Voices without Votes

The Next American President: What Should the Maghreb Expect

Aggregated from: North Africa Weblog

With a new tenant in the White House, the American policy toward the Maghreb is likely to undergo some important retooling in 2009. The magnitude of the changes is unclear as the new American administration will probably view the region through old and new lenses. John McCain, despite his Republi...

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What About Obama's Race? The Turkish (and Other) Perception of Obama

Posted by Jillian York · 1:44 pm · Algeria · Turkey · U.S.A.

On June 6, 2008, Michael Rubin, a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, wrote an opinion piece for the Wall Street Journal in which he referred to Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan as "Turkey's Putin" and a dictator. The piece, re-posted on the Middle East Forum, refers to ... 0 comments · read »

Algeria,
Israel,
Turkey

Turkey, anti-Americanism and Obama

Aggregated from: The Moor Next Door

Michael Rubin’s WSJ op-ed on why the US should support the removal of Turkish PM Tayyip Erdogan is bothersome. Having followed Turkey for the last two years somewhat closely (I make a conscious effort to listen to Turks in Boston and to look at Turkish newspapers and websites in my daily rotation ...

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Algeria,
Iran

Three

Aggregated from: The Moor Next Door

You will develop newfound sympathy for your predecessors in the Bush administration. There are a hundred things they could have done differently, but the primary fault for the failure to contain Iran does not lie in Washington. It lies first with the feckless international community. The ...

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Algeria

Reactions to Obama’s nomination

Aggregated from: The Moor Next Door

After talking with various people and looking over several reactions to Barack Obama’s realization of the Democratic presidential nomination (as well as Mrs. Clinton’s shamelessly arrogant speech), I have decided to post a few of the ones I agree with or find interesting, along with some older s...

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Obamanation: The World Rejoices at Obama's Nomination

Posted by Jillian York · 2:03 pm · Algeria · Canada · Morocco · New Zealand · Puerto Rico (U.S.) · South Africa

A cursory glance at the foreign blogosphere would seem to indicate that Senator Barack Obama is the favored candidate abroad. Today's rejoicing in the blogosphere over securing the Democratic Party's ticket in the race to the White House only serves to back up that hypothesis, with bloggers celebrating Obama's potential nomination. 0 comments · read »

Algeria,
Zimbabwe

Dredful comments from a dredful woman

Aggregated from: The Moor Next Door

A reason to take Hillary Clinton less seriously: Desperate to get attention for her cause to seat Florida and Michigan delegates, Hillary Clinton compared the plight of Zimbabweans in their recent fraudulent election to the uncounted votes of Michigan and Florida voters saying it is wrong whe...

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Global: Obama An Apostate?

Posted by Jillian York · 9:57 pm · Algeria · Israel · Mexico

On May 12, the New York Times published an op-ed by one Edward N. Luttwak from Chevy Chase, Maryland entitled “President Apostate?” Luttwak's op-ed piece details Obama's relationship with Islam (his father, born Muslim, renounced the religion, and Obama became a Christian early in life) and the effects that it could have on global politics and the United States' relations with predominantly Muslim countries. 3 comments · read »

Algeria

Such nonsense

Aggregated from: The Moor Next Door

Ali Eteraz provides a great rebuttal to Edward Luttwak’s absolutely moronic op-ed in the NYT .* Why are there practically no Muslims who are worried about Senator Obama’s alleged apostasy? Because he isn’t an apostate, because he was never a Muslim. And the reason that Luttwak’s piece contai...

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Algeria

On Islamic Terrorism

Aggregated from: The Moor Next Door

A coalition of American Muslim groups is demanding that Sen. John McCain stop using the adjective “Islamic” to describe terrorists and extremist enemies of the United States. Muneer Fareed, who heads the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), told The Washington Times that his g...

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