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  The French crisis is self-made

  by Habib Siddiqui | Updated at 12:00am on November 08, 2020

  FRANCE is in a crisis or so it seems from the latest reports in the media. For the last couple of weeks, the secular fundamentalist...

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  Does Facebook’s Zuckerberg have a ‘Muslim’ problem?

  Habib Siddiqui | Updated at 12:00am on September 08, 2020

  Mark Zuckerberg, the founder and CEO of Facebook, claims to be against the use of his popular social media portal for spreading hatred. He said...

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  Trump’s acceptance speech at the RNC epitomised scare tactics

  Habib Siddiqui | Updated at 12:00am on September 01, 2020

  On August 27, 2020, president Donald Trump of the United States delivered his acceptance speech as the presidential candidate at the Republican National Convention that...

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  Ram Temple celebrations in Modi’s India

  by Habib Siddiqui | Updated at 12:00am on August 12, 2020

  IN THE past week, India’s prime minister Narendra Modi, dressed like a priest-king in a saffron scarf and a silver crown, performed a sacred ritual...

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  The Gitmo detainees of 9/11

  by Habib Siddiqui | Updated at 12:00am on August 10, 2020

  The Guantanamo (Gitmo) camp was established by US president George W Bush’s administration in 2002. At the time of its establishment in January 2002, the...

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  The forgotten Canadian detainee of 9/11

  by Habib Siddiqui | Updated at 12:00am on July 29, 2020

  IT HAS been almost 19 years since the United States, joined by its western allies — especially the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia — launched...

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  Race still matters in land of Lincoln

  by Habib Siddiqui | Updated at 12:00am on June 24, 2020

  PRESIDENT Trump has taken credit for popularising Juneteenth in an interview with the Wall Street Journal on June 19, stating that no one had ever...

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  Politics of fearmongering in the altar of Hindutva in Modi’s India

  by Habib Siddiqui | Updated at 12:00am on May 12, 2020

  ON APRIL 16 two Hindu ascetics and their driver were lynched to death near Gadchinchle village in Maharashtra’s Palghar district in India. As it always...

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  Govts caught flat-footed in tackling coronavirus

  by Habib Siddiqui | Updated at 12:00am on April 12, 2020

  The governments around the globe need to plan for the future and must develop contingent plans in dealing with not only the virus pandemic issue...

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  Sobering statistics of COVID-19

  by Habib Siddiqui | Updated at 12:00am on April 01, 2020

  NEARLY 650,000 people worldwide are confirmed as of March 28 to have been infected with coronavirus. As I write around 4:00pm EST (USA), more than...