July 4: A Momentous Day for a Great Nation

By Saeed Qureshi Today the American nation is celebrating its 237th independence day.  It was on this momentous day that the Declaration of Independence written by illustrious Thomas Jefferson (later the third president of the USA) was adopted by the Second Continental Congress. As a result, the 13 colonies declared independence from […]

Syria’s Sunni vs. Shia Myth

by Khaled Diab, Journalist A recent poll on Al Jazeera Arabic’s website asked who was responsible for turning the Syrian revolution into a sectarian conflict: the Sunnis or the Shi’a? Around 95% of those who voted blamed the deterioration on the Shi’a. Although this result is shocking in its own […]

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 […]