Sat 25 April 2020: This Ramadan, make the right choice and do not buy dates from companies that exploit Palestinian land and labour. Throughout the 1930s, a Zionist settler and founder of the Kinneret kibbutz by the name of Ben-Zion Israeli travelled the Middle East to collect cuttings of palm trees. In many cases, he had to […]
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Wed 22 April 2020: The coronavirus Covid-19 has achieved what tyrants haven’t been able to by spreading fear and panic around the whole world, encompassing all creeds and ethnicities. The virus does not discriminate between a Muslim and a Christian, black or white, rich or poor, prince or pauper; everyone is the same in its […]
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Mon 20 April 2020: On 21 April, 2019, as Sri Lanka’s 1.5 million Christians celebrated Easter Sunday, bombs ripped through churches and hotels in Colombo, Negombo, and Batticaloa, killing at least 350 and injuring hundreds. When the little known National Towheed Jamaat claimed responsibility for the attacks, Sri Lanka had a choice to make. The government could investigate perpetrators and bring […]
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Sun 19 April 2020: A post-American, post-liberal world order awaits us. But what shape will it take? Since the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic, there has been a general feeling that the world is at an historical turning point, that nothing will ever be the same again. The realists ponder and the (neo)liberals bemoan the comeback of […]
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Sat 18 April 2020: Superstar athletes, such as professional soccer players in the English Premier League, have been subjected to some intense public pressure to take large pay cuts. The level of pressure has been much higher than that faced by other millionaire professionals, such as lawyers or bankers. Why have athletes been seemingly singled out? The […]
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Fri 17 April 2020: Censoring information about the coronavirus outbreak would prevent the media from holding those in power accountable. India is fighting on two fronts right now – the global pandemic and an escalating humanitarian crisis of millions of migrant workers battling hunger and homelessness due to the lockdown. Historically, pandemics, wars, and famines have led […]
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Wed 15 April 2020: As the world battles the Covid-19 pandemic amid a global race to stop its spread, India has passed a new law in Kashmir which residents fear will change the demographic status of the Muslim-majority territory. The new domicile law announced by India’s Ministry of Home Affairs on 1 April grants permanent residency rights, which […]
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Wed 15 April 2020: In countries like India and Israel Muslims are being scapegoated for the spread of Covid-19. When the Black Plague ravaged Europe in the middle of the 14th Century, killing roughly 50 percent of those infected and one-third of the continent’s population at the time, rumours spread that Jewish people were poisoning […]
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Sat 11 April 2020: Some have compared what the coronavirus caused in the world to a mini version of the Day of Judgement, where people flee from their brothers, mothers, fathers, partners, children and the community that shelters him. Those infected by coronavirus are isolated far from everyone and people run away from them, even […]
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Sat 11 April 2020: Without substantial change on the part of the Assad regime, effective intervention and deterrence measures are still absolutely necessary in Syria. How such policy action materialises is debatable, but should not come at the cost of whitewashing the regime. Those who argue against intervention or deterrence, without insisting on the condition of […]
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