Democracy is defined in the Merriam-Webster dictionary as: a government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised by them directly or indirectly through a system of representation usually involving periodically held free elections. The absence of hereditary or arbitrary class distinctions or privileges. Democracies are also identified by their freedom of press and…
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Hi I’m Mina, a librarian, a reader, an indoor plant enthusiast and now a blogger.
Have Muslim leaders betrayed Palestine?
I’ll be the first to admit that I know very little about global politics and even less about the politics of Muslim countries. The reasons for this are: a) I don’t necessarily trust Western sources on Muslim countries and b) I haven’t done the reading/work on countries other than Palestine and Pakistan. However, with the…
When the genocide is televised
Genocide: the deliberate killing of a large number of people from a particular nation or ethnic group with the aim of destroying that nation or group. If the intention of the occupying force has been unclear to you in the past 4 weeks, than I hope the above definition helps clarify matters. I won’t go…
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