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When News Was Easy

Most of us know more now than we did before when news was simpler such as the Soviet Union bad- and Mao in China swam across the river I have just been reading about Sinai a place I thought consisted of sand, goats and Bedouins on white horses, but there has been a slow war there going back a long time. We didn’t and were not told that Islam has many aspects and sects – just like us- and there is fighting amongst them, usually about power and money, religions is the glue that binds together the rest. The young Muslims in Europe, who go to fight for IS they are fooled into believing they fight for a cause and the will be dispensed of when no longer needed. In Sunnis eye, they are foreigners. We live in paralysed world we don’t which way to sway do let us follow the money whoever is in power.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2015




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