By YVONNE RIDLEY RACISM is a repugnant trait and we should all adopt a zero tolerance towards it, whenever and wherever it arises. It is a blight which still rears its ugly head during soccer matches but all the major organisations that police the 'beautiful game' these days are universal in their bid to kick racism [...]
By YVONNE RIDLEY THERE is a smug group of men and women in the US intelligence services who knew President Barack Obama was never going to release the photos and videos of detainees being tortured. He whispered back: “This is nothing. Remember these pictures came long after the opening of Guantanamo and more than three [...]
By YOUSEF DRUMMOND I WAS disappointed with Pope Benedict XVI’s visit to Al Hussein mosque in Jordan some two weeks ago. I was not only offended that the Pope, with Muslim clerics looking on, didn’t take off his shoes (even the British Monarch Queen Elizabeth removed her shoes upon entering mosques when she visited her [...]
By YOUSEF DRUMMOND MAINSTREAM U.S. journalists and political pundits greet President Obama’s first 100 days in office with a tacit agreement that he is moving forward to address and suppress a crippling U.S. economy and restore America’s moral standing with the international community. Now that the president has decided to de-classify legal secret legal memos [...]
