Opinion | Guest Contributor | 2015.01.26 I could never condone the attacks on Charlie Hebdo. As a Muslim I am against a kangaroo court justice system and individuals are not allowed to take matters into their own hands. However, I do believe the editor and cartoonist are certainly …
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By Ramzy Baroud 23 January, 2015 Countercurrents.org Francois Hollande is not a popular president. No matter how hard the ‘socialist’ leader tries to impress, there never seems to be a no solid constituency that backs him. He attempted to mask his initial lack of experience in foreign affairs with a …
Read More »Close Guantánamo
By Dr. Ludwig Watzal 26 January, 2015 Countercurrents.org 13 years of torture and lawlessness at Guantánamo should be enough for the self-proclaimed flagship democracy. This military camp has made a mockery of the US jurisdiction, which has lost its credibility. For the rest of the world, American democracy is no …
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Americans and other westerners ignore atrocities committed by their own governments because government officials and the media have a narrow definition of terrorism, said Noam Chomsky. To demonstrate, the linguist and political scientist compared two reports by the New York Times’ veteran correspondent Steven Erlanger — one following the Paris attacks …
Read More »A Glum and Gloomy Day in Rabi al Awwal
BY Maulana Khalid Dhorat January 14, 2015 will go down in history as the day the West, especially the French, signed their own death sentence. And they did it in style too. They did it by first organizing a 4 million people march the weekend before – probably …
Read More »Charlie Hebdo is sadism, not satire
Norman Finkelstein: Charlie Hebdo is sadism, not satire Mustafa Caglayan – Anadolu Agency | 28 Rabi ul Awwal 1436/20 January 2015 In Nazi Germany, there was an anti-Semitic weekly newspaper called Der Stürmer. Run by Julius Streicher, it was notorious for being one of the most virulent advocates of the persecution of Jews during the …
Read More »Paris Charlie: The “Shock Doctrine” par Excellence
By Peter Koenig Global Research, January 16, 2015 Url of this article: http://www.globalresearch.ca/paris-charlie-the-shock-doctrine-par-excellence/5424960 On 12 January the French Parliament approved with almost unanimity – with one abstention only – the budget for France’s continuous and enlarged involvement in the new war on Iraq, a new war engagement led by …
Read More »Using free speech as a cloak for anti-Muslim bigotry
By Haroon Siddiqui Toronto Star, January 14, 2015 There can never be any justification for murdering provocateurs or innocents. Take down their killers, if we must. Or round up the accomplices and throw the book at them. That’s a statement of the obvious after the Charlie Hebdo …
Read More »Charlie Hebdo Attack – An Islamic Perspective
Moulana Yusuf Patel (Secretary-General of the United Ulama Council of South Africa) All praise is due to Allah and may His choicest salutations continue to descend upon our Master and Leader Mohammed Sallallahu Alayhi wa Sallam. Respected Brothers and Sisters in Islam “O You who Believe! …
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Project Hunting Humans – The hysterical reality of the Sydney Siege umm Abdillah, Radio Islam Programming | 2014.12.16 | 23 Safar 1436 AH In a free world every turn is a choice. We choose what we want to read; we choose who we love; we choose war or …
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