Read This: March 17, 2010 03/17/2010
Akyol on the "Gulenist Conspiracy"
The truth is that with a few million followers, and lots of schools, media outlets and business networks, the Gülen movement is certainly powerful, but not all-dominant in any part of society. Within the Islamic camp, they are just one of the many different communities. For the secularists, all of these people can be the same - they all pray too often and their wives wear the hated headscarf. But there are actually various groups of Naqshbandis, Qadiris, "Süleymancıs," "Erbakancıs" or "Nurcus." The Gülenists are just one of the several offshoots of the latter tradition.
Led Zeppelin Did It: Sorokin on the Liberalizing Effects of 1970s Rock
For my generation, the Soviet pillows were thrown off by hard rock. The feathers, I must say, flew far: after Page, Gillen and Plant, the Soviet “VIA” (vocal-instrumental ensembles) became hopelessly covered by a shroud. It became impossible to take them seriously. They became the stuff of crass jokes, good for drunken dance floors where you could nuzzle a soft and unpretentious babe. [...] It’s fashionable now to say that the “sovok” — the Soviet era — was undermined by the fall of oil prices in the 1980s. I’m convinced that even before that there was a mass falling of corks from the ears of the young. Young Soviet brains were cleared by Western rock music. Jimi Hendrix, with his screaming Fender Stratocaster, unknowingly probably did more to demolish the Soviet mentality than even Solzhenitsyn and his “Archipelago.”
Goldberg Responds to Cole on Plans for Palestine
I can't speak for people like Goldberg, but Goldberg himself has stated publicly for years what he expects to happen to the Palestinians in the near and medium future. If Juan Cole has ever read anything I've written, in The Atlantic and elsewhere, he would know that: I'm for the creation of a Palestinian state on one hundred percent of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip (or a Palestinian state that equals one hundred percent of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, through land swaps); a Palestinian capital in East Jerusalem that mirrors the Israeli capital in West Jerusalem; an immediate end to all settlements; Israeli negotiations with Syria that would bring about peace and an end to Israel's occupation of the Golan Heights.
The truth is that with a few million followers, and lots of schools, media outlets and business networks, the Gülen movement is certainly powerful, but not all-dominant in any part of society. Within the Islamic camp, they are just one of the many different communities. For the secularists, all of these people can be the same - they all pray too often and their wives wear the hated headscarf. But there are actually various groups of Naqshbandis, Qadiris, "Süleymancıs," "Erbakancıs" or "Nurcus." The Gülenists are just one of the several offshoots of the latter tradition.
Led Zeppelin Did It: Sorokin on the Liberalizing Effects of 1970s Rock
For my generation, the Soviet pillows were thrown off by hard rock. The feathers, I must say, flew far: after Page, Gillen and Plant, the Soviet “VIA” (vocal-instrumental ensembles) became hopelessly covered by a shroud. It became impossible to take them seriously. They became the stuff of crass jokes, good for drunken dance floors where you could nuzzle a soft and unpretentious babe. [...] It’s fashionable now to say that the “sovok” — the Soviet era — was undermined by the fall of oil prices in the 1980s. I’m convinced that even before that there was a mass falling of corks from the ears of the young. Young Soviet brains were cleared by Western rock music. Jimi Hendrix, with his screaming Fender Stratocaster, unknowingly probably did more to demolish the Soviet mentality than even Solzhenitsyn and his “Archipelago.”
Goldberg Responds to Cole on Plans for Palestine
I can't speak for people like Goldberg, but Goldberg himself has stated publicly for years what he expects to happen to the Palestinians in the near and medium future. If Juan Cole has ever read anything I've written, in The Atlantic and elsewhere, he would know that: I'm for the creation of a Palestinian state on one hundred percent of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip (or a Palestinian state that equals one hundred percent of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, through land swaps); a Palestinian capital in East Jerusalem that mirrors the Israeli capital in West Jerusalem; an immediate end to all settlements; Israeli negotiations with Syria that would bring about peace and an end to Israel's occupation of the Golan Heights.
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