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Two sides of an issue
My recent article on the verdict by the Indian Supreme Court on the Babri Mosque/Ayodhya issue elicited some very strong responses from readers, many in support of what I had stated and some strongly opposed to what I had written.One such reader went to the extent of addressing the President and Prime Minister of India to intervene on his behalf and set me straight. He wrote:“Dear President, Supreme Court of India and PMO,While India and Saudi Arabia enjoy a relationship, there are many puppets of Pakistan in Saudi journalism, who keep bashing India with lies and false narratives.“The so-called-journalist who is in CC of this email is one such personality.“But now he has gone to the further extent of assaulting the Indian judicial system, which is very fair, which even gave a good...
November 19, 2019

Two sides of an issue

The EU must act on Iran
IRAN’S ayatollahs are once more on the ropes. Swingeing fuel price rises have so far triggered four days of rioting across the country which are thought to have left scores of dead, though officially the government only admits to a dozen killings.Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has backed the increases in fuel prices of up to 50 percent and blamed the protests on “hooligans” and “counter-revolutionaries”. The fact that the angry demonstrations have attracted widespread support suggests that far from being “hooligans,” those who have taken to the streets are ordinary people whose patience has once more been tried to the limit by the regime’s manifold failures. But Khamenei may well be right that the protesters are “counter-revolutionaries”. After 40 years of rule...
November 19, 2019

The EU must act on Iran

Separation of conjoined twins: A matter of national pride
OkazThe successful surgical separation of Libyan Siamese twins at King Abdulaziz Medical City in Riyadh last Thursday was carried out by a large Saudi medical team led by Dr. Abdullah Al-Rabeeah.The entire Saudi community along with media and social networking sites awaited news of the outcome of the operation, which reinforces the Kingdom’s position as a humanitarian nation that has made giant strides in the area of medical and scientific achievement.The Kingdom has made significant progress in the medical field and some of its specialized hospitals can compete with world-class hospitals. Saudi doctors have become distinguished experts in various specialties.Of course, Arab countries and other countries in the region have made medical achievements in some fields. However, the separation...
November 18, 2019

Separation of conjoined twins: A matter of national pride

Time of change!
The Arab world today or, more precisely, the Middle East has become a region of transformation. Regardless of its style, manner and direction it must be described as a transformation.The great Czech writer Franz Kafka once asked: “How did I become the person I am? Am I really myself, or am I made by others rather than the person who is me?” And what applies to people also applies to peoples and nations. In the past hundred years, the Arab world and the Middle East have lost the ability to exercise tolerance in the midst of the growth of hate speech in the name of religion.The region, which was the cradle of civilizations, cultures and religions, has become a threatening center for what the French-Lebanese writer and novelist Amin Maalouf calls “the sinking of civilizations.”There...
November 18, 2019

Time of change!

Trump’s odd relationship with Erdogan
US president Donald Trump’s relationship with Recep Tayyip Erdogan, his Turkish opposite number is a curious one. Trump, along with most legislators in Washington were incensed when Erdogan pressed ahead with the purchase of the Russian S-400 antiaircraft missile system, in defiance of US pressure and at complete variance with Turkey’s obligations to the US-led NATO alliance of which it is a member. Washington hit back by dropping Turkey from its F-35 fighter production program on the very obvious grounds that allowing Turkish plane makers to produce parts of this new advanced fighter was an absurdity in terms of security, given Ankara’s new close defense relations with Moscow. Turkey had been due to buy 100 of these new US warplanes but the complete fulfillment of the order is now...
November 15, 2019

Trump’s odd relationship with Erdogan

A sad boost for Spain’s racists
THE body of Spain’s ruthless fascist dictator Francisco Franco was moved last month from the huge mausoleum in the Valley of the Fallen where it has lain since 1975 to a humble family plot 50 kilometers away. Yet did the ghost of the man who had ruled his country with rod of iron for 35 years somehow leach from his coffin?The general election this week, Spain’s fourth in as many years, saw the far right Vox party add a million new votes to its three million at April’s election. This makes it the third largest party in the Cortes, the parliament, doubling its seats from 24 to 52. It is clear that Vox has become stronger thanks to its outright opposition to the independence demands from the Catalans. It has presented itself as a highly conservative party embracing family values while...
November 13, 2019

A sad boost for Spain’s racists

Fake views
HILLARY Clinton has described as “inexplicable and shameful” a decision by the UK government of Boris Johnson not to release a parliamentary report into Russian interference in British elections and particularly the 2016 referendum vote to quit the EU.London has said the report will be published after the Dec. 12 general election. However, given the febrile atmosphere around one of the UK’s most bitterly-fought campaigns in a generation, it seems more than likely that one of the members of the all-party Intelligence and Security committee will leak the contents. Meanwhile Johnson’s opponents will accuse him of covering up findings, which they will claim prove Moscow’s interference in the decisions of the British electorate. This would destroy his key argument that the Brexit vote...
November 13, 2019

Fake views

‘The shameful collapse of Indian judiciary’
Nothing coming out of India seems to surprise me lately. After the reported arbitrary arrests of Muslims in some states tending to their cattle business, to the mob lynchings that followed that did not appear to have been publicly censured by the ruling government, anything today seems possible. Add to this morass of bad tidings the Indian government’s intention of taking away the citizenship of over two million, mostly Muslims, in Assam and the unilateral abrogation of a decades-long treaty which allowed Kashmiris autonomy and you get the picture.On 6 December 1992, a violent crowd consisting of Hindu fanatics fueled by BJP/RSS mobsters demolished the Babri mosque, resulting in communal riots leading to over 2,000 deaths, most of them Muslims. The mosque was built in 1528–29 on orders...
November 12, 2019

‘The shameful collapse of Indian judiciary’

Global forces of change!
There are important factors impacting policies, decisions and legislation in Western society. Perhaps the most important forces of change are the following:1. Modern technology seriously threatens the labor market and has led to the dismissal of hundreds of thousands employed in the industrial sector. It also poses a threat to the privacy of citizens and can be used to influence democratic elections or attack the electronic infrastructure of banks and water and electricity companies.2. The rise of China as an economic power will soon make that country the largest economy in the world. However, China’s authoritarianism, suppression of liberties and communist rule are values ​​contrary to those promoted by the political system in the West. US President Richard Nixon and his secretary...
November 11, 2019

Global forces of change!

Students’ viewpoints
This is the second month in the school year in Saudi Arabia. Thousands of new students are enrolled in all higher education institutions across the nation. Newly accepted college students are settling down as they come across different aspects of university life. Students’ impressions of their college community are important indicators of how successful universities are in terms of providing the necessary tools for building good knowledge and doing well in life.Students who join English departments in Saudi Arabia are unique because they have decided to learn a foreign language with different literary and cultural implications. In a composition class, I asked my students at Umm Al-Qura University to write an essay about their first years’ experience in college and how that experience...
November 10, 2019

Students’ viewpoints

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