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Argentinian author and illustrator Isol poses in this undated handout picture. REUTERS/Xavier Martin/Handout
By Team Folks On Tuesday, April 2nd, 2013
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Argentina’s Isol wins world’s biggest children’s book prize

STOCKHOLM | Wed Mar 27, 2013 8:27pm IST (Reuters) – Argentinian author and illustrator Isol won the world’s biggest prize for children’s literature on Tuesday with the jury for the Astrid Lindgren More...

Islam and Dhimmitude: Where Civilizations Collide by Bat Ye’or, translated from the French by Miriam Kochan and David Littman. 2002.FarleighDickinsonUniversity Press, Associated Universities Press,Cranbury,NJ,USA and Gazelle Book Services,Lancaster,England. 528 pages. Price $60 (HB), $19.95 (PB).
By Team Folks On Sunday, February 3rd, 2013
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Dhimmitude: Historical Consequences of Jihad

Islamic conquests resulted in a multitude of second-class citizens known as Dhimmis and a state of mind called ‘dhimmitude’. It is characterized by victims of Jihad going into denial and flatter their tormentors.  Book More...

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By Team Folks On Saturday, January 12th, 2013
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Islamic Fundamentalists in North America

Column by Stephen Suleyman Schwartz and Irfan Al-Alawi In Egypt, the Muslim Brotherhood regime in Egypt and its Wahhabi fundamentalist allies – who use the term “Salafi,” indicating Islamic virtue, to hide More...

By Team Folks On Wednesday, January 9th, 2013
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Owaisi’s rant: Provocative Politics or Everlasting Hatred?

Its politics and provocation are rooted in the delusion that Muslims were the original rulers of India and the British stole the country from them and handed it to the infidel Hindus. The complete silence of Sonia More...

U.S. Senate Minority Leader McConnell speaks to reporters on his way to lunch at the U.S. Capitol in Washington
By Team Folks On Saturday, December 29th, 2012
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Senate leaders to make last-ditch “fiscal cliff” effort

Report by Roberta Rampton and Richard Cowan WASHINGTON | Fri Dec 28, 2012 8:35pm EST (Reuters) – President Barack Obama and U.S. congressional leaders agreed on Friday to make a final effort to prevent the More...

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By Team Folks On Friday, December 28th, 2012
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Modi phenomenon and the two Indias

Modi is seen as the leader by doers and achievers while he is hated by hangers on with colonial values who depend on patronage from the ruling family calling itself the Congress. They fear having to live in a world More...

Afghan dealers exchange currency at a money market in Kandahar
By Team Folks On Sunday, December 23rd, 2012
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Special Report: Stalking the Taliban in Afghan currency markets

Report by Matthew Green KANDAHAR, Afghanistan | Sat Dec 22, 2012 10:04pm EST (Reuters) – Haji Khairullah Barakzai is the ultimate Afghan success story: illiterate village boy makes a fortune thanks to a lifetime More...

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By Team Folks On Thursday, November 22nd, 2012
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Obama, Dobama, And the Price of Ignorance

Column by Stephen Suleyman Schwartz India has hanged Mohammed Ajmal Kasab, a Pakistani citizen, for his involvement in the infamous terror assault on Mumbai in 2008.  The Islamabad government, which subsidizes More...

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By Team Folks On Saturday, November 17th, 2012
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Washington’s revenge

Column by M.J. Akbar When Abraham Lincoln was told at the height of the devastating civil war that his most successful general, Ulysses Grant, was drinking too much he wanted to know the brand of Grant’s favourite More...

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By Team Folks On Monday, November 5th, 2012
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Why Did U.S. Security Fail in Benghazi?

Column by Stephen Suleyman Schwartz On the night of September 11, 2012, the American consulate in Benghazi, a revolutionary focus in liberated Libya, was attacked by terrorists.  U.S. Ambassador John Christopher More...