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Two Egyptian journalists, critical of Mursi, face trial - Alarabiya.net English | Front Page
http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2013/05/20/Two-Egyptian-journalists-critical-of-Mursi-face-trial.html

wo Egyptian journalists at a newspaper critical of President Mohamed Mursi were ordered on Sunday to face an expedited criminal trial for defamation.

Several journalists, talk show hosts and comedians have been charged with defamation over the last few months and activists accuse the government of using the courts to target its liberal and secular opponents.

Public Prosecutor Talaat Ibrahim - appointed by Mursi last November - ordered the trial for Magdy el-Gilad, editor in chief of el-Watan newspaper, and Alaa el-Ghatrify, its managing editor, state newspaper Al-Ahram reported.

El-Watan is fiercely critical of Mursi and the Muslim Brotherhood, the Islamist movement that dominates the post-Hosni Mubarak Egypt.

Secularists and liberals have denounced what they call a “Brotherhoodization” of the judiciary. Mursi has said he respects the independence of the legal system and denies using the courts to suppress dissent in the media.

Earlier this month, el-Galad was charged by the prosecutor with “publishing false news that aims to disturb public peace and stir panic” after el-Watan printed the names of people that it said Islamist militants planned to assassinate.

The latest charges were for defaming the director of a local public opinion research center.

It was not clear how Sunday’s order would affect the earlier charges, but a judicial source told Reuters that a date for the trial on the earlier charges had not yet been set.

Egypt Ideology Devolves Into Anarchy Amid Vendettas

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-05-14/anarchists-fight-islamists-as-egypt-drifts-into-violence.html

“The inherent risk is that the state is eroding and the alternatives that are emerging are steeped in conflict and chaos,” said Ashraf el-Sherif, a political science lecturer at the American University in Cairo. “Part of the agenda of some of these groups is to deter other political groups, so the possibility of a confrontation becomes real.”

Israel confirms Syria strike, says hit Hezbollah-bound missiles | News , Middle East | THE DAILY STAR
http://dailystar.com.lb/News/Middle-East/2013/May-04/215993-israel-suspected-of-launching-airstrike-into-syria-cnn.ashx#axz

Israel has carried out an air strike into Syria, targeting a shipment of missiles bound for Hezbollah in neighbouring Lebanon, an Israeli official said on Saturday.

Albanian Islamists Join Syrian War - Al-Monitor: the Pulse of the Middle East
http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/security/2013/04/albanian-kosovo-islamists-join-syria-war.html

Albanian Islamists Join Syrian War
This coincided with the growth of political Islam, which in the past few weeks expressed itself in an unprecedented way with the emergence of Kosovo’s first officially registered Islamist political party: the Islamic Movement to Unite (LISBA). It is headed by Arsim Krasniqi and supported by Sheikh Shaukat Krasniqi and a former Yugoslavian army officer, Fuad Ramiqi. The latter made no secret of his goal to change Kosovo’s secular constitution in order to “defend the Islamic identity of Kosovo’s Albanians, who make up 95% of the population.”
There has long been behind-the-scenes talk that young Albanians, influenced by political Islam’s rise in Syria, are participating in the fighting there among the ranks of Islamist groups (Jabhat al-Nusra and others). When news emerged in November 2012 that the first Albanian martyr, Naaman Damoli, had fallen in Syria, the Kosovar newspaper Koha Ditore brought that issue to light in its Nov. 12, 2012, issue.

Pentagon deploys small number of troops to war-torn Mali - The Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/pentagon-deploys-small-number-of-troops-to-war-torn-mali/2013/04/30/2b02c928-b1a0-11e2-bc39-65b0a67147df_story.html

The Pentagon has deployed a small number of troops to Mali to support allied forces fighting there, despite repeated pledges by the Obama administration not to put “boots on the ground” in the war-torn African country.

Un rappel de ce que valent les « promesses répétées » d’un politicien étasunien.

#Mali

Egyptians ‘would love’ to be in a union with Israel : Islamist MP

http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2013/04/12/Egyptians-would-love-to-be-in-a-union-which-includes-Israel-Islam

Est-ce le seul à avoir se point de vue ? Est-ce possible ? A suivre.

