And Now Egypt Could Completely Fall Apart…

Business Insider: by Alexander Dziadosz. CAIRO (Reuters) – Some 200,000 people died in a decade of civil war in Algeria after uniformed officers rejected a popular vote for Islamists, an example some in Cairo darkly cite after the army ousted Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood president on Wednesday. While Algeria’s Islamists were […]

“The government is completely confused over the terrorism problem,”

Source: TOI “The government is completely confused over the terrorism problem,” said Zahid Hussain, whose books plot the rise of militancy in Pakistan. “The government’s indecisiveness and dithering has emboldened the militants.” At least 160 people were killed in suspected militant attacks in June, according to an Associated Press count. It was the second […]

Michael Servetus: A Unitarian Martyr from the 16th Century

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia  Not to be confused with Servatius (disambiguation). Michael Servetus Born Unknown, possibly 29 September 1509 or 1511 Villanueva de Sijena, Kingdom of Aragon in Spain Died October 27, 1553 Geneva, Swiss Confederacy Occupation Theologian, Physician, Cartographer, Translator Influenced by Johann Winter von Andernach,Jacques Dubois Theological work Era Renaissance Main interests Theology, Medicine […]

Back to Square one

Source: ET The Arab Spring unleashed in 2011 seems to be continuing. The removal of Egyptian president Mohamed Mursi through a military intervention marks a new phase of public mobilisation in Egypt and is a step in the wrong direction. Army Chief General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on state television announced that the […]

Sadness in excess

Source: ET I was to give you “far sadder stuff” from my trip to Quetta with the HRCP, in continuation of my piece of last week, wasn’t I? Well, a most sad event, yet another killing of yet more innocent Hazaras took place mid-week just as I was marshalling my thoughts […]