Month: February 2015

King Salman’s shady past

With the US and Pakistan both in Saudi Arabia’s figurative pocket, King Salman is set to likely rule much of the world. —AFP Rafia Zakaria is an author, attorney and human rights activist. She is a columnist for DAWN Pakistan and a regular contributor for Al Jazeera America, Dissent, Guernica […]

Examining root of western hostility

 SABRIA S. JAWHAR Published — Monday 2 February 2015 ARABNEWS.COM (a view from Saudi Arabia) As the self-ascribed Islamic State (IS) continues to murder as many people as possible and idiots with automatic weapons try to wipe out journalists who “hurt their feelings,” a trend is emerging to lay […]

Robert Fisk: Ukip couldn’t better what Winston Churchill had to say about Muslims – Churchill published some views so dark about Muslims that he deleted them from future editions – but I kept hold of them

As the Havengore carried Churchill’s body down the Thames, I was not at all enjoying his funeral. A cub reporter on the Newcastle Evening Chronicle, I was based in the frozen coal port of Blyth, where even the puddles of vomit outside the pubs frosted over on Sunday mornings. And […]