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• Sri Lanka: Anti-Muslim Violence: Another CCTV Footage Confirms Security Forces Collude With Goons
  15 May 2019, by siawi3

  “Well planned by the army to gather the guys inside the mosque outside to a side so the mobs can hurl stones at them and at the mosque. What the army didn’t know was, there were another set of muslim men observing all this from upstairs”

• Sri Lanka: Stemming The Wave Of Islamophobia Is Crucial
  15 May 2019, by siawi3

  We must not fail to recognize that the ISIS-inspired suicide bombers have already pushed Sri Lanka towards the global war between the US-led West and the radicalized Islamic groups. Our government should also aim at extricating the country from this trap of a global terrorism-counter-terrorism war. It may even be the case that the location of that global war is now shifting towards some parts of South Asia. The present counter-insurgency operations, executed through emergency regulations, should not ignore the unintended political consequences of restoring security exclusively within a ‘national security’ frame.

• Pakistan: Asia Bibi’s Cell Now Holds Another Christian Woman on Death Row for Blasphemy
  13 May 2019, by siawi3

  Lawyer will now take up the case of Shagufta Kausar, a 45-year-old mother of four, and her husband. He has faced negative attention from many fellow Muslims since he started defending Christians, and the Netherlands even offered him nationality if he wanted to leave his homeland for his safety. But he told CT, “I am back to defend these defenseless people.â€

• The Great Divider of India is Now Dividing its Armed Forces
  14 May 2019, by siawi3

  There are 200 million Muslims in India today – too large a number for even the worst Hindutva fanatic to think they can be thrown out of the country

• USA: Arrest made in arson at Orlando gunman’s mosque
  16 September 2016, by siawi3

  A fire damaged the mosque where Omar Mateen, the mass shooter who killed 49 people at Pulse nightclub in Orlando, worshipped. The fire came just hours after the 15^th anniversary of 9/11 and at the beginning of Eid al-Adha — the holiday of the sacrifice. “Evidence has revealed that this fire was set intentionally.â€

• India: The struggle for justice and reparations for survivors of the pogrom in Gujarat in 2002
  15 September 2016, by siawi3

  interview with the civil rights activist and journalist Teesta Setalvad, who has been a key part of the struggle for justice and reparations for survivors of the pogrom in Gujarat in 2002.

• saïd bouamama « la stigmatisation des quartiers populaires empêche toute critique »
  1er octobre 2009, par siawi2
  L’Humanité du 29 septembre 2009
  Entretien avec le sociologue Saïd Bouamama, chargé de recherche àl’IFAR (Intervention, formation, action, recherche) de Lille.
  Auteur de nombreux ouvrages, Saïd Bouamama revient dans son dernier livre (1) sur vingt  (...)
• Belgique: viande hallal pour tous dans certaines prisons et écoles publiques
  16 November 2009, by siawi2

  Les citoyens ne sont généralement pas au courant de ce qui se passe dans leur pays, parce que les médias se taisent parfois làoù ils devraient s’exprimer. Le journal « La dernière Heure » (1) n’a apparemment pas respecté tout àfait le « politiquement correct », en dévoilant que la viande de porc a été supprimée des repas servis dans certaines prisons

• Sri Lanka: Time to Revisit the Citizenship Debate
  17 November 2009, by siawi2
  by Lynn Ockersz
  A mob attack on a place of religious worship in a Colombo suburb recently, while drawing public attention to the simmering fires of religious intolerance in some quarters in this country, provokes a reexamination of unresolved  (...)
• India : The Myth of Love Jihad
  18 November 2009, by siawi2
  Source : Communalism Watch - Resources for all concerned by the rise of the far right in India (and with occasional information on other countries of South Asia)
  The Myth of Love Jihad
  Lamb Allies with Wolf!
  by Ram Puniyani
  At a point of time  (...)

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