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ISIS shows its true colours in Yarmouk! They are the enemy of the Palestinian people.

Posted on April 8, 2015 by fatherdave

ISIS has shown its true colours! They are the enemies of the Palestinian people! Commentators around the world are appalled at the ISIS take-over of Yarmouk refugee camp, still home to around 18,000 Palestinians, and supposedly only a ’10-minute bus … Continue reading →

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Video proof: NATO secretly supports and supplies Islamic State!

Posted on December 2, 2014 by fatherdave

The proof is in! Islamic State is being maintained via an ongoing convoy of supplies trucked across from Turkey on a daily basis! Germany’s international broadcaster, Deutsche Welle (DW), broke the news through the video report published below. Turkish trucking … Continue reading →

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Syria is like a hunted animal, being slowly killed one American arrow at a time

Posted on September 30, 2014 by fatherdave

The following article is written by my friend, Declan Hayes – a passionate Irishman. I was with Declan in Damascus in April of this year. He has been back to Syria twice since then and spent the bulk of his … Continue reading →

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Mairead Maguire: “We must each do all in our power to Resist and Stop this latest drive to war!”

Posted on September 19, 2014 by fatherdave

I’m proud to call Mairead Maguire my friend, not only because of her historic work in Northern Ireland that earned her the Nobel Peace Prize in 1976, but even more so on account of the way she continues to pour … Continue reading →

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Jon Stewart parodies Obama's war on 'Islamic State'

Posted on September 16, 2014 by fatherdave

This is a powerful mixture of insight and humour from Jon Stewart, though the way he frames the parody does concern me. Stewart rails against Obama’s ‘Team America’ pitch in selling another Middle Eastern war with a view to questioning … Continue reading →

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Why are we worried about the Islamic State? Did I miss something?

Posted on August 29, 2014 by fatherdave

The war-drums are beating. Hysteria is spreading across the nation and reaching fever pitch! Al Baghdadi and his hordes of masked men are on their way to kill us all! Nobody is safe! First Syria, then Iraq, next … Australia? … Continue reading →

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Supporting Syria – an address by Father Dave

Posted on August 6, 2014 by fatherdave

An address given at the Imam Husain Islamic Centre on July 25th, 2014 It is hard to know how to talk about Syria as there are really two entirely different and competing narratives about Syria, and how you understand the … Continue reading →

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Why it's OK to arm MODERATE jihadists in Syria

Posted on July 5, 2014 by fatherdave

Twas bryllyg, and ye slythy toves Did gyre and gymble in ye wabe: All mimsy were ye borogoves; And ye mome raths outgrabe. (from Lewis Carroll’s ‘Jabberwocky’) I must admit that I was a little confused when I first heard … Continue reading →

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Is the violence in Syria and Iraq really sectarian?

Posted on July 4, 2014 by fatherdave

We’ve been sold this line for a long time – that the violence raging across the Levant, most obviously in Syria and Iraq, is of a sectarian nature. It is Sunni against Shia, Muslims against fellow Muslims and non-Muslim minority … Continue reading →

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Iraq, ISIS and Syria – what’s going on?!

Posted on June 19, 2014 by fatherdave

So many crazy things are happening in the hell that is flowing from Syria into Iraq at the moment that it’s hard to know what is going on. As Christians we need to make a meaningful response to all this bloodshed … Continue reading →

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