Want To Buy A Wild Lion???…Baghdad’s Wildlife Trade Is Anything but Tame…

Here is a typical scenario….as the lives of the humans in Iraq gets better, it is getting much worst there for the animals… The AP is reporting that Iraq’s trade in exotic pets is flourishing as violence in the country subsides, but it’s largely unregulated. Iraqis can get just about whatever animals they want, whether […]

Bombs Rock Baghdad As “Chemical Ali” Hanged

Suicide blasts outside hotels popular with Westerners killed dozens of people in Baghdad Monday, according to Iraqi officials. The explosions hit just before the announcement came that Saddam Hussein’s cousin was hanged. Ali Hassan al-Majid, the cousin of Saddam Hussein and regime enforcer who cast almost as fearsome a shadow across Iraq as the former […]

Another Bombing in Iraq…Over 127 Killed And Hundreds Wounded

From Baghdad comes a sobering report that a coordinated series of attacks in Baghdad killed more than 127 people and wounded hundreds on Tuesday. Five separate attacks created the worst wave of violence to strike the Iraqi capital in more than a month. It is the third time in four months that a coordinated wave of bombers has defeated Baghdad’s […]

Islamophobic Swiss Vote To Ban Minarets On Mosque

Minarets (Turkish: minare,[1] from Arabic manāra (lighthouse) منارة, usually مئذنة) are distinctive architectural features of Islamic mosques. Minarets are generally tall spires with onion-shaped or conical crowns, usually either free-standing or taller than any associated support structure, states a source from Wikipedia …http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minaret The main function of the minaret is to provide a vantage point from which […]

Muslim woman wearing the traditional Islamic headscarf is turned away from market by shop owner

[picapp src=”3/5/c/7/Iraqi_Shiites_Celebrate_5d78.jpg?adImageId=6864194&imageId=3253220″ width=”234″ height=”139″ /] There is more evidence that the culture and traditions of the Muslim community in the Western world is being targeted unlike any culture has since the freeing of the slaves in America. A lot of cultures choose to wear their traditional garb, and in our melting pot society, they are a […]