May God bless you this year with a restless discomfort, holy anger, the gift of tears and enough foolishness.
Category: Humanities
By Adnan Mouhiddin
The process of becoming an ISIS citizen or member through the lens of criminological theory
أين أنت في هذا الوجود؟!
كم مِن أُمَمٍ تحتفل بعيدك، وقد وضعت نير العبودية على أمم وأمم!
وكم من قـوم نصبوا لك التماثيل في الأرض، وقـد هدموك في القلـوب والعقول والنّفوس!
By St. Augustine
I praise the dance.
O man, learn to dance, or else the angels in heaven
will not know what to do with you.
By Adnan Mouhiddin
The accuracy of this statement is self-evident in the life and practice of religious people. Once institutionalized, faith becomes religion and the latter turns into an oppressive tool either intentionally or unintentionally. Like totalitarian dogmas and ideologies, religions throughout history repressed the humankind and manipulated their congregations mentally, emotionally and sometimes physically.
By Adnan Mouhiddin
Evangelism, where it stands today, is a system that is confused with itself. A beautiful notion that has been distanced from its first and ancient Teacher. it hurts and confuses its surrounding. Evangelism, the way it stands today, is a social and moral poison and disorder.
Dr. Zaher Sahloul
When a seven-year-old student in eastern Aleppo was asked at the peak of the bombardment campaign by the Assad regime in 2015 to draw a picture, he did not draw children playing, nor did he draw a blue sky or a smiling sun. Instead, Ahmad drew helicopters dropping barrel bombs, houses blazing in fire and mutilated dead children in blood. In his drawing, the dead children had smiles on their faces, while those alive were in tears.
