Tag: Islam

Libya: from 17th february 2011 until 2017 – No regrets for toppling Ghadafi regime and diverse ideas for the future

Gadhafi was toppled 6 years ago. When recalling that period I feel the smell of multiple cigarettes being inhaled at lightning speed and (prepaid) Nokia phones ringing constantly. Women and girls were  constantly searching for Gaddafi-tanks who were being moved and hidden, printing leaflets and organising demonstrations. By the same token most women became DIY […]

Boko Haram’s Terror is Based on Thuggery, Not Islam

Op-ed by Hibaaq Osman, originally published online in The Huffington Post on May 12, 2014. Weeks after nearly 300 schoolgirls were abducted from their boarding school in Chibok, in the northern state of Bono in Nigeria, we are only now hearing condemnation from international and religious leaders. In two videos released in recent days, a group […]