South Africa joins the ignorant and biased Debra Mankowitz Published: 05.24.12, 18:14 / Israel Opinion The recent cancellation by University of KZN of the invitation to Israel’s Deputy Ambassador to South Africa Yaakov Finkelstein to freely address students and staff of smacks of racism of the worst kind. Surely, an academic institution is a […]
The term Pakistan was coined in 1933 by Indian Muslim student Choudhury Rahmat Ali while studying at Cambridge. In Now or Never he argued that India’s Muslim minority needed their own homeland to be safe from Hindu majority tyranny: “The ideals which move our thirty million brethren-in-faith living in these provinces to make the highest […]
A corrupt and brutal regime is uprooted by a military coup promising clean and responsible government. The streets are filled with outpourings of joy from all sections of the population. It does not take long for this to be dashed as the friendly image is replaced with that of ugly brutality so much that people […]
by Ranbir Singh “An unmarried slave woman was at the disposal of her owner.” Bernard Lewis (1995), The Middle East, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1995, p.209 “Muslim prostitutes were numerous in northern India ranging from the inmate of a brothel to the wealthy courtesan, who earned a high fee for her singing and occupied […]
The fight against racial discrimination in South Africa was led by Leftist organisations and socialist political parties. For example, Peter Hain played a prominent role in Blair’s Labour administration, but cut his political teeth in the 1970s campaigning against apartheid urging sports boycotts against the country from which his family had been forced to leave. […]
The twenty per cent polled by Marine Le Pen in the recent first round of elections in France has come as a shock to many. She is said to have softened the often blatant racism, xenophobia and even fascism of her father who founded the Front National. Jean-Marie Le Pen and his daughter are said […]
The Daily Mail has reported that a Muslim peer of the Labour Party has been suspended having allegedly claiming he would put up a £10million bounty for the capture of Barack Obama. According to Pakistan’s Express Tribune newspaper Lord Ahmed of Rotherham is reported to have made the remarks at a business reception in Haripur […]
by Ranbir Singh 13 April 2012 marked the date of Vaisakhi, the harvest and Spring festival celebrated across northern India and esepcially the Punjab. Because India remains a predominantly rural country the event retains much of its original agrarian emphasis. Punjab itself became the breadbasket of India following the Green Revolution of the 1960s. According […]
by Ranbir Singh In 1964 Malcolm X famously remarked how on pilgrimage to Mecca he was taken aback at how there was no racial or colour prejudice in Islam. Yet only two years previously Saudi Arabia had abolished slavery of his fellow blacks. We hear much about how America owes reparations to the descendants of […]
by Ranbir Singh Sufism is contrasted with more intolerant strains of Islam, notably that advocating jihad, proscribing of dancing and music, intolerance towards the kuffar, and strict interpretation of sharia. Unlike the stern teachings found within Wahhabism in Saudi Arabia or the Shia strain in Iran , Sufi Islam holds a more mystical approach in […]