Despite U.S. concerns, little prevents Islamists from joining Syria fight| McClatchy
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2013/04/08/187983/despite-us-concerns-little-prevents.html#storylink=omni_popular

L’administration Obama peut bien exprimer verbalement ses préoccupations sur les extrémistes islamistes qui combattent en Syrie, mais ni les autorités américaines ni les alliés régionaux n’ont pris de mesures importantes pour endiguer le flot des djihadistes dans les rangs des rebelles.

Les corridors de passage des djihadistes - principalement via la Turquie, mais aussi par la Jordanie et l’Irak - sont un secret de polichinelle, d’après les entretiens ce mois-ci avec des combattants et des témoins, ainsi que des analystes qui ont suivi de près le soulèvement de deux ans contre le régime du président Bachar el-Assad.

Il serait difficile pour les agents de renseignement turcs et occidentaux de ne pas repérer les combattants étrangers - ils demeurent dans des maisons sûres, recrutent ouvertement des camarades et se singularisent souvent par un accoutrement et des habitudes distinctives - et pourtant il n’y a eu aucun effort manifeste pour réprimer leur présence dans les villes frontalières.

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McClatchy n’a pu trouver la moindre mention publique faisant état d’une arrestation de djihadiste présumé par les autorités à la frontière turque ou tout autre signe prouvant que les Etats-Unis faisaient pression sur la Turquie afin qu’elle se montre plus vigilante aux lieux de passage ....

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« C’est un peu comme Lincoln s’exprimant sur Grant : Je n’en ai rien à faire si c’est un buveur, il se bat », a déclaré un ancien responsable du gouvernement américain avec une vaste expérience du Moyen-Orient,...

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Hamas law promotes gender segregation in Gaza schools | Reuters

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/04/01/us-palestinians-hamas-schools-idUSBRE93009920130401

(Reuters) - New rules from the Education Ministry of the Islamist Hamas movement ruling the Gaza Strip will bar men from teaching at girls’ schools and mandate separate classes for boys and girls from the age of nine.

The law, published on Monday, would go into effect next school year and applies throughout the coastal enclave, including in private, Christian-led and United Nations schools.

#palestine #education #gaza

Rival Islamists loom large over Syria | News , Middle East | THE DAILY STAR
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Middle-East/2013/Mar-19/210649-rival-islamists-loom-large-over-syria.ashx#axzz2O5NOvvxX

There are now an estimated 80,000 Syrian Islamist fighters engaged in battle, as well as approximately 18,000 foreign Islamist militiamen, according to sources. This includes some 2,000 fighters who are members of the Uighur ethnic group, a Muslim minority of Turkic heritage who live mostly in China.

The Nusra Front, along with several other Islamist groups, have designs on turning post-revolution Syria into an Islamic caliphate.

Bulgaria will not take lead in blacklisting Hezbollah, says PM

La Bulgarie fait-elle marche arrière?

Haaretz Daily Newspaper

http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/bulgaria-will-not-take-lead-in-blacklisting-hezbollah-says-pm-1.509874

Bulgaria’s new interim prime minister said on Saturday he would not initiate any move to impose EU sanctions on the Islamist group Hezbollah, even though the country had implicated the Islamist movement in a bombing at a Black Sea resort.

#Liban

A Chat With A Radical Fighter In Syria : The Two-Way : NPR
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/03/09/173732210/A-Chat-With-A-Radical-Fighter-In-Syria

NPR: What did you do before you came to Syria?

BH: I was a teacher of Quran and a sharia [Islamic law] student, fourth year in Benghazi, Libya. [During the uprising against Moammar Gadhafi], I was fighting in Sirte.

NPR: What is the goal of Jabhat al-Nusra in Syria?

BH: There are orders from the general command of the group that it is not allowed to conduct suicide operations inside residential neighborhoods.

NPR: Will women be required to wear hijab [if the current regime is ousted]?

BH: Let me explain it this way. If I gave someone two lollipops ... one is covered and the other is not. Where will the germs and the bacteria go? To the uncovered one. And the same with the woman; if she is uncovered, the rotten one, who will the men chase? While if the woman is covered, even the most beautiful one, they will not chase her.

NPR: That brings us to the wider question of an Islamic state, and what does that mean for the non-Muslims?

BH: Preserving the Muslim society, that is the general rule. Prevention is the best treatment. What makes people commit sin is viewing porn films, listening to songs that provoke desire.

