To burqini or not to burqini
After Cannes and Villeneuve-Loubet on the French Riviera, Sisco on the island of Corsica became the third municipality to ban wearing of burqini on local beaches. The ban follows on …
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London’s Khan Hunts Trolls While Crime Soars
(I don’t know what it is about the UK, London and its new Lord Mayor Sadiq Khan that just makes me write tabloid headlines – see also my earlier post …
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Scarecrow a day keeps a migrant away
The bizarre story of the day comes courtesy of Hungary, whose right-wing government (and by right-wing I mean in European terms, i.e. nationalist, populist, with slightly authoritarian tendencies) hasn’t been …
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Let’s criminalise blasphemy so we don’t have to kill the blasphemers
I might be verballing some of the people quoted in the BBC reporting, but not by much. On 24 March this year, Glasgow shopkeeper Asad Shah was brutally murdered in …
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A modest proposal to solve the European refugee crisis
Anyone can become a refugee. According to a United Nations Refugee Convention definition, refugee is anyone who cannot remain in their own country because of a well-founded fear of persecution …
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Authoritarians of the World, Unite!
Syria has been Russia’s anti-Afghanistan, at least thus far. The Russians have been able to prop up their Muslim client regime, while at a relatively small price (politically, financially and …
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Welcome to the 2024 Paris Olympics
Malia Obama: Good morning and welcome to CNN’s live coverage of the opening ceremony of the Games of the 23rd Olympiad. Lena Dunham: It’s good to be here with you, …
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Trump vs Hillary – your short foreign policy guide
Foreign policy can be confusing. Political candidates’ foreign policy positions can be even more confusing. Confused? Fret not; here is your Daily Chrenk’s short guide to Donald Trump’s and Hillary …
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Your Holiness, you’re wrong about terrorism
With the greatest of respect… “I think it is not right to identify Islam with violence,” the Pope told reporters aboard the plane taking him back to Rome on Sunday …
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…and no 72 virgins for you, loser
The local Muslim community refuses to bury the Normandy priest-killer Adel Karmiche: Speaking to Le Parisien, Mohammed Karabila, president of the local Muslim cultural association and imam of one of …
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Is the Pope Catholic? Not in Poland
Pope Francis is about to touch down on a brief pilgrimage to Poland, to participate in the World Youth Day, a major gathering and festival of young Catholics from around …
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Human Rights Watch categorises some terrorism as “Islam inspiredâ€, all hell breaks loose
Poor Kenneth Roth, the Executive Director of Human Rights Watch. All he wanted to do was to illustrate the fact that the current levels of terrorism in Europe are not …
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The bomber will always get through
Even before all the horror of World War Two, the pessimists used to say “the bomber will always get throughâ€. How right they were, as millions of residents of London, …
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#PrayForThoseWhoPrayInNormandy
With some sort of an attack or incident seemingly every day or two, terror has indeed become Europe’s “new normal”. At Church of the Gambetta in Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray, Normandy, a priest …
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Make Russia Great Again
I simply love waking up to headlines like “Russia Could Invade Poland ‘Overnight’”: The Atlantic think tank warns: “Even if Moscow currently has no immediate intent to challenge NATO directly, …
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Munich – another day, another “Allah Akbar” (UPDATED)
24 August, 8:30am: Just a “normal” crazed gunman, without ideology? But just in case, BBC drops the killer’s name “Ali” and just refers to him as “David Sonboly”. 12:08pm: “Witnesses …
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Is Islamophobia rational?
Islamophobia can be defined as dislike or hatred of, or prejudice against, Islam or Muslim. The phobia part of the word, however, originally refers to fear. Mayo Clinic defines phobia …
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Going cold Turkey (UPDATED)
11:21am: Erdogan speaking from the Istanbul airport. In the background, Turkey’s founding father Kemal Ataturk looks on and thinks, “you Islamist scumbag”. …
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Nice (UPDATED)
10:21pm: Nice airport evacuated. 10:04pm: Not the first use of a vehicle as a terrorist weapon, not even in France. Meanwhile, it’s a method much encouraged by the Palestinian propaganda …
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One World Government – it begins in Brisbane
Dresden has recently hosted the Bilderberg group meeting, causing the conspiracy theorists’ and anti-globalists’ heads to spin again (how many global conspiracies publish their guest lists online? Yep, they are …
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