Muslims continue to dictate public policy by throwing temper tantrums about the so-called “defamation of Islam" while ignoring its own 100 year long villification of Jews and Israel. Via UN Watch: A "non-paper" published by the planners of next year's UN conference on racism already singles out Is...

How Terry Wogan sees Europe So, yet another Eurovision Song Contest, and get another round of chest-beating and sour grapes from people who think that the reason the UK came last was because of a Europe-wide conspiracy against us and in favour of any of those commies to the east. Every year the prot...

Azerbaijan’s state-owned media’s making another play for the homos. Or, rather, imagined homos. The post-Soviet nation grabbed a surprisingly few headlines last month after (allegedly) trying to discredit journalist Agil Khalil by claiming he’s a gay. Khalil, who works for oppositi...

US continues to suck up to France over NATO, but doesn't give a *damn* about Canadian contributions... fucking typical. would somebody give a damn about the Afghans? or the Iraqis? or the Kurds? hell... about the NATO backup that's there & KNOWS that they're there because the US lies about everythin...

Because there are so many easy targets, Out of respect for the rich culture of Azerbaijan, I usual try to ignore ridiculous new stories coming out of Baku. But like the asshole hotel, once they hit outlets like FARK, I feel it's my duty to weigh in and add a bit of cultural context. The local media ...

While in the Guardian author Charles Cumming makes an important point about China's Turkic-Muslim minority - The British media's obsession with Buddhist Tibet says a great deal about western attitudes to Xinjiang and to its predominantly Turkic-Muslim population. It may be that people remain ignoran...

In  typically long-winded piece, Moscow's The Exile gets Baku mostly right. There's also a fine photo essay here from which all these photos come. Carpetblog does take issue, however, with a few points, in descending order of importance. Sit on a bench along the posh shopping boulevards in down...

Astute reader Jonathan passes along a titillating rumor that he's heard around Baku! "Baku is trying to negotiate to be the location for a Disneyworld! It will be out on the island off Baku, and there will be a new causeway connecting to the new road they are building up near TISA. I find it ha...

While I was away last week, there was an incident along the Karabakh frontier: "The uneasy ceasefire on the frontline held by Armenian forces from Nagorny Karabakh and the Azerbaijani military was broken early on March 4. "Azerbaijani defence ministry spokesman Eldar Sabirogli said Armenian units br...

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