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 By Nadeem F. Paracha
So much is said and written about Islamophobia. It’s a tendency found in some non-Muslims, especially in the West, who question and discriminate against ‘Muslim attire’ (whatever that means) and beliefs. But those who speak the loudest against Islamophobia have little or nothing to say on another social illness that is haunting their own societies: extremism, and an obsessive-compulsive urge to drag religion into everything.
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 By Jeremy Browne MP
A common misconception is that the Liberal Democrats are in the government solely to make the case for constitutional reform and civil liberties, while everything else comes from the Conservatives. This analysis is deeply flawed, but it helps to explain why some political observers, who know little about the Lib Dems beyond the most lazy caricature, fail to understand what actually drives the government forward.
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 By Meera Ghani
For the past few weeks, I have been preoccupied with the debate around the French ban on the burqa, opposing it quite vehemently and vocally. The ban on veils in Belgium last year sparked my interest in the debate. On April 11, in protest of the French ban, I changed my profile picture on Facebook (as you do these days to register your protest) to Mona Lisa in a niqab, making her mysterious smile ever more mysterious. What was most revealing, and in a way shocking, was the reactions from many of my Muslim friends on my stance and the articles I posted.
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 By Raza Rumi
There must be something terribly wrong with the state of Pakistan that in its largest province, state schools no longer recite the national anthem and are giving up on the Pakistani flag. Tragic, that such alarming reports flashed in the national newspapers and on the internet are a subject of little debate and introspection across the country. Either that nobody really cares as to what happens to the tribals in the southwest of Pakistan, or that there is soft censorship at play.
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 By Sally Hunt
In a keynote speech on immigration yesterday, a couple of weeks before elections, David Cameron conceded that immigration is a hugely emotive issue that must be handled with sensitivity.
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 By Sunder Katwala
Prime Minister David Cameron will give a major speech about immigration this morning. It has been heavily briefed to the media as a tough intervention, so is splashed in that fashion on the Telegraph (Cameron: immigration threatens our way of life) Daily Mail (Mass migration has divided our society and Guardian (Immigrants should speak English) front-pages, and reported in the Independent (PM talks tough) too.
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 By Dan Smith
Now the war has started, which side are you on? Should the intervention stop because the war will be long and bloody? Which means that instead the war will be short, Qaddafi will be victorious, and the aftermath will be bloody – probably as bloody as the war.
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 By Reuters
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh would consider his job “well done” if ties with Pakistan return to normal before he leaves office, local media quoted him as saying on Sunday, weeks after Singh’s diplomatic push at the cricket World Cup.
The neighbours have slowly tried to rebuild a fragile trust shattered by the 2008 Mumbai attacks, which Singh’s government blamed on Pakistan-based militants in collusion with the country’s spy agency.
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Society
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 By Ashraf Khalil
Digital activism has long been a way of life in Egypt; from monitoring political corruption to protesting against police brutality.
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 By Jennifer Allsopp
The funding cuts in the UK are hitting young asylum seekers by blocking well-established pathways into inclusion. This reality sits uncomfortably with David Cameron’s ‘Big Society inclusion’, and the costs of this hypocrisy will be manifold.
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 By Rick Westhead
Elmo, the fuzzy red Sesame Street character who teaches youngsters to read, count and play nice in the sandbox, is about to get a new assignment: wresting young hearts and minds out of the grip of Pakistan's religious fundamentalists.
With a staggering $20 million in funding from the U.S. government, a theatre company in Lahore is preparing to produce a homegrown version of Sesame Street to air throughout the country, an effort organizers say will target the millions of children aged 5 to 9 in Pakistan who are not in school.
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By Fatin Abbas
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the publication of Frantz Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth. Fatin Abbas argues that the uprisings that have erupted across north Africa and the Middle East in recent months attest to the visionary power of Fanon's work and to its enduring relevance.
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 By Vivek H Dehejia
If you could be transported back in time, whom would you rather have dinner with: Gandhi or Jinnah? The question struck me while I was reflecting on the recent controversy that’s erupted in India on the latest book on Gandhi and on similar controversies that have dogged books on Jinnah on both sides of the border in recent years. Was Gandhi gay? Should we care? Was Jinnah secular? Was Gandhi secular, for that matter? Did each do more harm than good to the countries they helped give birth to? These questions, once heretical, still politically dangerous, could be questions one could put to these great men over dinner, if the time travel gods of science fiction cooperated.
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