Migrant
Crisis Dominates Most Widely Read Middle East Forum Articles of 2015
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January 11, 2016
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PHILADELPHIA – January 11, 2016 – Middle East Forum staff and fellows
contributed to public debate on a range of important issues in 2015,
including the threat of ISIS, the Iran nuclear deal, the European migrant
crisis, Russia's intervention in Syria, and the growth of militant
Islamism in the West.
The Middle East Forum website
logged over 2.3 million unique visits in 2015, originating mainly from
the United States (46 per cent), the UK (7.3 per cent), Canada (6.6 per
cent), Australia (4.1 per cent), India (3.5 per cent), Israel (2.4 per
cent), Turkey (2.2 per cent), Germany (2.2 per cent), France (1.5 per
cent), and the Netherlands (1.4 per cent).
With 120,000 Facebook fans and over 15,000 Twitter followers, MEF social
media posts reached over 10 million people in 2015.
Below are the 10 most widely read articles in ascending order. (MEF
President Daniel Pipes' top articles of 2015 will be reviewed in a
separate, forthcoming list.)
10. Why
Can't Muslims Laugh at Mohammed? (May 5)
Wax Family Fellow David P. Goldman explains why "Jews as well as
Christians–but not Muslims–laugh at jokes about the founders of
their faiths."
9. What
France Can Learn from Israel in Confronting Islamist Terror
(November 15)
Middle East Forum Director Gregg Roman discusses the five main things
France can learn from Israel's success in fighting terrorism: "sacrifice
some freedoms of convenience," "go ahead and profile,"
"recognize that deterrence isn't fair," "target the brains
behind terrorist infrastructure," and "fight the
incitement."
8. Sex
Slavery and the Islamic State (July 3)
Shillman-Ginsburg Fellow Mark Durie discusses the theological
underpinnings of Islamic State sex slavery, noting that "many Muslim
scholars have upheld the practice of enslaving captives of war."
7. UK
Islamists Hold Rally to 'Struggle' for Islamic State (November
14)
Shillman-Ginsburg Fellow Raheem Kassam reports on a gathering of
Britain's "most high profile and notorious Islamist extremists"
on the same day as the November 13 Paris terror attacks.
6. Obama
Throws Christian Refugees to the Lions (September 24)
Judith Friedman Rosen Fellow Raymond Ibrahim writes about the U.S.
federal government's months-long detention of Iraqi Christian
asylum-seekers in Otay Mesa, CA.
5. Obama
Alters U.S. Oath of Allegiance to Comply with Islamic Law (August
6)
Judith Friedman Rosen Fellow Raymond Ibrahim discusses the U.S.
Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announcement that immigrants
who object to declaring that they will "bear arms on behalf of the
United States" and "perform noncombatant service in the Armed
Forces of the United States" when required by law as part of the
Oath of Allegiance "may be eligible to exclude these two clauses
based on religious training and belief or a conscientious
objection."
4. Who is
to Blame for the Drowning of Alan Kurdi? (September 3)
Robert J. and Abby B. Levine Fellow Tarek Fatah writes that the death
of Alan Kurdi, 3, in a failed attempt to sail from Turkey to Greece – and
the European migrant crisis more generally – should be blamed on Saudi
Arabia and Turkey.
3. Europe's
Muslim Migrants Bring Sex Pathologies in Tow (October 14)
Wax Family Fellow David P. Goldman reports on the "social pathologies"
that have been brought by Muslim migrants to Europe, including "the
world's worst sex crime epidemic" in Scandinavia.
2. Egypt's
Sisi: Islamic 'Thinking' Is 'Antagonizing the Entire World'
(January 1).
Judith Friedman Rosen Fellow Raymond Ibrahim reports on Egyptian
President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi's New Year's Day speech hours earlier, in
which the latter warns that the "corpus of [Islamic] texts and ideas
that we have sacralized over the years" are "antagonizing the
entire world."
1. Iran
Nuclear Deal Makes War More Likely (July 15)
With 52,000 pageviews, Shillman-Ginsburg Fellow Efraim Inbar's
analysis tops the year's popularity listing. He argues that, as a result
of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) signed by the P5+1
world powers and Iran, "an Israeli military strike on Iran has
become more likely," in part because it boosts Iran's "capacity
for subversion and for exporting terror" and fuels regional
perceptions that "America has capitulated to Iran."
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