Category: Culture
Take a Knee for Freedom of Religion
Posted by David Swanson | Sep 27, 2017 | Culture, US, Viewpoints | 1 |
The Revival of Ottomanism in Shaping Turkey’s Infl...
Posted by Dilly Hussain | Sep 26, 2017 | Asia Pacific, Culture, News & Analysis, Politics | 17 |
I Am Not Brand New. I Am Macedonian.
by Bill Nicholov | Nov 1, 2019 | Culture, Europe, Politics, US, Viewpoints
Help us. I would—and have—helped you. Our Name Is Macedonia. Join us in defending it.
Canada’s Ambassador to Macedonia is Unabashedly Anti-Macedonian
by Bill Nicholov | Sep 26, 2019 | Americas, Culture, Europe, Politics, US, Viewpoints
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?
Tashkent, Uzbekistan: The City with 2200+ Years of Written History
by Sufyan bin Uzayr | May 15, 2019 | Asia Pacific, Culture, Viewpoints
Visiting Tashkent was a unique and memorable experience.
A Cathedral and a Mosque Engulfed in Fire; One Ravages the Past, the Other Threatens the Future
by Soraya Sepahpour-Ulrich | Apr 16, 2019 | Culture, Palestine, Viewpoints
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.
When Truth-Tellers Must Hide, Societies Collapse
by Wahab Raofi | Apr 16, 2019 | Asia Pacific, Culture, Viewpoints
Nashenas, an Afghan who had to hide his identity to exercise his freedom of speech, exemplifies the dangerous trend toward squelching free speech.
The Sinicization and Suppression of China’s Muslim Uyghurs
by Sarmad Ishfaq | Nov 23, 2018 | Asia Pacific, Culture, News & Analysis, Politics
The Chinese state-approved path to Islam and Uyghur culture now dictates every aspect of the Uyghurs existence and reality.
There Is No Good Kind of Nationalism
by David Swanson | Oct 24, 2018 | Culture, US, Viewpoints
Of course white nationalism is a problem, but not just because it’s white — also because of the nationalism.
China’s Use of Psychological Warfare Against Uyghurs
by Mamtimin Ala | 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.
Moses For #MeToo?
by John Hartung | May 17, 2018 | Culture, US, Viewpoints
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.
Morality, Truth, Facts Have Exited From the Dying West
by Paul Craig Roberts | May 4, 2018 | Culture, Europe, Politics, US, Viewpoints
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.
Rim Banna and the Cultural War that Palestinians Must Win
by Ramzy Baroud | Apr 3, 2018 | Culture, Palestine, Viewpoints
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.
Take a Knee for Freedom of Religion
by David Swanson | 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.
The Revival of Ottomanism in Shaping Turkey’s Influence in the Muslim World
by Dilly Hussain | Sep 26, 2017 | Asia Pacific, Culture, News & Analysis, 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.
Facts Supplanted by Propaganda Wherever We Look
by Paul Craig Roberts | Aug 11, 2017 | Culture, US, Viewpoints
The example of a Google employee being castigated for stating a truth inconvenient to one feminist ideology shows how propaganda is elevated above facts.
When Daesh is Defeated: Who Will Fill the Intellectual Vacuum in the Arab World?
by Ramzy Baroud | 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.
The Westminster Attack and the Nationality of Terrorism
by Hamza Hafeez | Mar 24, 2017 | Culture, Europe, Viewpoints
A terrorist attack in Pakistan is as abominable as an attack in Orlando or Westminster.
‘Decolonizing the Mind’: Using Hollywood Celebrities to Validate Islam
by Ramzy Baroud | Mar 24, 2017 | Culture, US, Viewpoints
In the process of conjuring up this false sense of cultural triumph, Muslims, in fact, further feed into their own unfortunate sense of inferiority.
Descendants of Slaves, Forerunners of Justice: American Muslims Must Stop Apologizing
by Ramzy Baroud | Mar 3, 2017 | Culture, US, Viewpoints
The colonizer, oppressor, invader is always blind to his crimes. He sees only the violent reaction—however minuscule—of the people whom he subjugates.
Empathy: What Our Dysfunctional World Needs
by Dr. Adnan Al-Daini | Jan 2, 2017 | Culture, Viewpoints
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.
The War on UNESCO: Al-Aqsa Mosque is Palestinian and East Jerusalem is Illegally Occupied
by Ramzy Baroud | Oct 26, 2016 | Culture, Palestine, Politics, Viewpoints
Those denouncing the latest UNESCO resolution on Jerusalem’s cultural sites didn’t bother to read it before jumping on the Zionist propaganda bandwagon.