Saudi Arabia’s chief export is Wahhabism

Source: Daily Beast. More than oil, Saudi Arabia’s chief export is Wahhabism, which it has promoted around the world through its embassies and mosques to eventually be cloned by jihadist groups, like ISIS. Wahhabism is the most conservative, oppressive and exclusionary form of Islam, which considers all non-Wahhabists enemies — […]

Let’s Not Destroy ISIS

Source: The Daily Beast: Americans should support this mission against ISIS. One may well choose to do so warily, because, as I wrote in the wake of President Obama’s speech last week, it depends on a lot of uncontrollable variables (the Saudis behaving like good guys) against which odds are […]

Let's Not Destroy ISIS

Source: The Daily Beast: Americans should support this mission against ISIS. One may well choose to do so warily, because, as I wrote in the wake of President Obama’s speech last week, it depends on a lot of uncontrollable variables (the Saudis behaving like good guys) against which odds are […]

The Ahmedis of Pakistan

by Zeeba Hashmi. DAILY TIMES While the mind remains boggled with religious onslaughts and vigilante mob tyranny, it gets even harder to understand what drove our society to excommunicate an entire community The seeds of contention lie in a misplaced sense of justice where the aggressor goes scot-free and the […]

Netanyahu faces new Gaza reality

Israel’s failed war on Gaza has shifted the political ground on both sides of the conflict, bolstering Hamas, which Israel set out to destroy, and discrediting Israeli propaganda, which no one now believes, writes Ramzy Baroud Aside from being a major military setback, Israel’s latest war on Gaza has also […]