Arabist: The Islamic State through the looking-glass

The Islamic State through the looking-glass Arabist.net from friends of Peter Harling and Sarah Birke EXTRACT All in all, the Islamic State has prompted a response that combines all the ingredients necessary to make it stronger: Western over-the-horizon military intervention; a regional arms race as a variety of countries rush to provide money and weapons …

Mini-Me: Media Failure on Charlie Hebdo — USG & SA Created Islamic Fundamentalist Movement

Huh? The Spectacular Media Failure on Charlie Hebdo Shamus Cooke CounterPunch, 14 January 2015 The U.S.-backed Afghan jihad was the birth of the modern Islamic fundamentalist movement. The jihad attracted and helped organize fundamentalists across the region, as U.S. allies in the Gulf state dictatorships used the state religion to promote it.  Fighters who traveled …

Pierre Cloutier: France, Islam, Violence

Attack against Charlie Hebdo Lone wolves wolves to solidarity A long time ago that I monitor what is happening in France, where there are now about 5 million Muslims. A long time ago I said that there is in France a serious risk of civil war. Read full article (originally in French).

Nafeez Ahmed: How the West Created the Islamic State (ISIS) — Jordan Hosts the Command Center — Chalabi and NeoCons Ride Again…

How the West Created the Islamic State Follow the Money, Follow the Oil Nafeez Ahmed Counter-Punch, 12-14 September 2014 EXTRACTS Missing from the chorus of outrage, however, has been any acknowledgement of the integral role of covert US and British regional military intelligence strategy in empowering and even directly sponsoring the very same virulent Islamist …