Category: Culture
Canada’s Ambassador to Macedonia is Unabashedly Anti-Macedonian
What if your ethnic identity was being given away while the Western world participated in its demise, then celebrated with claims that a “diplomatic dispute” was being solved?
Read MoreTashkent, Uzbekistan: The City with 2200+ Years of Written History
May 15, 2019 | Viewpoints, Asia Pacific, Culture
Visiting Tashkent was a unique and memorable experience.
Read MoreA Cathedral and a Mosque Engulfed in Fire; One Ravages the Past, the Other Threatens the Future
Apr 16, 2019 | Viewpoints, Culture, Palestine
Concurrent with the fire that ravaged Notre Dame, but lesser reported, the al Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem fell victim to a fire of an unknown origin.
Read MoreWhen Truth-Tellers Must Hide, Societies Collapse
Apr 16, 2019 | Viewpoints, Asia Pacific, Culture
Nashenas, an Afghan who had to hide his identity to exercise his freedom of speech, exemplifies the dangerous trend toward squelching free speech.
Read MoreThere Is No Good Kind of Nationalism
Oct 24, 2018 | Viewpoints, Culture, US
Of course white nationalism is a problem, but not just because it’s white — also because of the nationalism.
Read MoreChina’s Use of Psychological Warfare Against Uyghurs
Sep 21, 2018 | Asia Pacific, Culture, Essays, Politics
The Uyghurs will continue to be traumatized across generations and for decades to come due to the psychological torture that China is inflicting upon them.
Read MoreMoses For #MeToo?
May 17, 2018 | Viewpoints, Culture, US
If Thomas Jefferson has made the #MeToo list of abusers, surely there is room for Moses, his soldiers, and the god he invented to deify Zionism.
Read MoreMorality, Truth, Facts Have Exited From the Dying West
May 4, 2018 | Viewpoints, Culture, Europe, Politics, US
If Washington had any sense, Washington would get rid of Russia by allowing Russia to join the West and become firmly mired in the West’s decadence.
Read MoreRim Banna and the Cultural War that Palestinians Must Win
Apr 3, 2018 | Viewpoints, Culture, Palestine
Rim Banna has died, but the generation of artistes she patiently nurtured will continue to sing, to celebrate a culture and a civilization that cannot be tamed by guns or imprisoned by walls. She was the voice of Palestine that can never be muted.
Read MoreTake a Knee for Freedom of Religion
Sep 27, 2017 | Culture, US, Viewpoints
Freedom of religion depends on the willingness to stand up for (or take a knee for) the right not to be compelled to worship.
Read MoreThe Revival of Ottomanism in Shaping Turkey’s Influence in the Muslim World
Sep 26, 2017 | News & Analysis, Asia Pacific, Culture, Politics
There is a wealth of lessons that Turkey can learn from their Ottoman predecessors in order to progress as an emerging superpower in the region.
Read MoreFacts Supplanted by Propaganda Wherever We Look
Aug 11, 2017 | Viewpoints, Culture, US
The example of a Google employee being castigated for stating a truth inconvenient to one feminist ideology shows how propaganda is elevated above facts.
Read MoreWhen Daesh is Defeated: Who Will Fill the Intellectual Vacuum in the Arab World?
Apr 20, 2017 | Culture
Although hardly popular among Muslims in the Middle East and the rest of the world, somehow Daesh came to define Islam in the eyes of the West.
Read MoreThe Westminster Attack and the Nationality of Terrorism
Mar 24, 2017 | Viewpoints, Culture, Europe
A terrorist attack in Pakistan is as abominable as an attack in Orlando or Westminster.
Read More‘Decolonizing the Mind’: Using Hollywood Celebrities to Validate Islam
Mar 24, 2017 | Viewpoints, Culture, US
In the process of conjuring up this false sense of cultural triumph, Muslims, in fact, further feed into their own unfortunate sense of inferiority.
Read MoreDescendants of Slaves, Forerunners of Justice: American Muslims Must Stop Apologizing
Mar 3, 2017 | Viewpoints, Culture, US
The colonizer, oppressor, invader is always blind to his crimes. He sees only the violent reaction—however minuscule—of the people whom he subjugates.
Read MoreEmpathy: What Our Dysfunctional World Needs
Jan 2, 2017 | Viewpoints, Culture
As a new year dawns, let us resolve to be more tolerant towards the stranger, the refugee, the lonely and those experiencing difficulties in their lives.
Read MoreThe War on UNESCO: Al-Aqsa Mosque is Palestinian and East Jerusalem is Illegally Occupied
Oct 26, 2016 | Viewpoints, Culture, Palestine, Politics
Those denouncing the latest UNESCO resolution on Jerusalem’s cultural sites didn’t bother to read it before jumping on the Zionist propaganda bandwagon.
Read MoreLife in Cairo’s “City of the Dead”
Oct 14, 2016 | Viewpoints, Culture, Middle East
An American teenager visits Cairo’s “City of the Dead”, an inhabited graveyard, and explores the fusing of Western and Middle Eastern culture in Egypt.
Read MorePost-Quake Nepal Is Still Reeling 1 Year Later—For All the Wrong Reasons
Jul 22, 2016 | Culture, Asia Pacific, Viewpoints
Nepal is in the aid spotlight and power-players have their eyes on grabbing more for themselves.
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