Osama bin Laden’s body slid into the North Arabian Seas from a US warship within twenty four hours of his assassination on May 2, 2011,…
Posts tagged as “Terrorism”
Two men march into an office building at around midday. They were not extraordinary men, yet they were loaded with rifles and other weapons. Within…
As members of the United States, we are given a designated list of what groups and which people we ought to believe engage in terrorism.…
Just last month, Mozambique’s President Filipe Nyusi signed a peace accord with Renamo, a former rebel movement, and proclaimed that it would “allow for the…
On July 5, Tunisian Prime Minister Youssef Chaed declared an official ban on the use of the niqab in the country’s public institutions. The ban…
Violence In Western China The capital of the Chinese province of Xinjiang, Urumqi, looks like many Chinese cities. The horizon is full of construction machinery creating…
My friend was killed by a neo-nazi. It’s a strange thing to type out, but it’s true. Even stranger, though, are the details: killed by…
How terminating the American Visa Lottery would detriment both the US economy and deserving immigrants. George Washington wrote on December 2nd, 1783 that “The bosom…
With growing religious tensions in France regarding Islamism and the threat of terrorism, the stigmatization of Islam is a significant concern for the stability of…
The Government Wages War on Racial Justice, Environmental, and Anti-Fascist Activists “I think especially in light of the advent of Antifa, if you look at…
“China and India could really go to war,” I said to myself when rolling down the comment area of a Chinese news site. “Group Fight…
Humankind has always wished to take to the skies. The innovations of Abbas ibn Firnas and the Wright Brothers have captured the imaginations of millions,…
Advocates of the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act protest President Obama’s veto outside the White House. Stephanie DeSimone was pregnant when her husband, Navy…
On July 28, the French Riviera town of Cannes implemented a new law that would quickly become a trend: they banned the wearing of the…
Turkey’s assistance to the Islamic State goes beyond providing open borders for ISIS militants. By the end of 2015, Turkey is expected to host as…
In 2000, an unarmed, unmanned CIA surveillance aircraft overflew Tarnak Farm in Afghanistan, taking video of the sprawling agricultural complex and a tall man dressed…
Many thought this day would never come. In an interesting turn of events, negotiations between the United States and Iran over a developing nuclear deal…
The start of 2015 has been wrought with extremism: from the Charlie Hebdo attacks to an increasingly violent ISIS, Islam has began the year with…