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To The Lebanese & Arabs Mocking The Siege On Madaya And Its Starving People

do not turn away

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Huddled in the Anti-Lebanon mountains, Madaya is a Syrian village housing tens of thousands of innocent people who are being starved to death at the hand of a siege enforced by the Lebanese allies of the Syrian regime. Their strife is not new. They’ve been going through hell for months, eating whatever they can get: leaves, dirt, cats, dogs. International aid groups are calling the famine there the tip of the iceberg of the crisis taking place in that village of 40,000 people, and no one has been able as of now to fully grasp the picture of the human tragedy taking place there.

They say a picture is worth a thousand words. Forgive the shock value of the following pictures, but the victims in Madaya deserve to have their voices heard on top of those belittling them for being forced to protractedly die.

Today, some Lebanese and other Arabs are pioneering once…

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10 Surprising Things American Women Couldn’t Do in the 1960s

It was not so long ago that these things below were the reality for women. If you’re 45 or older, you were born into this world. Have a look back at 10 surprising things women could not do in the 1960s:

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Incoherence of blindness… extremism

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Incoherence of blindness… extremism

Amid the race behind blood…

A state of madness is taking over the scene.

It is fanatically crazy. I don’t know where we are heading.

Everything is so mixed, we cannot differentiate anymore. Our extremism and theirs. Them and us.

What happened on the Greek airlines with the Arab passengers and the mad Israeli mass was by all means not different than the madness in opposing the Dabkeh in Bir Zeit University.

For the first instant. One would think… what? What are you talking about?

But if we just give our selves a passing breath of air we will realize that we are all driven by the same panic. A fear of something dark that will overwhelm our existence if we let go. We seem to protect ourselves with this shield of fear.

To arrive a level of radical extremism that cannot but defined by “apartheid”…

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AFRICA/EGYPT – Coptic Patriarch Tawadros: terrorism does not make any distinction between Christians and Muslims

Cairo – Terrorism “does not make any distinction between Christians and Muslims”, and even when it is fueled by religious ideology, it indiscriminately affects all believers in God, fomenting sectarian strife where people kill each other for “human stupidity” for “money” or to assert “their interests”. This is what Coptic Orthodox Patriarch Tawadros II said during some interviews released on Thursday, January 7th by different Egyptian media, including the al-Ahram daily newspaper. During his intervention, the Primate of the Orthodox Coptic Church developed some thoughts on the positive contribution that religions can give to help people to live the fullness of their humanity and live together in peace, insisting on the fact that he does not fear terrorism only for the suffering it causes Christians, but because it affects the whole Country. Pope Tawadros has at heart, as Head of the largest Church in the Middle East, the stability and security of all of Egypt.
Meanwhile the positive comments regarding the words that Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi delivered on the occasion of his participation at Christmas eve, celebrated by Pope Tawadros in St Mark’s cathedral in Cairo on Wednesday, January 6 continues in the Coptic Church. The Head of State at the end of the celebration said that he is committed to speeding up procedures for the repair of destroyed churches especially during the riots in August 2013, when about fifty institutions and Christian places of worship were attacked and devastated by gangs of thugs linked to the Muslim Brotherhood and the Salafis.

ASIA/IRAQ – Shiite leader Muqtada al-Sadr: return the homes illegally stolen from Christians

Baghdad – The Chaldean Christian politician Pascale Warda, former immigration minister in the first government of transition following the fall of Saddam Hussein’s regime, has publicly expressed her satisfaction regarding Shiite leader Muqtada al-Sadr’s stand on the issue which recently claimed the need to return to their rightful owners homes and property illegally stolen in recent months from Christian families in Baghdad, Kirkuk and other Iraqi cities. As reported by Iraqi media, including the website ankawa.com, Pascale Warda has asked all Iraqi citizens to support the reinstatement of the rights of the Christians owners supported by Muqtada al-Sadr and also civil society organizations such as Hammurabi Association for Human Rights and the Coordination of Iraqi women have mobilized.
The phenomenon of the homes of Christians illegally stolen managed to take hold thanks to collusion and coverings of corrupt and dishonest officials, who put themselves at the service of individual frauds and organized groups of fraudsters . The “legalized” theft of the properties belonging to Christian families is closely linked to the mass exodus of Iraqi Christians, following the US-led military intervention to overthrow the regime of Saddam Hussein. Scammers take possession of homes and property which have remained empty, counting on the easy prediction that none of the owners will come back to reclaim the property. MPs and Christian associations have long appealed to the local administrative institutions, asking them to strike down the phenomenon of false certifications.
Muqtada al-Sadr is the leader of the Sadrist Movement, the party to which at least thirty Iraqi lawmakers belong. He was also the founder of the Mahdi Army, the militia – officially disbanded in 2008 – created in 2003 to fight the foreign forces in Iraq after the fall of Saddam Hussein.