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What we learned on our National Day
“AISHA Al-Hurra” mother of Abi Abdullah, the last of the Arab kings of Andalusia, said to her son, who was crying while bidding farewell to his city of Cordoba: Cry like women for a kingdom you did not keep like men!I told my young colleague, reporter Fahad Al-Harthi, this story, as I explained why each and everyone should fight to defend a homeland under siege, just like the Arab kingdoms in Andalusia were. And like then, Arab traitors stood with our mutual enemy in the hope they would be given bits and pieces of our land and treasure.Some activists may fool you into the belief that their cause is noble. Freedom, democracy, right of expression are all noble principles worth fighting for. But are their intentions pure and true? Do they really, truly dedicate their lives and energy to...
September 25, 2017

What we learned on our National Day

German vote could doom Merkel-Macron deal on Europe
WEAKENED by the worst result for her party since 1949 and facing a more fractious political landscape at home, Germany’s Angela Merkel could be forced to rein in plans to re-shape Europe together with France’s Emmanuel Macron.Merkel’s conservatives garnered more support than any other party in the German election on Sunday, projections showed, ensuring that she will return for a fourth term as chancellor.But her party appeared on track for its poorest performance since the first German election after World War II and its only path to power may be through an unwieldy, untested three-way coalition with the ecologist Greens and liberal Free Democrats (FDP), fierce critics of Macron’s ideas for Europe.Over the next four years, Merkel will also have to cope with a more confrontational...
September 25, 2017

German vote could doom Merkel-Macron deal on Europe

Internet giants, once above the fray, on the defensive in Washington
INTERNET giants, including Alphabet’s Google and Facebook, are moving to compromise on several major policy issues as they adjust to an abrupt shift in the political winds in Washington.Just last week, the US Senate took a big step toward advancing legislation that would partially strip away the internet industry’s bedrock legal protection, a 1996 law that shields companies from liability for the activities of their users.At the same time, Democratic senators are writing legislation that would create new disclosure rules for online political ads after Facebook this month revealed that suspected Russian trolls purchased more than $100,000 worth of divisive ads on its platform during the 2016 election cycle. The US Federal Election Commission is considering bringing in Facebook and other...
September 25, 2017

Internet giants, once above the fray, on the defensive in Washington

Buddhist Hezbollah!
YOU probably wouldn’t have heard of Ashin Wirathu and you are not to blame for it. Wirathu is an extremist Buddhist monk from Myanmar, formerly known as Burma, whom American Time magazine described as a symbol and face of Buddhist terrorism? He is leading a vicious campaign of extremism and violence against the Rohingya Muslims in the Rakhine State of Myanmar.He and his brutal militias have been killing, torturing and forcing hundreds of thousands of Muslims to abandon their homes to live in squalid camps on the Bangladeshi border. Ashin Wirathu is the Buddhist version of the terrorist Hassan Nasrallah. As such, he promoted himself to be the leader of the resistance movement seeking to preserve the national ethos and heritage of Myanmar.This lie and deception attracted the people of his...
September 24, 2017

Buddhist Hezbollah!

Relocating roots
MOST of us must have seen, or at least heard of, the 1977 famous TV series ‘Roots’ by Alex Haley’s that is based on his famous 1976 novel. Roots portrayed the slavery trade and the hardship a slave goes through from the moment he/she is kidnapped from Africa and shipped to America to be sold in the slave market, through the life and the story of Kunta Kinte.My point here is not about slavery at all, but about the word ‘roots’. What I would like to emphasize in this column is the word ‘roots’ here and nothing else in the book or the series. For wherever people go, mostly today for economic betterment or intrinsic opportunities, many seem to forget about their roots by being totally immersed in the route they have taken, or face a totally changed scenario back home, their...
September 24, 2017

Relocating roots

The coming robot arms race
Russia’s latest “Zapad” military exercise is underway on NATO’S eastern border. Tens of thousands of soldiers are taking part in the massive four-yearly war games that are both a drill as well as a show of strength for the West. Next time around, in 2021, those troops might be sharing their battle space with a different type of force: self-driving drones, tanks, ships and submersibles.Drone warfare is hardly new — the first lethal attack conducted by an American unmanned aerial vehicle took place in Afghanistan in October 2001. What is now changing fast, however, is the ability of such unmanned systems to operate without a guiding human hand.That’s a truly revolutionary shift — and one every major nation wants to lead. Critics have long feared countries might be more willing...
September 20, 2017

The coming robot arms race

Trump insists on ‘America First.’ Who will follow?
PRESIDENT Donald Trump invited the question, and now the world must answer: If America insists on putting itself first, will anyone else follow?Trump scolded and badgered in his United Nations debut. He declared parts of the planet are “going to hell.” Standing Tuesday before the iconic, green marbled General Assembly backdrop, he painted a grim picture of the globe as he sees it: teeming with crisis and conflict, delinquents and deadbeats.Yet where most leaders use the occasion to call for cooperation, Trump insisted others should follow his example and “always put your countries first.”“As long as I hold this office, I will defend America’s interest above all else,” Trump said at the General Assembly, where nations come to advance their collective interests.Nine months into...
September 20, 2017

Trump insists on ‘America First.’ Who will follow?

Not learning from our mistakes
It is human nature to be at fault occasionally. We make mistakes. And we learn from them. Mistakes or screw-ups are a prelude to perfection. At least that’s how it should be with most people or organizations. You make a mistake, you analyze its roots and causes and then you take remedial steps not to repeat the same practices that resulted in that mistake. But that’s not always the case with some people or institutions. In spite of repeated events that prove to be failing, I notice a lack of tenacity to address this cycle of blunders that has become a fixture in some organization’s policy and procedure manual.Take the case of the Kingdom’s General Authority of Civil Aviation or GACA as it is referred to. It has the propensity to appear in the news whenever something goes...
September 19, 2017

Not learning from our mistakes

Humanitarian catastrophe in Myanmar
THE United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres voiced concern over the happenings in the Muslim-dominated northwestern Rakhine state (formerly Arakan) in Myanmar. According to the news agency reports, the UN chief expressed deep anguish over the indiscriminate attacks by the security forces in the country, saying that he is afraid that the current situation might lead to a humanitarian catastrophe with serious repercussions on peace and security beyond the borders of Myanmar. It seems that the US secretary general does not consider what is happening now in Myanmar as a humanitarian disaster, but he only fears of an impending catastrophe.In Myanmar, more than 3,000 Rohingya Muslims were killed in less than a week and scores of villages and hundreds of houses were burned, in addition...
September 19, 2017

Humanitarian catastrophe in Myanmar

World ignores relentless persecution of Rohingya
The Dalai Lama has urged Myanmar’s authorities to heed Gautama Buddha’s teachings and cease harassing their Muslim countrymen. Nobel Peace prize winners Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Malala Yousufzai have also urged an end to what the United Nations has called the ethnic cleansing of defenseless Rohingya.The evidence suggests, however, that Myanmar’s civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi, its military which wields the real authority in the country and the firebrand Buddhist priests who promote violence have no intention of ending the persecution of the Rohingya.Suu Kyi used to deny that Rohingya were being persecuted. Now she calls them terrorists because on Aug. 25 Rohingya militants attacked border posts killing 12 security officers. What she does not acknowledge is that Myanmar...
September 19, 2017

World ignores relentless persecution of Rohingya

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