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A Nation Raped and Ravaged

Iraq after six years of US led invasion: Iraq, a land where many great ancient civilisations such as Mesopotamian, Sumer, Akkad, Babylonian and Assyria flourished between the Tigris and the Euphrates rivers for more than 7,000 years, has been ruthlessly raped and ravaged by the European colonial powers followed by the United States to loot its oil wealth for more …

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What the Middle East can learn from Southeast Asia Samuel Rizk

Washington, DC – An argument could be made that the Middle East, as the birthplace of the Abrahamic religions, is a centre of dialogue between Muslims and Christians. Where their holiest places of worship and pilgrimage exist, Muslims and Christians have provided models of historical co-existence and cooperation. But when there is tension, either for religious reasons or when sacred …

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Manufacturing Fear

If I write a column arguing that Bernard Madoff, a Jew by birth, cheated mostly Christian investors of billions of dollars, you will rightly call me crazy. If I argue that some Jewish religious organizations that received money from Madoff were thriving on the loot, you will rightly call me insane. If I whisper that Madoff was a supporter of …

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The moderate Muslim: An endangered species? – by Nazeeya Faarooq

here is an endangered species out there – strangely it is not an animal, or bird or plant but is in fact a human being – it is the moderate Muslim. Many hundreds of years ago, the moderate and modern Muslim was alive and well and vocal. It was they who engineered and flourished in the great Islamic empires of …

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‘Global order rests on double standards’ JOHN CHERIAN

Interview: Richard Falk, U.N. Special Rapporteur “on the situation of human rights” in Israeli-occupied Palestinian territories. Richard Falk. He has described the Israeli strikes on Gaza as “war crimes”. RICHARD FALK, Professor Emeritus of International Law at Princeton University and currently Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, was in New Delhi in February. He is on …

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