THE PICK OF THE CROP - MEHDI HASAN

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TIME'S TO ACKNOWLEDGE:
THE ERA OF CURSED YAZÎD IS NEVER OVER!

"ALL THE WORLD IS KARBALÂ'
EVERY DAY IS 'ÂSHURA"

MEHDI HASAN | ISLAM IS A PEACEFUL RELIGION | OXFORD UNION

Do not rush! Nothing contradictory here. While Mehdi speaks elsewhere on the militant core of damned Yazeed (who's not been but a denier), he argues here a peaceful core of Islam (that is what suggests its very name).

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/mehdi-hasan

WHO SAYS HE WAITS FOR YOUR APLAUSE?!

QUOTATIONS:

"I have been a long-standing opponent of western military interventions in the Muslim-majority world, almost all of which – from Afghanistan in 2001 and Iraq in 2003 to Libya in 2011 – have resulted in civilian bloodshed and terrorist blowback. But I’m not a pacifist. And to pretend that the response to the beheaders, rapists and slave traders of the self-styled “Islamic State” (or IS) need not involve an element of brute military force is either ludicrously naive or disgracefully disingenuous.

So, too, is the lazy obsession with air strikes. “Wars, historically, have never been won by air power alone,” General David Richards, the former chief of the defence staff, told me in a recent interview...

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