Nov 20 2015
Stories My Father Told Me By Helen Zughaib with Elia Kamal Zughaib, November/December 2015 Charity and Compassion When Jiddu told my father this story, he prefaced it by saying his father had told it to him and he must never forget it, and that is how he told it to me. Once there …
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Nov 17 2015
France Has Been No Friend to Muslims By Gordon Adams, November 17, 2015 Once again, a violent jihadi terrorist attack has hit France, this time with at least 450 victims, 129 of them fatal. Rallying around the French flag, even pasting it over our Facebook avatars, follows, because an attack on European soil somehow …
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Feb 22 2015
Beating Back ISIS By Martin Accad, February 20, 2015 Every few days, we seem to wake up to another massacre committed by ISIS. And these are, of course, only the ones that the media reports. ISIS, in reality, is committing massacres on a daily basis. We have become familiar with their crimes in Syria …
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Feb 22 2015
What ISIS Really Wants By Graeme Wood, March 2015 What is the Islamic State? Where did it come from, and what are its intentions? The simplicity of these questions can be deceiving, and few Western leaders seem to know the answers. In December, The New York Times published confidential comments by Major General …
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Dec 07 2014
How ISIS Should Shape Our View of the Church and Its Mission Globally By Martin Accad, December 4, 2014 I’ve been blogging and speaking much about ISIS in recent months. Last July, as we were beginning to get to grips with the savagery of the group, I tried to call us all, as people who …
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Oct 08 2014
From Pol Pot to ISIS: “Anything that flies on everything that moves” By John Pilger, 8 October 2014 In transmitting President Richard Nixon’s orders for a “massive” bombing of Cambodia in 1969, Henry Kissinger said, “Anything that flies on everything that moves”. As Barack Obama ignites his seventh war against the Muslim world since …
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Sep 23 2014
John Kerry’s rhetoric on Isis insults our intelligence and conceals the reality of the situation in Syria By Robert Fisk, Sunday, 21 September 2014 John Kerry is becoming more and more like William McGonagall, the “worst poet in the world” whose horror at the 1879 Tay Bridge railway disaster yielded the imperishable observation that …
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