The Boko Haram Terrorists Are Not ‘Islamic’

Source: The Daily Beast: Attention members of the media: Kindly stop referring to the Nigerian terrorist group Boko Haram as “Islamic terrorists,” “Islamists” or anything else involving the word “Islam.”  The despicable acts taken by this militant group—from kidnapping schoolgirls to slaughtering people at churches and mosques—have absolutely nothing to […]

I WANT YOU

Source: The Daily Beast: The leader of the self-declared Donetsk People’s Republic of Ukraine called on Russia to “absorb” the region following Sunday’s referendum. Referencing the 89 percent of voters in Donetsk and 96 percent in Luhansk who reportedly favor “self-rule,” Denis Pushillin called on Moscow to listen to the […]

We Wasted a Year

Source:Daily Beast: The international community’s failure to coordinate on aid and weapons for the rebels dramatically set back efforts to fight the regime, the secretary of state told opposition leaders. In a private meeting with Syrian opposition leaders, Secretary of State John Kerry said he believed the international community “wasted […]

Pakistan’s deadly descent into polio contagion

BBC: Pakistan was close to eradicating polio 10 years ago. But conspiracy theories, a Taliban ascendancy and drive-by shootings of polio workers have reversed the gains. The BBC’s M Ilyas Khan reports from the frontline of the government’s war against the virus and the militants’ war against its vaccinators. “Polio […]

ISLAMISM: THE RISE OF POLITICAL ISLAM

Malaysia Today: by Raja Petra Kamaruddin — THE CORRIDORS OF POWER What we are seeing is not Islam. What we are seeing is Islamism. Islamism is not a religion like Islam. Islamism is political Islam. And Islamism is opposed to secularism, democracy, and all those other western ideals that are […]

Narendra Modi and Pakistan

southasianvoices.org: By: Tridivesh Singh Maini and Yasser Latif Hamdani With the BJP-led NDA Coalition being the frontrunner in the Indian Parliamentary elections, according to all surveys and opinion polls, all eyes are on Narendra Modi, the BJP’s PM Candidate and Chief Minister of Gujarat. Modi, who means different things to different people, […]

The Radical History of Mother’s Day

Thedailybeast.com: This week, the world’s eyes turned toward Nigeria. While the news that hundreds of young woman had been kidnapped from their schools by the terrorist group Boko Haram was slow to gain our attention, over the last ten days, that changed. Everybody from world leaders to Kardashians have joined the social media outcry. […]