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Items by Lukman Harees
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Seeing through France’s double standards and hypocrisy
Recent events in Paris have quickly seized global attention. Last month, two people were stabbed outside the former offices of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris, after it republished the controversial caricatures mocking the Holy Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) to emphasise the right to free speech. Then, a…
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Myanmar, China and now India: Is Muslim dignity so cheap?
According to Amit Shah, the national President of India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), “Infiltrators [Muslim immigrants] are like termites in the soil of Bengal. The BJP Government will pick up the infiltrators one by one and throw them into the Bay of Bengal.” Such terminology may not surprise those living…