The United Arab Emirates has restricted funding for its citizens who want to study at British universities, the latest sign of tensions over the UK's decision not to proscribe the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood group. Abu Dhabi's decision to exclude UK institutions from a list of universities eligible for state scholarships comes as relations between the two historic allies have frayed in recent years. In June, the UAE higher education ministry published a list of global universities for which scholarships would be approved and qualifications certified, as part of reforms that limited funding to the best-performing institutions. read more
Millions of people in Iran are now united around the hope of destroying the Islamic Republic and removing its leader, Ayatollah Khamenei. read more
The Iranian regime continues to struggle to contain the protests in the Middle Eastern country, 12 days since they first started. On Thursday, January 8, several new clips emerged on social media, seemingly showing protesters taking to the streets in several cities in Iran despite fears of a crackdown. read more
The U.S. seized a Russian-flagged oil tanker that was being shadowed by a Russian submarine on Wednesday ... read more
Berlin " An arson attack claimed by a left-wing extremist group has left tens of thousands of residents in Germany's capital without electricity in the dead of winter for several days. The Saturday morning arson attack on critical electricity infrastructure in southwest Berlin cut power to nearly 50,000 homes and businesses, and renewed scrutiny of a long-running sabotage campaign by the left-wing "Vulkangruppe." The group claimed responsibility for the fire, which destroyed several high-voltage cables near the Lichterfelde heat and power station and triggered one of the most severe blackouts the capital has experienced in years. read more
#2 What makes you think that Iranians will abandon their religion, onepigironheadedbrainaut?
- A_MORON
You must be a government numbers guzzler, makes sense.
Surveys from groups like GAMAAN and the World Values Survey indicate a significant rise in non-religious Iranians (atheists, spiritual) and a shift away from Shia identity, with some surveys showing Shia identity under 40%.
Related to A_MORONs moronic government numbers guzzling statement....
The Western liberal media is ignoring the Iranian uprising because explaining it would force an admission it is desperate to avoid: the Iranian people are rebelling against Islam itself, and that fact shatters the moral framework through which these institutions understand the world.
....
Western media refuses to do so because it has fundamentally misunderstood Islam. Or worse, it has chosen not to understand it.
Islam, in Western progressive discourse, has been racialized. It is treated not as a belief system or a political ideology, but as a stand-in for race or ethnicity. Criticizing Islam is framed as an attack on "brown people," Arabs, or "the Middle East," as if Islam were a skin color rather than a doctrine.
This confusion is rooted in historical illiteracy. .....
By treating Islam as a racial identity rather than an ideology, Western media strips millions of people of their ability to reject it. Iranian protesters become unintelligible. Their rebellion cannot be processed without breaking the rule that Islam must not be criticized. So instead of listening to Iranians, the media speaks over them"or ignores them entirely.
There is another reason the Iranian uprising is so threatening to Western media is economic issues.
...
Covering Iran honestly would require acknowledging that these policies are harmful. They have been tried. They have failed. Catastrophically.
Western liberal media and A_MORON prefers not to hear reality. Acknowledging it would require abandoning the lazy moral categories that dominate modern discourse: oppressor and oppressed, colonizer and colonized, white and non-white. Iranian protesters do not fit. They show that authoritarianism is not a Western invention imposed from outside, but something many societies are actively trying to escape.
That is what terrifies Western liberal media and A_MORON. And that is why the Iranian people are being ignored.
So the silence and ignorance of A_MORON continues.
x.com
Legacy media would never want to tell you why the Iranian people are burning down mosques.
x.com
A_MORON thinks Muslims would burn mosques....
No foreigner in his/her right mind invests large sums of money in a thoroughly corrupt kleptocracy. And certainly not anywhere in South or Central America.
#9 | Posted by moder8
China did, Russia did .. what are foreigners in your opinion?