A few days have now passed since the brutal attack that took place in the Army Public School in Peshawar, Pakistan. The official death toll stands at 141 dead, the vast majority of those were innocent school children. There has been an outpouring of grief from all corners of Pakistan and all people from all backgrounds have condemned the attack including many groups in the tribal areas and Mullah Umar…

The US Senate Intelligence Committee has released its summary of the much-anticipated report into the CIA interrogation programs established by US spy chiefs after 9/11. The full report, which many senators wanted classified is 6,000 pages long and only a summary of 525 pages has been unclassified. The report took five years to produce and is based on more than 6 million internal agency documents. The summary report effectively exposes…

It appears the Saudi regime has its chief imams firing on all cylinders when it comes to defending its tyranny.Ever since the Arab Springs began, the Gulf countries have been scrambling to preserve their despotic regimes by adopting drastic measures. We saw how states placated the uprisings through making some reforms, changing cabinets and economic hand-outs. Whilst Bahrain continues to clamp down on its Shi'ah majority population, Oman was the…

The Secular Liberal West presents itself to the world as firm practitioners of sound rational thinking while portraying the adherents of Islam as fanatical followers of meaningless, superstitious dogma. By doing so, they seek to bring world public opinion to their side, to justify their interventionist wars in the Muslim world, and their numerous occupations of Muslim lands. The West, they claim, is eminently reasonable, willing to engage in open…