Secularism is a Women’s IssueScotland joined the solidarity actions on 11 April 2021 in marking two years from Julian Assange’s arbitrary arrest and cruel imprisonment.
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UK: 11/04/2021 Scotland Marks 2nd anniversary of Julian Assange’s Arbitrary arrest and imprisonment.
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Bangladesh: Dhaka cracks down on hardliners after violence
19 April, by siawi3Police in Bangladesh on Sunday arrested hundreds of hardline Islamists, including an influential leader of Hefazat-i-Islam that led violent protests against last month’s visit by India’s prime minister. A further 298 Hefazat supporters and activists were arrested in the eastern rural district of Brahmanbaria where anti-Modi demonstrations were also held, police said.
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Le Pakistan bloque temporairement les réseaux sociaux à cause des manifestations contre la France
19 avril, par siawi3Le pays est secoué depuis plusieurs jours par une mobilisation contre la France, liée au droit à la caricature. Paris a appelé ses ressortissants, jeudi, à quitter le Pakistan. Onze policiers pris en otage à Lahore par des manifestants appartenant à un parti islamiste radical ont été libérés.
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South Africa: The poet of colouredness and exile
19 April, by siawi3Coloredness was a bedrock of Nortje’s identity, not to mention a source of profound mental anguish, at a time when the concept of race was paramount in South Africa. In a post-apartheid South Africa in which Colored’s, despite being in the majority in the Western Cape, are still routinely marginalized and disenfranchised—this time not by the Afrikaner regime, but by the ANC government, Nortje’s work is both timely and apposite. His poetry speaks eloquently of the liminal, painful space that the Colored community still occupies in today’s “Rainbow Nation.”
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History of divisive ethnic identities shows it’s time Nigeria admits its role in enforcing them
19 April, by siawi3Centuries of normalised anti-blackness have unsurprisingly resulted in skin bleaching and hair straightening practices. These are still common on the continent. There is a need to take into account the role of every sphere of Nigerian society in creation of mutually exclusive identities that deny the legitimacy and existence of the “other”. A process like this could redeem Africa from inferior standards and complexes that justify behaviour like corruption and violence. But, crucially, African countries like Nigeria must start this process by identifying and acknowledging their own complicity in coloniality. This would require a shift in the concentration of blame and faultfinding on external forces.
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Black Tunisians breaking taboos
19 April, by siawi3In Tunisia, racism is a well-kept secret that the revolution partially unveiled. This society, which still thinks of itself as white and Arab, has a hard time confronting the discriminations suffered by a good portion of its population. The silence of the state on the issue of racism in Tunisia has very concrete consequences. In Tunisian society, one can be a victim of a variety of discriminations that are generally accepted as a fact of life.
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Côte d’ Ivoire : Une Académie internationale de lutte contre le terrorisme.
19 avril, par siawi3Pour la première fois ces derniers jours, des mines artisanales ont explosé sur des pistes du nord du pays, sans encore faire de morts. Mais les vols d’armes se multiplient (un gage pour appartenir à un réseau jihadiste), comme les enlèvements contre rançons, comme les attaques de postes militaires (celui de Kafolo, assailli deux fois en trois semaines).
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France : Grenoble, Notre-Dame, réunions en non-mixité... : l’Unef en 6 polémiques
19 avril, par siawi3Un « clientélisme indigéniste exacerbé totalement scandaleux »
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France : Kahina Bahloul, imame : “Les musulmans réformistes ne sont pas consultés par l’État français”
19 avril, par siawi3L’État français affiche sa lutte contre l’islam politique mais dialogue avec une instance composée de fédérations étrangères financées depuis l’étranger, qui sont porteuses d’une lecture conservatrice, voire fondamentaliste des textes islamiques. Je suis choquée que le gouvernement choisisse cet interlocuteur. Nous, les musulmans de France réformistes qui peinons à trouver des financements, nous ne sommes jamais consultés. L’islam libéral est totalement mis à l’écart !
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AUTHENTICITY, IDENTITY AND LUTHER
19 April, by siawi3One of the ironies of the way in which many talk about diversity today is that diversity often seems magically to vanish at the edges of minority communities.
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