Baghdad

rifle would certainly be necessary (with an understanding of how it works). Again, drawing from my military experience, I completely understand what happens to a society when rule of law has broken or fallen apart. When rule of law fell apart in Baghdad (2003), we saw mobs of Suni "gangs" murder, rape and damn near start a small genocide of other groups who had no way of defending themselves. Let's not mistake the fact that these Suni's were criminals of the highest order and the moment…

Army Staff Sgt. Jesse Knott had been at Hutal, a small town in a remote region of southern Afghanistan, for roughly a week when a cat caught his attention. The day he appeared from behind a concrete barrier trailing blood from an injured paw, Knott decided to take action. He approached his commander: "I have a refugee in my intelligence office." The commander was at first shocked and disapproving, but after seeing the cat, he left the office - returning a few moments later with armload of tinned…

else Imam Taymiyya's political thought was indubitably powerful and potent. Imam Taymiyya lived in times that were tumultuous for Muslims as a result of the Mongol invasion and their brutal annihilation of Baghdad, followed by Hulagu Khan putting to death the final Abbasid Khalifa in Baghdad- Al-Mustasim. This unprecedented turn of events led to a fundamental issue being raised: the classic question revolving around political authority now that the Abbasid Khalifa had taken refuge under the…

During the end of the 11th century, large civilizations in Europe and the Middle East had risen to conflict. The Catholic Kingdoms had originated from the Roman Empire after the civilization had fallen. The Kingdoms expanded its territory from present day France through present day Hungary; essentially Western Europe (Crusades Map). In the Catholic Kingdoms, the Pope had control of all church affairs, and the priest had control over a single church (Ellis 217-218). During the late 12th century,…

George W. Bush: President George W. Bush started making the case for an infiltration of Iraq in 2002."Iraq continues to flaunt its hostility toward America and to support terror," he said, adding that “states like these, and their terrorist allies, constitute an axis of evil, arming to threaten the peace of the world. By seeking weapons of mass destruction, these regimes pose a grave and growing danger.” Bush launched the war on March 19, 2003, noting in a televised address that “helping Iraqis…

Between gasp of mountainous stale cabin air and the scent of a dried bloody corpus, I desperately held back the sensation of being nauseous at this moment. I needed to be strong, if not for Skylar's sake. Then, came the soldier's bullet nicking his skin. God help us now. He glimpsed at the six of us, huddled in the two farthest corners. Our lives had forever changed. Nothing would be ever the same. Everything we thought we knew, had turned up-side-down. After surviving our ordeal, everyone's…

Shortly after Muhammed founded Islam, Muslims began ruling the Arab lands. Jews lived as a minority under a variety of Muslim-ruled governments. Their rights and privileges were significantly less than that of their Muslim counterparts. In fact, Jews were part of the Dhimmi, which was considered to be any non-believer of Islam. A constant in these hierarchical relationships was Muslims in government and Jewish subjugation. Some scholars say that the motivation behind this oppression was…

What exactly is war? Is it the ability to prove how heroic you are? Is it terrorism or fear? Could it be both? To these questions there are no answers. War is simply catastrophic, the ideal absence of common sense. In order to show this point, many authors have written books trying to describe war in a sensible way. This includes the novel Catch-22 in which according to Harold follows the biological perspective that “Heller’s writing was partly based by his own experience as a bombardier…

This is your local Around the Clock Crew, and today we have one outstanding story to share. Just two weeks ago Kalissa Bowey invented the very first time machine. On October 4, 2022 Kalissa traveled back to 626 BC, the beginning of the Babylonian Empire. After hearing about her remarkable invention we were joined by Kalissa herself and we just had to ask her a few questions. Our first question for Kalissa was “What interested you in wanting to build a time machine?” She gave us the response of,…

How Barbaric Were the Mongols I believe that the Mongols were not as barbaric as the reputation they were given from their life styles, rules, to their war tactics. The Mongols started out as a small tribe from the steppes of central Asia, living in yurts and were simple nomadic people. A boy named, Temuchin was born on the Mongolian plains in 1167. His dad was poisoned and spent majority of his teenage life fighting and then he wanted to bring the Mongol clans under one leadership. In 1206,…