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Sweden’s Left Party leader in Falun, Patrik Liljeglod, has revealed that an armed man brutally attacked and raped him at knifepoint, allegedly for his political stance. Walking home at the end of July from a bus stop in Falun, he was suddenly attacked, threatened with a weapon and raped, Liljeglod disclosed on Facebook. Read more […]
GETTY Princess Diana bravely walks though a mine field to raise awareness She left school with very few qualifications but good music exams. Much was made of this in her early years as Princess Diana. I think I even read once that she called herself “thick”. The contrast between the young school-leaver “with no academic […]
A federal court in Virginia has ruled that a politician violated a constituent’s free speech rights when she blocked him from her Facebook page. The ruling could impact a similar case involving President Donald Trump banning Twitter users. US District Judge James Cacheris in Alexandria, Virginia, ruled on Tuesday that a Facebook page of Loudoun […]
Reuters/Brendan McDermid Texas Gov. Greg Abbott joked Friday about targeting eporters — one day after the GOP’s newest elected member of the House of Representatives allegedly assaulted a reporter. Abbott, a Republican, was at a gun range with reporters to celebrate legislation that lowers the cost of obtaining handgun licenses in Texas when he reportedly […]
An Amsterdam court has found 20 people guilty of targeting a Dutch TV presenter of Surinamese origin, who has recently taken up a career in politics, with racist and sexist insults on social media. Sylvana Simons, a popular Dutch television and radio anchor, faced a barrage of online abuse last year after she joined Dutch […]
At Australian luxury womenswear designer Thomas Puttick’s Sydney Fashion Week show on Monday, in amongst the diverse group of models was Australia’s first female Muslim MP Anne Aly. (She’s there up the back). View this image › Stefan Gosatti / Getty Images Aly told BuzzFeed News, Puttick’s show was about deploying some of his “muses” […]
Published time: 12 May, 2017 11:43 Edited time: 12 May, 2017 11:49 A suspected suicide blast in Mastung, in Pakistan’s southwestern province of Balochistan, has left 25 people dead and 35 injured, including Deputy Senate Leader Abdul Ghafoor Haideri. Speaking to local media, Haideri, who has been moved to a military hospital in Quetta, said […]
Khalid Chaouki dreams of a nation of “New Italians” — immigrants’ children, born or raised in Italy, becoming doctors, lawyers, businesspeople, engineers, politicians and leaders. And he wants those New Italians on the fast track to citizenship. Chaouki, 34, is a Moroccan-born member of Italy’s Lower House for the leading Democratic Party, and he’s preaching […]
Naser Khader, Syrian immigrant and Denmark’s most outspoken Muslim, has a number of tattoos in Arabic that proclaim values that “I am willing to die for,” he says. But it’s not verses from the Quran that are indelibly inked into his skin. They are the words for the liberal values of “freedom”, “democracy” and “freedom […]
Yeah, Australia’s first female Muslim MP thinks hateful attacks against Muslims are “racist”. View this image › Mick Tsikas / AAPIMAGE Last week Labor’s Dr Anne Aly sparked conservative outrage as parliament debated reforming Australia’s Racist Discrimination Act, by suggesting attacks aimed at Muslims should also be covered under the law. Aly sat down for […]
