APS Diplomat Fate of the Arabian Peninsula articles from March 2008

APS Diplomat Fate of the Arabian Peninsula archives from March 2008

Pax Americana In Iraq Is Changing - Part 21 - Beating Binladenism.
March 17, 2008... Experts appear more confident in forecasting that, because of what is unfolding in Iraq, the tide within the Islamic world is beginning to run strongly against al-Qaeda. US specialists in political Islam see this as likely to be the single most...

Bin Laden & Zawahiri Attacked.
March 17, 2008... Neo-Salafism, a Sunni ideology developed in Egypt since 1950s, has openly been attacked by one of its main ideologues and prominent Sunni theologians. This ideology combines, as a motivation, a modern but more extreme version of salafism...

What Led To Evolution Of Neo-Salafism.
March 17, 2008... The collapse of traditional society has brought about a collapse of birth rates across cultures. Those which fail to reproduce themselves by definition are failed cultures, as they will cease to exist before many generations have passed. That...

Neo-Salafism Vs Statehood - The Iraqi Experience.
March 17, 2008... One of the key questions in the US presidential race is what will happen if US troops leave Iraq. Olivier Roy, research director at the French National Centre for Scientific Research, concludes: "Al-Qaeda will not take power and establish an...

Extremism Leading To Non-Believers.(Brief article)
March 17, 2008... In a report based on interviews it made in Iraq, The New York Times on March 3 said extremism on the Sunni and Shi'ite sides of Islam led many young Iraqis to hate religion. It focused on "Zane Muhammad, a gangly 19-year-old with an earnest...