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In the streets of the Ethiopian capital hundreds of disabled people beg, some from makeshift wheelchairs, the less fortunate dragging themselves on their hands from car to car.
Disabled people are seldom taken care of by institutions here; mostly they.
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Persecution of Christians is an ongoing problem in Pakistani villages, and the police often do absolutely nothing to ameliorate the problem. In one particularly violent...
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Rarely in human history has a piece of cloth been assigned so many roles. Been...
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The Minister of Interior is reported to have ordered the immediate detention and flogging of a 75-year-old woman, Khamisa Mohammed Sawadi, along with two Saudi Arabian...
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One is often asked whether or not Pakistan will survive the current crisis. You tell them that, yes, Pakistan will survive. After all, territories don’t grow feet to...
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“Veiled Voices” is a documentary into the lives of three women - one Lebanese, one Syrian, one Egyptian - and as with “Beirut Diaries” it lets...
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The Swiss have voted for their referendum, and the vote has decided against the building of Islamic Minarets in Switzerland. Middle Eastern press called it a racist...
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After the expected banning of minarets by the Swiss voters, the Moroccan higher council of Islamic scholars expressed their disappointment over this form of extremism...
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The Swiss Minaret ban is the worst expression of Western bigotry since the days of Nazi anti-Semitism. It did not even play the pretense of banning all religious...
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President Obama - elected on an anti-war platform - is about to greatly escalate America’s war in Afghanistan. The America media will term this the Afghanistan...
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So Switzerland - a nation that only gave women the right to vote in 1970 - voted over the weekend to ban the construction of Minarets in Mosques.
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In a new illustration of American xenophobia directed against their fellow Muslim citizens, electronics retailers Best Buy has come under criticism for wishing Muslims...
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President Obama is keen to make well with the Muslim world. While bringing peace in Palestine is arduous is politically costly, Obama could take an costless and...
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The right-wing government Silvio Berlusconi has found a new arena to launch a xenophobic agenda: food.
Apparently Eurobia fears do not...
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This week marked the anniversary of two important historical events. Each took place in different time periods and in different parts of the world, but they remain...
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Arab-Americans have long settled in the United States. It is believed that amongst Columbus’ crew were several Arabs and even Muslims. That is very plausible....
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The United States is regrettably home to too many shoting: Columbine, Virginia Tech, Waco, and the same week that the Ft. Hood shoting took place an unemployed man in...
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A few hours ago, three Decani locals taken afterwards in custody had stoned Kosovo PM Hashim Tachi’s car cortege after his appearance before electorate.
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Sema Ergezen teaches biology to Turkish students interested in teaching science themselves, and she has long struggled with her students’ ignorance of, and...
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These days the city seems to be invaded by beggars who are trained professionals. These include people from all age group even children who have hardly learnt how to...
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Australia has decided to come hard on the begging. In order to do that, a town council in Australia’s Outback has proposed discouraging beggars by slapping them...
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A town council in Australia’s Outback has proposed discouraging beggars by slapping them with a 130 Australian dollar ($108) fine, but critics argued Friday that...
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Years of scrounging on the streets of Shahr-e Kord in western Iran meant that Talat Habibian was never anything more than a local beggar to his neighbours.
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A religious student forced to beg for his Quranic teacher walks alongside cars stuck in traffic as he begs for change and food on the outskirts of Dakar, Senegal, Saturday, Aug. 25, 2007. The overwhelming majority of Dakar’s child beggars are sent out...
