Al-Qaeda Archives - Heather's Homilies https://www.heatherhastie.com/tag/al-qaeda/ My take on our world Mon, 21 Nov 2016 05:35:42 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 https://www.heatherhastie.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/cropped-tweetkiwi-512px-32x32.png Al-Qaeda Archives - Heather's Homilies https://www.heatherhastie.com/tag/al-qaeda/ 32 32 It’s 15 Years Since 9/11 – Why Did Bin-Laden Attack? https://www.heatherhastie.com/its-15-years-since-911-why-did-bin-laden-attack/ https://www.heatherhastie.com/its-15-years-since-911-why-did-bin-laden-attack/#comments Wed, 14 Sep 2016 04:41:04 +0000 https://www.heatherhastie.com/?p=2863 The fifteenth anniversary of Al Qaeda’s attacks on New York’s World Trade Center, the Pentagon in Washington DC, and the attempted attack that resulted in a plane crash in Pennsylvania has just passed. Almost 3,000 people were murdered that day by Islamist terrorists. We all know that the attackers were fundamentalist Muslims who were followers […]

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]]> https://www.heatherhastie.com/its-15-years-since-911-why-did-bin-laden-attack/feed/ 93 Worry of the Week – 4 October 2015: Syria https://www.heatherhastie.com/worry-of-the-week-4-october-2015-syria/ https://www.heatherhastie.com/worry-of-the-week-4-october-2015-syria/#comments Sun, 04 Oct 2015 00:34:34 +0000 https://www.heatherhastie.com/?p=1484 In reality, Syria has been a worry for years. Bashar al-Assad took over the presidency, the role of commander-in-chief of the Syrian armed forces, and the leadership of the ruling Ba’ath party on his father’s death in 2000. For several reasons, including his British education and wife, there was hope he would be a reformer. […]

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]]> https://www.heatherhastie.com/worry-of-the-week-4-october-2015-syria/feed/ 28 Worry of the Week – 13 September: Al-Qaeda https://www.heatherhastie.com/worry-of-the-week-13-september-al-qaeda/ https://www.heatherhastie.com/worry-of-the-week-13-september-al-qaeda/#comments Mon, 14 Sep 2015 01:04:30 +0000 https://www.heatherhastie.com/?p=1337 My Winner of the Week this week was The Free World, an entity that is growing every day as freedom and democracy continue to spread. Long-term, as I said, I have no doubt that it is the values of secularism and humanism that will take hold. The behaviour of many though makes me realize it’s […]

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]]> https://www.heatherhastie.com/worry-of-the-week-13-september-al-qaeda/feed/ 41 Calling it like it is: Islamic Terrorism https://www.heatherhastie.com/calling-it-like-it-is-islamic-terrorism/ https://www.heatherhastie.com/calling-it-like-it-is-islamic-terrorism/#comments Sat, 07 Feb 2015 22:06:36 +0000 https://www.heatherhastie.com/?p=523 In the United States there is a growing rift between Democrats and Republicans on how to describe the terrorism in the Middle East and northern Nigeria. (As if politics in America needed any more rifts!) The Obama administration will not use the word “Islamic” in conjunction with “terrorism”. This decision is supported by the far […]

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