“No exceptional circumstances whatsoever, whether a state of war or a threat or war, internal political instability or any other public emergency, may be invoked as a justification of torture.”
U.N. Convention against Torture; Article 2, …

I can’t believe its already 4 years since that day; it was just a normal day in the quite campus in Toledo (Ohio) where I was perusing my BSc, the freshman me was attending a …

The government of Zimbabwe has said that the recent Nicole Kidman movie The Interpreter is CIA-sponsored and that parallels between the plot and next weeks address at the UN General Assembly by President Robert Mugabe …

I got the following in my email:
J Sage wrote:
Mr. Al-Maskati:
Hello! I am a program coordinator at the American Islamic Congress, a US-based non-profit dedicated to promoting interfaith understanding and civil rights in the Muslim world. …

I have found the following somewhere on my old blog; it’s a piece of an unfinished post that I wrote one night and never got the time or the energy to finish it up… It …

One of the less pleasing milestones in my life has finally come to pass today. My only consolation is that I wasn’t hurt; well, that if you overlook the fact that I saved a black …

Thought 2: Donations from Arab countries in aid for Katrina victims (at leas those that I was able to get my hands on) as follows:
Saudi Arabia $1,500,000,000 plus other aid
Kuwait $500,000,000 plus other …

Thought 1: I knew it was just a matter of time until someone would come out of nowhere claiming that Katrina was “anger from up above” and I wasn’t wrong. But I was amazed..
a. Muhammad …

It is moments like today that I feel so disturbed for merely reading the news; I just don’t know how much Iraq could take. God it is one day after another of nothing but death …

An octogenarian, who was to be cremated in a couple of hours, `comes back to life and claims that he had been sent back to earth from Yamapuri following the orders of Yamadharmaraja, the …

Now that the never-ending fuss about the annual London Seminar has calmed down (well.. at least marginally), let’s shed some light on some sore facts here for a second.
I am just fed up of …

As hard as I try to overlook the Irani influence on the political arena here in the Middle East (and in Bahrain to be more precise) I fail, and fail miserably. I passed through the …

A cow has been put in prison after it was blamed for a road accident in Colombia.
The cow was wandering along a road in Giron when was hit by a woman on a motorcycle.
The woman …