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TEL AVIV – The incarceration of former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on corruption charges has sparked a range of articles in the Arab press praising Israeli democracy and decrying the Arab world’s failure to punish its own corrupt leaders, MEMRI

TEL AVIV – The Qatari daily Al-Raya published two articles condemning the Arab and Muslim world for denying women the rights afforded them by the Koran, saying a “backward legacy” favors Muslim men’s control over women rather than allowing women to express their individuality.

A radical Canadian imam called for Muslims to “look forward” as “Rome will be conquered,” in a Friday sermon posted on the Internet on Feb. 16 and translated by the Middle East Monitoring Research Institute (MEMRI).

TEL AVIV – Kuwaiti daily Al-Qabas recently published an article extolling Israel’s upper hand over Arabs in all fields, including democracy, military capabilities, science and technology, economics, human rights, and freedom of religion.

TEL AVIV – A column in the radical Islamist Turkish daily Vahdet claimed that the evolutionary theory of “the Jew” Darwin contradicts Allah’s word in the Koran and that in actual fact, monkeys evolved from perverted Jews whom Allah cursed and punished, MEMRI reported.

TEL AVIV – A relative of President Bashar Al-Assad published an open letter in which she called the Syrian president a traitor, an enemy of humanity, a devil, a murderer, and a terrorist who will end up “in history’s filthiest

TEL AVIV – Following the Netherlands House of Representatives’ election of a Dutch-Moroccan Muslim woman as speaker, a columnist for the Palestinian Authority newspaper blamed Arab regimes’ “swing towards violence and terrorism” on the lack of democratic electoral systems, and

TEL AVIV – In its latest effort to combat the growing phenomenon of young people joining terror organizations such as the Islamic State, Jordan looks to interactive theater for the answer with a play called “Terrorism at the Door,” MEMRI

The Jerusalem Post reports: A senior Palestinian official has suggested that the West ignores the Palestinians when they maintain security, rhetorically asking if they have to resort to “hijacking planes” and “destroying airports” to garner Western support for the Palestinian

TEL AVIV – Furious over the Iran deal, Persian Gulf journalists and intellectuals have authored a plethora of articles accusing the U.S. of being deluded, saying that an estimated $100 billion or more of unfrozen Iranian assets will now be invested in terror organizations in the region, MEMRI reported.

TEL AVIV – A Kuwaiti university lecturer recently called for Arab state schools to abolish religious studies, claiming the majority of the Arab world’s problems stem from official school curriculum. Dr. Ibtihal Al-Khatib, a liberal and secular activist, penned her

Iraqi journalist Fadel Boula challenged the claim that the Islamic State (ISIS) and other jihadi organizations have no relationship to Islam, in an article featured in Iraq’s Al-Akhbar newspaper and translated by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI).

TEL AVIV – An article in a pro-Iranian Iraqi daily denounced the widespread notion that Islamic State terror has nothing to do with Islam, stating IS’s belief that “a day will arrive when Muslims inundate Europe and subdue it to

TEL AVIV – Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei marked International Holocaust Remembrance Day by posting a video on his website questioning the reality of the Holocaust, the U.S. and Europe’s supposed suppression of freedom of speech for Holocaust deniers, and

TEL AVIV – A piece in the London-based Saudi daily Al-Sharq Al-Awsa opined that the detention of 10 American sailors just hours before President Obama’s final State of the Union address effectively “kidnapped” the “foolish” U.S. president himself by casting a shadow over his authority.

TEL AVIV – A Michigan woman posted a video on YouTube defending Palestinian stabbing attacks against Jews and compared Jews to animals. In the Arabic-language video (watch it here) translated by MEMRI and titled “Is stabbing Jews haram [forbidden]?”, pro-Palestinian activist Lina Allan blasts Muslims who say that stabbing is “haram,” or forbidden under Islamic law, and tells such Muslims to “go back to watching Turkish soap operas.”

TEL AVIV – A new report highlights the Arab media’s response to the growing number of Palestinian women involved in the current wave of terror against Israelis.

TEL AVIV – A renowned Saudi journalist said that extremist Islam is like Nazism and the only way to eliminate it is to combat its ideology, MEMRI reported.  According to the journalist, imams, media personalities, and educators are more dangerous

Deputy head of the illegal Islamic Movement in Israel, Sheikh Kamal Khatib, said in a Friday sermon that the West is behind religious wars in the world. According to the video of the sermon posted by MEMRI (the Middle East Media

TEL AVIV- A video titled “Who Was Behind the Paris Attacks,” released by the office of Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, alleges that the US and its allies were the real​ perpetrators ​behind the jihadist massacre ​in Paris ​that​ killed 132 people​. The US and allies, claimed

The Islamic State’s affinity for social media takes another grim turn, as users of an ISIS message channel can now download graphics of Islamist flags, beheadings, and immolations to spice up their chat sessions and text messages.

The Iranian parliament has rejected the formal, legal text of the President Barack Obama’s nuclear deal, negotiated in July by the U.S., U.K., France, Germany, Russia, China and the Tehran regime. Instead, the majilis approved their own version of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), creating a situation where the Iranian government simple hasn’t signed onto the nukes-and-trade deal that Obama, Democrats and the GOP leaders has obligated the United States to uphold.

New details of the history of the Iran deal talks that the Obama administration eagerly sought talks with the Iranian regime, granting it the “right” to enrich uranium at the outset.

A video recently surfaced that allegedly shows a branch of the Syrian army forming a platoon of suicide bombers. The video, uncovered and translated by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) on December 30, has not been independently verified outside of MEMRI experts.

Hot off the heels of releasing a guide on how to properly handle sex slaves, the Islamic State (ISIS) has begun distributing a handbook titled Sister’s Role in Jihad, designed to teach women how to properly indoctrinate their children to fully commit to the cause of jihadist terrorism.