Who are Iraqi Shiites and what do they want?
And what I suggest is going back to that list of 10 and picking three things that are really tugging at you, three things you feel strongly. It doesn't have to be the most dramatic things, but it's things that are like, "Ah," like, "I have to write about this." 所以我们的目标...
I have had to read several thousand intelligence and detainee reports on Iraq and have gained insights which most Americans have not been fortunate—or willing—enough to obtain. First, the Iraqi Shiite Arabs are not bosom pals with the Iranians, although they share the same Shiite religion...
Many voters now seem to vote for candidates who are like them. It’s deeper than preferring candidates wholooklike them. With Obama’s election and the recent Congressional elections of the first Muslim and Native American women, the first black women from New England, the first Latina women ...
Sixty thousand civilians of the city outside Aleppo are living under siege by the Jihadists of al-Qaeda. Two hundred who oppose are “wanted” by the terrorists. They are also not spared Assad’s bombs The ordeal of Syrian civilians appears to be endless. The advance of the militias of ...
there are also the people so strongly agnostic or atheist who have some of the same closed-mindedness problems as the religious people they most dislike. It seems like there are extremists of every possible thinking or leaning, and the important thing for all of us is to find a way to co...
In June, Obama said that he would deploy up to 300 military advisers to Iraq to assist the Shiites when they were threatened by the Sunni militant group who would come to be known as the Islamic State group. In November, 1,500 troops were sent to Iraq to further combat the Islamic ter...
Needless to say, among the Kurdish population, the vast majority of whom are Sunni Muslims, there are also bearded men who pray five times a day and observe Ramadan like any devout follower of Islam. Needless to say, Rojava, the PYD (of which the YPG are the armed branch) are only the...
It is the cost of a human’s life that makes war so tragic. Since the initial invasion in 2003, more than 3,000 coalition troops have lost their lives and another 20,000 have been wounded, most of who are American (Aliprandini). Soldiers are not the only ones who are meeting their...
Shiite Muslims regardHasanand his brother Husain as the true successors of Muhammad. The name is popular among Sunni Muslims as well as Shiites. Jewish: variant of Hazan. Is Hasan Piker Turkish? Piker was raised Muslim and is of Turkish descent. He is the nephew of Cenk Uygur, creator of...