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ISIS Declaration on Mandatory Female Genital Mutilation: Translated and Annotated
07/23/14 - Iraq Blogs, Shari'a Blogs - 2 Comments
There has been a fair amount of recent Arabic language press respecting a recent decision by ISIS to force women to undergo genital mutilation. Whoever is surprised is not paying sufficient attention. They issued a memo requiring this a year ago, last Ramadan, long before they were in Mosul. Given that my last translated ISIS…
A Translation of the ISIS Declaration Expelling the Christians of Mosul
07/20/14 - Uncategorized - No Comments
There has been much press on the decision by ISIS to expel what remained of Mosul’s 1400 year old Christian population yesterday. The attention, and the attendant criticisms, lamentations, and denunciations are thoroughly justified. It is a tragedy for Iraq, the latest of many, but this one is of historic proportions. We had among the oldest Christian populations…
Subscribers May Have to Resubscribe (Sorry)
07/02/14 - Uncategorized - No Comments
As I finally made a move from what was a pure blogging site into a more full fledged personal website, I seem to have managed to lose my subscribers, with many apologies. Anyway, if you do wish to continue to subscribe to my blog, I welcome it greatly. But you will unfortunately have to subscribe…
Sunni Denial, Shi’i Paranoia
06/29/14 - Iraq Blogs - No Comments
At the end of this very strong piece by Tim Arango of the New York Times, he adds this important paragraph: Mr. Ahmed, reflecting a widely held belief in this country’s Sunni population, said in defiance of the facts that his sect is a majority in Iraq. In many ways, Iraq’s Sunnis have never accepted the…