Bavijas Energy

If you would recall, on Monday, December 11, 2023, I wrote a puritanical piece titled: “ Killing a wolf family won’t save the Deer ” that criticized the ongoing zero-sum war in the Middle East between Israel and Hamas.   That piece was as controversial as I’d expected it to be. It drew varied perspectives from the conservative clergy, the Evangelicals, the Muslim and Christian laity, as well as from agnostics. However, publishing that opinion was one of the boldest things I did in 2023 and it proved I was no longer taking anybody’s answer for anything where my convictions were called for.  In the last 10 years, I’ve been through an inflection point whereby I’ve learnt a lot including how to speak up whenever and wherever it mattered. No need to pipe low any longer. Perhaps this new me stems from my countless moments of  romanticism  or reflective study of self and individuality, and of course, the man I was gradually becoming.  Let me say this: I am disappointed in most Christians, eva

Israeli-linked chemical tanker seized in the Gulf of Aden. Source: www.iranintl.com During his historic 42-minute speech at Westminster Hall on May 25, 2011, then-US President Barack Obama reiterated America was not and will never be in a religious war with Islam but rather in an unrelenting war with terrorist groups and their extremist allies. But its terrorism wars over the years have continued to be with armed groups inextricably linked with the religion of Islam. The Houthis, a religio-political Muslim rebel group of 200,000 troops formed in the 1990s as an opposition movement to Yemen President  Ali Abdullah Saleh , whose aim is to govern Yemen and support all external movements against the United States, Israel, the Jews, and sometimes Saudi Arabia, has been America’s headache for two decades now. In their unrelenting effort to institute Yemen's Shia Muslim minority—the Zaidis—over the years, thousands of Yemenis have died either by fighting or by the hardship that took hold