This will be a multi-part series but the answer is quite simple to those who know historical fact from what they see on TV or read in the newspapers. The latest example comes from Syria where we are still told the terrorism that has gripped Syria since 2011 was the result of peaceful protests and a desire for change. What is happening in Syria is part of long-term colonization and a fight for resources which the Middle East possesses. Unfortunately for the colonizers there...
This is the debate that I have been involved in numerous times over the years. I have asked many Imams about this issue and the response is normally the same. The last response I had was that "you get 10 times the reward" for reading it in Arabic without any supporting evidence from Qur'an or authentic hadith. Some people will not even accept any religious debate about Islam when it is done in English, yet the same people will lear...
The Stealth Crusade By Barry Yeoman | Wed May 1, 2002 12:00 AM PST At 8 o'clock on a warm Monday morning in January, 20 students file into Rick Love's classroom at Columbia International University in South Carolina. Eyes glassy from writing papers all weekend, they clutch Styrofoam cups of Folgers a...
Uighurs and China's Xinjiang Region Author: Preeti Bhattacharji, Research Associate Updated: July 6, 2009 ...
Rights report targets Canada over missing women, land claims Last Updated: Thursday, May 28, 2009 | 8:47 AM ET Comments40...
Before ceasefire, Gaza doctor's grief was heard on live Israeli TV 'Oh, God, my daughters!' he cried after Israeli shells hit house Last Updated: Sunday, January 18, 2009 | 10:29 PM ET Comments249...
The biggest book of the summer is about the end of the world. It's also a sign of our troubled tim...
Monday, Jul. 01, 2002 The End: How It Got That Way By DAVID VAN BIEMA Calamity is the mother of end-of-the-world prophecy. This is true as millions of Americans, many rattled into an End Times frame of mind by Sept. 11, line up to buy the latest installment in the Left Behind series, The Remnant. It was true when the first prophecies of the End appeared in the Hebrew Bible in response to a great national catastrophe in 586...
UN chief calls for ceasefire as Israel pounds Hamas targets Last Updated: Monday, December 29, 2008 | 9:53 PM ET Comments1198...
Rights commission dismisses complaint against Maclean's Last Updated: Saturday, June 28, 2008 | 7:09 PM ET Comments146...
B.C. detention was bid to silence anti-war activists, American says Last Updated: Sunday, September 16, 2007 | 4:10 PM ET CBC News Story Tools: E-MAIL | PRINT | Text Size: ...
Scholar: There is no clash of civilisations by Firas Al-Atraqchi in Cairo, Egypt Tuesday 20 December 2005 2:07 PM GMT Armstrong was in Cairo as a guest of the American University One of the foremost authorities on monotheistic religions and traditions, Karen Armstrong's writings on Islam have come into public focus following 9-11. Born in 1944, Armstrong began her journey to faith as a Roman Catholic nun but left her order in 1969 when s...
Jewish leaders worried by escalating Israel-Vatican spat over terror comments 01:09 PM EDT Jul 29 NICOLE WINFIELD VATICAN CITY (AP) - Jewish leaders said Friday they were worried by an escalating spat between the Vatican and Israel over papal pronouncements on terrorism and urged both sides to tone down the rhetoric to avoid any lasting damage to relations. Rome's chief rabbi, Riccardo Di Segni, said the dispute was "only damaging for both parties" and...
Geneva Convention not for al-Qaeda, U.S. court says Last Updated Fri, 15 Jul 2005 16:06:21 EDT CBC News An appeal court in Washington has ruled that the 1949 Geneva Convention on the treatment of prisoners does not apply to members of al-Qaeda. The decision clears the way for a military commission consisting of three U.S. colonels to judge Salim Ahmed Hamdan, a prisoner in Guantanamo Bay, who was Osama Bin Laden's driver in Afghanistan. Prisoner...
Israeli army seals off Gaza strip Last Updated Thu, 30 Jun 2005 08:53:25 EDT CBC News Hundreds of Israeli soldiers have stormed a hotel in the Gaza Strip in order to remove 150 Jewish extremists, who had barricaded themselves inside for several weeks. The ultra-nationalists had vowed to make the derelict Palm Beach Hotel their base of operations to protest Israel's planned pullout from the Gaza. An opponent of Israel's planned pullout from the G...
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