Blogcritics Author: Sam Siddiqui

Doom and Gloom For The US Economy?

Sam Siddiqui — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 12:09:21 EST

Just in time for the holiday season: negative savings, negative equity, and massive debt.
The Motley Fool has posted a two-part analysis of what they see as the "Impending Destruction of the US Economy." The salient points in Part One of the report appear to be:* Current US deficit is $800 billion a year.* Foreign investors (with whom this deficit is held), will lose value for money as the dollar falls, as it has been doing...

Movie Review: Woolgathering Mammoth

Sam Siddiqui — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 07:00:13 EST

"Big monster on the loose, leave town as fast as possible."
"Big monster on the loose, leave town as fast as possible."After watching director Tim Cox's Larva a while back, which is a creature feature with some solid entertainment value for a B-movie fan like me, I was excited to receive an opportunity to review his Mammoth, which I had missed on the Sci-Fi channel last year.Fully expecting a...

Female Genital Mutilation and Islam

Sam Siddiqui — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 21:45:11 EST

Having made moral judgment against female genital mutilation, what is the next step?
The history of female circumcision, also known as female genital mutilation (FGM), has been traced back as far as the second century BC, when a geographer, Agatharchides of Cnidus, wrote about female circumcision as it occurred among tribes residing on the western coast of the Red Sea (now modern day Egypt). Based on current geographic locations of...

Nazi Archives Open

Sam Siddiqui — Sat, 1 Dec 2007 02:24:04 EST

A final closure for all the victims of the Nazi regime.
The vast archive of Nazi documents from World War II have been opened to the public.Located in the German town of Bad Arolsen, these files have been stored in six buildings by the International Tracing Service, an arm of the International Committee of the Red Cross, with 50 million pages in 16 miles of gray metal filing cabinets. They've been...

Saudi Rape Victims: A Need for Social Pressure

Sam Siddiqui — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 12:50:19 EST

A look at the treatment of a 19-year-old gang rape victim in Saudi Arabia.
There is an urgent and immediate need for forceful and sustained social pressure against the inhumane laws for rape victims (amongst others) in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. With a judicial system based on sharia, dating back a thousand years and worse than anything that was probably practiced in those times, the arbitrary sentencing by the judges...