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<p style="padding:0; margin:0 0 6px 0;">No one knows how many unarmed Alawites were killed in Syria between March 6 and 10, but University of Oklahoma Middle East studies professor Joshua Landis estimates more than 3000.</p><p style="padding:0; margin:0 0 6px 0;">While Alawites constitute but a small religious community in Syria, perhaps 10 per cent of the country's 15 million resident population, they suffer from a unique prominence and vulnerability.</p><p style="padding:0; margin:0 0 6px 0;">Through a millennium, they stood out as Syria's most isolated, impoverished, despised and oppressed ethnicity. Only when generals from their community seized power in Damascus in 1966 did the power balance change.</p><p style="padding:0; margin:0 0 6px 0;">But the ruthless domination of Syria by Alawites for the next 58 years caused the country's majority Sunni Muslim population in 2011 to rebel, leading to a full-scale civil war that ended in December 2024 when Sunnis overthrew Alawite rule and returned to power.</p><p style="padding:0; margin:0 0 6px 0;">Recent events point to an ominous Sunni desire for retribution. To understand its sources and implications requires a look at the past.</p>

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<p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif; font-size:13px; margin:0;">by <b>Daniel Pipes</b> &nbsp;&#8226;&nbsp; Spring 2025 &nbsp;&#8226;&nbsp; <i>Middle East Quarterly</i></p>
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<p style="padding:0; margin:0 0 6px 0;">Bashir signals his outlook in the first paragraph: "Let us for a moment imagine a world in which Muslim seminaries are training scholars to actively challenge 'modern slavery' across the globe." Having established that, he poses a first question, one derived from Muhammad Abduh: Given that Islam "eagerly anticipates the liberation of slaves, why have Muslims spent centuries enslaving the free?" Then comes a second question: How did it come to be that "In the contemporary world, Muslim nations have unanimously rejected the institution of slavery on numerous occasions"?</p><p style="padding:0; margin:0 0 6px 0;">Despite his requisite fashionable academic signaling, invoking Edward Said and bashing Bernard Lewis, Bashir offers a sophisticated analysis that reviews classic Qur'anic exegesis and classic legal rulings, then looks at reform ideas generally before focusing on two main schools of interpretation: what he calls Qur'anic abolition and Qur'anic gradualism. The final section attempts to reconcile these many contradictions, exploring "why there remain such clear differences among scholars."</p>

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<p style="font-size:1em; font-family:arial,sans-serif; padding:0; margin:0 0 4px 0;"><b><a href="https://www.danielpipes.org/22530/possessed-by-the-right-hand" style="color:black; text-decoration:none;"><span style="font-variant:small-caps; font-weight:normal;">review of</span> Possessed by the Right Hand: The Problem of Slavery in Islamic Law and Muslim Cultures</a></b></p>
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<p style="padding:0; margin:0 0 6px 0;">Recalling Muhammad's apocryphal last words about Muslims needing to take care of their slaves, Freamon, a Black American Muslim and professor emeritus at Seton Hall Law School, argues that they "have not lived up to this admonition" either in law or in practice. Writing with anguish in his large, rambling, and original study, he calls these "vexing problems ... that have never been solved." <i>Possessed by the Right Hand</i> explains this discrepancy and then offers a remedy.</p><p style="padding:0; margin:0 0 6px 0;">Freamon expresses dismay at Islamic scholars' endorsement of slavery: That they "would ignore and sometimes give their imprimatur to the horrific practices of slave raiders and slave dealers for over 1,300 years raises profound and deeply disturbing questions about the viability of Islamic law as an effective legal tool for reform and progress, particularly in the colonial and post-colonial eras."</p><p style="padding:0; margin:0 0 6px 0;">Thus, while "Hindu and Buddhist slavery eventually died out ... slavery and slave trading in Muslim communities in the region [of South Asia] did not." Rather, "the illusion of abolition occurred across much of the Muslim world." Indeed, "the abolition of slavery in the Muslim world has been an illusion and will remain illusory if Muslims do not come to grips with the problem." Worse, "attitudes toward [slaves] in the Muslim world have not improved and perhaps have even gotten worse."</p>

