Posts Tagged ‘Indonesia’

Afghanistan Has ALWAYS Been Resource Rich, It’s Policy That Dictates Success

It has recently been reported by both the New York Times and Los Angeles Times that Afghanistan is extremely rich in mineral resources. Though the figure may be larger than previously imagined, the truth is that Afghanistan has many resources to make it self-sufficient. The Arghandab District of Kandahar Province before being over-run with insurgent [...]

Secretary Clinton’s Blunt Words to Pakistan : ‘If You Want to See Your Territory Shrink, That’s Your Choice’

United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had very choice words for the people of Pakistan, which seemed to be in direct contrast with the Bush Administration who considered Pakistan an ally after the United States began its mission in Afghanistan in 2001. Clinton held nothing back as she came right out and said that [...]

Video : Vali Nasr ‘Jihad is Not Good for Business’

“It’s so interesting that in the Muslim world the middle class is now rising just as we here in the United States have decided to destroy ours…Our idea was, at least with Iraq. Let‘s completely destroy the society and then they‘ll vote and the middle class will spring up from their love of democracy. Is [...]

A New Kind of Feminism Takes Hold in Afghanistan ‘People Need to be Educated in Values’ of Islam

One thing I find really interesting about the women’s statements is that they challenge the Taliban notion that women cannot be educated by pointing to other Muslim nations where neither women nor men are denied the right to education. So why then, in Afghanistan, a nation that used to produce female professionals before the endless [...]

Barack Obama Admits Muslim Family Ties : U.S. Not at War With Islam

Speaking from Ankara Turkey today, United States President, Barack Hussein Obama worked hard to move past the “with us or against us” mentality of the past 8 years of United States foreign policy. Obama even went so far as to acknowledge his Muslim father, something that seemed unthinkable during his historic bid for the presidency: [...]