Washington (AFP) – Republican presidential hopeful Ben Carson followed rival Donald Trump’s lead Monday in saying he too saw a video of Arab Americans cheering as New York’s twin towers collapsed on September 11, 2001. Click here to read more (external link).
Press TV November 22, 2015 Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has called for the return of waterboarding, a near-drowning torture technique used by the CIA at its “black sites” overseas. The billionaire businessman said Sunday the practice was “peanuts” compared to what Daesh (ISIL) terrorists are doing. “I would bring it back. I think waterboarding
Lamis Andoni: Once again, the West is using heart-wrenching scenes of loss and sorrow to win support for its misguided war on terror. It is all deja vu; a repeat of the post-9/11 scenario that led to the bombing of Afghanistan in 2001 and the invasion of Iraq in 2003. Both interventions wreaked havoc and
Juan Cole: GOP presidential hopeful Donald Trump, having said earlier that he might seek to close down mosques if he were president, on Thursday went further and said he would implement a registration and tracking database for Muslim-Americans. Rabbi Jack Moline of the Interfaith Alliance pointed out that the Nazis made Jews register. When a
Haaretz: Haim Saban, the American-Israeli media mogul, has told the Los-Angeles based entertainment and website The Wrap that the United States should intensify its scrutiny of Muslims following last Friday’s deadly wave of terrorist attacks in Paris. Click here to read more (external link).
Press TV November 20, 2015 Republican US presidential candidate Donald Trump says he would be open to having a “Muslim database” in America for security reasons. Trump made his latest controversial remarks about Muslims in an interview with Yahoo News, published on Thursday, in the wake of Paris attacks that left at least 129 people
Antiwar.com: Now and always, terrorism is politically motivated. Murdering French civilians does not achieve anything for ISIS in and of itself. Rather, it is designed to provoke a reaction. This was true for Al-Qaeda on 9/11, when they sought to provoke a military response to bleed America to bankruptcy. And it is true of ISIS
BBC News: Mosques in the US and Canada have experienced an increase in vandalism and threats since the Paris attacks, say campaigners. Islamic centres have been receiving hateful phone messages and some mosques have been marked with graffiti, fire and vengeful messages. In Canada, a man is in police custody after releasing a video threatening
AntiWar.Com: The Islamic State (IS), also known as the ISIS and ISIL, has taken responsibility for the horrendous terrorist attacks on Paris that murdered 129 innocent people and injured hundreds more. The attacks have rightly outraged ordinary people everywhere. There is a feeling of solidarity with the people of France everywhere, and there should be.
Press TV November 17, 2015 Republican presidential front runner Donald Trump says the United States should “strongly consider” shutting some mosques on the pretext of preventing terrorist operations in the country in the wake of the deadly Paris attacks . “I would hate to do it, but it’s something that you’re going to have to strongly consider,” Trump