It might be better for Iran to detach itself from West Asia (aka the Middle East by the colonial West) and become part of South Asia and then also join the BRICS formation.
Some clerics in Egypt have issued a fatwa renaming ISIS/Daish as QSIS-al Qaeda Separatists in in Iraq and Syria. Should this term be adopted for them in the media?
Kurdish is related to Farsi and to a lesser extent Urdu but is a long long distance from English. besides many loan words from Arabic exist in al these languages.
dear cole saheb
the governor of gujarat is appointed by the central government and he would certainly accept muslims as his brothers and sisters. you meant mr. modi the chief minister of gujarat who would be quite willing to say that muslims are his brothers and sisters even if he did not mean it. the spokesman of modi's party who appears every other day on national television is a muslim by the way.
in india these people would be called right-wing christian fundamentalists. the difference between india and your country is that we have evry stripe of crackpot from extreme right religious loonies to extreme left maoists. sort of balances things out.
This needs to be fictionalised like the Iran thingamee.
I think the person who earlier translated Umar Khayyam should do his own translations for"Poem of the Day".
It might be better for Iran to detach itself from West Asia (aka the Middle East by the colonial West) and become part of South Asia and then also join the BRICS formation.
Some clerics in Egypt have issued a fatwa renaming ISIS/Daish as QSIS-al Qaeda Separatists in in Iraq and Syria. Should this term be adopted for them in the media?
the few green spots in your map will have vanished in a year or two or three
Rumi or Maulana Rum is also known as Jalaluddin Balkhi. Balkh was never part of the Byzantine empire but Konya was.
Kurdish is related to Farsi and to a lesser extent Urdu but is a long long distance from English. besides many loan words from Arabic exist in al these languages.
Can we please stop calling West Asia "the Middle-East"?
The lady is a Dalit, by the way, which caste was formerly known as "untouchable"!
i'm secretly wondering if the americans have by mistake absorbed some dna from the lemmings.
the only country that has behave irresponsibly after obtaining nuclear weapons is the united states of america.
shouldn't cnn be discussing israel's nuclear plans?
dear cole saheb
the governor of gujarat is appointed by the central government and he would certainly accept muslims as his brothers and sisters. you meant mr. modi the chief minister of gujarat who would be quite willing to say that muslims are his brothers and sisters even if he did not mean it. the spokesman of modi's party who appears every other day on national television is a muslim by the way.
in india these people would be called right-wing christian fundamentalists. the difference between india and your country is that we have evry stripe of crackpot from extreme right religious loonies to extreme left maoists. sort of balances things out.
dear cole saheb,
i was just about to mail you about inclusing a bit of humour on your website!