Can a Corrupt Media Be Checked?
We’ll tell you what the news is. The news is what we say it is. International media have condemned comments made by President Rodrigo Duterte claiming he said the killing of corrupt journalists is justified. The United Nations Human Rights system condemned President Duterte as well when President Duterte vented his anger in response to […]
Why should we make peace with our enemies?
We will not have peace nor will we defeat violence in the Philippines unless we make massive changes. We have to keep in mind that no one is born a terrorist or a member of New People’s Army (NPA), Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), or Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG), and no one […]
The World Humanitarian Crisis Summit: One Humanity and Shared Responsibility
The World Humanitarian Summit was hosted in Istanbul in an attempt to tackle what the United Nations has described as the worst humanitarian crisis since World War II. An estimated 125 million people worldwide need humanitarian assistance. The summit was certainly an important event in the way that it collectively addressed the challenge facing humanity. […]
Corruption kills more people in the Philippines than drugs, typhoons, AIDS, and terrorism: President Elect Duterte should implement the death penalty for corrupt public office holders as well as other criminals.
Corruption is an incurable cancer that kills millions of Filipinos. It needs chemotherapy to stop the cancer. Corruption kills, and corruption is pervasive. It affects all dimensions of people’s daily lives from poorly building roads, high prices for electricity, business practices, crime, violence, as well as unequal access to health care, education, medicine. Corruption erodes […]
The Sun of Islam Will Rise from the West.
According to Islam, one of the signs of the Last Day is the rising of the sun in the West. Of course, throughout history many people have interpreted the glory of the sun and the stars according to their own superstitions thinking that the universe is indestructible and will last for all eternity. However, according […]
Why Do Politicians Get Away with Lying?
With this election season’s campaigns in the home stretch, the quadrennial in the US and in the Philippines, the quadrennial and sexennial, respectively, contest for lying, misdirection, fact bending, half-truths and lies in the challenge to win the hearts and minds of voters is in full swing. The lying seems to be a means […]
The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Is a Useless Club
The leaders of the Islamic world met at their 13th Session of the Islamic Summit Conference in Istanbul as the Muslims of the world face their greatest challenge in history. The Summit ended last week with Turkey’s Erdoğan becoming the term president. Muslims have lost their sense of nationalism, which was and still is the […]
The Majority of Leading Conservative Writers in the USA Have a Secular Outlook on Life
It is a fact that the majority of profound thinkers in America are conservative; they used to have a conservative outlook on life, but this has been declining in that they have devising worldviews just like their liberal colleagues whether in the National Review, the City Journal, the Commentary Magazine, or the Wall Street […]
Is Islam Compatible with Democracy and Can the West Be Successful in Selling Its Version of Democracy to the Muslim World?
Nowadays, a very interesting question about the relationship between Islam and democracy arises: Is Islam compatible with democracy and democratic values or any form of government that empowers the people and limits the power of leaders to hold merely representative offices with limited terms of public service? Can Islam be modernized? Can the West […]
Freedom of Expression in a Participatory Democracy: The Donald Trump Phenomenon
The book tells us that we shall know them by their fruits. It is rather ironic that many mainstream media publish so many opinion articles about Donald Trump’s being the world’s most dangerous man, a racist, a bigot, and a Nazi, and the United Kingdom has even tried to ban him from entering the UK […]