Exclusive: Secret war on enemy within - British terror suspects quietly stripped of citizenship… then killed by drones
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/exclusive-secret-war-on-enemy-within--british-terror-suspects-quietly

The Government has secretly ramped up a controversial programme that strips people of their British citizenship on national security grounds – with two of the men subsequently killed by American drone attacks.

Debating atheism in the heart of Cairo

Le journaliste Mohamed Abdelfattah avait live-tweeté le débat, voici son article.

In a country where individual liberty is shackled by societal norms more than it is contained by a state apparatus, being able to express contrary values in public says a lot about the level we’ve reached in Egypt today. What we are seeing is a public sphere that has been empowered like never before, gatherings that are free of the constant threat of a State Security officer arriving to shut things down. Young Egyptians own their space, and they are steadily utilizing it for their own progressive agenda.

►http://www.worldaffairsjournal.org/blog/kristin-deasy/debating-atheism-heart-cairo

Al-Nusra Front : Seeking a Lebanese Base in Ain al-Hilweh
http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/al-nusra-front-seeking-lebanese-base-ain-al-helweh

The presence of the notorious al-Nusra Front is no longer exclusive to Syria. In the southern Lebanese city of Saida, a group of Islamist factions based out of the Ain al-Hilweh Palestinian refugee camp are unifying in the hope of forming a Lebanese version of the Front.

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Once announced, this new unified front will be an extension of al-Nusra in Syria. Lebanese territories will become “the land of salvation” for its “jihadis” who will be trained in Ain al-Hilweh to fight in Syria. Of course, the front will not be limited to Ain al-Hilweh. Other sources indicate that there is interest in creating another branch in the Burj al-Barajneh Palestinian camp in Dahiyeh, or Beirut’s southern suburbs. Palestinian sources indicate that the reason for the Burj al-Barajneh headquarters is its proximity to the airport road.

Ce qui promet une nouvelle et horrible guerre des camps palestiniens au Liban.

Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) - Council on Foreign Relations

Un petit résumé de ce que fait Al-Qaida au maghreb

http://www.cfr.org/north-africa/al-qaeda-islamic-maghreb-aqim/p12717?cid=nlc-public-the_world_this_week-link15-20130125

Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) is a Salafi-jihadist militant group and U.S.-designated Foreign Terrorist Organization operating in North Africa’s Sahara and Sahel. The group can trace its provenance back to Algeria’s civil war, and has since become an al-Qaeda affiliate with broader regional and international ambitions. While many experts suggest AQIM is the primary transnational terror threat in North Africa, the risk it poses to Europe and the United States remains unclear.

AQIM’s activities have garnered heightened scrutiny in recent months, particularly after the group, along with other jihadist factions, expanded its foothold in Mali’s vast ungoverned north. In early 2013, a French-led military intervention has, thus far, halted the southward advance of Islamist insurgents, but analysts warn that the operation may fail unless followed up with a robust contingent of African ground forces. Western nations, including the United States, Britain, and Canada have provided some

#aqmi #sahel #maghreb

Black Bloc must die, say Jihad and Jama’a al-Islamiya | anarchistnews dot org
http://anarchistnews.org/content/black-bloc-must-die-say-jihad-and-jamaa-al-islamiya

The Islamist party of the Jihad Organization and Jama’a al-Islamiya has said the ways of dealing with banditry specified in the Quran must be applied to Black Bloc members, which means they must be killed.

“God orders us to kill, crucify or cut off the hands and feet of those who spread mischief on earth,” said Jama’a al-Islamiya Mufti Abdel Akhar Hammad, citing a verse from the Quran. “The president must give that order.”

Mohamed Samra of the Jihad Organization said that the Black Bloc group is financed from abroad and must be killed, and that the National Salvation Front members must be arrested and charged with incitement to riot.

