(Ma’an) – As the 300-foot spire of the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris tragically came tumbling down on live television, my thoughts ventured to Nuseirat Refugee Camp, my childhood home in the Gaza Strip.Then, also on television, I watched as a small bulldozer hopelessly clawed through the rubble of my neighborhood mosque. I grew up […]
Archives for April 2019
Our Climate Emergency and ‘Extinction Rebellion:’ disruption and arrests can bring social change
By Alexander Hensby | – Extinction Rebellion burst onto everybody’s screens with disruptions and mass arrests across the UK and around the world, in protest against government inaction on climate change. Radical disruptions have been at the heart of Extinction Rebellion’s activism since it was founded in 2018 – from January’s disruption of London Fashion […]
In Drive to Overthrow Iran, Trump stops Waivers for Oil Purchases from Tehran
The Trump administration announced Monday that it would cease granting waivers to countries allowing them to buy Iranian petroleum as of May 2. Iran is only exporting 1.1 million barrels of petroleum per day, down from 2.5 million before the Trump administration violated the 2015 Iran deal and imposed unilateral severe sanctions. Secretary of State […]
With 130 Gaza Palestinians having lost limbs to Israeli Snipers in past Year, Qatar opens Amputee Rehab Center
More than 130 Gazans have lost their limbs during border protests in the past year. Qatar is inaugurating the Gaza Strip’s first prosthetic hospital and disability rehab centre after many delays. Officials from the oil-rich Arab nation attended the opening Monday in Gaza City. Qatar built the hospital after its then-emir visited Gaza in 2012. […]
“The Nearest in Love:” On how the Sri Lankan Death Cult Betrayed the Islamic Values of the Qur’an
A tiny death cult in Sri Lanka calling itself “Sri Lanka Tawheed Jamaat” (not to be confused with a big mainstream organization of the same name in India) appears to be responsible for the eight coordinated bombings at luxury hotels and Christian churches on Sunday. By now the tactic is familiar, if monstrous. These small, […]
Earth Day: Can the Sixth Extinction be Slowed?
Greg Asner, Arizona State University Earth’s cornucopia of life has evolved over 550 million years. Along the way, five mass extinction events have caused serious setbacks to life on our planet. The fifth, which was caused by a gargantuan meteorite impact along Mexico’s Yucatan coast, changed Earth’s climate, took out the dinosaurs and altered the […]
Revolutionary Sudan granted $3 bn. by Saudis & Emirates, Hostile to Democracy
Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) said on Sunday they had agreed to send Sudan $3 billion worth of aid, throwing a lifeline to its new military leaders after protests led to the ouster of President Omar al-Bashir. The two countries will deposit $500 million with the Sudanese central bank and send the […]
Why the Qur’an denied that Jews were Responsible for Jesus’ Death on Good Friday
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – That the Qur’an recognizes the virgin birth, the death, and the resurrection of Jesus is something worth remembering on Easter. In a nativity scene about Jesus’s supernatural precociousness, the Qur’an has him speak in the cradle, saying, (Mary 19:33): “So peace be upon me, the day I was born, and […]
How Algerians Used Nonviolent Civil Resistance to unseat a President for Life
By Mohamed Nabil Bennaidja | – International Institute on Nonviolent Conflict | Minds of Movement ) – Since late February, Algerians have been protesting every Friday on the streets of the capital Algiers and other major cities to demand the departure of the regime that has ruled the country since independence in 1962. Friday protests […]
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