War

The Top Five Ways Jewish Law Justifies Killing Civilians | Islamophobia

Posted by Admin ⋅ September 24, 2015

Islamophobes like Robert Spencer and Pamela Geller claim that Islam is more violent than other religions, particularly Judaism and Christianity. To prove this, they argue that the Islamic holy book, the Islamic prophet, and the Islamic God are all uniquely violent–certainly more so than their Judeo-Christian counterparts.We proved these claims completely bunk by showing the Bible to be far more violent than … Continue reading →

Peace-Forum: The Most Violent Prophet in History “النبي الأكثر عنفا في التاريخ” “הנביא האלימים ביותר בהיסטוריה”

Posted by Admin ⋅ September 23, 2015

Who was the most violent prophet in history? Most readers will immediately assume it was the Prophet Muhammad, thanks to a decades long wave of Islamophobia and a sustained campaign of anti-Muslim propaganda. But here’s a tip: it wasn’t Muhammad. Not by a long shot. In fact, Moses had Muhammad beat by far.But it wasn’t even … Continue reading →

Migrants from Middle East to Europe and the Road to Character

Posted by Admin ⋅ September 15, 2015

In his brilliant new book, The Road to Character, the New York Times’s sharp-eyed commentator David Brooks talks about how each of us individually ought to be thinking less about our “resume virtues” (accomplishments, high-level positions, economic achievement) and far more about our “eulogy virtues” — what truly matters at our core: courage, honesty, virtue, … Continue reading →

Muslim Memories of West’s Imperialism | Consortiumnews

Posted by Admin ⋅ September 7, 2015

Special Report: American politicians know little about history, so they lash out at people from formerly colonized Third World nations without understanding the scars that the West’s repression and brutality have left on these societies, especially in the Muslim world, as historian William R. Polk explains Continue reading →

Officials struggle to shut down (un) Islamic State [Daesh] propaganda machine

Posted by Admin ⋅ September 7, 2015

Neither Islamic nor State, not to be called Islamic State but Terrorist Group. Its Daesh…. Continue reading →

Pope Francis Calls on Europe’s Catholics to Shelter Refugees – WSJ

Posted by Admin ⋅ September 7, 2015

ROME—Pope Francis responded to Europe’s burgeoning immigration crisis Sunday, asking every Catholic church on the continent to set an example of Christian mercy by taking in a family of refugees. “May every parish, every religious community, every monastery, every sanctuary in Europe host a family,” the pope told a crowd in St. Peter’s Square after … Continue reading →

Indo-Pak war of 1965: Then and now – The Express Tribune

Posted by Admin ⋅ September 6, 2015

If there is a lesson to be drawn from the 1965 War, it is that the Kashmir issue requires a principled and viable resolution. Continue reading →

How To Speak of Hiroshima?

Posted by Admin ⋅ September 6, 2015

The liberal imagination has seldom clubbed Auschwitz and Hiroshima together. Auschwitz was both a labor and extermination camp, and more Jews, Roma, and others deemed “undesirables” were killed at Auschwitz than in any other camp in the Third Reich’s vast machinery of death. One of Auschwitz’s more remarkable survivors was the Italian Jewish chemist Primo … Continue reading →

Do Religions cause Wars?

Posted by Admin ⋅ February 18, 2014

There is no scholarly agreement on which are the most common motivations for war. Motivations may be different for those ordering the war than for those undertaking the war. Since many people are involved, a war may acquire a life of its own from the confluence of many different motivations. In Why Nations Go to War, by John G. Stoessinger, the author points out that both sides will claim that morality justifies their fight. He also states that the rationale for beginning a war depends on an overly optimistic assessment of the outcome of hostilities (casualties and costs), and on misconceptions of the enemy’s intentions. This is an endeavor to analyse the role of religion as a cause of wars through the history, remove misconceptions to understand the real cause of wars to avoid them, if possible. Continue reading →