Kameel Majdali's Road Ahead

                                                   Introducing the ‘Ship of Dreams’ It had ... and still has ... all the ingredients of a legend. Imagine a 46,000 gross ton British luxury ocean liner, 11 stories high and four city block long, the largest ship of its kind at that time. A technological wonder, it also replicated society as a whole since it was, in essence, a floating city. Of course, there were the poor Irish peasants at the bottom, hoping to have a new start in the New World. Yet the rich and famous also booked passage on the maiden voyage: the Astors, Guggenheims, Morgans, and other high society folk. They would lose none of their opulent creature-comforts: bone china, the finest sterling silver, crystal chandeliers, and carpets so thick you felt you were on velvet quicksand. Prestigious French cafes graced the top decks, instead of ...

" I will expel the Jews and Christians from the Arabian Peninsula and will not leave any but Muslim ." - Sahih Muslim 19.4366 (statement attributed to Muhammad from the Hadiths). ‘ Destroy the churches’ bellowed the decree from the influential figure. Who said this? And when? • Genghis Khan? • Some Muslim caliph from the Middle Ages? • Head of the politburo of the now defunct Soviet Union? No, the statement to ‘ destroy the churches ’ was uttered on March 12, 2012, from a supreme religious leader of one of the United States’ great allies: the Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia. Sheikh Abdulaziz al Shaikh made this statement (fatwa) in response to a Kuwaiti delegations question of whether their nation should prevent the construction of new churches. The Grand Mufti’s reply: yes, you should prevent the construction of new churches in Kuwait. Then he went even further: infact, all churches in the Arabian peninsula that already exist should be destroyed....