Word: algerias
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...important that Muslims from all over the world follow suit, especially those that come from communities where extremists thrive. Mansur Escudero—the Islamic Commission of Spain’s secretary general and the man who issued the fatwa—says that he consulted leaders in Morocco, Algeria, and Libya, and that they expressed their support for the move. However, these leaders have thus far been silent. They need to vocalize their support for it to be at all consequential...
...right now, for the Bush administration to tacitly endorse Mubarak's exclusion of the Muslim Brotherhood from the political process. After all, the Brotherhood has hard line views on both the U.S. and Israel. Still, in the long run, excluding them could be a disaster. Look no further than Algeria to see why: In 1991, the military regime there yielded to pressure and held elections. But when it became clear that the Islamic Salvation Front had won the first phase of the poll, democracy was abruptly canceled. The result was a savage terror backlash that has seen more than...
...month, U.S. President George W. Bush lectured the Saudi monarchy, calling for "expanding the role of its people in determining their future." But the trouble with elections is that you have to live with their results. And this one suggests that many Saudis - like their counterparts in Iran and Algeria when they first got the vote - prefer anti-Western militant Islamists over pro-Western reformers...
...Tweaking accepted conceptions of musical and cultural identity has been a Taha trademark for more than 20 years. He's focused on merging the influences of his native Algeria with the European idioms he encountered after emigrating to France when he was 10. A native of Oran, a culturally rich northwestern port city, Taha came of age displaced from his Algerian roots but without being accepted by French society either. In 1980, after a series of drudge jobs, including a stint in a heater factory, Taha hooked up with a quartet - three of whom were fellow ethnic Arabs...
...SHORT FILM ON DIRECTOR GILLO PONTECORVO'S RETURN TO ALGERIA, IN WHICH HE NOTES ALGERIAN CONTEMPT FOR THE WEST. WHY DO YOU THINK THIS EXISTS? It's a residual colonialism issue. Al-Qaeda says the U.S. invasion of Iraq is an attempt to reinstall colonial rule. That resonates. It wasn't long ago--1920--that the Iraqis had an insurgency against the British. In the 5,000-year history of Iraq, 1920 was yesterday...