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Es gilt, das Wort 'Freiheit' wieder für die eigene Partei und die eigene Mission zurückzugewinnen. Kuscheln mit den Bürgerrechtlern. Sich ihre Sorgen zur aktuellen Lage der Innenpolitik anhören, und sie sogar ernst nehmen. Wozu der FDP eine Chance zur Profilierung als Partei der Bürgerrechte geben, wenn man sich die Bürgerrechte doch auf die eigene Flagge schreiben kann, ja sogar auf die eigene Person. (11/09)

Afghanistan entlässt bei einer Bevölkerung von 28 Millionen jährlich mindestens eine halbe Million junge Männer ins Erwerbsleben. Wo nicht Mohnanbau, Drogenhandel, Schmuggel oder städtische Berufe locken, sind die Aussichten für diese Jünglinge düster. Was liegt näher, als statt beruflichem Erfolg den Ruhm des frommen Kriegers zu suchen? (11/09)

Es gibt derzeit keine Partei, die uneingeschränktes Vertrauen verdient, die ihre Wähler nicht irritiert und enttäuscht hat. Programme, die laut verkündet aber später nicht beachtet wurden, ungeeignetes Führungspersonal, innere Machtkämpfe, Spendenskandale, Lobbyhörigkeit, Einfallslosigkeit und generelle Mittelmäßigkeit. (09/09)

For years Pakistan has been home to much that ails the Muslim world — coups, dictatorship, militancy, and corruption. Let's recognize it now as home to judges and lawyers who won their stare-down with the dictator. (08/08)

While the goal of Islamism is 'victory,' the goal of Islam is the consent of God. That’s why the Islamists are in fact secularizers who disenchant religion from the divine. (06/08)

At the helm of Italy we now have Mr. Silvio Berlusconi, for the third round, with an overwhelming coalition composed of his own "'Forza Italia,” National Alliance, the Northern League and a Sicilian regionalist who wants to change his island to another "Ireland." (05/08)

When someone of McFarlane's stature offers the assessment that the neocons are in charge, then it's pretty much official. The longer the election campaign goes on, the clearer it becomes that the neocons aren't back. They never went away.(04/08)

The truth is, Americans don't really insist that their presidents be as "ordinary" as they are. Only pollsters think they do. But voters do like to feel respected, and Obama's San Francisco remarks sounded like contempt. (04/08)

Three in four of those surveyed said they support using the name "Taiwan" to refer to what they consider to be an independent and sovereign country. (03/08)

Man mag es nach so langer Zeit des Niedergangs kaum glauben: was die Märkte ausserhalb der EU anlangt, ist Italien inzwischen Exporteur Nr.2 in der Europäischen Union nach Deutschland, vor Frankreich und Grossbritannien. (03/08)

Ce pays de 4,2 millions d’habitants, à peu près de la taille de la France, manque d’institutions fonctionnelles et est ravagé par les insurrections et la corruption. (02/08)

Decidedly negative views of American adults toward immigration are not only playing a role in the campaigns, but also risk damaging the U.S. relations with Latin America. (01/08)

Lost in much of the media coverage of Kenya’s post-election upheaval is the young age of those who have taken to the streets. (01/08)

Sarkozy says that he would apply to Europe the same “policy of civilization” he was attempting to implement in France, and that France would show a new spirit of Renaissance the world needs. (01/08)

"I find it hard to believe that a neighbour I have lived with for years could loot my house in my presence and drive my family out – people who had been my friends only the previous day."(01/08)

US snatch squads are on standby to seize or disable Pakistan's nuclear arsenal in the event of a collapse of government or outbreak of civil war (01/08)

Ein geräuschloser Erdrutsch, der sich vor allen Augen vollzieht. Siebzig Millionen, die von Europa wegdriften Richtung Orient, auf möglicherweise nie wiedersehen. (12/07)

Barzani perfectly knows that he has to get along with Turkey.(12/07)

As schisms in the GOP become more pronounced and erupt into a low-intensity civil war, a quick look at the party's factions will be useful for future scorekeeping. (12/07)

It all began with an unpaid electricity bill. In 1998, Pakistan wouldn’t pay up millions, and they owed billions, to British and American electricity companies. One was Britain’s National Power. The other was Entergy International, a sudden big-time player based out of, oddly, Little Rock, Arkansas. (11/07)

La più forte resistenza dei musulmani all’integrazione culturale sembra provvenire proprio dagli individui più istruiti, che hanno successo nel lavoro, e da aree meno segregate e più ricche. (11/07)

"Al Gore now has a Nobel Peace Prize to pair with his Academy Award for 'An Inconvenient Truth.' But neither accolade makes him any less a liar. As it did when it gave the prize to Jimmy Carter in 2002, the Norwegian Nobel Committee honored Mr. Gore and the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change to make a left-wing political statement." (10/07)

