Tag: history

History is more than examples of what not to do (although it certainly can be that at times). History charts the course that has brought us to where we are now.

The Trump administration announced its directive on refugees and immigrants on Friday, Jan. 27, which was International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

The press coverage about President Obama’s visit to Hiroshima divide into several camps. Some that saw it as morally wrong to apologize — although Obama never apologized.

We have our issues, but in spite of the present contentious climate domestically, and the dangerous climate internationally, we are not faced with greater problems than ever before.

As a non-believer and secularist who thinks that blasphemy laws are intrinsically, universally abhorrent and that individual conscience to be free to believe without coercion or pressure is at the very core of what it means to be a freethinker, I was happy to see the largely college-student audience attending Ahmed’s talk popularly rejecting the Islamophobia that was his subject.

The blood-letting in the Middle East is an egregious example of the depths to which humanity can sink in the name of religion, and the howls of protest are more than justified.

People want to be seen as good. That’s one of the driving desires to be a part of society — to be seen as a good person and holding the public interest as a priority.