Manifestations of nationalist separatist sentiment have grown increasingly prevalent among Iraqi Kurds, who, since the first Gulf War, have enjoyed autonomy in the governorates of Sulaymaniyah, Irbil , and Dahuk in northern Iraq . Many regard this as reflecting a Kurdish aspiration to establish an independent state, first in Iraqi Kurdistan , and later in Greater Kurdistan , encompassing additional Kurdish-populated regions in Turkey and Iran . Separatist tendencies among Kurds therefore arouse ...
Following are excerpts from an interview with Abd Al-Malik Rigi, leader of the Jundallah movement in Balochistan, which aired on Al-Arabiya TV on August 7, 2008. To view this clip on MEMRI TV, visit http://www.memri.org/legacy/clip/1841 . "Now We Are Able to Carry Our Operations to Tehran – And Allah Willing, We Will Do So" Reporter: "Behind me are the mountains of Iran, to my right the mountains of Afghanistan, and in front of me the mountains of Pakistan. In this area, after a two-day journey ...
In an extensive January 2008 interview with the Qatari Al-Raya daily, eminent Syrian philosopher Sadik Jalal Al-'Azm discussed the state of religious thought in the Muslim world, democracy in Turkey and in Arab countries, Hizbullah and the 2006 war, and the role of the intellectual in Syria and the Arab world. The following are excerpts from the interview: The Ignorance of the Islamic Religious Establishment Has Grown Worse Since I First Wrote About It in the Late 1960s Q: "... To what degree ...
Following are excerpts from a public address by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, which aired on the Iranian News Channel IRINN TV on June 2, 2008. To view this clip, visit http://www.memri.org/legacy/clip/1784 . To view the MEMRI TV page for Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, visit http://www.memritv.org/subject/en/358.htm . Mahmoud Ahmadinejad : "Our beloved Imam Khomeini , you commanded that the arrogant powers of the world must be destroyed. You commanded that the global rule of ...
On December 21, 2007, MEMRI reported on a polemic between Iraqi liberal writers and the Egyptian sociologist Sa'ad Eddin Ibrahim, a well-known reformer who currently heads the Arab Democracy Foundation in Qatar. The Iraqis were angered by two articles Ibrahim wrote on the war in Iraq, in which he compared the Iraqi resistance to the liberation movements in Vietnam and Algeria. 1 The Iraqis were profoundly disappointed at Ibrahim's position, and claimed that he had abandoned the democratic camp ...
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The following is a lecture delivered by MEMRI Chairman Menahem Milson at the opening of the annual international conference of the Global Forum for Combating Antisemitism held in Jerusalem on Sunday, 24 February 2008: Arab and Islamic antisemitism is today the form of antisemitism that poses the most danger to Israel and to Jews everywhere in the world. Numerous antisemitic attacks in France and elsewhere in Europe in recent years have made it very clear that the pernicious impact of this ...
Islamist Websites Monitor No. 118 The "Ansar Al-Islam in the Muslim Sahara" Group Declares Jihad Against the North African Regimes and Promises to Take Back Muslim Spain On June 28, 2007, Islamist websites posted a communiqué (dated late April) announcing the establishment of "Ansar Al-Islam in the Muslim Sahara, Land of the Veiled Ones." In the communiqué, the group declares jihad on the North African regimes and the Polisario Front, with special attention dedicated to Morocco. They also ...
