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The eight dumbest things said about free speech this week
Scratch that. Oh, the competition is fierce, what with many who should know better leaping to denounce “denigration of religion” and “hurting feelings” when the poking the religion and feelings in...
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Diplomatic ripples from embassy and consulate attacks to continue
Vicious cycle. Normally, nations rely on their diplomatic staffs to calm the waters after unrest within and between nations. When that unrest targets the diplomatic missions, though, the process takes...
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Why did democracy fail in Egypt but succeed in Tunisia?
Plus -- does Egypt need a Pinochet? The Mediterranean rim of North Africa has three laboratories for the Arab Spring — Tunisia, Libya, and Egypt, each with a differing formula of political culture and...
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Christians victims of religious cleansing in Middle East … for centuries
The long view. It’s not just Maaloula, as Reza Aslan informs us, and not just the Arab Spring, either. The process of cleansing Christians from their oldest communities — predating the Islam, which...
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The Economist names the only democracy in the Middle East, and it isn’t Israel
One simple chart... With the rise of Islamist organizations, repressive regimes, and civil conflicts which threaten regional stability, the promise of the Arab Spring of 2011 quickly devolved into an...
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Video: Tunisia vows “merciless war on terrorism” as death toll rises to 23
"The world should not allow the one success story of the Arab Spring to die." A terrorist attack on tourists visiting a Tunis museum killed 23 people, mainly Europeans, in the worst such attack in...
View ArticleUS airstrikes hits ISIS targets in Libya
As ISIS terrorists converged on a Libyan camp to listen to one of their radical spiritual leaders, American forces painted a big target on the outpost in Sabratha, near the Tunisian border. The attack...
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