Palestinians Are Facing Their Worst Fears About America
No help is coming.
▻https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2017/12/for-palestinians-theres-only-one-road-left/547832
Palestinians Are Facing Their Worst Fears About America
No help is coming.
▻https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2017/12/for-palestinians-theres-only-one-road-left/547832
The Dangerous Myths About Sufi Muslims - The Atlantic
▻https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2017/11/airbrushing-sufi-muslims-out-of-modern-islam/546794
That’s not to say that all those who self-describe as “Salafi” claim that Sufism ought to be met with violence. But many, if not most, deny its centrality within Sunni Islam. Certainly the vast majority of the Saudi religious establishment espouses that kind of belief, which is a massive challenge that the crown prince will have to tackle if he’s serious about his promise to spread “moderate” Islam.
The birth of the purist Salafi movement (which many pejoratively describe as “Wahhabism”) saw preachers inspired by the message of 18th-century figure Muhammad bin Abdul Wahhab attacking Sufism writ large in an unprecedented way. While presenting themselves as the orthodox, these types of purist Salafis were actually engaging in a heterodox approach. Many of these figures had to ignore or rewrite large chunks of Islamic history in order to present Sufism and Sufis as beyond the pale.
Ahmad bin Taymiyya, a commonly quoted authority for Salafis, for example, was reportedly a member of the Sufi order of Abdal Qadir al-Jilani. The Sufi affiliations of many medieval authorities have been airbrushed from history in several modern editions of their texts published by Salafi printing houses. Yet, there were virtually no prominent Muslim figures who cast aside Sufism in Islamic history. When followers of ibn Abdul Wahhab attempted to do so by describing Sufis as outside the faith, they were themselves decried by the overwhelming majority of Sunni Islamic scholarship as indulging in a type of heterodoxy because of their intolerance and revisionism.
While some who portray Sufis as heterodox do so with malicious intent, many fans of Sufism in the West seem to agree that Sufis are heterodox—it’s just a type of heterodoxy that they prefer to the normative mainstream of Islamic thought, which they seem to think is different from Sufism. Ironically, the well-meaning nature of this misinformed perspective echoes the fallacy that extremists promote.
Al Jazeera Is At the Center of the Qatar Crisis
▻https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2017/06/al-jazeera-qatar-saudi-arabia-muslim-brotherhood/531471
The climate changed in the summer of 2013, after the Egyptian army overthrew Mohamed Morsi, the elected Muslim Brotherhood president. On August 14, as security forces were brutally clearing a pro-Morsi sit-in, an Al Jazeera English presenter asked a Brotherhood spokesperson a valid question: why were women and children still present at a protest that would inevitably be targeted by the authorities? The anchor was almost immediately pulled off the air and reprimanded for being insufficiently sympathetic to the group. For months, she was barred from presenting the news and relegated to a pre-recorded chat show. There was also an internal struggle over how to cover that summer’s protests against Turkey’s Islamist president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Still, much of the English programming remains fair and objective—adjectives that no longer apply to its Arabic sister channel. Shortly after the coup against Morsi, Ahmed Mansour, a prominent anchor, was quoted on the Brotherhood’s website as saying that the interim Egyptian president was a Jew carrying out an Israeli plot. Faisal al-Qassim, another presenter, once hosted a segment on whether Syria’s Alawite population deserved genocide. In 2014, the channel’s Iraqi affairs editor tweeted approvingly about the Camp Speicher massacre, in which the Islamic State killed more than 1,500 air-force cadets in Tikrit after singling out the Shia and non-Muslims. Some journalists quit in protest; the ones who remained continue to push a sectarian, pro-Sunni Islamist line. Though Al Jazeera is still widely watched, its reputation has been tarnished as its ratings have dropped.
In Yemen’s secret prisons, #UAE tortures and US interrogates
MUKALLA, Yemen (AP) — Hundreds of men swept up in the hunt for al-Qaida militants have disappeared into a secret network of prisons in southern Yemen where abuse is routine and torture extreme — including the “grill,” in which the victim is tied to a spit like a roast and spun in a circle of fire, an Associated Press investigation has found.
Senators ask military to clarify US role in Yemen torture
Pressure mounted on the U.S. Defense Department Friday after multiple U.S. senators called for investigations into reports that U.S. military interrogators worked with forces from the United Arab Emirates who are accused of torturing detainees in Yemen.
John McCain, Republican chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, and the ranking Democrat, Jack Reed, called the reports “deeply disturbing.”
The Danger of Yemen’s Secret Prisons
Black sites in the war-ravaged country help ensure that it will remain fertile ground for terrorists for years to come.
