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Going viral: The tremors of the coronavirus pandemic will hit India’s economy, which is shot through with fault lines that have deepened since it began to liberalise its economy in the early 1990s. People in Mumbai line up outside a store to buy groceries following the announcement of a government-imposed nationwide lockdown as a preventive measure. (Indranil Mukherjee/AFP/Getty Images)
BANGLADESH

Surviving Covid-19 — and Modi

A religious and nationalist agenda has replaced the promise of development and left India ill-equipped to manage the pandemic

  • Alf Gunvald Nilsen
8 min read
President Donald Trump insists CNN has “been exposed” for peddling “fake news” and “garbage journalism.”
DONALD TRUMP

Trump: I’m not a racist

Senator David Purdue, a Republican from Georgia, called charges that Trump is racist "ridiculous".

  • Jim Mannion
4 min read
White supremacists held a ‘Unite the Right’ rally in Charlottesville
DONALD TRUMP

Charlottesville is America everywhere

US white supremacists and Neo-Nazis are no longer afraid of showing their faces because they face no repercussions.

  • Khaled A Beydoun
5 min read
Grenfell is a stark example of endemic criminal neglect and exploitation born out of demonisation of marginalised communities
INSTITUTIONAL ISLAMOPHOBIA

The connection between Grenfell and Finsbury Park

Both the Grenfell fire and the Finsbury Park attack are the result of the UK government’s vilification of the ‘other’.

  • Staff Reporter
6 min read
Muslim women’s role in Islam is too often dictated by
EQUAL EDUCATION

Northcliff High ‘concession cards’ likened to apartheid dompas

Muslim pupils at Northcliff High School in Johannesburg who wanted to wear a headscarf during Ramadan were issued with “concession cards”

  • The Daily Vox
3 min read
Former Canadian PM Harper spent much of his tenure fuelling and satisfying the not-so-latent Islamophobia that was politically appealing to his legion of supporters
CANADA
Video

Warning: Canada is not what you think it is, ey

If you assume Canada is a welcoming haven from the bile and divisiveness in the age of Trump, you may be mistaken.

  • Staff Reporter
6 min read
The imperial-age idea of the ‘conspiratorial Muslim’ has re-emerged with new force and scope.
DONALD TRUMP

The Muslim as a ‘Manchurian candidate: ‘Conspiratorial Muslim’ idea re-emerges

The conspiratorial Muslim means that all Muslims have the propensity to undermine and threaten.

  • Staff Reporter
6 min read
The gulf and the difficulties we undoubtedly confront as a national and global community make what we are doing more important than ever. Pictured is Ella Baker
DONALD TRUMP

​Take on Trump: We who believe in freedom cannot rest until it comes

Donald Trump will lead the United States, but we cannot sit back being fearful, we must fight for all people’s rights.

  • Staff Reporter
3 min read
Corsica refuses to drop burkini ban
CANNES

Corsica refuses to drop burkini ban, becomes the third French town to do so

“The population of Sisco lives in permanent fear. There are many provocateurs here … We are living on a powder keg,” he said.’

  • Al Jazeera
1 min read