Monthly Archives: September 2013

Obama’s Learning Curve Meets Bibi’s Red Line

By | 2013-09-22T11:53:17-04:00 September 22nd, 2013|Reports|

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has postponed the date of his upcoming speech in the United Nations General Assembly from September 30 to October 1, so that he can meet with US President Barack Obama in the White House.   Maariv reports that the rescheduling took place because September 30 is the only day on which

Bangladesh: Senior Islamist Sentenced to Hang

By | 2013-09-22T00:51:27-04:00 September 22nd, 2013|News|

In a controversial ruling that is bound to anger Bangladeshi Islamists, the country's Supreme Court has sentenced a    leading Islamist figure to death by hanging, for crimes he committed during the Bangladesh's struggle for    independence against Pakistan.   65 year-old Abdul Quader Molla is the fourth-highest leader of the Islamist Jamaat-e-Islami party and

Somalia’s al-Shabaab claims responsibility for Nairobi mall attack

By | 2013-09-21T20:43:05-04:00 September 21st, 2013|News|

Somali al-Qaeda-affiliated militant group al-Shabaab have claimed responsibility for an attack on a shopping mall in Nairobi on Saturday that killed 30 people, saying on Twitter that it was in retaliation for Kenya’s military intervention in Somalia. “The Mujahideen entered #Westgate Mall today at around noon and are still inside the mall, fighting the #Kenyan

Tunisia women ministry to fight ‘sex jihad’ trips to Syria

By | 2013-09-21T20:19:12-04:00 September 21st, 2013|News|

  Tunisia's women's ministry said Saturday it would come up with a plan to counter the growing number of women travelling to Syria to wage so-called "sex jihad" by comforting militants.   "The ministry intends to boost its cooperation with both government and non-government bodies on this issue to come up with appropriate ways to

An Iranian Expatriate’s Message to Obama

By | 2013-09-21T10:50:36-04:00 September 21st, 2013|Op-Eds|

Mr. President, the terrible fix you find yourself in is the predictable result of your own making. You showed vacillation and weakness at every turn. And the thugs are watching.   The civilized world witnessed in revulsion the graphic images, which emerged showing the aftermath of a dawn poison gas attack in the suburbs of

Tunisian girls return home pregnant after ‘sexual jihad’ in Syria

By | 2013-09-21T10:32:50-04:00 September 21st, 2013|Islam|

  A number of Tunisian girls who had travelled to Syria to perform “sexual jihad” there have returned back home pregnant, Tunisian Interior Minister Lotfi Bin Jeddo said on Thursday.   The Tunisian girls “are (sexually) swapped between 20, 30, and 100 rebels and they come back bearing the fruit of sexual contacts in the

The Syrian Free Army is Signing Its Own Death Warrant

By | 2013-09-20T19:26:42-04:00 September 20th, 2013|Op-Eds|

The Syrian Free Army is acting predictably - albeit suicidally - if one remembers who they really are. As far as Israel is concerned, both sides in the Syrian conflict are a disaster.    The swift agreement between Russia and America to collect and destroy Syria's chemical weapons has been an impressive diplomatic achievement -

Sobering times for Turkish winemakers as new law takes effect

By | 2013-09-20T19:04:43-04:00 September 20th, 2013|Islam|

  Blasted by winds whipped up on the Aegean Sea, the Turkish island of Bozcaada sits close to the ancient city of Troy and has been known since the time of Helen and Paris for one thing: wine.   But that may be all about to change.    In early September in Bozcaada, another grape