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Iran election comment round up 16, June 2009

Posted by thegulfblog.com in Iran.
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Here is a round up of the best of the analysis of the Iranian election shenanigans:

– As usual Michael Collins Dunn offers a sage eye weighing up both sides over at the MEI blog.

– Arab Media Shack and the Washington Post caution people against assuming a coup of some description simply because Ahmadinejad is not the West’s favorite leader. Overall though, I disagree with their interpretation.

– Juan Cole on the election and a rebuttal to the Washington Post’s conclusions.

– Gary Sick with an excellent overview.

– Brian Ulrich – always worth a read.

– And another link to Eskandar Sadeghei’s take on it all.

Optimism on Pakistan 28, April 2009

Posted by thegulfblog.com in Central Asia.
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Here are two posts from respected commentators on Pakistan’s crisis. They decline to jump on the ‘we’re all going to die’ bandwagon and put Pakistan’s recent issues into context.

Christofacism? 27, February 2008

Posted by thegulfblog.com in Random, Western-Muslim Relations.
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Juan Cole, President of the Global Americana Institute, made a brief but excellent point last Friday. He was commenting on the attack on the American Embassy in Belgrade by angry (Christian) Serbians and compared this act of violence to similar situations but involving Muslims. He quotes the neoconservative argument that “there was something deeply wrong with Muslims for protesting when they were kicked or expelled, saying that look, the Serbs have been harmed by US policies but they don’t go around attacking US embassies. ” As Cole succinctly puts it, “I guess they’ll have to find a new argument.” He goes on to sagely ask whether Fox news and the Republican Party will now start vociferously complaining about “Christofascism” – I some how doubt they will.

http://www.juancole.com/2008/02/three-events-that-changed-world.html