How Wahhabist is Saudi Arabia? The house of Saud is a bulwark against Shi'a Iran and its extremism. The west (i.e the Pentagon) ignores Saudi aspirations at its peril, do they want a Houthi led Gulf region?

Islamic State are beginning to see that by taking Damascus they can win a war of territiory. Now plod in Britain are afraid something wonderful, within a couple of months Westminster and Whitehall will face a far graver threat than some half arsed home grown plots ( Read more... )

Police stations burn in Tripoli and the world turns its gaze to the Gadaffi regime. Quotes such as "Fight to the last man, the last bullet" are heard. (By the way, not original, it was uttered by Hitler in 1943). Gadaffi blames it all on secessionists in the eastern provinces. The sturm und drang of Arab politics reaches beyond the Maghreb - Jordan ( Read more... )

The usually dull Daily Telegraph had an article on "Spy systems for airlines to tackle terrorism", for which read "Let us have a go at the Muslims again". We are told that "Passengers entering the lavatory together will be tracked". One envisages the demise of such venerable institutions as the "Mile High Club". The extra cost of spying equipment ( Read more... )

What is the most radical Islamic site on the web? How does one define "fundamentalism" in Islam? Surely that equates with evangelicalism in Christianity ( Read more... )

Dear Mr Fisk, The cartoonist who mocked the Prophet Mohammad (QSSSL) was Danish, not Dutch. The Danes have a policy of tolerance, that is why idiots from Coventry and elsewhere settle there. As for Bush and his belief in Gog and Magog, well, as mentioned before Gog was based on Gyges, a historical figure. Is it lunatic to have credence in Jesus, ( Read more... )

At least Mr Hari will be happy. When Dubai catches a cold, Britain starts to sneeze, for who, after all had heard of Iceland before dubious double your money council schemes? Yet now it seems that the U.A.E are facing turmoil. How much clout does the London stock exchange have these days? Is the smart money flowing to Frankfurt? A mono-economy that ( Read more... )

Shlomo Sand may not know who "the Jews" are but their detractors certainly do. "How the Jewish people was invented" is causing quite a stir. Were the Khazars proto-Ashkenazim as claimed? Indeed Wexler addressed a related issue with "Non Jewish origins of the Sephardim". Where does the truth lie? With Sol Nazerman in "The Pawnbroker" telling a ( Read more... )

From Bengal with it's history of radicalism to Kerala, from the palaces of Rajastan to the foothills of the Himalayas India is undergoing change. This can be seen from the testimony of a pal of mine in "Amnesty International" who worked in a hospital in India this summer. My all too brief visit was in 1965, to a nation mired in poverty. Hi-tech ( Read more... )

I was not at Southall that day but I knew men who were. The member of the S.P.G responsible for Blair Peach's death left the country and moved to Corfu where he subsequently ran a bar/pub. Number #3 in the series "Is Britain a de facto police state?" The answer is Yes. If one can get away with murder. Usually I would not have posted two blogs like ( Read more... )