‘PREJUDICE, ISLAMOPHOBIA’: FREE SPEECH FEARS AS UK REDEFINES EXTREMISM

  Ramadan vibes in Oxford street Mon 15 April 2024: Experts say a new definition disproportionately targets groups that advocate for Muslims’ civil rights. The United Kingdom government’s new definition of “extremism”, touted as a bid to tackle rising Islamophobia and anti-Semitism in the aftermath of Israel’s war on Gaza, has ignited fierce debate across the political […]

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IN BRAZIL, AN ABORTION DEBATE PITS FEMINISTS AGAINST THE CHURCH

Sat 13 April 2024: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil – In 2019, Mariana Leal de Souza, a 39-year-old Black woman living outside Brazil’s largest city, Sao Paulo, was having a hard time coping with the suicide of her teenage son when she was confronted with more difficult news: She was pregnant. “I couldn’t believe it,” the social […]

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AS THE REVOLUTION IN SYRIA ENTERS ITS 14TH YEAR, FREE SYRIANS ARE WAITING FOR THE SPARK TO REIGNITE

Sat 13 April 2024: The Syrian revolution has just entered its fourteenth year. The Arab Spring revolutions swept across the Arab world and broke out in Syria on 15 March, 2011. Had it not been for Russia’s intervention, the Syrian dictator Bashar Al-Assad would have been overthrown. He preferred Syria to fall into the clutches of the Russian occupation than for […]

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BOLLYWOOD IS PLAYING A LARGE SUPPORTING ROLE IN INDIA’S ELECTIONS

Fri 12 April 2024: As the largest electorate in history goes to the polls in India from April 19 to June 1, 2024, political parties are seeking to influence voters’ decisions – through cinema. The incumbent Bharatiya Janata Party, or BJP, seeking a third term in office under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has deployed […]

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LIKE THE ESTABLISHMENT OF ISRAEL, THE ‘RED HEIFER’ IS YET ANOTHER FORCED PROPHECY

Tue 09 April 2024: Beyond the political dimensions to the ongoing war in Gaza, there exists a deep religious undertone on both sides, which traces back to the very establishment of the Zionist occupation state in 1948, justified on the grounds of religious scripture as a God-given right to Jews. Yet despite its religious exterior, […]

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CAN JACOB ZUMA AND HIS MK PARTY UNSEAT THE ANC IN SOUTH AFRICA’S ELECTION?

  Former South African President Jacob Zuma has endorsed the new uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) party over the ruling ANC [File: MK Party X] Sat 07 April 2024: KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa – “We need change and we need change now,” said Princess Nozwe Zulu, sitting in her home in a low-income government housing project in Savannah Park, […]

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WHY BIDEN’S WHITE HOUSE IFTAR UNRAVELLED AMID GAZA WAR

Wed 03 April 2024: Washington, DC – The White House has cancelled a Ramadan iftar meal after several Muslim Americans declined the invitation in protest of President Joe Biden’s support for Israel’s war on Gaza, according to two people familiar with the matter. The sources, who spoke to Al Jazeera on condition of anonymity, said the cancellation […]

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IN A WEST BANK SETTLEMENT, ISRAELIS TEND RED COWS AND PLAN THE THIRD TEMPLE

  Rabbis from the Temple Institute meet with farmers to discuss the best way to construct a farm that will protect the red heifers from any type of blemish. (courtesy Temple Institute) Sun 31 March 2024: Radical plans to slaughter the heifers have raised concern across the Arab world – and were even linked by […]

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