Jan 1, 2025 ~ 'Al Qaida Is Winning – The New Caliphate In Syria' "inside Syria, the new Islamic rulers are losing no time in consolidating their rule and making clear their intentions. On 26 December, Al-Jolani appointed former Al-Qaeda commander and Nusra Front co-founder Anas Hassan ...
Note the classic spigot on the wall and the red plastic mini-pitcher. For some reason the pitcher is almost always red... This similar toilet is in the Mavi House guesthouse, Sultanahmet district,İstanbul, Turkey. It's another great spigot-and-pitcher example, and this one is also red...
The alternative, for those who are always asking about alternatives, as if we were replacing one totalitarian government with another, is always the ballot box. What’s more important, and what is true in any region in the Arab World, is that foreign intervention is a small detail in the ...
Yet it is not clear that military advances invariably came first. Economic advances second and intellectual advances third. In the 860’’s the Byzantine Empire began to recover from Arab incursions so that by 872 the military balance with the Abbasid Caliphate had been permanently altered in ...
8.What’s in a Word? Naming‘Muslims’in Medieval Christian Iberia237 between various Muslim ethno-political entities were therefore part of the broader nar-rative of the‘Hispanic empire’in which the Andalusis had a role to play, as long asthey accepted client status under the‘imperial’...
another nation, the stock market will collapse, how the Diddy and Epstein allies could finally be revealed, and why Trump may have the opportunity to make massive changes to the Supreme Court. Plus, why we need to keep a watchful eye on the largest anti-Western caliphate to form in the ...
”A Joyful Disturbance” refers to ”mamihlapinatapai” – a word from South America that is said to be one of the most difficult to translate on the planet. But what do we have a reliable Wikipedia for? It says that it means “a gaze that shares two people without words, who want to...
When she is done talking, you are left feeling empty and befuddled. Here is why I have been using the nutritional analogy for this essay: There is a machine at work in America today. It is a machine of Bad Faith. Another way of looking at Bad Faith is when you actively dismiss, ...
Another Hadith related to the matter is: Mahdi will govern the world like Dhul-Qarnain and Solomon (Upon whom be peace).68 It is very interesting that Mahdi is compared to Dhul-Qarnain in the hadith. Being one of the kings of Yemen, Dhul-Qarnain, who lived in the time of Abraham...
Education is, quite simply, peace-building by another name. It is the most effective form of defense spending there is. —Kofi Annan 141 Brave men do not gather by thousands to torture and murder a single individual, so gagged and bound he cannot make even feeble resistance or defense. —...