Intéressant rappel des rapports compliqués entre le Qatar et ses voisins (depuis bien longtemps): Qatar: The Gulf’s Problem Child
▻https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2017/06/qatar-gcc-saudi-arabia-yemen-bahrain/529227
Trump Addressed a ’Muslim World’ That Does Not Exist - The Atlantic
“I chose to make my first foreign visit a trip to the heart of the Muslim world,” President Trump said in Riyadh on Sunday, in a speech billed as a call to Muslims to promote a peaceful understanding of Islam and to unite against terrorists.
Riyadh is the capital of Saudi Arabia, but it is not the capital of the Muslim world. In fact, it’s worth remembering that “the Muslim world” is not actually a place. It’s a Western idea built on the faulty racial logic that Muslims live in a world of their own—that Islam is an eastern, foreign religion that properly belongs in a distant, faraway, dusty place. (This is arguably the logic that underlies Trump’s Muslim travel ban, currently held up in the courts: Islam is foreign, “Islam hates us,” Islam cannot possibly be a real American religion and that is why we can ban its adherents. Stephen Miller, an architect of the travel ban, was also reportedly among the writers of Trump’s Islam speech.)....
▻https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2017/05/the-muslim-world-is-a-place-that-does-not-exist/527550
Au fait : le bon gros mot-clé à la con du moment chez les journalistes, c’est « plafond de verre » :
– Le Pen à l’épreuve du "plafond de verre"
▻http://www.capital.fr/economie-politique/le-pen-a-l-epreuve-du-plafond-de-verre-1223238
– Présidentielle : Marine Le Pen Peut-Elle Briser Le “Plafond De Verre” ?
▻https://www.forbes.fr/politique/presidentielle-marine-le-pen-face-au-plafond-de-verre-programme-economique
– « Entendu sur Europe 1 : “Le plafond de verre, moi j’y crois pas du tout.” »
▻http://www.europe1.fr/politique/a-henin-beaumont-on-y-croit-enormement-chez-les-supporters-de-le-pen-3309593
– « Elle risque de se heurter à un plafond de verre encore plus épais et plus solide que lors des dernières élections régionales. »
▻https://www.challenges.fr/election-presidentielle-2017/presidentielle-un-premier-tour-decevant-et-historique-pour-marine-le-pen_
– « Quinze ans après son père, la présidente du Front national se qualifie pour le second tour de l’élection présidentielle avec pour ambition de briser ce “plafond de verre” qui continue à maintenir son parti aux marges du pouvoir. »
▻http://www.la-croix.com/France/Politique/Marine-Le-Pen-pari-normalisation-2017-04-23-1200841742
– Présidentielle : Marine Le Pen veut briser son "plafond de verre" à coups d’abstention
▻https://www.marianne.net/politique/presidentielle-marine-le-pen-veut-briser-son-plafond-de-verre-coups-d-abst
– L’Europe : le plafond de verre de Marine Le Pen
▻https://www.franceinter.fr/emissions/histoires-politiques/histoires-politiques-17-avril-2017
Alors, espèce de débile, je vais te le dire lentement : le plafond de verre désigne le fait que certaines populations – les femmes, les minorités, les jeunes – n’ont pas accès aux échelons supérieurs des hiérarchies (« plafond »), pour des raisons qui ne sont jamais explicitées, ou non visibles (« de verre »). Le fait que les gens ne votent pas pour une fasciste n’est pas un plafond de verre.
Pour être très clair : tu te rends compte qu’en détournant les mots, tu laisses ainsi entendre que l’extrême-droite française est victime de… préjugés sexistes ?
Et puis les raisons ne sont pas spécialement implicites, vu comme est traité le FN dans les médias, le front républicain, la bourse, les mots doux qui viennent de l’Europe ou de Berlin ...
D’ailleurs si on prend l’article de The Atlantic (en anglais, donc), originellement titré “Marine Le Pen’s Glass Ceiling”, la confusion avec la plafond de verre que subissent les femmes est tout à fait explicite : How Being a Woman Helped Marine Le Pen
▻https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2017/04/how-being-a-woman-helped-marine-le-pen/522456
When voters in France cast their ballots in the first round of the country’s presidential election on Sunday, Marine Le Pen, the candidate of the far-right National Front (FN), is projected to become the second woman in French history to advance to the second round of a presidential election. That’s probably as far as she’ll go in her quest to become France’s first female head of state—recent polls say she will win the first round, only to lose to whoever she faces in the runoff in May.
The Rise of Refugee Offshoring
Trump’s other major move toward refugee offshoring came amid the flurry of actions on immigration and relations with Mexico. In a memo released last week, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security outlined a plan to return apprehended illegal immigrants to Mexico, even if they weren’t Mexican citizens. The idea was shot down quickly, with Mexico’s government dismissing it out of hand. But while this version of the plan may be dead, migrant and refugee offshoring is an idea gaining ground globally.
▻https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2017/03/refugee-offshoring-trump/518331
#USA #Etats-Unis #externalisation #asile #migrations #réfugiés #Mexique