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<p style="font-size:1em; font-family:arial,sans-serif; padding:0; margin:0 0 4px 0;"><b><a href="https://www.danielpipes.org/22529/reform-and-its-perils-in-contemporary-islam" style="color:black; text-decoration:none;"><span style="font-variant:small-caps; font-weight:normal;">review of</span> Reform and Its Perils in Contemporary Islam</a></b></p>
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<p style="padding:0; margin:0 0 6px 0;">In her interesting and significant book, Oweidat, a historian at Kansas State University, focuses for three reasons on the life and work of Egyptian scholar Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd (1943-2010).</p><p style="padding:0; margin:0 0 6px 0;">First, in a case that attracted international attention, a Cairo court in 1995 ruled that the writings of a mild-mannered and then-obscure professor of Arabic language and literature rendered him an apostate from Islam. For good measure, the court also nullified Abu Zayd's marriage, forcing him and his wife to flee to Europe. As such, he personifies the "peril" in the title.</p><p style="padding:0; margin:0 0 6px 0;">Second, Abu Zayd claimed to be "among those few who have been trying to keep the Qur'an relevant to the modern age," and Oweidat agrees with him. She sees Abu Zayd as "a representative of modernist Islamic thought" and someone who "carved an exceptional place for himself in contemporary Islamic thought." His work is "uniquely rich." Indeed, "In some ways, his work is nothing short of revolutionizing the field of interpreting the Qur'an." She expects that "Abu Zayd will continue to shape the conversation into the future" about traditional Islam and modernity.</p>

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<p style="padding:0; margin:0 0 6px 0;">Connoisseurs of improbable history will forever appreciate Oman in 1970. That is when the 59-year-old sultan of the world's most insular and backward-looking government, Sa'id bin Taimur, found himself deposed by his 29-year-old son, Qaboos, who turned out to be a relentless modernizer throughout his half-century reign.</p><p style="padding:0; margin:0 0 6px 0;">Peterson's understated description of that palace coup d'état includes such memorable passages as: on the day of the event, Sa'id spent "his afternoon counting his money"; confronted by Qaboos's demand that he sign a letter of abdication, Sa'id "grabbed a pistol and started firing," killing one person and wounding another; after this, Sa'id "barricaded himself in his bedroom"; a British military ally of Qaboos, Edward Turnill, used a megaphone to call on Sa'id and two slaves to surrender, "but the only answer was several bursts of automatic fire"; Turnill ordered his troops to storm the sultan's bedroom; after an exchange of gunfire, Sa'id's "voice was heard from inside the bedroom, shouting that he had shot himself. Turnill persuaded the sultan to open the door. When he entered alone and unarmed, the sultan was behind his desk holding two pistols. Turnill asked him to hand them over and Sultan Sa'id did so, saying 'I don't think I will need these any more'."</p>

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<p style="padding:0; margin:0 0 6px 0;">Strangely, as the decades pass since the Nazi regime fell in 1945, historians assess its impact on the Middle East as greater and greater; Küntzel's excellent study adds significantly to that process. Coming out of a far-left background, for the past quarter century he has focused his great talents on antisemitism in general and the German role in particular.</p><p style="padding:0; margin:0 0 6px 0;">This book, a fine translation of <a href="https://www.hentrichhentrich.de/buch-nazis-und-der-nahe-osten.html"><i>Nazis und der Nahe Osten: Wie der islamische Antisemitismus entstand</i></a> (2019), views the Arab attack on the nascent Israeli state in 1948 as an "aftershock" of the Holocaust. The author explains:</p><blockquote><p style="padding:0; margin:0 0 6px 0;">the Nazis' antisemitic propaganda was one of the decisive factors that led to the Arab states going to war against Israel in May 1948. I show that there is an ideological link between the Nazi war against the Jews and the Arab war against Israel three years later so that the latter can be interpreted as a kind of aftershock of the great catastrophe of 1939–1945.</p></blockquote><p style="padding:0; margin:0 0 6px 0;">More broadly, "rather than antisemitism resulting from the exacerbation of the Middle Eastern conflict, it was the other way round: antisemitism exacerbated the conflict."</p>

