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Are These Gruesome Passages From the Quran or the Bible?

'I always try not to be prejudiced myself but apparently I already am.' By Rachel Dicker With new evidence surfacing that the San Bernardino shooters may have been connected to the Islamic State group, the distinction between radical terrorist ideology and peaceful religion is more important to draw than ever before. Dutch YouTubers Dit is Normaal sought to draw attention …

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War on Terrorism: Some unknown truths

In the aftermath of the collapse of  the former Soviet Union in 1979, and the emergence of the United States as the most powerful military power in known human history, people worldwide dreamt that democracy would flourish and the world would be a war-free and peaceful place. However, their hopes were dashed as forces such as powerful and ruthless lobbies …

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Terrorism and the Other Religions

By Juan Cole :- Contrary to what is alleged by bigots like Bill Maher, Muslims are not more violent than people of other religions. Murder rates in most of the Muslim world are very low compared to the United States. As for political violence, people of Christian heritage in the twentieth century polished off tens of millions of people in …

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Paris Carnage, ISIS & Western Hypocrisy

By Lukman Harees. “Not every item of news should be published. Rather must those who control news policies endeavor to make every item of news serve a certain purpose.” Joseph Paul Goebbels- Nazi Propaganda Minister ‘Paris suicide bombing’ was certainly a tragedy of equal proportions. People all over the world saw on TV and heard within minutes of this disaster, …

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Our terrorism double standard: After Paris, let’s stop blaming Muslims and take a hard look at ourselves

We must mourn all victims. But until we look honestly at the violence we export, nothing will ever change BEN NORTON Any time there is an attack on civilians in the post-9/11 West, demagogues immediately blame it on Muslims. They frequently lack evidence, but depend on the blunt force of anti-Muslim bigotry to bolster their accusations. Actual evidence, on the …

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French Muslim students responded to the Paris attacks with this video

The Etudiants Musulmans de France, a nearly three-decade-old group representing thousands of Muslim students in France, called the Paris attackers anti-Islamic cowards, and pledged their solidarity to France in a moving video released on Nov. 15. “They think they are fighting Crusaders, and they invoke the Qur’an, and quote its verses. But shedding the blood of an innocent has no …

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