Discriminatory racial framing of Muslim identity

Islamophobia appears to be slowly gaining ground throughout the world. It, according to Professor Khaled A. Beydoun, the author of American Islamophobia: Understanding the Roots and Rise of Fear, is evolving gradually from being merely 'dread or hatred of Muslims', or 'fear or dislike' of the faith and its followers...

Coal: A short autobiography

Although black and ugly, I am a derivative of carbon and handy for mankind. I am known as a solid fossil fuel (or hydro-carbon). Organically made up of pre-historic vegetation (mostly mosses), I lay buried in sedimentary rocks for millennia. Geological processes turned the organic material into peat and ultimately...