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…
Category: Palestinian
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…
On Palestine | Noam Chomsky & Ilan Pappe
Given the current situation in Palestine, with Israeli soldiers (Israeli Offence Force – IOF) storming into the Al Aqsa mosque on one of the holiest nights in the Islamic calendar, guns a-blazing, attackinginnocent worshipers congregating to pray the night prayer during Ramadan, I thought it was imperative upon me to learn more about the Israel/Palestine…
This Hybrid Reads 