It doesn't seem that the Arab Spring has really brought much good.
Arab spring yields to Muslim winter
PAUL SHEEHAN January 06, 2014
In France, more than 1000 cars were torched across the country on New Year's Eve. It has become a tradition. As usual, the French media omitted to say most of the damage is done by young disaffected Muslim men and has become a form of protest.
In Iraq, the government has lost control of the city of Fallujah to the fundamentalist group Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, giving Islamists open control of a city for the first time since the US-led invasion in 2003. On Christmas Day, car bombs exploded outside three churches, killing 26 people and maiming 38, part of a campaign to remove Iraq's rapidly decreasing Chaldean Christian population.
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Arab spring yields to Muslim winter | smh.com.au
Arab spring yields to Muslim winter
PAUL SHEEHAN January 06, 2014
In France, more than 1000 cars were torched across the country on New Year's Eve. It has become a tradition. As usual, the French media omitted to say most of the damage is done by young disaffected Muslim men and has become a form of protest.
In Iraq, the government has lost control of the city of Fallujah to the fundamentalist group Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, giving Islamists open control of a city for the first time since the US-led invasion in 2003. On Christmas Day, car bombs exploded outside three churches, killing 26 people and maiming 38, part of a campaign to remove Iraq's rapidly decreasing Chaldean Christian population.
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Arab spring yields to Muslim winter | smh.com.au