first explain what we mean by the term ethnic media. Chapter 1 What Are Ethnic Media? 5 Defining Ethnic Media Ethnic media are media produced for a particular ethnic community. The Haitian Times, for example, is a newspaper published in New York. It aims to cover all the news that ...
The majority ofSunni Muslims believe tattooing is a sin, because it involves changing the natural creation of God, inflicting unnecessary pain in the process. Tattoos are classified as dirty things, which is prohibited from the Islam religion. Why is cursing bad? They found that cursing isassoci...
Al-Atareb is seen as an important conquest to many because it is in a highly strategic area, both from the logistic and economic point of view, because here one finds the main route of connection between Aleppo and the Bab Al Hawa pass (the only official border crossing with Turkey). Th...
In contrast, a “serious relationship” was largely understood as something quite opposite—an explicit mutual long-term commitment with a compatible partner that is intended to, but might not always, lead to marriage. The assessment of how marriageable a partner is, in turn, based on two ...
What is meant by pre-Islamic? :existing prior to the development and acceptance of Islam pre-Islamic Arabs pre-Islamic cultures of Asia Minor. What do you mean by the term jahiliyyah? Jāhiliyyah, in Islam, the period preceding the revelation of the Qurʾān to the Prophet Muhammad. In...
educational organisation affiliated to a book publishing enterprise run by Helena Cobban is for the most part, an exercise in cheap propaganda. The latest session was a textbook example of how to produce propaganda for a regime, meant to be consumed by educated and informed people in the west....
I urge everyone who hasn’t already voted to go to the polls on November 6. Only if weallvote, will we know what most Americans want. Remember the term “silent majority”? Well, the silent majority has let the voting minority take over this country. I cringe when I hear any politicia...
Oh, yes, I was going to point out that all this craziness that Trump, Vance and Musk (The Three Muskrateers?) are putting out there for public consumption is nothing new. Really, it’s been done before by different a-holes with different names utilizing different industries, lobbyists, fo...
The major schisms between Shia and Sunni Islam led to further divisions into distinct faith and ethnic groups, a process which is still carrying on. Wahabi theologians who have inspired some of the most hard-line new conservatives among Sunnis are not accepted by most Sunnis around the...
The “extra toe” is not in fact extra: it is simply pedal digit I, the hallux, more familiar to us as the big toe of humans or the dewclaw of the hind foot of some dogs. The typical interpretation of what is meant by an “extra” toe is that the bird exhibits the anisodactyl ...