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How many Muslims has the U.S. killed in the past 30 years? December 01, 2009 “FP” — Tom Friedman had an especially fatuous column in Sunday’s New York Times, which is saying something given his well-established capacity for smug self-assurance. According to Friedman, the big challenge we face in the Arab and Islamic world is “the Narrative” — his patronizing …
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OBAMA GAMBLES ON HISTORIC GRAVEYARD
After wavering for three months and holding ten crisis meetings with top officials, US President Barack Obama on Tuesday announced a decision his chief commanding officer in Afghanistan wanted him to take. He agreed to send 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan, disappointing a section of the population who voted him into office last year in the hope that he would …
Read More »Whose Country is it Anyway?, By Dayan Jayatilleka
Three perspectives on Sri Lankan identity [Slightly revised version of the 12th Bakeer Markar Memorial lecture on ‘Challenges to Strengthening Sri Lankan Identity’, delivered on Nov 17, 2009 by Dr Dayan Jayatilleka, former Ambassador/Permanent Representative of Sri Lanka to the United Nations at Geneva]. (December 02, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian) When Imthiaz extended this invitation to me, it was impossible …
Read More »One day the wall will fall in the Arab world, By Rami G. Khouri
The 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall Monday passed very quietly in the Arab world, because the meaning of the wall’s fall – the transition from total state control to human freedom – also bypassed the Arab world. Not the Islamic world, or the Middle East, but the Arab world. For many reasons, the Arab world collectively …
Read More »Dubai in deep water as ripples from debt crisis spread, By Patrick Hosking and David Robertson
THEY ATTEMPTED TO CREATE A PARADISE ON EARTH – TALLEST BUILDING IN THE WORLD, BIGGEST HORSE RACE TRACT IN THE WORLD, BIGGEST AIR PORT IN THE WORLD, BIGGEST CAR RACING TRACT IN THE WORLD USING THE BLOOD AND SWEAT OF THE ASIAN BLACKS. NOW IN A HELL HOLE. Work has been halted on the artificial islandsFears of a dangerous new …
Read More »Politics of Babri Masjid, By Kuldip Nayar
“LET the temple come up.” This was the remark by Atal Behari Vajpayee when I asked his reaction to the destruction of the Babri Masjid one day after. I was surprised by his comment because I considered him a liberal force in the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP). Yet I did not attach much importance to his remark. Now that the …
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