Does anyone recall how the United States responded to the bombing of its embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam in 1998? Yes, they launched Operation Infinite Reach, striking targets in Sudan and Afghanistan with multiple cruise missiles. Famously, their attack on Sudan destroyed Khartoum’s largest pharmaceutical plant, until then a major regional medicines manufacturer. …
Not Andrew Marr. Nor Andrew Percy.
Learning of the deaths of British aid workers killed in Gaza yesterday, one particularly nasty troll chimed, “Tell us their names, so we can actually clarify if they’re British or not.” Succumbing to their ravaging hate, they hoped the dead would be a Mohammed or Fatima, so they could dehumanise them entirely. But, instead, they …
The rich and powerful have no right to lecture the disenfranchised poor and oppressed about political violence. No matter how much we abhor the violence of lone wolves perpetrating heinous crimes, it pales against the brutality collectively inflicted on whole nations by the industrial war machines of our pretended role models. Can any amongst the …
Will the warmongers who present themselves as peacemakers ever recover from what we have seen on our television screens? All the world now bears witness to reality.
We are told that the people of Gaza voted for Hamas, and therefore deserve everything they get. But the last election there was 18 years ago. That means anyone under 35 today did not vote for them — about 70% of the population. Of the 75% of eligible voters who did cast a vote in 2006, …
In our tradition, we have a well-known narration, in which the Messenger, peace be upon him, is reported to have said: “The Muslim is the one from whose tongue and hand the people are safe, and the believer is the one from whom the people’s lives and wealth are safe.” Hadith So tell me, in …
All night long, these words reverberate in my soul: Fight those who fight you… But do not transgress the limits… And if they incline to peace… Likewise incline to peace. So as I arise for the morning prayer, these thoughts stir within: How might the world look today if we hadn’t transgressed limits clearly set? …
Nobody protests for Sudan. I wonder why. Another humanitarian crisis at breaking point as famine looms for 25 million people. Yet more war crimes as the factions perpetrate unspeakable atrocities against the civilian population. But this is a conflict zone that will not animate us, stirring us into an emotional frenzy to advocate for peace. …
The rising far-right, growing increasingly mainstream, is intent on pitting Muslim against Jew. But familiarise yourself with the Jewish Voice for Labour, the UK Jewish Coalition, Jewish Voice for Peace, Jews for Justice, Jewish Network for Palestine, and many other grassroots organisations, and you will find that really isn’t so. Perhaps we could say right-wing …
Every shepherd is responsible for his flock. Unfortunately, we have appointed wolves as the shepherd. Nobody is talking about the diabolical miscalculations of these shepherds, which have heaped nothing but destruction on the flock. Ravaged by marauding predators from the outside, they turn back only to be ripped apart by their own. They are right …
There is a Palestinian woman we know, who lives nearby, who just learnt that thirteen members of her immediate family were killed in Gaza today. May God ease her pain and compensate her loss.
Professor Haim Bresheeth speaking in September last year. I should introduce my old classmate to this chap. Let them compare notes.
All those terrifying dystopian movies of the 80s and 90s have been brought to life. The only question left to answer is which side is playing the good guys.
