With Halimah Yacob strolling straight into the highest office in the land as the country’s new president, folks have pointed out the similarities Singapore shared in the election process to a certain country that also has its leader unanimously “voted”…
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I am surprised the report “Latest Charlie Hebdo cover continues to roil Muslim world” (Jan 18, online) asserts that the reaction across the Muslim world was “somewhat contradictory” because Muslims in general condemned both the murders and the cartoons. There…
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DAMMARTIN-EN-GOËLE, France: Elite French police stormed a printworks and a Jewish supermarket Friday (Jan 9), killing two brothers wanted for the Charlie Hebdo attack and an apparent accomplice who had taken hostages in two separate sieges that traumatised France. Explosions…
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PARIS: The massacre Wednesday (Jan 7) at French weekly Charlie Hebdo took place after years of confrontation between the satirical publication and Islamists infuriated by what they see as its attacks on their religion. Its offices were fire-bombed in November…
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PARIS: Heavily-armed men shouting “Allahu Akbar” stormed the Paris headquarters of a satirical weekly on Wednesday (Jan 7), killing 12 people in cold blood in the worst attack in France in decades. The assault on Charlie Hebdo headquarters in a…
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