A Fils for Your Thoughts

While the news of the recent death of Imad Moughniyah, a leading figure in Hizbollah, has been met with happiness by those who considered him a terrorist and sadness by those who considered him a hero, the two responses were combined in Kuwait to cause a national crisis. The controversy began when two members of the Kuwaiti parliament, MP Adnan Abdul Samad and MP Ahmed Lari, participated in a rally to mourn his death, while some other Kuwaiti officials accused Moughniyah of being the mastermind behind the hijacking of a Kuwait Airways flight in 1988 and killing two Kuwaiti hostages. Rather than take sides on this issue, I would like to take a look at the main issues that emerged from this crisis, and to see how we can avoid the unnecessary side effects that have erupted from this controversy. (more…)

The Muslim world is known for being a massive proponent of a wide range of conspiracy theories, the most popular of which is that the US or Israel is behind every ill we encounter as part of a Zionist plot against Islam and Muslims. While there is some truth to this theory, the mentality that gravitates towards a conspiracy to explain all local and world events is extremely simplistic and one which distorts our understanding of reality. (more…)