UK Foreign Secretary William Hague to Syria: ‘Car bombers are us’

British Foreign Secretary Details Further Support for the SNC Syria: Pre-action protocol over breach of undertaking over armed groups. (16.05.2014) By Finian Cunningham UK Foreign Secretary William Hague gave notice this week that the British government is to step up state-sponsored terrorism in Syria. He was speaking on behalf of the Orwellian-named group, the Friends of Syria,…

People’s Assembly delegation discusses in Moscow perils of takfiri ideology proliferation

People’s Assembly delegation discusses in Moscow perils of takfiri ideology proliferation Apr 11, 2014 Moscow, (SANA) The People’s Assembly delegation to the Russian Euro-Mediterranean talks, which is part of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Mediterranean (PAM) delegation, discussed with high-tanking Russian officials the situation in Syria and the US-led war against it, as well as…

عربي ـ دولي>>شيخ_الأزهر: كل من يحرض ويخطط للإرهابيين ويدعمهم ماديا ومعنويا شريك معهم في جرائم القتل العمد

14 شباط , 2014 القاهرة-سانا أكد شيخ الأزهر الدكتور أحمد الطيب أن كل من “يحرض ويخطط للإرهابيين والتفجيريين ومن يدعمهم ويمدهم ماديا ومعنويا بكل الصور والأشكال هم شركاء معهم في جرائم القتل العمد المزدوج النكراء وسيلقون ربهم وأيديهم ملطخة بالدماء وقتلة مهما برروا وخدعونا بكلامهم”. وحذر شيخ الأزهر في مقابلة مع التلفزيون المصري اليوم المصريين…

New Definition of Terrorism | The Saudi Regime Must Go

By  Amal Saad Saudi’s new definition of “terrorism” Thanks to imperialism and its proxies, the concepts of “terrorism” and “revolution” have become completely inane terms bereft of any meaning. When freedom- fighting resistance movements become terrorists and nihilistic terrorists became revolutionaries, is it really all that shocking that the Saudi regime feels it too is…

Turkey’s Role in the Kidnapping of the Syrian Bishops

By Dikran Ego 2014-02-01 Bishop Yuhanna Ibrahim (left) and Bishop Paul Yazici. On April 22, 2013 Bishops Yuhanna Ibrahim and Paul Yazici were kidnapped in Syria. During the kidnapping their driver was murdered. A fourth person in the car, Fuad Eliya, was released. Bishop Yuhanna Ibrahim is of the Syriac Orthodox Church and was considered…

Grand Mufti stresses joint work to confront takfiri thinking at Islamic Unity Conference

Grand Mufti Ahmad Badr-Eddin Hassoun stressed the importance of unity among the Muslims and denouncing discord to better serve the issues of the Islamic nation. “Let’s work hand in hand through the Islamic unity conference to spread the culture of amity and fraternity in the human communities and confront the thought that promotes for killing…

Iran has much more important role at Geneva II than many others

Published on Jan 16, 2014 US sanctions against Iran over its nuclear program produced no positive outcomes, and if hardline lawmakers manage to impose more of those, despite President Obama’s position, they will not like the consequences, warned Iranian FM Javad Zarif. Minister Zarif gave his interview to RT’s Sophie Shevardnadze days ahead an agreement…

President al-Assad Warns Wahhabi Terrorist Thinking is a Threat to the Entire World

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad (R) met with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif in Damascus on January 15 , 2013. President Bashar al-Assad on Wednesday warned that the danger of Wahhabi thinking has become a threat to the entire world and not just the region’s countries. The President was speaking during a meeting with Iran’s…

The Rise of Secular Liberal Takfirism

Amal Saad-Ghorayeb Without understating the existential threat which religious “takfiris” (those who accuse other Muslims of apostasy) pose to our region, we must also be equally wary of the secular liberal takfirism which is now on the rise. Like the religious kind, the secular variant is also rabidly sectarian though the sectarianism it practices is…

Foreign-backed Syria opposition reelects Jarba as leader

Syria’s main foreign-backed opposition group has reelected Ahmad Jarba as its leader, amid heavy infighting between militant groups in the Arab country. Jarba was re-elected as the head of the so-called Syrian National Coalition (SNC) during a meeting in the Turkish city of Istanbul on Sunday. Jarba was first elected to head the coalition in…