Eastern Congo: The ADF-Nalu’s Lost Rebellion - International Crisis Group

http://www.crisisgroup.org/en/regions/africa/central-africa/dr-congo/b093-eastern-congo-the-adf-nalus-lost-rebellion.aspx

Eastern Congo: The ADF-Nalu’s Lost Rebellion

Africa Briefing N°93 19 Dec 2012

OVERVIEW

The Allied Democratic Forces-National Army for the Liberation of Uganda (Forces démocratiques alliées-Armée nationale de libération de l’Ouganda, ADF-Nalu) is one of the oldest but least known armed groups in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and the only one in the area to be considered an east African Islamist terrorist organisation. Although it does not represent the same destabilising threat as the 23 March Movement (M23), it has managed to fend off the Congolese army since 2010. Created in the DRC in 1995 and located in the mountainous DRC-Uganda border area, this Congolese-Ugandan armed group has shown remarkable resilience because of its geostrategic position, its successful integration into the cross-border economy and corruption in the security forces. Before countenancing any further military intervention against the ADF-Nalu, it would be wise to separate legend from fact and weaken its socio-economic means of support while at the same time offering a demobilisation and reintegration program to its combatants.

Is Boko Haram More Dangerous Than Ever ? | Stratfor

http://www.stratfor.com/weekly/boko-haram-more-dangerous-ever
December 13, 2012

On Nov. 25, Boko Haram, an Islamist militant group from northern Nigeria, attacked a church in Jaji, Kaduna state, using two suicide bombers during the church’s weekly religious service. The first bomb detonated in a vehicle driven into the church, and the second detonated approximately 10 minutes later, when a crowd of first responders gathered at the scene. About 30 people were killed in the attacks; the second blast caused the majority of the deaths. The incident was particularly symbolic because Jaji is the home of Nigeria’s Armed Forces Command and Staff College, and many of the churchgoers were senior military officers.

#nigeria

Les protestations contre les hausses des prix du carburant et du gaz semblent s’épuiser en Jordanie alors que les Frères musulmans s’en tiennent à l’écart
Friday rains fail to extinguish fuel protests | The Jordan Times
http://jordantimes.com/friday-rains-fail-to-extinguish-fuel-protests

The size, frequency and number of protests have dropped over the past three days, with Thursday witnessing two small-scale anti-government rallies.

The government has resisted calls to reverse the decision, insisting that the slashing of the JD800 million in annual subsidies was required to avert a financial crisis.

#énergie #subvention #carburant #Jordanie

La mobilisation pour le rétablissement des subventions sur l’énergie semble rester importante hors d’Amman. La géographie de ces révoltes semble reproduire celle de 1989, 2002, etc. : les régions périphériques, les plus défavorisées, seraient à la pointe des protestations.
Calm prevails throughout Jordan following fuel price riots | The Jordan Times
http://jordantimes.com/calm-prevails-throughout-jordan-following-fuel-price-riots

According to the Public Security Department, the bulk of the clashes occurred in southern Jordan, where leftist and Islamist activists held a series of rallies to denounce the government decision to lift fuel subsidies.

A peaceful rally degenerated into violence in the city of Tafileh, 195 kilometres south of Amman, when anti-riot forces prevented some 200 protesters from marching towards the governorate headquarters, according to the police.

Gendarmerie Forces resorted to tear gas to disperse the protesters after participants began pelting anti-riot forces with stones and attempted to close off the main road into the city with burning tyres, police officials said.

Meanwhile, security forces fired tear gas on some 150 protesters in the city of Karak, 140km south of the capital, after demonstrators attempted to storm the governorate’s headquarters, which was torched in a riot late Thursday.

#Jordanie
#révolte
#énergie
#subventions

Christian Refugees in Lebanon fear Islamist rebels
http://www.channel6newsonline.com/2012/08/christian-refugees-in-lebanon-fear-islamist-rebels

Among those who have fled into neighboring Lebanon are Christians from the town of Qusair, just across the border in war-ravaged Homs province. They say they were tired of threats and public taunts of being “unbelievers” and “dogs of Assad.”

[…]

Mindful of the persecution of Christians and the rise of Islamist extremists in neighboring Iraq after the fall of Saddam Hussein, a secular autocrat like Assad, some Christians here fear that their community will become a similar target, especially as the conflict engulfs Syria’s two major cities, Aleppo and Damascus, each with large Christian populations. The cities were relatively insulated from the rebellion until fierce fighting broke out last month.

