Arab World

The Christian tragedy in the Middle East did not begin with Isis. A hundred years on from the Armenian genocide, and a Christian minority is again suffering

By Robert Fisk, The Independent   One summer’s day in 1990, I walked into a beautiful Crusader chapel in Keserwan, a gentle mountainside north of Beirut, where an old Catholic Maronite priest pointed to a Byzantine mosaic of – I think – Saint John. What he wanted to show me […]

Iran nuclear deal: A powerful Tehran turned into America’s policeman in the Gulf? It could happen This week’s Lausanne deal could trigger a political earthquake

Iran nuclear deal: A powerful Tehran turned into America’s policeman in the Gulf? It could happen This week’s Lausanne deal could trigger a political earthquake by Robert Fisk, The Independent Iran was reborn as a major Middle East nation when it agreed to limit its nuclear ambitions. Despite the “ifs” […]

425. Commandment – Punishment for those who make false and defamatory statements about chaste women

425. Commandment – Punishment for those who make false and defamatory statements about chaste women [24:5] And those who calumniate chaste women but bring not four witnesses — flog them with eighty stripes, and never admit their evidence thereafter, and it is they that are the transgressors, [24:6] Except those who repent thereafter […]

SUFISM AND DREAMS

SUFISM AND DREAMS A gypsy came to a Sufi master as he often received a small amount in charity from him. One day the gypsy told him about his dream, about which the master was very astonished. At the same time the son of an important official came to visit […]