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Towards another disaster By Aso Karim The Kurdish Globe Thursday, 04 December 2008, 02:04 EST Since the Iraqi State has been established under the hands of the English, only the Kurds asked for power-sharing, decentralization, and autonomy, and are now insisting on federalism, democracy, and accordance. The Arab elite see those demands of the Kurds as separatist and rebellion. In short, Kurds were the makers of change in Iraq, but they couldn't find a large front of change around themselves that can accept part of those demands. As a result they have faced big disasters. [...] ...of the governing [Arab]...

'Chemical Ali' sentenced Ali Hassan al-Majid, a cousin of Saddam's who is known as Chemical Ali, was sentenced to death for a second time Tuesday for his part in crushing a Shiite uprising in 1991. Mohammed Oraibi al-Khalifa, a judge for the Iraqi High Tribunal, sentenced Majid and other senior figures from Saddam's government. Among them were Abdelghani Abdul Ghafor al-Ani, who headed Saddam's Baath Party in southern Iraq at the time of the uprising and who also received a death sentence Tuesday. The former defense minister, Sultan Hashim Ahmad al-Tai, received a 15-year prison sentence. Majid already faces a...

Arabism - Violence Arabism & Violence: Dictatorship, Oppression, War, Terrorism The front runners of Pan-Arabism, brutal tyrants and waged large scale wars, such as Egypt's Nasser [168], Saddam Hussein [169], Syria's Assad (on Lebanon [170] [171] [172] and on it's own people [173] [174] including the Hama massacre [175] [176] and the dictator in Sudan Al Bashir [177] [178].The linkage to terrorProtecting terrorism, Pan-Arabism: the inhuman progenitor of Islamic Terrorism [179]. "Terror was used by the Arabs against the Jews in the Land of Israel since the dawn of Zionism." [180].An Arabist group called Jamiat-e Dawa el al Qurani Wasouna....

Terrorism: Pan-Arabism and Islam prompting evil. July 17, 2001. A reader´s review on "Culture and Imperialism" (by E. Said) Extracts: [Before E. Said can legitimately condemn Western "domination" of other cultures, he ought to thoroughly examine the ills inflicted by Pan-Arabism and Islam on non-Arabs and non-Muslims throughout the Middle East and world. As mentioned by others, Arabs have subjugated--or all but eliminated--Egypt's Coptic Christians, Algeria and Morocco's Berbers, Sudan's southern Christians, Lebanese Christians and Iraqi Kurds. Then there are the Turkish Armenians. Sudan's Arab government actively pursues genocide and enslavement of Southern Sudan's Black Christians. Meanwhile, the Taliban have...

racial discrimination in the Arab world ... Yemeni paper Al-Tagheer ...the paper had space to tackle another serious social ill in Yemeni society: racial discrimination. The celebrated Yemeni poet Ali Al-Maquarri warned that Yemen's blacks, pejoratively called Al-Akhdam (servants), are ill- treated and suffer a fate far worse than slavery and that they have to contend with systematic racial discrimination. His novel "Black tastes, black odours", was received with much critical acclaim in his native Yemen and elsewhere in the Arab world. Al-Maquarri's views, the paper said, will hopefully prompt others -- media workers, writers and human rights activists --...

Slavery & Arabism It was 'Pan-Arabism' who authorized the enslavement of African Muslims in Saudi Arabia and other Arab states [149]. In Darfur, says an Arab human-rights activist: The chief culprit in this particular case seems to be pan-Arabism, the fascist movement that rose to power half a century ago through military coups [150]. In her book, Kola Boof wrote about slavery and Arabism in Sudan [151], The Anti Slavery Society found that: there is an ingrained psychology of racism or Arabism which deems the Dinka inferior [152]. Persian Ahreeman X wrote about: the High Price that his ancestors paid...

More on racist Arabism (books, part 2) The Future of Kurdistan in Iraq - Page 304by Brendan O'Leary, John McGarry, Khaled Salih - 2006 - 355 pagesAnd, if it were ever to become unified, it would be under an Arabist program,with a racist agenda for Kurds and an Islamist one for non-Muslims and Muslims ...http://books.google.com/books?id=8rnsO3QzVacC&pg=PA304 Darfur: The Ambiguous Genocidede Gérard Prunier - 2005situation in Darfur a "genocide" in September 2004. Its characteristics-Arabism, Islamism, famine as a weapon of war, mass rape, international obfuscation, and a refusal to look evil squarely in the face-reflect many of the problems of the...

