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RAMZY BAROUD sees Gaza abandoned while the genocide continues
Muslims held to a double standard
The Kouachi brothers did not speak for Muslims any more than self-professed Christian Anders Breivik spoke for Christians, says John Haylett
ANDREW MURRAY offers some troubling thoughts on pressing political issues
Tensions have once again escalated between Egypt and Ethiopia over GERD, Africa’s largest hydroelectric project, and now Trump has offered to mediate. NICHOLAS MWANGI reports
The National Education Union general secretary speaks to Ben Chacko on growing calls to protect children from a toxic online culture
While Iranians take to the streets en masse to protest sky-high inflation, Trump and Netanyahu are threatening military intervention. The Iranian population is trapped between a repressive regime, a suffocating economic war from the outside, and a history of dark alliances, argues MARC VANDEPITTE
Unison Scotland’s BRENDA AITCHISON says her union won’t tolerate further cuts to public services
Communities Secretary Eric Pickles is rarely less than smug, and his smugness will have been enhanced by the Prime Minister’s enthusiastic description of his letter to Muslim clerics as “reasonable, sensitive and moderate.”
The main offence in the Pickles letter lay not in its wording but in the assumption that Muslim communities in Britain bear responsibility for actions taken by individuals.
Pickles wrote that imams could show their congregations “how faith in Islam can be part of British identity,” with the implication, through use of the word “can,” that Islam at present does not form part of that collective identity.
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