Posts Tagged ‘Sunni’

Christiane Amanpour and Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad Discuss Afghanistan’s Golden Age

In Afghanistan, History, News, Opinion, Politics, TV, War, fame, pakistan on 30 October 2009 tagged 1979, Afghan Star, Benazir Bhutto, Christiane Amanpour, CNN, Herat, Intercontinental Hotel, Kabul, Mazar-e-Sharif, Nowrooz, Nowruz, pakistan, Peshawar, Shia, Soviet Union, Sunni, Tom Ricks, Vietnam War, World War II, Zalmay Khalilzad with View Comments

For Christiane Amanpour to have Ambassador Khalilzad and Tom Ricks on CNN sharing their memories of an Afghanistan before the Soviet invasion is a very important step because it shows the people of the world that Afghanistan at one point had a functioning society with educated professionals – a society from of which, Khalilzad himself [...]

Video : Jamal Dajani U.S. Hasn’t Learned From Own ‘Mistakes in Iraq’

In Afghanistan, Crime, History, Internet, Iraq, News, Opinion, Politics, TV, Twitter, War, pakistan on 29 October 2009 tagged 111th Congress, Al Qaeda, al qaida, Intelligence Report, Iraq, Jamal Dajani, Link TV, Mosaic, Mujhaideen, New York Times, News, pakistan, Shia, Sunni, taliban, Taliban Reintegration Program, Video, Youtube with View Comments

I don’t know if I agree with Dajani’s statements that unlike in Iraq, the Taliban is embedded in Afghanistan in a more integral manner. The Taliban were a largely Pakistani force created and maintained by Pakistan. The Taliban retain power because of their fear tactics and propaganda, not a true sense of loyalty and connection. [...]

Muntazer al-Zaidi [Iraqi Shoe Thrower] ‘My Country is Still a Prisoner of War.’

In Afghanistan, Crime, History, Iraq, News, Opinion, Politics, War, citizenship, fame on 19 September 2009 tagged Abu Ghraib, alluja, Arab, Assyrian, Basra, Christian, Diyala, George W. Bush, Guardian, Haditha, Iraq, Iraq War, Jesus Christ, Kurd, Mosul, Muntazer al-Zaidi, Muslim, Najaf, Sabean, Sadr City, Shia, shoe thrower, Shoes, Sunni, Tal Afar, Turkman, Yazid with View Comments

His words speak for everyone who has seen their homeland destroyed by the brutality of war and occupation in the name of political gains: More than a million martyrs have fallen by the bullets of the occupation and Iraq is now filled with more than five million orphans, a million widows and hundreds of thousands [...]

Video : Gaza Woman Converts to Shi’a Islam to Gain More Freedoms, Engage With Society

In History, Iran, Islam, News, Opinion, Palestine, Politics, TV, Twitter, religion on 30 July 2009 tagged Arab, Democracy, Fatah, Gaza, Hamas, Iran, Islam, Israel, Jerusalem, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Mark Regev, Palestine, Ramallah, religion, Russia Today, Sheikh Ibrahim Sarsur, Shia, Sunni, Tel Aviv, Video, Youtube with View Comments

Much of the rest of the report is less interesting re-hashed information, but the statements of the female convert are extremely important considering recent developments for the women of Gaza. The woman clearly states that she feels she has more opportunities to engage with society as a Shi’a woman than she does with the form [...]

The Greatest Hits and Minor Misses of Obama’s Cairo Speech

In History, Iran, Iraq, Islam, News, Opinion, Palestine, Politics, Racism, TV, War, citizenship, india, pakistan, religion on 4 June 2009 tagged Afghanistan, Al Qaeda, Al-Azhar, Algebra, Alliance of Civilizations, Andalusia, Ankara, Barack Hussein Obama, Bosnia, Buchenwald, business, Cairo, Cairo University, citizenship, Cold War, Copts, Cordoba, Crime, Darfur, egypt, Gaza, Guantanamo Bay, H1N1, History, Holocaust, india, Internet, Iran, Iraq, Islam, Israel, John Adams, Koran, Maronites, Morocco, News, Opinion, pakistan, Palestine, Palestinian Authority, Politics, Qur'an, Racism, religion on 4 June 2009 tagged 9/11, Road Map, Saddam Hussein, Shia, Sunni, Swine Flu, Third Reich, Thomas Jefferson, Treaty of Tripoli, TV, Twitter, Video, War, West Bank, Youtube, Zakat with View Comments

There were a lot of expectations for the speech United States President Barack Hussein Obama gave at Cairo University on the morning of June 04, 2009 and with a few points of diction aside, he hit all the points he needed to and then some. As for the missed opportunities, Obama never once mentioned the [...]