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The thin green line

By Khaled Diab The environmental movement has scored remarkable recent successes, but the situation for the climate and nature remains

Bombing ISIS in Syria will not tackle extremism in Brussels

Rather than airstrikes against the Islamic State (ISIS), Belgium should strike at the root causes of homegrown extremism.

Khaled Diab

@DiabolicalIdea

As for John Cleese, he's become a real-life, older parody of Basil Fawlty but with none of the humour. Oh, and it's not the 1970s anymore.

19:54 · February 8, 2023

Khaled Diab

@DiabolicalIdea

The idea of rebooting Fawlty Towers is dreadful. Not only is it best to steer clear of reviving a cult classic, nearly all the elements that made it a classic are gone. The original cast is mostly retired or dead, and the show won't have Connie Booth's co-writing genius.

19:53 · February 8, 2023

Khaled Diab

@DiabolicalIdea

A newborn baby girl was pulled alive from the rubble in Syria, her umbilical cord still attached to her mother. What a tragic way to enter the world. This little girl has both the best and worst of luck. #Syria #syriaearthquake npr.org/2023/02/07/115…

08:12 · February 8, 2023

Khaled Diab

@DiabolicalIdea

@MediavillaMarga While religion in India is just as misogynistic, often more so.

08:03 · February 8, 2023

Khaled Diab

@DiabolicalIdea

@Run_Rana But that's a far, far, far, far rarer formulation and I'm not sure if it can be used with all the 99 names.

07:58 · February 8, 2023

Campbell MacDiarmid

@CampbellMacD

Seeing this man get pulled alive from the rubble of an apartment building in devastated Antakya today was the bright spot of an otherwise awful Tuesday. pic.twitter.com/Wf7fOCdcEY

20:11 · February 7, 2023 ·

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Khaled Diab

@DiabolicalIdea

In Islam, God has 99 attributes but gender equality ain't one. Not only is God masculine (at least in terms of grammar), only men may use one of his names as part of their own. For example, you can have a man called Abdullah but you can't have a woman called Abdetullah.

07:45 · February 7, 2023

Khaled Diab

@DiabolicalIdea

This goes to show that mental health is still not being taken seriously enough, nor are the erosion of the welfare state and the widening inequalities that are impoverishing the many in favour of the few.

20:20 · February 6, 2023

Khaled Diab

@DiabolicalIdea

My week started with tragedy. Someone had jumped in front of a speeding train. Suicide by locomotive is, sadly, becoming increasingly common. Some people's screams of anguish go so unheard or unresolved that they decide to take their lives in this very public and very final way

20:19 · February 6, 2023

Khaled Diab

@DiabolicalIdea

It's the most powerful earthquake to strike that part of Turkey and Syria in two centuries and it hit without warning at night, when most people were indoors and sleeping. My thoughts are with the people dealing with this devastating blow. #TurkeyEarthquake #Syria #Turkey

17:05 · February 6, 2023

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