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 The Saudis are the biggest losers Correction: the closest transliteration of the Yemeni port city's name is Mokha (المخا like the Spanish j or the German ch), not Mocha.  Related "The “Houthis are Shi‘a” narrative should be seen for what it is—a carefully crafted piece of political rhetoric devised to gloss over important differences between religious denominations, to reinforce the false image of a war between those who identify as Sunni versus those who identify as Shi‘a, and to encourage foreign—and particularly US—military intervention in Yemen. It provides a dangerously simplistic mental short cut for policymakers who are unfamiliar with Yemeni history and politics. In so doing, it diverts attention from the massive humanitarian crisis caused by years of civil war and the US-backed Saudi-led coalition’s ongoing blockade and bombardment. The cynical use of sectarian language casts the conflict in Yemen as part of an epochal, region-wide struggle rather than a local civil ...

It should be The Character of the British Regime under Starmer, for Britain is not Labour or the regime. “Labour approved more arms sales than the Conservatives permitted over the previous four years…  [W]e cannot accuse Starmer of ‘inaction’ or ‘complicity’. For he is not a bystander, but a perpetrator…  [A]n adamantine commitment to upholding the interests of the powerful which sanctions even the most intense forms of violence, including the crime of genocide. “Rather than trying to resolve the war in Ukraine, Starmer proposed a major provocation: sending UK troops to the front line as part of a ‘coalition of the willing’. Rather than calming tensions with China, his government inflamed them by announcing that it is ‘ready to fight’ in the Pacific.” Palestine Action. “ The decree is without precedent in British history. Never before has the state taken such extreme measures to eradicate a protest movement. “During his time in office, environmentalists have reportedly receive...

Part 1 What is behind Christianity banning polygamy before some Muslim states? The primary reason Christianity banned polygamy long before Muslim states is not actually rooted in the Bible, but rather in  the pre-existing pagan laws of ancient Greece and Rome, where Christianity first developed.  [1, 2]  When Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire, it absorbed the strict Greco-Roman legal tradition of  socially imposed monogamy . In contrast, Islam originated in the Arabian Peninsula, a region where polygamy was a deeply rooted tribal tradition that the Quran chose to regulate and restrict rather than entirely eliminate. [1, 3, 4, 5, 6] 1. The Greco-Roman Cultural Legacy (The Main Driver) Centuries before Jesus was born, ancient Greece and Rome had already outlawed polygamy. [3]  The Roman Law:  To Romans, marrying multiple wives was viewed as a "barbarian" practice. A Roman citizen could legally have only  one wife at a time . T...