While public anger erupted with regard to the participation of the U.S. Ambassador to Jordan in a meeting to discuss the rights of homosexual and transgender people two weeks ago, none of the protests

-It is war! It is war! -O Angel of the Lord, restrain it... -It is war, unfortunately--how much I desire it not to be my fault! The words of the German poet Matthias Claudius return me to the 1980s. I

The roles of the muftis and the media are remarkably similar and it is no coincidence that the authoritative influence of both is intensified by the public reliance upon them for revelations regarding

Saudi Arabia purposely works on turning Mecca into a pictorial remembrance image and numbers for the profits of the Haj ministry. It does this by continuously tampering with the place and the vision