Middle East/Africa

  Herland Report: Tillat noen raske notater. Jeg erfarer at pakistanere som driver matbutikken på hjørnet, der jeg ofte handler, har sluttet å hilse på meg. Hilser jeg først, kan jeg få noen ord tilbake. Jeg har tilsvarende erfaring med den tyrkiske frisøren ved siden av i gaten. Forklaringen ligger i en sekterisk islamsk tenkning: wahabiske (salafisme). Og dette bør …

  Herland Report: Trond Ali Linstad: Jøder – slett ikke alle – har gjennom historien opparbeidet en holdning av å være uberettiget forulempet, fornærmet, tilsidesatt og diskriminert. Og har stilt krav om særrettigheter. De skal bli tatt spesielt hensyn til, med krav om forståelse for sine selvdefinerte behov, på siden av andre folk, som de ofte har stilt seg utenfor. …

  Herland Report: The war that has ravaged Syria over the last half-decade is coming to an end. The caliphate declared by Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi of the Islamic State organization on June 29, 2014, at the al-Nuri mosque in Mosul now consists of a few ravaged square meters in Baghouz, in Syria’s Lower Euphrates River Valley, that are on the …

  Periods of major political transformation have never been particularly easy for Jews, and the current moment is no exception. Anti-Semitism is ascendant in Europe and many fear that the resurgence of nationalism will exacerbate it. But there is a twist: Anti-Semitism’s rise in Europe is being accompanied by a growing fascination among Europe’s hard right with Israel and, in …

  Heralnd Report: In an effort to solve the Hannibal Gaddafi imprisoned case in Lebanon, the UN 40th Council recently addressed the need for justice. The International Council Supporting Fair Trial and Human Rights held the Lebanese authorities and judiciary responsible for kidnapping Son of late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, his concealment and arbitrary detention without legal support. Dr. Abdul …

  Herland Report (HTV): “Islamism is an ideology, it is not a religion. It is not the religion of Islam. And these radical Islamist movements are a major threat to Liberal democratic societies,” says Yitzhak Santis, senior writer and analyst at StandWithUs, an Israeli organization that counters Western antisemitism. He is a former chief programs officer at NGO Monitor.Watch the …

  Herland Report: Syria and president Bashar al-Assad is hardly mentioned anymore in the press. The mainstream media is conspicuously silent. Embarrassingly enough, the Syrian Arab Army and its allies won the war. Damascus never fell to ISIS. There is nothing much left to say, except to see what will happen with the oil rich US held Eastern Syria. So, …

  Herland Report: Professor at Columbia, Jeffrey Sachs admits that the CIA instigated the insurgency in Syria, addressing the issue on national television in America, at the MSNBC studio, shocking the panelists. (Photo: President of Syria, Bashar al-Assad. BBC) Dr. Sachs, who is one of the most renounced US professors, said about Syria: “We have to step back and not …

  Herland Report: Den omarbeidede utgaven av Koranen er en skremmende bok som blir brukt av IS og «islamister» (wahabister) som begrunnelse for ekstremisme og terror. Boka er til salgs i moskéer i Norge. Det fordreide og ekstremistiske budskapet blir spredt; og bør være til stor bekymring, skriver Dr. Trond Ali Linstad på Herland Report. Det heter i bokas forord …

  Lars Jørgensen: Libya krigen 2011 ødela Norges rykte som fredsnasjon. At vi så raskt, med Arbeiderpartiet i spissen, var villige til å bidra militært inn i en konflikt vi visste lite om, og dermed bli medansvarlige i borgerkrigen som herjer til dags dato, ble for mye for folk flest. Mange etterlyser et oppgjør med de norske politikerne som den …