My review for Socialist Worker of “Rock in a Hard Place” by Orlando Crowcroft.
Tag: religion
‘War on infidels’
It was a pile of trash already, but it’s even getting worse since Yasser Rizk became the CEO of Al-Akbar, Egypt’s second largest state-owned newspaper.
Just to give you a sample, above is Al-Akhbar’s front page on 28 March, breaking the news about the Egyptian army’s heroic efforts to “abort a terror strike” on a security check point in Sinai’s Sheikh Zuweid’s area, as the “Apaches bomb a Houthi cell in Rafah that includes Palestinians and Iranians!”
And today’s front page runs a headline announcing the “martyrdom of 15 [Egyptian army] fighters and the liquidation of 27 infidels!”
50 shades of godlessness
It’s as wrong to lump all atheists together as it is to associate all Muslims with Islamic State or all Jews with Zionism, writes Eamonn McCann.