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November 19, 2016
An influential South-Asian rights group has terminated its ties with a major US airlines alleging that it was carrying out racial and religious profiling of Muslims, Arab and South-Asian passengers on its flights reports PTI.
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"Southwest (Airlines) employees have been racially profiling Muslim, Arab, and South Asian passengers in the last year, including at least...
November 19, 2016
Amid chants of "Allahu akbar", huge and angry crowds gathered outside the Supreme Court in Mauritania on Tuesday demanding the execution of a man who complained about religion being used to justify social discrimination.
Demonstrators outside the Supreme Court. The banner says: ""We demand the execution of Ould Mkhaitir immediately".
In December 2013 engineer...
November 19, 2016
'The presidency is about many things,' groups declare in letter to president-elect. 'Chiefly, it is about setting an example through your leadership.'
President-elect Donald Trump "must repent, take responsibility, and challenge those who have been emboldened by his words, and he must also change the direction of his policies that undermine the cause of justice and civil...
November 18, 2016
Kurdish women in one of the strongest and most radical women’s movements in the world are taking a battering from the Turkish state with impunity - as Europe looks the other way
Ayla Akat Ata, spokeswoman of Free Women’s Congress (KJA), 8th March celebration 2014 when she was still an MP.
‘’We will resist and resist until we win!“ chants Sebahat...
November 17, 2016
The spread of fascism in the 1920s was significantly aided by the fact that liberals and mainstream conservatives failed to take it seriously. Instead, they accommodated and normalised it.
Image: PA/Roman Pilipey
The centre right is doing the same today. Brexit, Trump and the far right ascendant across Europe indicate that talk of a right-wing revolutionary moment is not exaggerated. And...
November 16, 2016
Lawmakers said the president-elect's selection of his campaign chairman as his chief strategist ’sends the wrong message’ to harassers of minority communities.
United States president-elect Donald Trump has been urged to rescind the appointment of far-right, controversial media figure Stephen K Bannon as his chief adviser and strategist at the White House. “If...
November 15, 2016
Tens of millions of people around the world remember to this date, where they were and what they were doing when the twin towers fell. As they do when Mr. Barack Obama, a black man, became the most powerful man in the world. Strangers rejoiced on the streets of little towns around the world. Not because they thought that their lives would be suddenly better, or that the complex political and...
November 14, 2016
The Jumm’ah (Friday prayer) gathering on November 11th was unusually quiet and everyone seemed to be deeply reflective. Unusually so. Even those who are usually chatty seemed quieter than normal. Given that we don’t have a mosque in the area where I live, we meet in a hotel room to pray, every Friday. The Imam there pointed out, like others throughout the country have, that there is...
November 14, 2016
A year after the deadly 2015 terrorist attacks in Paris on November 13, and France is still grappling with its relationship with its minorities.
Fraternity is often forgotten. Didier Jansen/flickr, CC BY-NC
After it emerged that some of those who carried out the attacks were French nationals, many renewed longstanding criticisms that the outdated French “republican model” of...
November 12, 2016
The right has destroyed the left and stolen its language, using it as a decoy with which to push through policies that hurt the poorest. The left must reclaim its ideology, not allow it to be co-opted by the right
Donald Trump, by Gage Skidmore
Trump’s election was a tragedy. But the outrage is its reframing – by the mainstream media and even sections of the left – as a...