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• On the Minaret ban

  
  The Moor Next Door — Authority: 502
  One should register no surprise that the continent which produced the Inquisition, anti-Semitism, the Crusades and the Holocaust would give rise to a sentiment that would lead 57% of Swiss voters to ban the construction of minarets. It should be even less surprising that this would come round in a country where the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Le Commonwealth

  
  News Benedict Brogan — Authority: 134
  Gordon Brown is off to Trinidad and Tobago tomorrow night for the Commonwealth summit, which promises to be, to quote Douglas Adams, mostly harmless. But it is worth noting a promising coincidence. The meeting is likely to approve Rwanda’s membership application, which would make it the latest in a small wave of ...
  3 weeks ago

• T. Miles puts TMND in his place

  
  The Moor Next Door — Authority: 502
  See Tommy Miles’s critique of my recent post on Newsweek’s Sahel piece, here and here (as well as my responses). Miles is known to this blog for work on the Tuaregs and Mali and Niger. His comments are especially relevant because they offer a strong account of the terrorism issue in Mali and Niger, showing [...]
  3 weeks ago

• Newsweek on the Sahel: no news and no use

  
  The Moor Next Door — Authority: 502
  In the 20 November edition of Newsweek, Scott Johnson presents an unfortunate account of terrorism in the Sahel. Johnson sees fit to present readers with an article that brings little enlightenment. The central thesis of “The Terrorist Myth in North Africa,” is to debunk the notion that al-Qaeda “affiliates are ...
  3 weeks ago

• Algeria v. Egypt: the story of a distraction, written from Cairo

  
  The Moor Next Door — Authority: 502
  O you who believe, stand up as witnesses for God in all fairness, and do not let the hatred of a people deviate you from justice.Qur’an, 5:8Foot-ball is something akin to a religion in many countries. Whether in Liverpool or Algiers, Cairo or Freetown, the game can offer men otherwise without much to smile about ...
  3 weeks ago

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