Killing One’s Own People Versus Killing Other Peoples
My wife and I moved to the UK one and a half years after the First Gulf War. In our new homeland, […]
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A Case for Permanent Gratitude to Allah
Shaikh ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Jīlānī (may Allah sanctify his secret) said in one of the gatherings at his school in Baghdad, “Look at […]
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Understanding Biblical Roots of American Exceptionalism and Support of Israel
This Blogging Theology video is a more detailed presentation of the video on my personal channel on the history of American exceptionalism, Zionism, and modern Israel and the link between them.
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The Supremacist Ideology of American Exceptionalism and Exceptionalising Israel
America’s entrenched self-image as a chosen, exceptional, redeemer nation is borrowed from the Hebrew Bible, having been modelled on the history of the Israelites. American exceptionalism has been the main driving force behind the creation of Israel in Palestine. America sees Israel as a confirmation of its own self-identity. American exceptionalisation is not only a supremacist ideology but the most dangerous in the world.
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Israel’s Unprecedented Destruction of Moral Standards in the World
Never in history before has a state, nation, or dictatorship succeeded in coercing or convincing this many governments, organisations, groups, and individuals to actively support, passively approve of, or stay silent on genocide, ethnic cleansing, mass killing, and treating civilians as legitimate collateral damage.
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Human Life Matters, When the US Says So
The reporting of the Western media of the Russian war against Ukraine has revealed s sickening level of hypocrisy and selective interest in human life
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The Factualisation of Lies: The Creation of Fake History from Fake News
I have coined the term “factualised lie” to denote a lie that has been so commonly used and normalised to the ear and eye that it is received, perceived, and treated as a fact.
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The Meaning of “Being News”: The Persecution of Religious Minorities by ISIS
The rise of The Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) and its extreme form of intolerance, persecution of Christians and Yezidis, […]
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“Gazacaust”: The Name of the New Shame of the World
The word “holocaust” is derived from the Greek “holos,” which means “whole,” and “Kaustos,” which means “burnt.” It has rightly entered every […]
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The Newborn Christians and Jews that the World Really Needs
In January 2009, I published an article on my other website Qur’anicStudies.com that was triggered by a massive Israeli attack on Gaza, […]
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Silence that Amounts to Complicity: The Terrorism that Western Politicians and Media Don’t Talk About
Since the attacks of 11/September/2001 on the USA, terrorism has been presented in the West as the most immediate danger to the […]
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The Dangerous Message of the Coup in Egypt: Political Islam has no Place in Democracy
The democratically elected but now deposed President of Egypt, Mohamed Morsi, seems to have managed in the twelve months he was in […]
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Seeing The Arab Spring Through the Spectacles of Sectarianism
The highly respected and influential Sunni cleric Shaikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi recently attacked the Syrian regime and called on Muslims to join the […]
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The War on Terror: Globalizing Terrorists and Localizing Victims
Simon Jenkins, who is a journalist I respect, wrote a very good article about the Boston terrorist attack. The title of the […]
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Gun Ownership and the Underlying Culture of Violence in the USA: A Culture Beyond Borders
America was recently shocked by yet another tragedy of an unprovoked gun attack on innocent victims. What made the Newtown, Connecticut, massacre […]
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