Japan: Muslims stress Islam rejects terrorism

Source: the-japan-news.com | The Yomiuri Shimbun The recent case in which two Japanese men were taken hostage by a group believed to be the Islamic State has drawn widespread criticism from Muslims living in Japan. “Islam does not condone persecution or violence,” Muhammed Rasit Alas, a 30-year-old imam dressed in white, told devotees […]

Murdering Journalists … Them and Us

Global Research: by William Blum — After Paris, condemnation of religious fanaticism is at its height. I’d guess that even many progressives fantasize about wringing the necks of jihadists, bashing into their heads some thoughts about the intellect, about satire, humor, freedom of speech. We’re talking here, after all, about young […]

Eating grass

Source: ET In the 1970s, the then prime minister of Pakistan, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, famously declared that, “We will eat grass, even go hungry, but we will have our own,” while referring to the attainment of nuclear weapons. Forty years after that declaration, we both have the bomb and — […]

Religious science: Riding the chariots

Dawn: ‘Pilots in ancient India were flying aircraft not only around the world, but from planet to planet as well …’ This was claimed by some speakers during a session titled ‘Ancient Indian Aviation Technology’ at the Indian Science Conference in Mumbai early this month. Many Indian scientists have flinched […]

Noam Chomsky: America is a terrified country

Salon.com: This is an excerpt from the just released 2nd edition of Noam Chomsky’s “Occupy: Class War, Rebellion and Solidarity,” published by Zuccotti Park Press. Reprinted from Truthout.org. with permission. Free Speech Radio News producer Catherine Komp interviews Noam Chomsky. Noam Chomsky is amongst the world’s most cited living scholars. Voted the “world’s […]