Source Asia Times SPENGLER Without stretching the analogy, the conflict between Sunni and Shi’ite Islam in the Middle East today has something in common with the Thirty Years War that surrounded 17th-century Holland. Most Israelis seem to have adapted well to a long-term war regime amid a sea of unrelenting […]
Source: Asia Times Al-Qaeda’s assassination on September 9, 2001, of the Taliban regime’s most powerful enemy – Ahmad Shah Massoud – was as pivotal an event for Afghanistan as the United States-led invasion of the country following the 9/11 attacks. Ten years on, the legend of the “The Lion of […]
Source: Asia Times on line. As the United States and its allies mourn the attacks of 10 years ago, it is worth placing those events and their consequences into a cohesive intellectual and geopolitical perspective. September 11, 2001, constituted the most audacious and deadly terrorist attacks in modern times. But […]
Source/Credit: The New York Times CHITTENDEN, Vt. — Karen Prescott, the principal of Barstow Memorial, never expected that her 33 elementary and middle school students who live on the other side of the mountain would make it in that first day. Hurricane Irene had washed away large stretches of the […]
Source/Credit: The Economist The creation of new, independently run but non-selective and state-funded “free schools” is one of the government’s central policies. Michael Gove, the Conservative education secretary, spent long years in opposition devising ways in which parental choice and competition could be used to improve England’s lacklustre schools. He […]
Source/Credit: Leicester Mercury By Ibrahim Bonsu Once again the Indonesian government have shown that members of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in Indonesia are not entitled to be accorded the same justice enjoyed by other citizens. On February 6, three members of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in Pandeglang, Banten Province, were […]
Source/Credit: Examiner.com By Shahina Bashir Ten years ago, on a bright and crisp Tuesday morning, 19 men who claimed to be Muslims did what no American had ever envisioned. These 19 men did not just attack the most prominent landmark of the Manhattan skyline, but they attacked the very core […]
Source: BBC News Many of China’s churches are overflowing, as the number of Christians in the country multiplies. In the past, repression drove people to convert – is the cause now rampant capitalism? It is impossible to say how many Christians there are in China today, but no-one denies the […]
Source: BBC News An investigation has been launched into how 23 children who received regular blood transfusions have tested positive for HIV in the Indian state of Gujarat. The children suffer from thalassaemia and get their blood transfusions at a public hospital in Junagadh district. Hospital authorities have denied that […]
Bagus BT Saragih, The Jakarta Post, Most Indonesians insist on rejecting any form of religiously motivated violence and are worried that recent violent incidents against certain minority religious groups threaten Indonesia’s reputation as a tolerant nation, a survey concluded. Setara chairman Hendardi said that 47.9 percent of the survey respondents […]
Source / Courtesy: The National Interest By Benny Morris “Israel will exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it [a reference to the Medieval Crusader kingdoms],” states the 1988 Charter or constitution of the fundamentalist Muslim Hamas, the organization that rules the Gaza Strip and […]
By P.K. ABDUL GHAFOUR | ARAB NEWS JEDDAH: A senior official of the Makkah-based Muslim World League (MWL) has called for the establishment of strong media organizations by Muslims in order to challenge stereotypes of Islam and Muslims that link them to terrorism and extremism. “Our efforts in this respect […]
Source/credit: The-Sunday-Times, September 11, 2011 , C.Peregin The 9/11 terror attack and its aftermath made the world suspicious of Muslims, but the Arab Spring has provided a new perspective. Christian Peregin asks Maltese Muslims how the 9/11 decade has shaped their lives. Muslim convert Mario Farrugia Borg has spent […]
Indonesia sect fears more attacks Three members of the Ahmadiyah, a minority sect, were slain by Islamic hard-liners in February. Ahmadis fear the attackers’ light sentences signal tacit government acceptance of religious violence. Nurhayati, a member of the Ahmadiyah, a minority Islamic sect, and her child are among those seeking […]
AMMAN (JORDAN TIMES) – Royal Jordanian (RJ) President and CEO Hussein Dabbas on Sunday said the airline will resume flights to Tripoli and Benghazi, in Libya, soon. The company suspended its operations to these two cities after turmoil erupted in Libya last February. Dabbas said the company will restart operations […]
AMMAN (Petra) – A Royal Jordanian Air Force aircraft carrying a 10-tonne shipment of humanitarian assistance and medical equipment left for Somalia on Sunday upon the directives of His Majesty King Abdullah. On Saturday, the King instructed the Jordan Hashemite Charity Organisation (JHCO) to dispatch relief aid to the Somali […]
AMMAN (Jordan Times) – Jordan on Sunday presented its case of accession to the Gulf Cooperation Council at a meeting of GCC foreign ministers in Jeddah. The ministers issued a recommendation to their countries’ leaders calling for including Jordan and Morocco, another applicant, under a five-year development plan set by […]
This is the transcript of my speech given on September 11, 2011 in the Park Church, Elmira, New York — A United Church of Christ Congregation! It was very well received by the audience. Reverend Felicity Wright called it interesting, useful and provocative. Allow me to quote from the […]
Source / Courtesy: National Geographic
Suppression of one’s own crimes is virtually ubiquitous among powerful states, at least those that are not defeated. Noam Chomsky We are approaching the 10th anniversary of the horrendous atrocities of September 11, 2001, which, it is commonly held, changed the world. On May 1, the presumed mastermind of the […]