Reading the Qur'an in the dark

"Alas, poor Sebastian Faulks! First he annoys the Muslims by declaring, in a Sunday Times interview, that the Qur'an is "the rantings of a schizophrenic" with "no ethical dimension". Then he upsets the Islamophobes by apologising. The poor sod has been hit by a self-inflicted...

warning: you may be dangerous to the person sitting next to you

You never considered that, did you? You don't live in your own private world. Your actions affect others. You may think that "being anti-social" means a person is unwilling to socialize... You're wrong, if so. If...

Violence, Possibly Xenophobic, Strikes Township Near Cape Town

About six months after a wave of xenophobic violence struck South Africa - killing over 60 people and displacing approximately 200.000 people country wide - it seems that anti foreigner violence might have struck a township out of Cape Town once again. On December 16,...

Elementary Social Studies Should Include More Cultural Anthropology

First I'd like to share a quote from the first lecture in Edward Fischer's Teaching Company course Peoples and Cultures of the World. He defines cultural anthropology by describing how it differs from other...

Eyewitness To Xenophobic Attacks In South Africa

South Africa was plagued by xenophobic-related violence last month. Photographers Halden Krog, Alon Skuy, Tebogo Letsie, Lebohang Mashiloane, James Oatway, Moeketsi Moticoe, Muntu Vilakazi and myself spent day and night documenting the horror that is driving thousands of...

Victims of Xenophobic Attacks Can Stay in South Africa

South Africa's Home Affairs Minister has stated that victims of the recent xenophobic attacks, who were then sheltered in ad-hoc camps, will not be deported.""People affected by the violence and who have sought...

Tsvangirai Visits Jo'Burg Hot Spot

Amid the latest wave of xenophobic violence in South Africa, Zimbabwean presidential candidate Morgan Tsvangirai visited some of his displaced fellow citizens, caught between an dangerous, unstable home and an...

What do the Chinese know that we do not?

by Monica Davis Rumor has it that the Chinese government is advising its cities to start stockpiling food and fuel.  The government news agency reports that the central government has told the largest cities to stockpile at least two weeks of food, until the world...

It would be logic to say that the general population of Israel is sick of war...

It would be logic to say that the general population of Israel is sick of war and terrorism, similarly to most other nations to include USA. Seemingly the biggest problem that ends any form of effort in...

Germany Xenophobic- Wave. Teenagers shot at London...

After the racist attacks, the social democrats ask to ban NPD Extreme right at bar. After the violent attacks against immigrants of the last few days, in Germany, the political debate about a...

Cruelty and xenophobia stir and shame the lucky country

"The Australian writer Donald Horne meant the title of his celebrated book, The Lucky Country, as irony. "Australia is a lucky country run by second-rate people who share its luck," he lamented in 1964, describing much of the Australian elite as unfailingly unoriginal,...

British Treat Muslims like the Nazis Treated the Jews

"The British treat Muslims like the Nazis treated the Jews, a U.K. Muslim leader said. Muhammed Abdul Bari, head of the Muslim Council of Britain, said the government targets Muslims, blaming extremism on “a...

The Silver Lining

" From Brussels Journal, This is the concluding paragraph of Konraad Elst'€™s review of the late Anwar Shaihk€™s "Islam and Terrorism."   " The one silver lining to the dark cloud of Islamic terrorism is that it alerts non-Muslim societies to the specificity of...

Dutch Voters Favor Prime Minister's Christian Democrats [a vote toward Dutch ...

"THE HAGUE, Nov. 23 -- Dutch Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende's right-of-center Christian Democratic Appeal party, which has led efforts to curtail Muslim immigration at a time of growing xenophobia in the...

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