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(11n) October 2020, in France a month to forget

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The month October. A further slow build-up of tensions between the West and Muslim countries. The reason? Terrorist attacks in France as a result of the publication of cartoons by the magazine Charlie Hebdo whereby certain caricatures depict the Prophet Muhammad, even when the magazine knows this is unacceptable for many (religious) Muslims as it suggests they are all extremists and thus their publications will increase tensions with Muslims and radicalise some as the terror attacks against the magazine and later attacks proof.  For me,  it is unbelievable that people want to sacrifice themselves and even loved ones because they are angry about pictures. Still, as God says in old books, let those who want to die for God die for Him. But, it is sad that innocent people die. And thus potential terrorists should be stopped, the reason why telecom companies should be able to save and store telephone calls for a certain period (of course, with respect for the privacy). But, believe...

Buildup of Tensions in Societies Throughout the World

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We notice worldwide tensions are growing within societies. This is mainly as a result of growing inequality but also other factors are involved such as a virus and climate change that destroys crops so people start to migrate as essentials become rarer and thus more expensive compared with what people earn. The result is likely that increasingly people in places where the migrants move to will demand a closing of their borders. Let's discuss. Financial crisis 2008-2009 While inequality was growing as a result of what many people earned versus rising costs of products, this accelerated when the financial crisis was organised just over ten years ago. As a result, people lost work and many even their home such as in the USA so poverty increased although the rich became richer. But, while house prices dropped because many flats and houses became available, those with money were able to buy them cheaper and sell or rent them out to make money when property prices rose again. The problem...

(18m) Police violence against black people remind us about statues of historical human rights violators

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A discussion has started/ is ongoing in Western countries after George Floyd was murdered by four white police officers while this happened not long after Ahmaud Arbery and Breonna Taylor were killed and a video showed how a white woman called police to falsely claim a black man threatened her. I wrote about slavery and its consequences shortly before  while these stories about police killing black people is not something new  while I suggested some solutions. The discussion is among others about whether or not to remove and/or destroy statues of slave traders, slave owners and leading figures who approved slavery, mistreatment of humans and enforced deportation of humans to other countries and even continents to force them to work without payment and even under threat of punishment and death if they didn't work hard enough. I acknowledge, not all slave owners were bad but they too lived in a time when black people's lives were in danger when they were free and thus b...