Passionnant éditorial de Joseph Massad : Hamas and the old/new American crescent. Il décrit notamment la toute récente compatibilité, promue par le Qatar, d’une partie des islamistes avec les intérêts de l’impérialisme américain (Libye, Tunisie, Égypte, Syrie… et maintenant Palestine). Un article qui permet notamment de comprendre la soudaine défense d’un certain islamisme américano-compatible de la part d’un BHL (« il y a charia et charia »).
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2012/08/20128217513887730.html

The competition is now on as to who will prove to be more effective in serving US interests in Jordan, Fateh or Hamas. As Qatar has been reassuring the Americans, increasingly successfully, that the takeover of political power by Islamist forces, specifically the Muslim Brothers and kindred groups, is the best option for the US to stabilise the region for decades to come without its imperial strategy being threatened, its push to bring Hamas into the fold of US strategy may soon prove successful.

This is in line with Qatar’s support of the Muslim Brothers in Egypt and the Ennahda party in Tunisia, as well as its support of the Muslim Brothers in Syria and assorted Islamist forces in Libya.

Lire l’article complet :
– parce que c’est nettement plus subtile que l’extrait ci-dessus (il interroge notamment les limites de cette compatibilité),
– parce que le passage sur la Jordanie est vraiment édifiant,
– parce que la compatibilité de partis islamistes avec les intérêts réactionnaires et contre-révolutionnaires, et l’impérialisme américain est un sujet vital mais rarement abordé (on préfère continuer à se focaliser sur l’incompatibilité réelle ou fantasmée de l’islamisme avec la démocratie ou avec… « nos valeurs »). L’article de Joseph Massad rend ce genre de débat obsolète et propose une lecture plus pertinente.

Bahraini MPs meet with Syrian Salafis | Al Akhbar English
http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/bahraini-mps-meet-syrian-salafis

Bahrain’s government on Tuesday admitted two of its MPs had visited Syria over the weekend and met with Islamist fighters trying to bring about the downfall of President Bashar al-Assad.

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They posted pictures of their meeting on the Twitter microblogging website, with Murad saying “we held a press conference in(side) Syria with a commander from the Brigade of the Hawks of Sham (Damascus)” - a group known to favor the creation of an Islamic caliphate in Syria.

Radwan Mortada recense les groupes jihadistes qui combattent en Syrie. Article saisissant (surtout pour les « experts » occidentaux qui admettent désormais à peine la présence de « quelques centaines » de jihadistes) : Bilad al-Sham : Jihad’s Newest Hot Spot
http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/bilad-al-sham-jihads-newest-hot-spot

According to jihadi sources, the fighters currently operating in Syria include Jordanians, Iraqis, Palestinians, Kuwaitis, Tunisians, Libyans, Saudis and Yemenis, as well as Muslims from non-Arab countries such as Afghanistan and Pakistan. The biggest single contingent of foreign fighters is said to be composed of Lebanese, Jordanian, Iraqi and Palestinians who had previously fought against US forces in Iraq.

http://anarchistnews.org/content/eyes-south-french-anarchists-and-algeria
It is held in some circles that #anarchism, like Marxism, is a form of thought and praxis that originated in nineteenth-century Europe and as such is inseparably related to this social milieu; interventions and mobilizations taken outside of this geographical-historical intersection, however strongly critical they be of patriarchy, the State, and capital, are in patronizing manner considered not to be anarchist. This raises the question of ethnocentrism among self-identified proponents of anarchist social philosophy—a concern that is not without its historical basis, given that even the Spanish anarchists of the CNT and the FAI refused seriously to consider emancipating Spain’s colonies in Morocco as part of the radical socio-political program it would counterpose to feudalism and capitalism in the Iberian peninsula.1 These glaring trends are ones that anarchist academic David Porter confronts and challenges strongly with his Eyes to the South: French #Anarchists and #Algeria, an extensive work that examines the various dramas of modern Algerian history and the engagement by French anarchist observers of this. In broad terms, it can be said that Porter in this work seeks to advance a mutual enrichment between established Western anarchist perspectives with the effectively anarchist practices seen in the Algerian context after the military defeat of Nazism in Europe, in addition to challenging the reactionary tendency of residents and workers of core Western societies to identify with the colonial projects promoted by their ruling classes as well as showing the potential of anarchism’s relevance to the lives of the social majorities of the world—following in the example of the CNT-FAI in Spain.
[If we are lucky we will win 1936 all over again]