The Middle East - Page 89 by Library Information and Research Service - Middle East - 1999 After Sayyid Jamal, in Arabic countries and especially in Egypt, many individuals were found who, by leaning on racism, Arabism and pan-Arabism, ...http://books.google.com/books?id=Ma1tAAAAMAAJ&q=arabismA New Road for France - Page 30 by Jacques Soustelle, Benjamin Protter - Political Science - 1965 - 278 pagesIsrael and French Algeria were... two barriers against which the totalitarian wave.. embodied by Nasser... a dictatorial pseudo-state type was created in Algeria, firmly tied to a single party, dominated by the racist ideology of a Nasser-type pan-Arabism and by the...

[Pan-Arabism = tyranny - racism] Eritrea Slams... IGAD as Tool of Anti-African Policies Oct 28, 2008 ... IGAD member states include a bunch of derelict or failed states that consist in the epitome of malfunction, ferocity and malignancy. With Eritrea having wisely suspended its participation in this nest of snakes in 2007, IGAD represents the illegal interests of the undemocratic and terrorist governments of Abyssinia, Sudan, Djibouti, Somalia, Kenya and Uganda. The six (6) countries´ names are the most loathed (by the inhabitants of the respective countries) country names throughout the globe. In fact, Abyssinia, Sudan, Djibouti, Somalia, Kenya and...

More on the latest 'Pan-Arabism' 'Arab racism' campaign against Israel, masquerading as "anti racism" Center Field: What the Global Forum must do Jerusalem Post, Israel - Feb 12, 2008 By GIL TROY While March is supposed to come in like a lion and go out like a lamb, in Jewish terms, this February has come in with a big lie and, hopefully, ...http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1202742139669&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull" id="r-0_1132132401 UN Perfidy Knows No Bounds Jewish Press, NY - 20 hours ago That the UN is hostile to Israel hardly comes as a surprise. The perfidy that permeates the house over which Kurt Waldheim once presided...

Derived from both diabolical motives: Arab Racism & Islamic Apartheid Leading government cleric, author of country's religious curriculum: Saudi Sheik: 'Slavery is a part of Islam'http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=35518 Islam's Black slaveshttp://www.salon.com/books/int/2001/04/05/segal/ Libya, Slaveryhttp://www.mathaba.net/sudan/comment.htm Who was the real Slave Master?http://answering-islam.org.uk/Bailey/real_slave_master.html Arabs and Slave Tradehttp://www.answering-islam.org/ReachOut/slavetrade Goverment Sponsored Genocide in Sudanhttp://www.religioustolerance.org/geno_su.htm Slavery in Sudanhttp://members.aol.com/casmasalc/newpage8.htm Slavery in Sudan - hamlinehttp://www.hamline.edu/cla/academics/global_studies/Slavery_2004/Sudan.html Slavery in Mauritaniahttp://members.aol.com/casmasalc/mauritan.htm Slave Girls and Their Rights in Islamhttp://www.faithfreedom.org/Articles/SStephan/slavegirls.htm Darfur slaughter rooted in Arab-African slaveryhttp://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2001970382_slavery02.html Islam, Racism, Slavery...http://www.geocities.com/hammihanirani/islam.html ARAB MASTERS-BLACK SLAVEShttp://www.raceandhistory.com/historicalviews/2252001.htm Islamic Slaveryhttp://www.faithfreedom.org/Articles/SStephan/islamic_slavery.htm BBC NEWS | World | Africa | Probe of Darfur 'slavery' startshttp://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/6468097.stm Slave Trade Thrives in Sudanhttp://www.domini.org/openbook/sud80210.htm Saudi UAE ARE SLAVERY: ALL ARAB...

Arabism Equals Racismhttp://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=24912The Kurdish people in Syria has been subjected to racist Arabist policies ... social backwardness and the repression of non-Arab nations and minorities http://home.cogeco.ca/~dbonni1/18-3-03-opinion-kamal-miraddeli.htmlHanging Saddam: New Middle East’s Aurora America’s lethal enemy: Pan-Arabism br>A free Iraqi, free of the mental pestilence of Pan-Arabism. He was free of any criminal intimidation expressed by any criminal bogus-ambassador of a Pan-Arabist tyranny! And the verdict was a victory for the long tyrannized peoples of that land... - http://www.theconservativevoice.com/article/20525.htmlArabism at its Most Ugly http://beirut2bayside.blogspot.com/2004/07/arabism-at-its-most-ugly_23.html“Eurabia” Defined Arab and Islamic anti-Israeli propaganda, barely disguised in academic and ... and geopolitics of Euro-Arabism; in this...

