Nationalism

Anti-semitism is a horrible thing. That’s exactly why, in the interest of a scholarly defense of the truth, we cannot allow ourselves to throw that accusation around too liberally.

The Afghan people are trapped in a limbo between two styles of governance that do not fit in with their society: a Western-style democracy and a Wahhabist Taleban emirate. They believe in the ideals of freedom, equality, and national pride, but they need to be empowered to build a system that embodies these ideas in a uniquely Afghan way.

One night, three friends in Khartoum , Sudan acted on their dissapointment. They wanted to encourage people to register to vote and then, vote in the general elections, so they started “Girifna”

Are you loyal to Iran independence and resistant to Pan-Iranism?
I’ll tell you that I am!
I know that pan-Iranism has got its own supporters, and it has been moderately growing among Persian youngsters mostly but the sad part is when pan iranism advocated by green movement leaders to penetrate the society to gain the [...]

I have recently posted another article from BBC about missing bodies that were found in acid wells. Those bodies belong to people who lost their life during the conflict that took place in the 90s between Kurdistan Workers Party (aka PKK) and Turkish army. Those who died were killed by ‘unidentified’ people during the daytime, [...]

It is 1 am now in the Middle East. The cease fire will be effective in 1 hour. Just as predicted, Israel decided to cease fire just when Barack Obama is boarding the train and is on his way to the White House.
Israel has been attacking Gaza nonstop for 22 days, after having carte blanche [...]

21 questions:
1) Will Saudi Arabia ever acknowledge the term “Minimum Wage”?
2) Who came up with the color coding of genders? White thobes for men, and “black” Abaya (robe) for women?
3) Why is (Saudi) Arabia one of the few, if not the only, countries named after a Person?
4) What’s the percentage of Saudi citizens that see [...]

Note: This is a post about Muhammad al-Maghout’s film al-Hudud which I originally placed on my personal blog. I thought it would be appropriate to post it here, given the recent release of statistics regarding the “nationality”–if a corpse can be said to have one–of the 199 dead bodies returned by Israel as part of [...]

Does dying for a cause you’re passionate about automatically make you a hero? What if you killed many innocent people in the process, does that still make you a hero, or a murderer?
Maybe this is best demonstrated with photos.

A “hero” of the Lebanese political movement Amal, ironically meaning “hope” in Arabic. Is political dominance worth [...]

(This topic is a message to any non-Arab muslim or non-muslim in specific, and to all in general)
When your around for Modern muslim images, You’d expect a picture of some angry mob burning down a chinese made American flag, or a turban wearing bearded fellow who’s yelling the name of Allah while waving around a [...]