Nigerian Times

Clockwise from top left: Protesters gathering in Tahrir Square in Cairo , Egypt; Demonstrators marching through Habib Bourguib Avenue in Tunis , Tunisia; Political dissidents in Sana'a , Yemen, demanding the resignation of the president; Protesters gathering in Pearl Roundabout in Manama , Bahrain; Hundreds of Thousands in Douma, Damascus , Syria; Demonstrators in Bayda , Libya. Call it the Arab Spring or whatever name you like, but you cannot separate the political from the biblical if you want to fully understand what is going on in the Middle East. The enemies of Israel are now pitched against themselves as chronicled in the following chapter of 2 Chronicles 20 (New International Version). 22. As they began to sing and praise, the LORD set ambushes against the men of Ammon and Moab and Mount Seir who were invading Judah, and they were defeated. 23. The Ammonites and Moabites rose up against the men from Mount Seir to destroy and annihilate them. After they finished slaughte...

Michigan Men Sue American Airlines Group detained in August says they were racially profiled DETROIT, Nov. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Six Michigan men who in August were escorted off an American Airlines flight and then detained filed a race discrimination lawsuit Wednesday against the airline, saying the incident was a clear case of racial profiling, false imprisonment and a violation of civil rights. Filed in U.S. District Court by Allen Brothers PLLC of Detroit, the lawsuit seeks hundreds of thousands of dollars in compensatory damages for hours of detainment, interrogation, public humiliation and embarrassment. The incident occurred when the group was returning home from providing consulting work for U.S. troops. "The airline treated these individuals like criminals, simply because of stereotyping and ignorance. The irony is, these men were returning home from training our troops before deployment to Iraq," said Lawrence Garcia, the attorney representing the men. "This kind o...