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How the U.S.-favored Kurds Abandoned the Yazidis when ISIS Attacked

DAILY BEAST by Christine Van Den Toorn August 17, 2014 Interviews with witnesses show the Kurds who are now getting weapons and air support from Washington left the Yazidis defenseless earlier this month. DOHUK, Iraq — Not the least of … Continue reading

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Holy War Arrives in Germany

GATESTONE INSTITUTE by Soeren Kern August 10, 2014 Supporters of the jihadist group “Islamic State” [IS] have clashed with Kurdish Yazidis in North Rhine-Westphalia, the state with the largest Muslim population in Germany. The violence—which comes amid threats by a … Continue reading

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A Muslim comments on Muslim double standards

TORONTO SUN by Tarek Fatah July 15, 2014 If there is a God, he has some explaining to do. On the one hand he tells us Muslims in the Qur’an that we are “the best of peoples, evolved for mankind”, … Continue reading

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The Myth of Ethnic Inequality in Israel

MIDDLE EAST QUARTERLY by Steven Plaut Summer 2014 It is commonplace to attribute much of Israel’s domestic tensions to supposed Jewish discrimination against the country’s Arab citizens.[1] Nearly every Israeli Arab nongovernmental organization insists that such discrimination characterizes the Jewish state … Continue reading

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Israel’s new Christian Friends, explosion in Christian world population

JERUSALEM POST by Melanie Phillips May 22, 2014 The pope’s imminent visit to Israel will rightly attract much attention; but 2 largely untold stories about global Christianity have the capacity to shake the world order. The first is the persecution … Continue reading

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