Society
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It's just not normal to spend your adolescent and teenage years separated away from the opposite sex. But it's one of the central tenants of religious education, and a recipe for sexual dysfunction, says Eamonn Dwyer.
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Politics
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The Barack Obama administration’s plans for subduing the Taliban are endangered by continuing insecurity in Iraq, writes Paul Rogers.
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Politics
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By David Cronin
Robert Clive epitomised the excesses of the British Empire. A master, in his own words, of “tricks, chicanery, politics and the Lord knows what”, the head of the East India Company did not hesitate to use mass starvation as a means of asserting control.
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Arts
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By Stephanie King
It took Paparazzi and a sensational MTV Video Music Awards performance to convince me that Lady Gaga was for real. However, despite admiring her pop-meets-performance-art shtick, her music does little for me. But on The Fame Monster skulks a piece of trashy goth-Europop that’s the musical equivalent of smoking – dirty, guilt-ridden and utterly addictive.
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Politics
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Sufism - once just another variant of Islam, now bankrolled by Britain and the US as a 'moderate' form of the religion that could help counter extremism in Pakistan. But what is Sufism? Where did it come from? And what role does it play today? In the first of a two-part series on Sufism, Qalandar Bux Memon argues that modern Sufi leaders have become part of Pakistan's corrupt ruling elite, favoured by the West not for their 'moderation' but for their compliance.
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India Blog
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By Taapsi Ramchandani
Now while we emphatically deny to our foreign friends that cows, buffalo, camels and elephants amble along our Indian streets, the truth of the matter is that you are often more likely to make acquaintance with at least one of the above animals before you make a new friend in the city. I decided to add one more animal to the list just in case my homo sapiens circle of friends threatens to vanish altogether – the beast of burden complete with rippling muscles, the horse.
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Arts
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By Anna Pitton
Racial and national identity is just one of the themes tackled by Mugabe and the White African, a documentary that tells the story of a man who defies Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe and his tyrannical regime.
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Politics
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At the Chilcot inquiry into the Iraq War, Tony Blair claimed the risk of terrorists being supplied Weapons of Mass Destruction by “rogue” states justified a policy of invasion rather than containment and deterrence. Alex Holland analyses this argument for regime change.
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Politics
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Sri Lanka’s opposition talked of giving concessions to the country’s defeated Tamil minority. The Sinhalese majority said no. Melanie Gouby analyses Sri Lanka’s presidential election.
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Arts
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By Estella Hung
In one image a mother wearing headphones breastfeeds her child sometime during the last decade. In another, a group of fakirs poses in regal surrounds sometime in the 1890s. In still another, a lone woman, her head bound in a khemar, stares penetratingly out amid waving flags of the Pakistan Muslim League during a protest against the newspaper cartoons of the prophet Muhammad in 2005.
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Arts
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By Laila Sumpton
It is 1948, Palestine, and forbidden lovers Ali and Nada are prevented from marrying because her father disapproves of Ali’s brother, “mad” Yusuf. Personal and political worlds collide as the British mandate ends, and the futures of Yusuf, Ali and Nada become “what ifs” that their older selves try to unravel. We are thrown into a tragic-comic world where poetry, pranks, politics and proverbs all interweave with the secrets and forced decisions that the Nakbah inflicted on the small community of Baissamoon in northern Palestine.
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Pakistan Blog
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By Faisal Shakeel
The revelation by US Defense Secretary Robert Gates that notorious security firm Blackwater, now known as Xe, is operating in Pakistan did more harm to the sitting government than anything else. The media zeroed in on his admission and beamed across the country the previous statements of US and Pakistani officials denying Blackwater’s presence in Pakistan.
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Society
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The English Defence League (EDL), who are so fond of telling British Muslims that they should observe one law - British law - rather than demanding sharia courts, gave an interesting demonstration of what they mean by that at their protest in Stoke on Saturday, filmed by independent Stoke blog Pits 'n' Pots:
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