Terror and ideology in Paris
Regardless of what anybody might say in defence, to try to explain a movement that persists in ceaselessly murdering hundreds of people by reference to global injustices is bound to open a window of legitimacy, in normal human perceptions, for such massacres.
An Orientalistic blindness incapable of understanding the Islamic world
Just where has IS come from? Is it not a product of the desperation caused by the disasters that have struck Iraq and Syria, the resulting rage of the excluded and humiliated Sunni Muslims, and their loss of any hope for their future? And just how has this environment been created?
As Paris lies bleeding, voices from my country
If, faced with an extremely savage sort of violence predicated on a set of [Islamic] values that it considers to be its own, a society cannot respond with anything more serious than “it is the West that has created these demons,” I cannot help thinking that it has no chance of competing with the West either.
How to win the right to a presidential system
Whether it is going to be a parliamentary or a presidential system, this is not going to have any bearing whatsoever, implicitly or as a direct imposition, a fait accompli, on establishing the spirit of the constitution.
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Stop supplying hamburgers to IS!
I don’t know whether Burger King might also start serving IS in the near future. But from what I, too, have learned through reliable channels, a notorious IS militant has said that “Mc Donald’s is beyond compare.”