Anger: it’s one of the most powerful emotional triggers. Marketers know it and so do ISIS’s recruiters. Anger is truly powerful: it makes people act without thought, buy without thought, accept without thought. That is exactly what ISIS needs to get people to join their ranks.
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Qatar the Scapegoat
Countries such as Egypt and Saudi Arabia cut ties with Qatar. The official reason was that this country supports terrorism. There are some who support Islamic terrorism more such as Saudi Arabia but no sanctions have been made against them. Of course, nothing was done against them because Qatar is a convenient scapegoat.
Native Comeback
Native peoples in Canada are portrayed as tragedies in the media. We get one story about the residential schools, one story about missing women, another story about how their cultural traditions are being destroyed… It seems as though they are bound for misery.
Not at all. Some communities are blooming. Native youths are resisting. Elderly Aboriginals are smiling at them.
Copts and Muslims of Egypt: What ISIS can’t Divide
On the first day of Ramadan 2017, ISIS attacked three buses carrying Coptic (native Egyptian Christians) children on a field trip to Saint-Samuel’s monastery near Minya.
ISIS killed children on a field trip. How tough and manly of you, ISIS. God is surely impressed with your devotion and bravery. Your mothers must be so proud of you. Here, you deserve a (poisoned) biscuit.
Rant: Canadian History in Quebec Schools
Back when I was in school, Canadian history was one of these subjects no one r
eally studied hard for because unlike math and physics, it wasn’t a subject that determined in what program you could be accepted. I feel a widespread lack of interest in Canadian history in Quebec. Canadian Children’s introduction to their country’s history is in school and Quebec’s curriculum is probably why they think it’s so dull. Here’s why the Quebec history program is so boring:
Native American Poli-techs
Note: This article was originally published on February 18th, 2013 on the blog The Lighthouse.
The most accessible accounts of the arrival of Europeans in the Americas are those of European conquerors and their men. In these accounts, which are the source of many stereotypes, Native Americans are often depicted as being ignorant, backwards and weak. Although the technology available
to them in the 16th century was not as advanced as European technology, Native Americans were able to run empires and maintain political relations. Their social and political organization even influenced the politics of the modern United States. The United States owe their unification to the Iroquois League and the Inca’s political system, which was an early form of socialism, demonstrates the ability of Native Americans to run empires.