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...
Islamist celebrate as Morsy elected Egypt president
Islamist Mohamed Morsy was declared Egypt’s first freely elected president on Sunday, sparking joy among his Muslim Brotherhood supporters on the streets who vowed to wrest more power from armed forces reluctant More...
As a matter of fact
Column by MJ Akbar - Facts come in every shape, size, variety. Their survival is determined not by value but by how inexplicable they are. The human being has 23,000 genes, only “half as many as a tomato”, More...
33 years jail sentence for helping CIA track Osama Bin Laden
Pakistani doctor Shakeel Afridi was convicted of high treason by a four-member tribal court in the semi autonomous Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) WASHINGTON/ ISLAMABAD – The United States has threatened More...
Afghan Killings Suspects Complains of ‘Memory Loss’
A U.S. soldier accused of killing 16 civilians in house-to-house shooting spree in southern Afghanistan a week ago told his lawyers that he had no recollection of the incident, CBS reported. The 38-year-old Staff More...
United States to cut 100,000 ground troops to accommodate $487 billion defense cuts
Washington – Forced with budget cuts by over $500 billion over 10 years, the United States government has decided to trim its ground troops. However, it will create a “cutting-edge force” for tactical More...
Afghanistan: People battling harsh winter and soaring food prices
Kabul (Afghanistan) – Since Pakistan closed supply routes to NATO forces in Afghanistan after the coalition killed 24 Pakistani soldiers in a cross-border air attack in November, ordinary Afghans and foreigners More...
Two of four Marines seen urinating on Afghan corpses identified
WASHINGTON – The Pentagon has identified two of the four Marines urinating on dead Afghan men in an explosive video that threatened to flare up tension between the US and the Muslim world. An image from a More...
US will never wage war against Islam or any religion: Obama
Ten years after the US launched war against terrorism, in particular those of al Qaeda and the Taliban, President Barack Obama has said America was not and never would be at war with Islam or any other religion. “These More...
Ten years later…
Column by Stephen Suleyman Schwartz - It is challenging to write about the 10th anniversary of the Al-Qaida attacks on the U.S. in 2001. Challenging, first, because recollections of the events are painful and distressing, More...