"Olmert will place Hamas men on the walls of Jerusalem," he warned. "Jerusalem will fast become a pilgrimage site for terrorists from all over the world." (10/07)

"Naked" as I am, I'll continue to defend the Muslim Brotherhood's right to be on Egypt's political stage. (09/07)

Se Grillo si decide a fare questa mossa ora, è perchè spera che in una situazione postberlusconiana abbia una vaga speranza di essere ascoltato e riscuotere successo. (09/07)

Kemal Aslan opposed the refugees’ staying in the city. Saying that these persons, who don’t speak the language, who are unemployed and not supported financially by the state, could just add to the problems of already-poor Burdur. Aslan sent a letter to the Interior Minister requesting relocation of the refugees. (09/07)

Balancing Papuans’ customary land rights with forestry and oil palm investment and managing the tensions resulting from the influx of non-Papuans are critical issues. (09/07)

Drei Generationen lang kommandierten Atatűrk und nach ihm der kemalistische Staat die Frommen herum. Achtzig Jahre lang mussten sie das gottlose säkulare System ertragen, das ihnen verbot, ihre Frömmigkeit bei öffentlichen Anlässen zu zeigen und ihre Kinder in Koranschulen zu schicken. (08/07)

The most important responsibility of the attorney general is to say no when government officials — including the president — are tempted to cross legal boundaries. (08/07)

Die Italiener finden die Grosse Koalition fabelhaft, sind von Kanzlerin Merkel beeindruckt und wűrden Wolfgang Schäuble mit Kusshand als Innenminister nehmen. Wenn sie ihn nur kennen wűrden. (08/07)

"Gaza is more secure now. Journalists are arriving from all over the world, and we are all now free to walk in the streets without being shot at." (07/07)

Karl May hatte doch Recht. Da bomben die Tűrken Dörfer, marschieren ein und beanspruchen "Sicherheitszonen" entlang der Grenze. Was machen die Opfer, nämlich die irakischen Kurden? Sie behaupten, nichts besonderes sei los: business as usual. (06/07)

Ist die AKP etwa garnicht an der Aufnahme in die EU interessiert? Wir wissen nur, dass Premier Erdogan ein gewiefter Taktiker ist und die Geduld und Opferbereitschaft der wahrhaft Frommen aufweist. Er weiss, dass er ein paar Jahre Gefängnis riskiert, falls seine Machtprobe mit dem Militär schlecht ausgeht. (05/07)

Fűr den frommen Muslim ist die Tűrkei ein Ärgernis, ein Hohn auf die Religion, ein abartiges Gebilde, dessen Tage gezählt sind. Schon heute rechnen die Islamisten damit, dass die Tűrkei in Bälde "fällt" und in die Gemeinschaft der muslimischen Länder zurűckkehrt. (04/07)

The new Islamic Council of Germany recently requested official recognition of Islam as the country's third largest religious group after Protestants and Catholics. (04/07)

Republican political hacks cannot take that away from this strong woman who made an historic attempt at doing what George W. Bush has so dismally failed at accomplishing.

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is not a Muslim issue. It is a dispute over land, it is about an occupation that must end and it is about a people who deserve a state. Clerics, rabbis, priests and any one else who claims religious authority for his opinion should stay out of it.(04/07)

Dopo aver votato la legge sull'indulto molti dei nostri esponenti politici si sono premurati di prendere le distanze da essa. Del resto una linea, per quanto italiana, di law and order non sembra poter metabolizzare e giustificare credibilmente 25mila scarcerazioni. (03/07)

U.S. President George W. Bush has purged senior military and intelligence officials who were obstacles to a wider war in the Middle East, broadening his options for escalating the conflict (01/07)

The next Bin Laden communiqué will produce another politically expedient rollercoaster ride. He will be elevated, deprecated, and relegated back to his cave. If the communiqué coincides with a major Al Qaeda attack, he will be the commander-in-chief, again. (01/07)

"Etwas Rűcksichtnahme und ein Monat Musikverzicht im Jahr sind doch nur ein kleines Opfer, das die christlichen Mitbűrger den religiösen Gefűhlen unserer muslimischen Berliner gerne bringen", entgegnete die Grűnen-Sprecherin, kritisierte aber gleichzeitig die um sich greifende Praxis, untreue muslimische Ehefrauen in der Hasenheide zu steinigen. (10/06)

The educated classes can be assumed to be split between fear of progressing Islamization and fear of losing the fragile democracy. Nobody wants the generals to oust the government, but many think that the military might have to step in and save Ataturk's secular traditions. (08/06)

Despite all rhetoric, the main enemy of the Arab Sunnites is currently not Israel but the seemingly unstoppable progress of Shia and its aggressive leaders in Tehran and Qom, the holy city. For once, the Sunnites might consider Israel a valuable proxy power. (07/06)