by Waheed Hamid War-specific developments are a death sentence for Himalayan glaciers. Blaming only global warming for rapid defrosting is a false impression being created deliberately by India with a view to covering up the serious and catastrophic environmental crime its army is committing Glaciers are ancient rivers of compressed snow that creep through the landscape, shaping the planet’s surface. They are the earth’s largest freshwater reservoirs, collectively covering an area the size of South America. Most of the world’s glaciers are located around the poles. In the non-polar region, the Himalaya Mountains are the origin of many glaciers and … Continue reading Melting ice of Siachen Glacier

Michelle Cottle The Reverend Franklin Graham has long been something of a thrill seeker. In his quarter-century as head of the Christian relief agency Samaritan’s Purse, the eldest son of the legendary Billy Graham (and heir to his evangelical empire) has earned international respect for supplying food, water, shelter, and medical care to regions where other angels fear to tread. Somalia, Rwanda, Bosnia, Kosovo, Afghanistan, southern Sudanthe more stricken and war torn the area, the greater the opportunity to help, reasons Graham, who delights in personally piloting the group’s small planes through airspace prone to artillery attacks and sniper fire. … Continue reading Bible Brigade Fanatics on their own Crusade radicalising Muslims

Samaritan’s Purse is ostensibly a charity performing good deeds for disadvantaged children. What is not always so obvious is that this is an unsavoury Evangelical Christian organisation that seems more intent on spreading its own brand of Christianity than on genuinely helping others. The Vicar of Putney describes their evangelical views as “a particularly toxic version of Christianity” while the Rev Vernon Marshall describes it as “an intolerant and racist form of Christianity”. Samaritan’s Purse persuade children in local schools to donate shoe boxes containing articles for disadvantaged children. The children are specifically told not to include literature of a … Continue reading Mullah Franklin Grahams – Samaritan’s Purse! Time to expel them from Muslim countries?

One of the many data points analysts are looking at is the fact that Christmas-day bomb plotter Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab is reportedly the fourth president of a London area Islamic student society to face trial on terrorism related charges in the last three years. Others with distinguished UK university links have been involved in some well publicized events and plots over the last decade. While London’s bookstores, mosques and universities have been critical refuges where dissenting youthful perspectives can be examined, they have also been places where suicide bombings and violent conflicts with the West have been glorified, excused and … Continue reading The Airplane Plotter & the Thin Line between Dissent and Terrorism

Washington, D.C. – History has repeated itself as the failed terror attack in Detroit has shown eerie similarities to the security failures leading up to 9/11. Like the Phoenix e-mail memo warning of the 9/11 terrorists flight training was ignored, so to was an e-mail about the Nigerian suspect in the terror plot. However this time the failure was the FBI’s spam filter, not human failure. Umar Mutallab, former Chairman of Nigeria’s First Bank PLC and father of the suspect, had warned authorities of his son’s religious behavior. The information was being passes along by e-mail and got caught up … Continue reading FBI E-mail Warning of Terror plot, Mistaken for Nigerian Banking Scam