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Muslims v the west, in France and beyond
by Taj Hashmi | Updated at 12:00am on December 02, 2020
ISLAMOPHOBIA in the west has, in short, a dark history, which is all about the use and abuse of Islam and Muslims and is positively...
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Muslims v the west, in France and beyond
Taj Hashmi | Updated at 12:00am on December 01, 2020
AS ALL wars are trade wars, all discriminatory acts against certain sections of the population anywhere in the world and their persecution on racial, religious...
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Muslims v the west, in France and beyond
by Taj Hashmi | Updated at 12:00am on November 30, 2020
THIS is an appraisal of Islamophobia, mainly in the west, and the so-called westophobia among Muslims from a different viewpoint. I believe that since all...
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An open letter to Harsh Vardhan Shringla
Taj Hashmi | Updated at 12:00am on March 07, 2020
Dear Mr Shringla: I have no reasons to remember names of Indian diplomats and senior employees of the country’s ministry of external affairs, in the...
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Craze for cricket in a graceless society
by Taj Hashmi | Updated at 12:00am on September 13, 2019
ONE may or may not like cricket — not the worm, but the game — or even could be someone like a typical Frenchman or...
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Bangladesh as Kornhauser’s ‘mass society’ or a ‘dictatorial democracy’
Taj Hashmi | Updated at 12:00am on July 02, 2019
ELABORATE studies of mass societies are very relevant to the understanding of post-liberation Bangladesh state and society, where masses join the main stream of politics,...
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Sri Lanka massacre: ISIS owns it, so what?
Taj Hashmi | Updated at 12:00am on April 28, 2019
AS SO many absurd and conflicting stories and claims by experts, laymen, victims and purported perpetrators, the September 11, 2001 incident gave birth to so...
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Blaming Muslims again
Taj Hashmi | Updated at 12:00am on April 24, 2019
I AM very disappointed at countries and individuals who have not verified the truth about who was behind the latest rounds of terrorist attacks in...
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Christchurch mosque attacks and white supremacy in west
Taj Hashmi | Updated at 12:00am on March 20, 2019
WITHIN hours of Australian white supremacist Brenton Tarrant’s shooting dead of 49 Muslims at two mosques at Christchurch during the juma prayer on March 15,...
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Neglect of education, death squads and deep state syndrome
Taj Hashmi | Updated at 12:00am on March 09, 2019
EDUCATION has almost everything to do with changing, modifying, and improving the levels of people’s culture (although ‘improving the cultural level’ is a loaded and...