02 April 2016

Prisoner Exchange with ISIS

Yazidis
According to an article of Sirwan Kajjo of VOA News, more than 50 Yazidi women and children were exchanged last week for Islamic State prisoners held by Kurdish forces in Syria.

Two IS commanders were exchanged for the women and children.

30 March 2016

Donald Trump is Now Putting The Finishing Touches

Trump Still Leads
Donald Trump has just roared into the lead in the upcoming California Republican primary, further bolstering his hopes of winning the GOP nomination and avoiding a nasty convention fight, a new poll has found.

In the first independent survey since it became apparent that the Golden State will play a major role in deciding the Republican presidential nominee, the nonpartisan Public Policy Institute of California found that Trump has the support of 38 percent of likely voters, while Texas Sen. Ted Cruz is favored by 27 percent. Ohio Gov. John Kasich placed a distant third with 14 percent.

29 March 2016

Refugees to Europe are "Strong, Young Men"

Male Migrants
It has been confirmed and validated by several international organizations and there is no denying that majority of those seeking asylum in Europe are strong, able-bodied and young men of fighting age.

The United Nations has registered over 4.2 million Syrian refugees, a step in seeking asylum from other countries, and has a demographic snapshot of about half of them. Of the 2.1 million registered in Egypt, Iraq, Jordan and Lebanon there's a pretty even split in gender: about 50.5 percent are women and 49.7 percent are men. For men and women, the bulk of refugees (a little under a quarter each) are between the age of 18 and 59.

28 March 2016

Why We Should Not Apologize to Muslims

Apologize Muslims
According to Omar Alnatour, a Palestinian-American Muslim, Muslims should "never have to apologize for terrorism." His analogy goes like this:
"You wake up in the morning to hear your wife screaming at you because it's pouring rain outside. She hates the rain and now her day is ruined because of you. You go downstairs only to hear your children yell at you because they broke the toaster. They can't have waffles now and it's all your fault.

26 March 2016

Political Correctness is Dangerous for a President

PC is Dangerous
One of the reasons why Donald Trump is fast becoming the ideal candidate to win the U.S. Presidential race is that almost everyone agree with him when he said: "I think the big problem this country has is being politically correct."

Political correctness is the practice of refusing to acknowledge the truth or the facts of a situation because your words may be considered offensive to some people. This is not the same as being purposefully rude or hurtful although some may interpret it that way.

25 March 2016

Girl Scouts Should Expect A Dip In Funding

Archbishop Robert Carlson
The Archdiocese of St. Louis in the U.S. has encouraged Roman Catholics to scale back ties with the Girl Scouts, advising church members to think twice about membership and even about buying their cookies.

The warnings came in a letter from Archbishop Robert J. Carlson and in a statement on the archdiocese’s website about how the church is distancing itself from the Girl Scouts, which it says supports transgender rights, homosexuality and other stances at odds with Catholic values.