Middle East/Africa

  Herland Report: Raymond Ibrahim’s Sword and Scimitar is a history of landmark battles between Islam and the West. Ibrahim offers eight representative engagements across time and space from France to the Middle East, and over a millennium from 636 to 1683. The study is first and foremost riveting military history. It offers blowby-blow concise accounts of the eight battles, and …

  Herland Report: Earlier this month, when Polish lawmaker Dominik Tarczyński was asked how many “refugees” Poland has taken in, he flatly responded: “Zero.”  When the British interviewer, whose nation has taken in millions of Muslim migrants, scoffed, “And you’re proud of that?” Tarczyński  responded: “We will not receive even one Muslim, because this is what we promised… this is …

Following the 1993 publishing of the book “Clash of Civilizations?” by the political scientist Samuel Huntington, it has only become more evident how prescient his thesis was at this time when looking at the US’ foreign policy in the Middle East. Huntington hypothesized that in the decades following the end of the Cold War; political conflicts would be rooted in …

   The fate of the Libyan people should be determined by Libyans, not foreign powers. Ever since 2011, foreign powers such as the US and EU still keep tight control over Libya, even though the take over in 2011 until now has produced complete meltdown of the Libyan state, states official spokesperson for the Libyan Tribes internationally, JoAnne Moriarty. She and …

  Herland Report: Hamid Karzai: Billions of US dollars have been used to fight extremism, yet Islamic extremism is rampant more than ever before in Afghanistan. Why? Former President of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai, speaks about these issues in this ground-breaking interview where he strongly condemns the detonation of America’s most powerful non-nuclear bomb on Afghan territory some time back. Hamid …

  Herland Report: Hvorfor behovet for demonisering av muslimer? Vestlige regjeringer har aktivt bidratt til destruksjon av en rekke Midtøsten stater. Vi trives godt med å «bombe deres land», men får sjokk når de vil «bombe oss». Den synkroniserte demoniseringen av «folkeslag vi misliker», inneholder en rasetenkning med sterke sosialdarwinistiske undertoner. Noen anses som «bunnsjiktet i utviklingen» og vi selv, …

  Herland Report: Tommy Hansen is a Danish, Berlin based journalist, founder of free21.org, a news site that hosts over 150 journalists’ work in Europe. In this Herland Report conversation, he speaks about the US dollar as an instrument of waging wars, a need that the US administration has had ever since the USD was decoupled from the gold standard. …

Turkey, which supports Hamas, has a growing presence in east Jerusalem, as seen by the Turkish flags flying there. Its influence can even be seen in local restaurants and clothing stores, writes Pinhas Inbari, a veteran Arab affairs correspondent. Turkish support for Hamas also explains the appearance of Turkish flags among Palestinian protesters in the Gaza fence confrontation. Turkey is …

  Norge finansierer Syria milits: I dette intervjuet med krigsreporter og sosiolog, Eva Thomassen, forteller hun fra sin siste Syria reise.  “Tenk over hva vi egentlig driver med i Midtøsten. 500 millioner dollar brukte USA på å trene terrorister til å bli enda bedre trent, enda dyktige i å slåss mot den syriske hæren,” sier Thomassen. Se et av Herland …

  Dr. Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, sønn av Libyas avdøde leder, Muammar Gaddafi skriver i dette memorandumet, eksklusivt gitt til The Herland Report, fra libyere som lever midt i borgerkrigen som har rast i Libya siden NATO angrep Libya i 2011. Memorandumet ble publisert på Herland Report i 2017 på engelsk og gikk verden rundt.  Storbritannia foretok som kjent sin analyse …