Some analysts say losing territory has not significantly affected the Islamic State’s ability to wage terror on a smaller but still deadly scale.
Secularism is a Women’s Issue
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Double attack in southern Iraq kills more than 80
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Scandinavia: the radical right meets the mainstream
14 September, by siawi3A legitimisation of radical right-wing ideology is taking place around the world. The world was shocked by the events in Charlottesville, America, and by Donald Trump’s failure to condemn racist violence. But it may be even more surprising to some to learn that the radical right has achieved a mainstream foothold in Scandinavia and that right-wing parties and groups have been accepted as legitimate and part of the mainstream.
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South Asia: Separating a once historically indivisible people
14 September, by siawi3As the founding myth of the post-colonial nation-states of India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, partition is a way of seeing and being that separates what were once historically indivisible people, communities, and linguistic cultures into distinctive political entities. The unities invoked in the constructed national narrations of South Asian nation-states, however, cannot wish away the facts of history and geography.
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India: Why Do Almost All Terror Probes Reach Nowhere In India? The Clue Lies In Communal Divide
14 September, by siawi3The communal divide has affected the old model of policing and almost no terror investigation is able to be concluded in India. I will not be surprised if the men who murdered Gauri Lankesh, and their paymasters, will never be brought to account. The failure is systemic, and for us to expect that it will work in particular instances a show of optimism rather than an assessment of the factual reality.
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India: Death of a of Journalist - Tribute to Gauri Lankesh
14 September, by siawi3Gauri Lankesh opposed the communal totalitarian politics of the BJP and its twisted interpretation of Hinduism. She stood against the caste system, inequality, and gender discrimination. We live in treacherous times. The insidious stench of fear and violence threatens to permeate the very core of our being. We are browbeaten into silence, our citizenship redefined and constitutional rights blurred. Never has India faced such a threat to her democracy. Gauri is not the first to be silenced. She will not be the last if we do not take a firm stand to defend our Constitution and democratic rights. No political party today seems to have this on their agenda.
Gauri Lankesh: “I oppose the BJP’s fascist and communal politics . . . I oppose the caste system of the ‘Hindu Dharma’, which is unfair, unjust and gender-biased.” “Speak up, you must do more, why are all of you so timid!”
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