Mon 19 August 2019: The sentiment that there is a ‘united Islamic front’ standing up for the welfare of Muslims needs to be retired – nothing could be further from the truth. In 2008 at the Arab League summit in Damascus the former Libyan leader Colonel Moammar Gaddafi warned Arab League leaders that their countries would be […]
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Sun 18 August 2019: A Kashmiri student describes how she feels about her besieged home while thousands of miles away in Turkey. On the evening of August 4, I missed my mother’s internet call and about two minutes later when I tried calling back, the Indian government had cut all communication lines in the disputed […]
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Thu 15 August 2019: The ‘Hitler’s Den’ pool parlor that shocked me on a round-India trip 10 years ago was no outlier. Admiration for Nazism – often reframed with a genocidal hatred for Muslims – is rampant in the Hindu nationalist camp, which has never been as mainstream as it is now. July 2008. I […]
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Switzerland Vs Israel football match in Basel, 3 Sept 2005. Wed 14 August 2019: The Palestinian Football Association is struggling to survive. Combined US-Israeli pressure on Palestinian organisations that provide aid and support to the Palestinian people is now felt in the field of sports as well. In recent months, the association’s budget has been slashed by more […]
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Sat 10 August 2019: Russian revolutionary leader Lenin once said, “Show me who your friends are, and I will tell you what you are.” If we apply this to Narendra Modi and India, we can see that the Prime Minister of the world’s largest democracy counts among his closest allies both Israel and Myanmar. That […]
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Fri 08 August 2019: Since 2016, the regime of Bashar al-Assad, with the help of its Russian and Iranian allies, has employed indiscriminate attacks and siege warfare to negotiate surrender of several areas formerly held by opposition forces. Many of these negotiated surrenders have included so called“reconciliation deals” mostly offered to people formerly affiliated with the […]
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Thu 08 August 2019: Signing up to the ‘war on terror’ – especially ‘Islamist terror’ – may seem natural for two states built on colonial partition whose security is threatened by Muslim neighbours “When I heard the first news report, I assumed it was an Israeli air raid on Gaza. Or Syria. Airstrikes on a “terrorist camp” were the […]
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Wed 07 August 2019: With the abrogation of Kashmir’s special status, social media also saw a surge in posts asserting Hindutva supremacy. “What are the benefits of removing Article 370?” Three men lined up against a shop in Delhi smile broadly into the camera. “The tricolour will be waved in Kashmir, bhai your turn,” Ankit Jatav tells his […]
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Tue 06 August 2019: The revoking of Article 370 is just the latest step in the BJP’s grand plan to transform India into a Hindu-only nation. Earlier today, Prime Minister Narendra Modi‘s Hindu nationalist BJP government has rushed through a presidential decree to revoke the part of the constitution that gives Indian-administered Kashmirspecial status, fueling growing Kashmiri fears of […]
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Sun 04 August 2019: Once again, a not-so-unpredictable crisis is unfolding in the three Horn of Africa countries of Kenya, Somalia and Ethiopia. The humanitarian agency Oxfam is reporting that as of June 2019, some 15.3 million were in need of assistance, primarily food and other essential needs. Crucially, more than a third of these […]
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