“Do you know the city of Palmyra?'
'No.'
'Once it was a major city of the world. A place of temples to the sun and moon and of great archways curving against the desert sky. A place of trade, where all races lived as one. Then it fell as all civilisations can sem to fall. It was destroyed, its people were put to death.'
'That's terrible.'
'The destroyers were the Romans, those thought to be the great civilisers of the ancient world.”
Quote by David Almond
“Zinah had not lost her touch, had she? She had a way with these girls. Amirah now ached to become more devout. Another win.”
Source: The Missing Activist
“But radical feminist or not, Alesha Parkhurst loved British freedoms as much as Karen Andersen.”
Source: The Missing Activist
“We cannot construct equality. We can create fairness.”
Source: Operation Jihadi Bride: My Covert Mission to Rescue Young Women from ISIS - The Incredible True Story
“Time, like a relentless tide, eroded even the most profound truths.”
Source: The Prophetess of Dharma : Long Lost Journeys of Divine Justice, Healing and Peace
“A few words in a stranger’s language reminds us of our shared humanity.”
Source: Operation Jihadi Bride: My Covert Mission to Rescue Young Women from ISIS - The Incredible True Story
“The world only stays in balance when good people do what’s right.”
Source: Operation Jihadi Bride: My Covert Mission to Rescue Young Women from ISIS - The Incredible True Story
“The past is like a tattoo. Your life changes, but the tattoo is still there to remind you who you were and you forget who you are.”
Source: Operation Jihadi Bride: The Covert Mission to Rescue Young Women from ISIS
“Every jihadi bride who wants to come home is proof that Islamic State is a failure.”
Source: Operation Jihadi Bride: The Covert Mission to Rescue Young Women from ISIS
“The grating cry of the muezzin from the mosques at sunrise wakes people from their sleep and puts them on edge for the rest of the day.”
Source: Operation Jihadi Bride: The Covert Mission to Rescue Young Women from ISIS
“Mosul, the native city of the historian Ibn al-Athir, was the capital of Jazira, or Mesopotamia, the fertile plain watered by the two great rivers Tigris and Euphrates. It was a political, cultural, and economic centre of prime importance. The Arabs boasted of its succulent fruit: its apples, pears, grapes, and pomegranates. The fine cloth it exported - called 'muslin', a word derived from the city's name - was known throughout the world. At the time of the arrival of the Franj, the people of the emir Karbuqa's realm were already exploiting another natural resource, which the traveller Ibn Jubayr was to describe with amazement a few dozen years later: deposits of naphtha. This precious dark liquid, which would one day make the fortune of this part of the world, already offered travellers an unforgettable spectacle.”
Source: The Crusades Through Arab Eyes
