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Items by Dr Irfan Raja
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What makes the West shift its stance on Palestine?
The world political arena is dramatically shifting every day. Unthinkable beliefs are becoming thinkable. No one has ever imagined that the powerful West faces deterioration against its decades’ long discourses, as a force for good that promotes democracy, defends individual freedoms, denounces dictatorships and protects vulnerable people and, especially,...
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Why shouldn’t the FIFA World Cup be played in Qatar?
Britain is the traditional home of football where it has been played for centuries. It may be no surprise that for many people in the UK, football is like a religion, with clubs big and small almost everywhere that people live and there is space for a pitch. If...
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Can ‘moderate Islam’ change the Middle East?
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has shocked many around the globe within the last 30 days. In late September, King Salman issued a royal decree that allows Saudi women to drive and this month Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Salman vowed to take the country “back to moderate Islam”. Prince Mohammad’s...
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Tolerable and intolerable terrorism; what can be done?
Terrorism is an apparently inescapable phenomenon that affects us all. Despite severe human losses and suffering the world seems to be less cohesive in addressing this genuine threat that has put our future generations at risk. Our huge armies and their enormous firepower backed by up-to-the-minute intelligence networks appear...
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The Rohingya are the victims of state terrorism; it must be stopped
The latest shocking reports and images that Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslims suffer at the hands of government forces have failed to rouse the world into significant action. This is true of most governments in the West or amongst Myanmar’s neighbours in the East. What are the leaders of the civilised world...