where the writers are

blood money | blood money

farzana-versey's picture
Mar.22.2011
  It looks like the United States of America now believes in the Sharia. On March 17, Raymond Davis got off by paying blood money to the families of the two men he had killed on January 27. Pakistan’s law minister Rana Sanaullah declared that Davis, supposedly a CIA agent, had been...
anthony-difiore's picture
Dec.21.2009
(Posted from The Publeconomist, published 12/21/09) Cambodia deports 20 foreign Uighurs, who had been seeking asylum in the country, to China. Uighurs are a Muslim minority group dispersed throughout several Asian countries. They’ve recently been involved in ethnic rioting in western China, which...
jay-peroni's picture
Sep.02.2008
You may be investing in companies that violate your morals and val­ues. Make a conscious effort to find out where your investments are going and what you are involved in. Look at your mutual funds and stocks and analyze your various accounts. I will show you how you can go about doing this as you...
ellen-r-sheeley's picture
Jul.17.2008
Several news items caught my eye this week. . . The parents of the late Du'a Khalil Aswad (see http://www.redroom.com/blog/ellen-r-sheeley/the-dishonor-killing-dua-khalil-aswad and http://www.redroom.com/blog/ellen-r-sheeley/book-launch-nothing-but-red) accepted 40 million Iraqi dinars (a little...