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the Gita Sahgal/Amnesty International controversy: What needs to be done
26 May 2010, by siawi226 May 2010
GITA SAHGAL CALLS ON AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL:
‘STOP COVERING UP OR WE START CLEANING UP’
28th May 2010 is the 49th anniversary of Peter Benenson’s launch of Amnesty International. But as the organization begins planning celebrations, (...) -
Suisse, fric, burqa: loi pour les pauvres, autre loi pour les riches touristes!
16 May 2010, by siawi211 mai, 2010
GENÈVE (AFP) -La Suisse voudrait interdire de se cacher le visage dans les lieux publics mais devrait faire une exception pour les touristes musulmanes portant la burqa, selon la ministre helvétique de la Justice et de la Police (...) -
India: Days of Identity in Dalit Politics Are Over, We Need to Focus on Ideology
4 January 2017, by siawi3I feel the days of identity in Dalit struggle are over. The Sangh’s people have played the politics of identity to the hilt, and benefitted most from it. They know how to play the identity card better than us. We need to focus on ideology. If we are talking of bringing long term change, then it is important we establish the ideology of humanity and equality that Buddha, Phule, Shahu, Kabir, Raidas and Ambedkar have left us with.
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Algérie. La mémoire de Maurice Audin, miroir d’une identité plurielle
4 février 2019, par siawi3Unanime sur l’appartenance de Maurice Audin à la nation algérienne, l’assistance l’était aussi sur la nécessité de poursuivre le travail de mémoire sur les deux rives. Contre le dogme d’un nationalisme arabo-islamique toujours prégnant dans les rouages de l’État : « Aujourd’hui, nous voulons une Algérie avec ses Européens, ses juifs, ses communistes ! », a lancé, en conclusion, une participante très applaudie.
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Muslim, Islamic, Indian, or all of the above: on Pakistan’s identity crisis
19 March 2019, by siawi3Pakistan is caught in a double bind. On the one hand, it is unable to resolve the contradictions among the three forms of political Islam battling to impose their own definition of Islam on the country. On the other, its inability to define its identity in non-Indian terms has forced it into an anti-Indian mould that is almost impossible to break.
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THE HISTORY AND POLITICS OF WHITE IDENTITY
19 March 2019, by siawi3Identity politics is one of the defining – and one of the most divisive – issues of our age. White identity is the original identity of identity politics, and reveals the reactionary roots of the politics of identity. To challenge inequality and injustice, to defend working class interests, requires us to challenge also the politics of identity, however it expresses itself.
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Israël: Unprecedented Decline In US Jewish Youth Refusing Birthright Tours
13 December 2018, by siawi3Birthright is a free 10-day trip offered to young Jews ages 18 to 26 (now raised to age 32). It has brought hundreds of thousands of Jewish youth from around the world to Israel with the goal of increasing their identification with the Jewish State. Haaretz reported Tuesday that the Birthright program has seen a sharp drop in participation rates this winter season, mainly among Jews from the U.S., the country that provides “by far” the largest number of participants.
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The new Pakistani
4 February 2010, by siawi2Source: Daily Times, February 04, 2010
by Zaair Hussain
In a country where a Senator has stood before the House and declared, with a gall that must surely have blotted out the sun, that the respectable tradition of burying women alive (...) -
Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka on England and Islamic terrorism
4 February 2010, by siawi2Source: The daily beast
Wole Soyinka’s British Problem
by Tunku Varadarajan As religious violence deepens in his home country, Nobel laureate and Nigerian political activist Wole Soyinka shares his unbridled thoughts on Islamic terrorism and (...) -
Burka must be banned in public places
25 January 2010, by siawi2Azar Majedi was interviewed by BBC Radio Birmingham on Monday 18 and BBC three counties Radio on 22 January on the question of Banning the burka in public places. The call by BNP to ban the burka in UK had generated concern over the issue.
Azar (...)
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