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Dec 26 2015
News
14 dead as Islamic rebels attack in Philippines
Christmas attacks by Muslim rebels in Christian villages in the southern Philippines left at least 14 people dead and may have been partly influenced by the notoriety of the Islamic State group, officials said Saturday.
The dead included nine Christian villagers separately gunned down by Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighter insurgents and at least five rebels killed by government forces
USA TODAYMay 26 2021
Analysis
In defense of the two-state solution
Some are declaring the two-state paradigm for Israel and Palestine totally doomed. But it’s not — and it’s still worth fighting for.
Last week, Israel and Hamas agreed to a ceasefire in a conflict that claimed nearly 250 lives. But the underlying status quo makes another round of fighting all but inevitable, and a fundamental solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict seems further
VoxNov 21 2015
News
Joe Biden: Turning Away Refugees Is Giving ISIS What They Want
Vice President Joe Biden said on Saturday that turning away Syrian refugees was exactly what the self-described Islamic State wanted.
Biden pointed specifically to comments by ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in which he said that the group wanted to destroy the "gray zone" of coexistence in the West and make it so that Muslims felt they had to flee to the extremist group to escape
HuffPostApr 07 2015
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How Obama Abandoned Democracy in Iraq
When trying to explain the current unrest in the Middle East, from Iraq to Syria to Yemen, American officials often resort to platitudes about Sunni and Shia Muslims fighting each other for “centuries” due to “ancient hatreds.” Not only is this claim historically inaccurate, but it also ignores the unintended consequences that the Iraq War more recently leashed on the region. That war—and the
PoliticoSep 27 2015
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Politics and Philosophy Clash Where the Pope Urges an Embrace of Refugees
Pope Francis challenged Americans last week to accept “the stranger in our midst” and reject a “mind-set of hostility” toward newcomers. But his invocation of the millions of Syrian and other Middle East refugees, a relatively small number of whom have been resettled in the United States, has been met with indifference or resistance by many in the 2016 presidential field.
Some leading
New York Times (News)Mar 03 2016
News
Political Polarization Deepens
In the waning days of 2015, the corporate media has been filled with wall-to-wall coverage of Donald Trump’s call to prevent any Muslims from entering the U.S. While the vast majority of ordinary people reject Trump’s racist rantings, there has been a shift in the mood of the population in the wake of the Paris and San Bernadino attacks carried out by ISIS supporters. According to a New York
Socialist AlternativeJan 28 2024
Headline Roundup
Saudi Arabia Opens First Liquor Store Since Banning Alcohol in 1952
Last week, Saudi Arabia opened its first liquor store in Riyadh, primarily targeted at non-Muslim diplomats.
The Details: The move comes as an effort to curb alcohol smuggling and its resulting black market. The store is located in Riyadh’s diplomatic quarter, and will only sell to non-Muslims over 21, which will be approved by the Saudi Foreign Ministry through an app called Diplo.
Time Magazine CNBC New York Post (News)Jul 23 2015
News
FBI Chief: ISIS Bigger Threat than al-Qaida
The Islamic State group's effort to inspire troubled Americans to violence has become more of a terror threat to the U.S. than an external attack by al-Qaida, the FBI director said Wednesday.
FBI Director James Comey told an audience at the Aspen Security Forum that the Islamic State group, which has proclaimed a caliphate in parts of Syria and Iraq, has influenced a significant but
Newsmax (News)Dec 12 2015
News
Attack Spurs New Chapter in History of Dread in the U.S.
The handsome Washington townhouse where Wayne Hickory practices orthodontics is a landmark of terrorism in America.
In 1919, an anarchist exploded a bomb at what was then the home of the attorney general. The failed assassination set off a wave of violent raids on radicals, Communists and leftists, and the deportation without due process of hundreds of innocent European immigrants — a
New York Times (News)May 29 2018
Headline Roundup
ABC Cancels 'Roseanne' After Roseanne Barr Tweet Sparks Outrage
ABC has canceled the sitcom 'Roseanne' after its star, Roseanne Barr, sent an insulting tweet directed at former Obama aide Valerie Jarrett. Ms. Barr tweeted if the “Muslim brotherhood & planet of the apes had a baby = vj." Ms. Jarrett was was born in Iran and is Black.
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