Yemen’s defence ministry has reported that Anwar al-Awlaki, a well-known and controversial imam with ties to al-Qaeda, was killed along with four others. A government statement released to the media on Friday said the dual US-Yemeni citizen was hunted down by Yemeni forces, but did not elaborate on the circumstances of his death. Awlaki was wanted by both the [...]
A thoughtful talk one decade on from 9/11
London, UK, September 21st 2011 – UNICEF’s recent report which documents the lives of children in the UK warned that British parents are trapping their children in a cycle of “compulsive consumerism” by showering them with toys and designer labels instead of spending quality time with them. The study also stated that the obsession with material goods was one [...]
A churchgoer who stuck bacon to the door of a mosque in South Tyneside as part of a religious hate campaign was branded “un-Christian” by a judge. But John White, 63, walked free from court after the chairman of the mosque wrote a letter to court, begging for leniency. White was caught on CCTV carrying [...]
by Hyperreality
There are, however, more profound reasons for protecting the ‘nakedness’ of others and for concealing our own. […] For a man to try to cover and inhibit those elements within himself which he would like to overcome and to bring forward those which he would like to see triumphant is not ‘hypocrisy’. If he would [...]
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