Alexis de Tocqueville: "I studied the Quran a great deal. I came away from that study with the conviction that by and large there have been few religions in the world as deadly to men as that of Muhammad. So far as I can see, it is the principal cause of the
A video apparently showing a Saudi man beating an Asian man has triggered public anger and pushed Saudi Arabia’s Human Rights Commission to follow up on the case, a spokesperson told Al Arabiya. The Saudi man in the video, who has not been named, accuses the victim of talking to his wife and then
Economy have collapsed as Egypt demolishes the smuggling tunnels along its sandy border. Ancient stone villages in the occupied West Bank have become trapped in rural poverty, while investors and donors shy away from a zone of seemingly endless conflict. The crackdown on the Gaza Strip and stagnation in the West Bank
The Hamas terrorist government in Gaza said Sunday that Egypt's closure of the tunnels that are used to smuggle goods into Gaza from Sinai is causing severe damage to Gaza's economy. The Hamas government's Economics Ministry said that severe damage has been caused to the industry, trade, agriculture, transport and construction sectors in Gaza.
Sixteen rebels have been hanged in Iran in retaliation for the deaths of at least 14 border guards in an ambush, the BBC reported on Saturday, citing Iranian news agencies. The rebels were "linked to groups hostile to the regime", the attorney general of Sistan-Baluchistan province was quoted as saying. They were hanged
Attacks in Iraq killed 10 people on Saturday, seven of them from the same family, security and medical officials told the AFP news agency. In the Dura area of southern Baghdad, gunmen armed with silenced weapons shot dead a father, mother, four sons and the wife of one of them at their home, the
Just days after Saudi Arabia's Interior Ministry threatened to use force to stop women violating a ban on female drivers, one man has come up with a creative way to protest the laws, which rights groups have slammed as discriminatory. Hisham Fageeh, who describes himself as "an artist and a social activist", released an
He also enjoys strangling dogs. Excerpt from an interview that appeared on the internet. The comments are the writer's. About that whole Arab Spring thing. I don’t think it’s going to work out. Egypt isn’t America. It’s not Europe. It’s not 1848 here. It’s a window into another age. It’s a time machine
An ex-Egyptian army officer carried out the suicide bombing last month that unsuccessfully targeted the country’s interior minister, a video posted online Saturday by al-Qaeda-inspired militants claims. Military officials reached by The Associated Press declined to comment on the video posted in the name of the Ansar Jerusalem militant group, which has carried out
At least seven police officers have been killed in Tunisia in clashes with Islamist terrorists, the BBC reported on Wednesday. Heavy gunfire was reported in the central region of Sidi Bouzid, with at least two terrorists reported killed. The violence came as thousands of anti-government protesters marched through the capital, Tunis, calling for
