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Spreading darkness of hatred
MUSLIMS and the West have always viewed each other with deep suspicion and open hostility, with Crusades and colonialism serving as contributory factors. Migration or Muslims’ refusal or unwillingness to integrate with host societies gave a new edge to the negative perceptions the West had of Islam. However, it was the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the United States that gave a new acceptability or respectability to Islamophobia. Even the opposition to migration is now driven by anti-Muslim prejudices.For example, when British Conservative MP Enoch Powell made his famous “Rivers of Blood” speech in Birmingham on April 20, 1968 against unrestricted migration from nonwhite countries, he didn’t single out Muslims as did Donald Trump 49 years later. But after the 9/11 attacks, there...
August 21, 2017

Spreading darkness of hatred

Steve Bannon
Bannon leaves the White House
Steve Bannon has been fired after a tumultuous seven-month stint as President Donald Trump’s chief strategist. With his strong nationalist views, he often clashed with the White House’s more moderate factions who eventually turned against him. He pushed for America’s withdrawal from the Paris climate agreement, reportedly opposed Trump’s strike in Syria in April and gained a reputation for leaking.He was also the architect of the US travel ban on citizens of Muslim countries which, of all else, showed his fervent right-wing stripes and white supremacist views. Almost immediately after taking office in January, Trump issued an executive order aimed at temporarily banning travel from certain countries while the US government reviewed and strengthened its vetting procedures. In both...
August 20, 2017

Bannon leaves the White House

Police officers patrol a day after a van crashed into pedestrians at Las Ramblas in Barcelona
Barcelona terror attack
The 13 people in Barcelona mowed down by a car reportedly driven by a Daesh (the self-proclaimed IS) terrorist on Thursday puts Spain on the list of countries in which vehicles have been used to ram into crowds in a series of attacks across Europe since July last year. That Spanish police killed five armed attackers in another car attack some hours later in the town of Cambrils makes the two assaults in Spain the biggest terrorist operation in one country on the continent during this period of vehicle rammings.The Barcelona attack, which also injured over 100, was the sixth time in 13 months a vehicle has been used by terrorists to cause mass casualties in a European country, including major incidents in France, Germany, the UK and Sweden.Since the 2004 Al-Qaeda Madrid train bombings that...
August 19, 2017

Barcelona terror attack

Islamophobic mockery in Australia
As political stunts go the appearance of an Australian far-right politician in the Canberra parliament wearing a burqa is hard to beat.When Pauline Hanson, leader of the Islamophobic One Nation party walked in completely cover in black there were gasps from assembled legislators and one was heard to cry, “Oh, what on earth!”.The speaker of the House of Representatives might have been tempted to order the racist politician from the chamber and will surely be seeking to find out how security had permitted Hanson to enter in this attire. But it was probably a good thing that this woman was allowed to stay and hear the reaction of virtually every other MP to her outrageous mockery of Islam. Indeed she had probably been hoping that she would be expelled, which would have allowed her to...
August 18, 2017

Islamophobic mockery in Australia

Can two wrongs make a right?
Drug addiction destroys whole families as well as the addicts themselves. A complete moral collapse is produced by the craving for a new fix. Addicts will lie and steal from their own friends and relatives to support their habit. And of course their muggings and petty thefts disfigure city streets and shops.Every decent person must feel disgust and anger at the whole illegal narcotic trade. This business of death starts with the farmers in South America, Afghanistan and Pakistan who are encouraged or forced to grow the cocaine-producing coca plant or the opium poppy from which heroin and morphine are made. Drugs barons from the Mafia to the Taliban organize the collection and processing of the crops then ship them around the world to a pyramid network of dealers that ends with street-level...
August 17, 2017

Can two wrongs make a right?

The perils of megaphone diplomacy
US President Donald Trump’s failure to immediately condemn the racist violence in Charlottesville and the murder of an anti-racist protestor has produced widespread anger. The truth is that the president has made a rod for his own back by his regular and often provocative instant tweets on anything and everything. But on Saturday after a racist drove a car into a crowd of counter-demonstrators assembled to voice their opposition to a far-right rally in the Virginian city, killing a 32-year-old woman Heather Heyer and injuring 19 others, Trump’s Twitter account stayed silent.The president has troubles enough with the liberal establishment and even members of his Republican party all snapping at his heels day and night over every last thing he does. It was a major folly to gift them a...
August 16, 2017

The perils of megaphone diplomacy

Trump must reverse Obama’s foolish lifting of Iran sanctions
IRANIAN legislators shouted “Death to America” as they voted through a half billion-dollar increase in the country’s defense budget more than half of which will go to a new missile program. The excuse for this latest increase in Tehran’s aggression was the partial re-imposition of US-led sanctions following a provocative January missile test.President Donald Trump always said Obama’s nuclear deal with Iran was a nonsense but has so far failed to tear up the agreement as he promised when on the campaign stomp. The glaring weakness of the Geneva settlement was that it only bound Iran to stop development on nuclear weaponry for 15 years. Obama’s one apparent foreign policy triumph in eight lackluster years therefore merely shuffled off the problem for another administration.The...
August 15, 2017

Trump must reverse Obama’s foolish lifting of Iran sanctions

Bringing peace to Libya
GHASSAM Salame, UN’s new envoy to Libya, has endorsed Italy’s drive to stem the flow of migrants leaving the North African nation for Europe. More than 600,000 refugees and other migrants have reached Italy from Libya since 2014. But of every 39 people who survive the perilous journey across the Mediterranean, one dies. In total, at least 2,247 people have died or are missing after trying to cross the sea into Europe via Spain, Italy or Greece this year, according to the International Organization for Migration (IOM). There has been a more than 50-percent fall in the number of migrants rescued at sea during July, when compared to the same month in 2016.But refugees desperately seeking to reach Europe and attendant tragedies are only one aspect of the Libyan problem. Restoring peace and...
August 14, 2017

Bringing peace to Libya

The beautiful Kingdom
Although the Kingdom is not normally considered a holiday destination that might soon change as the country embarks on a bold plan to turn 50 Red Sea islands into luxury tourism resorts.The Red Sea project will cover 34,000 square kilometers — an area bigger than Belgium — between the towns of Umluj and Al Wajh. Construction will begin in autumn 2019 and be completed by the end of 2022. The Kingdom’s Public Investment Fund will provide the initial funding before international bodies are invited to invest.This new holiday zone, boasting the islands and beaches as well as dormant volcanoes, has a year-round average temperature of 30°C and is expected to draw up to one million tourists a year - a combined domestic and international total - by 2035. The site will include resorts,...
August 13, 2017

The beautiful Kingdom

Benjamin Netanyahu
Netanyahu on the ropes
Even though he is a suspect in a slew of cases involving bribery, fraud and breach of trust, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was the other day given a hero’s welcome at a Likud Party rally in Tel Aviv. That’s what Netanyahu and Likud are betting on: That the Israeli public will rally around him, and that, even if the investigations move forward with an indictment on any one of the charges, he can at least win in the court of public opinion. But many wonder if this strong show of force can be sustained under the weight of such a large number of criminal charges.Police have questioned Netanyahu four times during these months-long investigations. One case, known as Case 1000, involves allegations concerning inappropriate acceptance of gifts from businessmen. In the other, Case...
August 12, 2017

Netanyahu on the ropes

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