On Saturday 30 July, a hot air balloon crashed in Texas killing in the process all 16 people on board. According to Google News, over two million news articles covered this event.
According to Humanitarian Relief Foundation and various Turkish media, more than 450 persons, including whole families, from Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Turkestan and the Caucasus, with the majority from Uzbekistan, have been detained and put in repatriation centres during operations in Istanbul, since 29th of July.
The 13th of August marked the 60th anniversary of Tunisia’s Personal Status Code (PSC) introduced in 1956 by the staunch secular dictator Habib Bourguiba.
Writer Qasim Qusair concluded in his article: “Rigidity of the Islamic Political Thought: Hizb ut Tahrir as a Model” published on the Arabi 21 site on 24/08/2016, he concluded with the query and directing a clear invitation to Hizb ut Tahrir “To revise a host of its writings and analyses in order to escape from the wooden (rigid) address that the Hizb still insists upon utilising in spite of the passing of 63 years since its launch...
