American leaders are always trying to assess Osama bin Laden’s level of influence over Muslims.   They should look at his influence over their own countrymen.   The aversion to a proposed Muslim center near Ground Zero shows that it is Americans, not Muslims, whose thinking the terrorist leader has most successfully recast to his advantage.   The detractors strengthen …

IF THIS IS NOT TERRORISM? WHAT IS IT THEN.? Men of the Protestant fraternal organisation Orange Order are seen through a security barrier under police presence during the Apprentice Boys march in Londonderry, Northern Ireland on August 14,2010. Up to 15 000 people and 140 bands are expected to attend. The Apprentice Boys of Derry is a Protestant fraternal society …

[25:63 ] And the servants of (Allah) Most Gracious are those who walk on the earth in humility, and when the ignorant address them, they say, "Peace!"; [25:64 ] Those who spend the night in adoration of their Lord prostrate and standing; [25:65 ] Those who say, "Our Lord! avert from us the Wrath of Hell, for its Wrath is …

The Sino-Indian Geo-political Trap Sri Lanka’s political foolhardiness in its inability to solve peacefully its domestic ethnic minority issue over the last fifty or so years, as an independent sovereign nation state has, as a consequence of a bitterly fought civil war, pulled her into the vortex of a new geo-political game played amongst India, the United States and China …