack Iranian nuclear sites": In a sensational report, Hugh Tomlinson writes in the Times (London) that
Continue to full text of posting... June 12, 2010 | Permalink | Comments (27) Rashad Valmont – Jihadi?I have long argued (for example, in 2002) that when a Muslim in the West for no apparent reason violently attacks one or more non-Muslims, the working assumption should be that jihad is involved. Of course, that assumption could prove wrong, but jihad is so often the case (TheReligionOfPeace.com records over 15,500 violent attacks worldwide since 9/11) that this motive should be at the forefront of the investigation. I mention this because we learned today that the military has charged one Staff Sgt. Rashad Valmont with premeditated murder in the shooting death of Master Sgt. Pedro Mercado at Fort Gillem, Georgia. Initial reports tell us little about Valmont except that he is 29 years old and from the Virgin Islands, and that he reported to Mercado at the personnel management branch of the U.S. Army Medical Professional Management Command – and has a typically Muslim first name. Continue to full text of posting... June 11, 2010 | Permalink | Comments (8) Who Lost Turkey?Elections within the next year could reverse Ankara's course; that said, two main explanations are circulating that address the now-burning question., "Who lost Turkey?":
Continue to full text of posting... June 10, 2010 | Permalink | Comments (56) Hafiz al-Asad and MeHafiz al-Asad (also spelled Hafez al-Assad) died ten years ago today, prompting some personal reflections: I worked the Syria topic for 15 years, 1985-2000, writing one major academic study, two monographs, and many journal articles, newspaper articles, and book reviews – in all, about 100 publications. Because of my hostility to the regime, however, other than two visits to the country as a student in 1972 and 1973, I was not allowed to return, even when such august institutions as Reader's Digest and the U.S. government sponsored my travel. Continue to full text of posting... June 10, 2010 | Permalink | Comments (12) More on Islamist Turkey OverreachingExtra points that did not fit my main article today, "Islamist Turkey Overreaches." (1) The sex scandal that forced opposition leader Deniz Baykal to resign as head of the Republican People's Party (CHP) a month ago could potentially be the turning point whereby Turkey's secular forces find their voice and develop a compelling program. Baykal's successor, Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, is the key person to watch. (2) Ahmet Davutoğlu has made some astonishing statements about the flotilla confrontation, including an allusion to invoking Article 6 of the North Atlantic Treaty: "Citizens of member states were attacked by a country that was not a member of NATO. We think that should be discussed in NATO." (3) Adnan Oktar (who goes by the pen-name Harun Yahya) mailed out a statement today that also disapproves of the flotilla maneuver:
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