Speech of President Bashar al-Assad at Journalists Union 4th ConferenceTuesday, August 15, 2006 - 12:15 PM The speech of President Bashar al-Assad at the 4th General Conference of the Journalists UnionAl-Umawyeen Conference Palace, DamascusAugust 15, 2006Ladies and gentlemen members of the fourth general conference of the Journalists Union,Ladies and gentlemen,It gives me pleasure to meet you at the opening of the proceedings of your 4th conference and to express my appreciation to you and through you to the honest and honorable journalists who have been fighting a media battle no less ferocious and dangerous than the battles fought by...

Ever since Saddam Hussain was found in a hole near Tikrit seven months ago, pan-Arab circles have been abuzz with speculation as to what he might do in his trial. For years, pan-Arabism has been looking for a saviour. The fallen despot was supposed to play that role. Last week, however, Saddam seemed to have blown his chances of becoming the new hero of pan-Arabism. In his arraignment he had 30 minutes, twice longer than Andy Warhol's proverbial period of fame, in which to market the new persona dreamed of by Arab nostalgics, including the 1500 lawyers who have volunteered...

Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad gave a wide-ranging interview at his home, "The People's Palace" in Damascus, to Ghassan bin Jiddou of Al-Jazeera. The date of the interview was not disclosed, but it took place prior to the April 27, 2004 reported terror attack in Damascus. The interview covered numerous topics, including inter-Arab relations, Iraq, terrorism, Syrian-U.S. and Syrian-European relations, the Syrian influence in Lebanon, and Israel and the Palestinians. The following are extensive excerpts from the interview: [1] Developments in Iraq "The Americans will sink into a quagmire. All the occupation forces, not only the Americans. The Iraqis will pay...

The war on Iraq was probably the final test case for the allegiance of the Arab masses towards the idea of Arab nationalism (pan Arabism). Arab nationalism gained prominence during the reign of Jamal Abdul Nasser in Egypt during the 1950s. In 1958, Egypt formed the Untied Arab Republic with Syria and North Yemen, which was an attempt to kick-start the process of unification in the entire Arab world. However, the experiment collapsed shortly after in 1961, subsequently the ideology of Nasser began to wane rapidly. The defeat in the 1967 war against Israel sealed its fate permanently. The other...

Pan-Arabism, dead in Baghdad’s streets It is now likely that a United Nations force will join Spanish and Polish troops to take some of the responsibility for policing Iraq from the workhorses of the “coalition of the willing” ­ Britain and the United States. After more than four months of liberation duty, British and American troops need some relief from the day-to-day grind. In the midst of all of this, the choice made by many Arab countries to not participate in the US-led invasion still frustrates, particularly in light of the quick end to the conflict. The political decision taken...

As Iraq's political parties and groups continue their wrangling over a new constitution, a consensus seems to be taking shape on at least one issue: the future Iraqi state should not be described as "Arab." As Iraq's political parties and groups continue their wrangling over a new constitution, a consensus seems to be taking shape on at least one issue: the future Iraqi state should not be described as "Arab." Some participants also want Iraq to withdraw from the Arab League and to contemplate broader alliances in the region and beyond. The idea of dropping Iraq's Arabism is backed by...

George Walden reviews Terror and Liberalism by Paul Berman This is the best book I have read on Muslim fundamentalism and what to do about it. Paul Berman writes in the excellent American weekly The New Republic. His self-description as a Social Democrat suggests a European approach to the Middle East, yet his intelligence, breadth of culture, honesty and courage are a world away from the moralistic grandstanding of slithy toves like Chris Patten, Dominique de Villepin and Joschka Fischer. The clarity of his thought cuts through their evasions like a knife through butter, as Berman looks the evil of...

The Middle East's lack of democracy was demonstrated by the way Bashar al-Assad was anointed the new president of Syria, a position he assumed upon the death of Hafez al-Assad on June 10, 2000. Syria today is just another Middle East monarchy with the outward trappings of being a representative government. In fact, Syria is the al-Assad family business. As the war in Iraq plays out to its inevitable conclusion, Syria has been warned by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to stop providing aid across its borders. "The logical thing," Bashar told the pro-Syrian daily, Al-Safir, published in Lebanon, "is to...