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<p style="padding:0; margin:0 0 6px 0;">The fiasco Friday, with President Trump bullying and insulting Ukraine's leader, Volodymyr Zelensky, is one of the worst diplomatic incidents in U.S. history. It mortifies me as an American and a conservative — and especially as someone who, reluctantly, voted for Trump in the 2020 and 2024 general elections.</p><p style="padding:0; margin:0 0 6px 0;"></p><p style="padding:0; margin:0 0 6px 0;">I voted for Trump because he aspires to reverse lax border controls and to dismantle the administrative state (agencies of the executive branch that write, judge, and enforce their own laws), progressive educational institutions, racial preferences, and "woke" gender ideology.</p><p style="padding:0; margin:0 0 6px 0;">But Trump 2.0 has in just over a month pushed me, a traditional conservative, to agree with Democrats on many key issues: that Russia began the war against Ukraine and must be defeated, that America needs free trade, a strong NATO alliance, <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-fcpa-anti-bribery-law-executive-order/" target="_blank">anti-bribery laws</a>, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/business/media/ap-white-house-ban-lawsuit.html" target="_blank">press freedom</a>, an independent judiciary, and <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/us/politics/donald-trump-california-newyork-executive-orders.html" target="_blank">federalism</a>. Additionally, I trust vaccines, mistrust cryptocurrencies, and respect the 2020 presidential election result.</p>

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<p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif; font-size:13px; margin:0;">by <b>Daniel Pipes</b> &nbsp;&#8226;&nbsp; February 22, 2025 &nbsp;&#8226;&nbsp; <i>Australian</i></p>
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<p style="padding:0; margin:0 0 6px 0;">Melbourne-based supporters of Hamas, the Palestinian jihadist organization, have engaged in puzzling acts of aggression since Oct. 7, 2023. Why did they break into the <a href="https://archive.is/WavI3#selection-3579.21-3579.63">University of Melbourne's main library</a>, cause damage on many floors, and destroy expensive book-scanning equipment? Why injure 24 police officers with rocks, acid, and manure outside a <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/anti-israel-protesters-clash-with-police-in-melbourne-39-arrested-24-officers-injured/">defense exposition</a>? Why invade a <a href="https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/crime/propalestine-protesters-have-allegedly-stolen-starbucks-merch-with-one-spitting-at-a-barista-in-melbournes-cbd/news-story/bfdc3e4cc5f8489a85343321daaa5210">Starbucks store</a>, chant anti-Israel slogans, steal merchandise, and spit on a barista?</p>

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<p style="padding:0; margin:0 0 6px 0;">After President Donald Trump froze United States Agency for International Development (USAID) grants, its outgoing administrator Samantha Power stumbled for words as she strained to <a href="https://x.com/tomselliott/status/1887085447320617103">vent</a> her indignation:</p><blockquote><blockquote><p style="padding:0; margin:0 0 6px 0;">Programs that we're running, the people we're depending on, in some cases, for life-saving medicine. ... Or if you're in Sudan and you have a child who's wasting away because of malnutrition, a miracle paste, a peanut paste that USAID provides brings that kid back from the brink of death – all of those programs are shuttered.</p></blockquote></blockquote><p style="padding:0; margin:0 0 6px 0;">In plain English: Don't touch USAID!</p><p style="padding:0; margin:0 0 6px 0;">Power, however, conveniently <a href="https://www.meforum.org/press-releases/mef-report-justifies-the-overhaul-at-usaid">ignored</a> a wide array of outrages engaged in by USAID, such as the <a href="https://www.meforum.org/fwi/fwi-research/terror-finance-at-the-state-department-and-usaid">$122 million</a> it sent to groups aligned with designated terrorist entities, mostly on her watch. In other words, the full reconsideration of USAID now starting is very long overdue and urgently needed.</p>

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<p style="padding:0; margin:0 0 6px 0;">Donald Trump forcing Gustavo Petro, Colombia's far-left leader, to back down in the face of the threat of sky-high tariffs was a welcome change after four years of Joe Biden's geriatric passivity. But Trump's broader threat of indiscriminate tariffs – including against Canada and Mexico – will have dire foreign policy consequences. Close allies will distance themselves and trading partners will flee to other markets.</p><p style="padding:0; margin:0 0 6px 0;"></p><p style="padding:0; margin:0 0 6px 0;">Consider recent Trump's threats against Egypt and Jordan. Here's the chronology:</p>

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<p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif; font-size:13px; margin:0;">by <b>Daniel Pipes</b> &nbsp;&#8226;&nbsp; February 1, 2025 &nbsp;&#8226;&nbsp; <i>Australian</i></p>
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<p style="padding:0; margin:0 0 6px 0;">Israelis widely agreed in the aftermath of the Oct. 7, 2023, massacre that Hamas must no longer rule Gaza; indeed, it had to be destroyed. Some 16 months later, however, Hamas remains a powerful institution. The question of Gaza's future governance, as a result, has become fluid and confused.</p><p style="padding:0; margin:0 0 6px 0;">This situation raises several questions: Why did the powerful Israeli military, the one that defeated three Arab state armies in six days, fail to defeat a rag-tag militia? What are the possible ways forward for Gaza? What is the most likely outcome? What would be the best one?</p>

