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Teachers’ extremist fears over boy, 10, after he complains about lack of prayer room
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A Short History of Hajj Disasters (Revised)
Just when you thought the Hajj stampede season couldn’t get any worse, it did. In my last article I reported 769 deaths and 934 injured in the stampede that occurred […]
Three ‘Isil-inspired jihadists planned Remembrance Day beheading in Britain’
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Vetting Hillary
“If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.” – Virginia Woolf The coronation of Hillary Rodham as presidential nominee for 2016 is […]
Will Obama respond to Russia in Syria?
Once upon a time, or more precisely September 10, 2014, President Barack Obama spoke of the core principle of his presidency, to “degrade and ultimately destroy” the Islamic State of […]
‘To hell with their culture’ – Richard Dawkins in extraordinary blast at Muslims
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Furious charity pulls Calais camp funding after ‘migrants BURN food and clothes’
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Coates contra mundum
In 1963, James Baldwin, aged thirty-nine, published the open letter to his nephew, aged fifteen, that forms the first part of The Fire Next Time. In 2015, Ta-Nehisi Coates, aged […]
Chaos and 2nd Cold War, Part II: Israel’s Nuclear Strategy
How will Russia respond to any ramped up American uses of force in the Middle East, and, more plausibly, vice-versa? One must assume that Jerusalem is already asking these key […]
Syria’s Refugees’ Crazed Conspiracy Theories
Chaos and 2nd Cold War, Part I: Israel’s Nuclear Strategy
To fashion a functional nuclear strategy would be difficult for any state in world politics, but it could be especially challenging for one that keeps its bomb more-or-less securely “in […]
Five Suicide Bombers (including two women and two children) Strike in Chad
Boko Haram is now the Islamic State in West Africa (hat tip NYTimes: N’DJAMENA, Chad — At least five suicide bombers on Saturday targeted a village in Chad that is […]
Indian Housemaid’s Arm Cut Off by Saudi Employer
Many of these maids simply disappear.
Canadian Government has Scraped the Barrel in its Symbolic Pandering
It is astonishing that, with barely a week left before the federal election, pollsters seem to agree the principal issue between the main parties is whether the face-covering niqab can […]
Sunday, October 11th : Listen to the Lisa Benson Show on Palestinian Uprising in Israel and ISIS Christian Genocide at 4PM EDT
“First the Saturday People, then the Sunday People”. Find out what is behind the eruption of a potential Third Intifada “Uprising” in Israel and the Disputed Territories and ISIS’ Genocide […]
Who planned the Ankara Peace Rally Bombings?
Turkish Peace Rally protesters dancing moments before deadly bombings in Ankara Source: Reuters TV Twin simultaneous bombings ripped through a crowd of opposition supporters and Kurdish activists at an Ankara […]