YVONNE RIDLEY THEY do say that Tinsel Town, home of the fabulously rich, famous and beautiful people is the place where dreams come true. But I think that Hollywood should now be renamed Follywood to reflect the actions of some of its residents. Dreamboats George Clooney, Brad Pitt and Matt Damon, poster girls like Angelina [...]
By YOUSEF DRUMMOND RIGHT-WING Dutch politician Geert Wilders’s appeal to Islam-bashing as a proxy to gain political prominence on Holland’s political landscape comes as no surprise to many political observers who say that other right-wing Western politicians, particularly in Switzerland, Belgium, Germany and Australia, routinely score political points by turning to unsavory tactics aimed at [...]
By YOUSEF DRUMMOND AN influential Islamic organization representing the Muslim world is drafting a “battle plan” to defend its religion from defamation by using the West’s most enduring and salient instrument: the rule of law. The rule of law is by far the only instrument through which modern Western nations gauge the stability of their [...]
By YOUSEF DRUMMOND “ON behalf of the government of the United States of America, I want to apologize for the role my country played in the African slave trade”. According to DeWayne Wickham, a USA TODAY columnist, President George Bush should have instructed his low-level diplomat, a deputy assistant secretary of state, to say on [...]
YVONNE RIDLEY I WONDER how many of you know that the theme under consideration for Israel's 60th Independence Day is children. It is hard to imagine isn't it? It could not be more meaningless when you consider how snipers belonging to the Israeli Army target young innocents. Of course they don't target just any children. [...]
By YOUSEF DRUMMOND I HAVE tried to illustrate in previous columns that liberal democracies must be re-examined and re-fashioned in light of its failure to assign no transcendent solutions to complex socio-economic and racial issues. Its citizenry assumes, as an ironclad principle, a private-public distinction. This private-public distinction characteristic of individuals residing within and adjusting [...]
