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Special Dispatch No. 3673 - Following Murder of Israeli Family, Turkish Columnist Writes in 'Hurriyet': 'You Shall Not Kill!' - 03/17/11

In a March 15, 2011 column titled "You Shall Not Kill!" Turkish columnist Burak Bekdil contrasted Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's "fits of anger towards the death of children," which Erdogan claims are "'indiscriminative' of race and religion," with his silence following the March 12 slaughter of the Israeli Fogel family by Palestinians. 1 Bekdil added that a "Palestinian warrior" once told him, "For us, even a one-year-old Israeli baby is a soldier." The following is Bekdil's ...

Inquiry & Analysis Series No. 678 - The Bahrain Situation: Media Clashes Between the Iranian-Shi'ite Camp and the Saudi-Sunni Camp - 03/17/11

Introduction For over a month, Shi'ites in Bahrain have been staging demonstrations to demand the ouster of the regime and the implementation of reforms in the country. On March 14, 2011, a senior Saudi official reported that under the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) joint defense pact, over 1,000 Saudi troops from the Peninsula Shield Force had deployed to Bahrain, to help the Bahraini authorities rein in the demonstrations. At the same time, UAE Foreign Minister Sheikh 'Abdallah bin Zayed Aal ...

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Special Dispatch No. 3600 - Sheikh Yousuf Al-Qaradhawi in Friday Sermon at Cairo's Tahrir Square: Pray for the Conquest of Al-Aqsa - 02/18/11

Today in Cairo's Al-Tahrir Square, prominent Sunni cleric and International Union of Muslim Scholars (IUMS) head Sheikh Yousuf Al-Qaradhawi led Friday prayers. Sheikh Al-Qaradhawi has not been allowed to lead Friday prayers in Egypt for the past 31 years; 1 he last delivered a Friday prayer sermon in Egypt in 1981 following the assassination of President Anwar Al-Sadat. 2 The following is a report on the sermon, compiled by MEMRI; following that are links to MEMRI's extensive research on Sheikh ...

Special Dispatch No. 3575 - Iranian Daily Kayhan: Ahmadinejad's Rapprochement with Moderate Arab States is 'Capitulation' - 02/11/11

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's foreign policy poses a challenge not only for the Arab and Western countries, but also taxes Iranian circles traditionally loyal to the regime. Criticism in the Iranian press is usually aimed at the moderate Arab axis – Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Jordan (see appendix) – but after recently taking steps towards reconciliation with these countries, Ahmadinejad himself has met with criticism at home. In a December 20, 2010 article titled "The Diplomatic Mirage ...

Special Dispatch No. 3579 - Saudi, Jordanian Columnists Attack U.S. Policy in Middle East - 02/11/11

Against the backdrop of the Egypt events, Saudi and Jordanian columnists have continued to criticize the U.S. foreign policy in Egypt and across the Middle East. 1 They argued that Egypt had lost its status in the region because it had followed the U.S.'s policy, which weakened the Arab countries while serving Iranian interests. The columnists also criticized the U.S.'s confused reaction to Egyptian protests, saying that although America's goal had been to win favor with the protesters and to ...

Special Dispatch No. 3568 - Pakistani Dailies Examine Implications of Egyptian Protests for Pakistan; Editorial Warns: 'After Four Decades of Nurturing of Jihadis and Extremists, Any Popular Revolt will Be At Risk of Being Hijacked by Extremist Forces' - 02/09/11

Above: Pakistani religious leaders address a January 30, 2011 public rally to defend Pakistan's controversial blasphemy laws. (Image courtesy: Roznama Ummat ) On January 31, 2011, Pakistani Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani said that the situation in Pakistan cannot be compared with popular uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt. Speaking in the town of Multan, he claimed that Pakistani "institutions are working and democracy is functional" while the economy in Pakistan is also doing well. 1 Prime ...

Special Dispatch No. 3566 - Al-'Arabiya Director-General: America's Support Is Detrimental to the Cause of the Egyptian Protestors - 02/08/11

In a recent article, 'Abd Al-Rahman Al-Rashed, director-general of Al-'Arabiya TV and former editor-in-chief of the daily Al-Sharq Al-Awsat , attacked both Iran and the U.S. for their support of the Egyptian protestors and their demand for the immediate resignation of President Hosni Mubarak. Al-Rashed explained that America's open support of the protestors was, in fact, detrimental to their cause, since it was preventing them from reaching an arrangement with the Egyptian regime over reforms. ...

Special Dispatch No. 3559 - The Middle East Crisis XVIII - Egyptian, Arab Reactions to U.S. Handling of Egypt Crisis: U.S. Is Selling Out Its Allies, Interfering in Egypt's Affairs in Pursuit of Own Agenda - 02/02/11

The Egyptian Foreign Ministry has rejected the U.S.'s stance on the protests in Egypt, telling it bluntly to mind its own business and refrain from interfering in Egypt's affairs. Rage at the U.S. has also been voiced by writers in the Egyptian press, who said that U.S. President Barack Obama was not qualified to speak for the Egyptian people or to determine the country's future. Also critical of Obama's policy were columnists in other Arab countries, who accused the U.S. of abandoning Egyptian ...

Special Dispatch No. 3483 - THE MEMRI CARTOON INITIATIVE'S TOP CARTOONS 2010 - 12/31/10

The MEMRI Cartoon Initiative was launched in 2005, in the wake of the worldwide violence over the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten's publication of cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad. The Cartoon Initiative has so far translated over 10,000 cartoons from the Arabic, Iranian, Turkish, Afghan, Pakistani, and Indian media. To view more cartoons, visit http://www.memri.org/cartoon/en/category.htm . Please check for the redesigned and upgraded Cartoon Initiative website in early 2011. The following ...

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