Prior to September 11, 2001 words such as “terror”, “terrorist” and “terror attack” were not so familiar to Westerns. Extreme changes to security policies after 9/11 attack exposed Western public to such concepts to the point that the fear and threat of terror attack has increased dramatically. However in reality only 2.2% of fatalities from terrorist attacks happened in US and Western...
Twenty-six month after The Speicher massacre, Iraqi government convicted and executed 36 people believed to be responsible for themassacre.Speicher is considered one of the worst crimes ISIS has committed since it took over large parts of the Iraq in 2014 and one of the powerful motivator for loyal Iraqi Shia to volunteer to fight and protect their shrines. The SpeicherMassacre In June 2014, proximately...
Life presents a series of difficult decisions to make. For Shia minorities facing oppression under anti-Shia bodies, they are often left with the option of fleeing to safety or remaining to protect their culture. Shia are minority among Muslims in all countries around the world with the exceptions of Iraq, Iran, Azerbaijan, Lebanon and Bahrain. However, even in these countries where Shia are the...
On May 17th, the US Senate approved legislation that would allow victims of the 9/11 terror attacks to sue Saudi Arabia, defying vocal opposition from the White House. With all the “unofficial evidence” that suggests Saudi’s involvements in all terror activities, the US government has to come up with more “politically right” initiatives to protect Saudis in order to keep close alliance with this...
International days are best days of the year, not only because they bring attention to most needed areas, such as human rights, women rights, environment, children etc., but also because they show how we have accomplished very little on those topics. This article is based on my perspective which is based on my human rights research for past five years and my work as a social justice counselor. The...
Although world leaders, including the UN as well as state governments, seem to be failing to efficiently combat the spread of terrorist ideologies, Google takes huge steps in preventing extremism as well as educating and redirecting potential terrorists. In a smart move, Google, the number one search engine of the world, decided to redirect extremist searches towards anti-radicalization websites. There are...
According to CNN, on January 20, 2016, “asylum seekers in the town of Middlesbrough, UK, were housed in homes with RED painted doors, making some residents targets of abuse.” British Immigration Minister James Brokenshire stated that he was "deeply concerned by this issue," after media reports that asylum seekers had had eggs and stones thrown at their houses because the paintwork on their doors gave...
On the very first day of the 2016 Saudi Arabia executes 47 people, including the key Shia cleric Sheikh Nimir al-Nimir. While we in the west were exchanging New Year gifts and cheers, tens of innocent Shia advocates were executed. Although the Saudi king is not known to be smart, he took “smart” advantage of the cheers and busy holiday news. Executing the most influential advocate on the day that...