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<p style="padding:0; margin:0 0 6px 0;">I argue on p. 204 of my 2024 book <a href="https://www.danielpipes.org/books/israel-victory.php"><i>Israel Victory: How Zionists Win Acceptance and Palestinians Get Liberated</i></a> that</p><blockquote><p style="padding:0; margin:0 0 6px 0;">Palestinians might appear unanimously to abhor Israel and seek its destruction but that is not the case. In fact, a significant percentage of them has either given up the fight; accepted Israel's existence; expressed appreciation of it; or chosen to move to it. Such overlooked persons have great importance, implying an unwonted receptivity to Israel and its messages.</p></blockquote><p style="padding:0; margin:0 0 6px 0;">This weblog entry logs occasional supporting evidence for that assertion.</p><p style="padding:0; margin:0 0 6px 0;"><a href="https://www.memri.org/tv/gaza-born-palestinian-politician-abu-daqqa-first-time-family-displaced-refugees-how-is-this-victory">Tahani Abu Daqqa</a>, a Gaza-born Palestinian Authority politician spoke on Al-Arabiya television:</p><blockquote><p style="padding:0; margin:0 0 6px 0;">In 1948, 1956, and 1967, my family and I were not expelled from our land and our home, and were not turned into refugees. In this war, however, I was driven out of my home, I became a refugee in Egypt. My house is now under occupation, because it is in the buffer zone. My land, on which I had some projects that were destroyed, is also under the control of the occupation.</p></blockquote>

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<p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif; font-size:13px; margin:0;">by <b>Daniel Pipes</b> &nbsp;&#8226;&nbsp; January 18, 2025 &nbsp;&#8226;&nbsp; <i>Australian</i></p>
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<p style="padding:0; margin:0 0 6px 0;">The ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas announced on Jan. 15 has implications nearly as momentous as the Oct. 7, 2023, massacre that precipitated it.</p><p style="padding:0; margin:0 0 6px 0;">The deal comes after fifteen months of protracted indecision by the government of Israel, during which Jerusalem followed two contradictory policies toward Hamas: Destroy the organization. Make a deal with it.</p><p style="padding:0; margin:0 0 6px 0;">The first policy, victory over Hamas, clearly appealed more to Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. By my <a href="https://www.danielpipes.org/blog/2023/10/netanyahu-calls-for-israel-victory">informal count</a>, he mentioned "victory" 216 times in 76 discreet statements, from the immediate aftermath of Oct. 7 to lighting the Hanukkah candles three weeks ago. At times, as in a statement on French television, his sentences amounted to a barrage of victory talk: "Our <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/how-netanyahus-interview-with-frances-tf1-widened-the-jerusalem-paris-divide/">victory</a> is your victory," he said. "Our victory is the victory of Israel against antisemitism. It is the victory of Judeo-Christian civilization against barbarism. It is the victory of France."</p>

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<p style="padding:0; margin:0 0 6px 0;" data-type="paragraph">Few things foster a sense of common humanity as much as the adherents of one religion offering warm holiday wishes to members of another. Yet some people reject this geniality on principle. Islamists—Muslims intent on returning to a medieval law code—despise any holiday not sanctioned by Islam. This archaic and bigoted attitude provides context for the New Year's Day massacre in New Orleans that left 14 dead and dozens injured.</p><p style="padding:0; margin:0 0 6px 0;" data-type="paragraph">Islamic theologians of the Middle Ages set out the general approach. Ibn Taymiya (1263-1328) <a data-type="link" href="https://en.islamway.net/article/8815/participating-in-holidays-of-the-disbelievers?__ref=iswy" rel="" target="_blank">argued</a> that joining non-Muslims in their festivals is equivalent to "agreeing to infidelity." His student Ibn al-Qayyim (1292-1350) specified that congratulating non-Muslims on their holidays "is a greater sin than congratulating them for drinking wine, having illegal sexual intercourse, and so on."</p><p style="padding:0; margin:0 0 6px 0;" data-type="paragraph">Of all infidel holidays, Islamic authorities most detest Christmas, when Christians believe God became man. As historian Raymond Ibrahim has noted, these theologians, who believe that polytheism is the ultimate sin in Islam, consider Christmas "the biggest crime ever committed by humanity."</p>

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