Another bin Laden in the making on July 24, 2014Ashin Wirathu, the 46-year-old radical Buddhist monk, is the man behind the Buddhist extremism in Myanmar, also known as Burma. He dropped out of school at a very early stage of his childhood and started practicing Buddhism. In 2001, when he initially joined the 969 Movement in Burma, violence broke out against the Muslim minority […]
A quick dive history of the Israel-Palestine crisis on July 14, 2014The region formerly known as the ‘Palestine region’ had not seen any conflict or bloodshed until the 19th century when a group of European colonisers known as the Zionists came to the region and started to colonise it. At that time, Muslims were 86 percent, Christians were 10 percent and Jews just four percent of […]