Imagine the scene: a small group of opinion writers from major newspapers in the United States sit in a meeting room in Riyadh with robed and keffiyeh-wearing officials from Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Education. The subject is intolerance. As a…
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The Government has always taken the position that foreigners and foreign entities should not interfere in our domestic matters (“Clarity needed on ‘interference by foreign entities’” by Ms Corinna Lim; yesterday). Political and controversial social questions should be decided by…
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A kissing scene between two male actors has been removed from the musical Les Miserables after complaints from members of the public. In a statement to The New Paper today (June 11), a spokesman for the Media Development Authority (MDA)…
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I’m wearing white today. Not because I’m a bigot. This is a secular country. What one does behind closed doors is between him and his Maker. I’m wearing white today. Because I’m standing up against an ideology. An insidious ideology…
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Have we progressed far enough as humanity so as to again declare that fornication (what more homosexual intercourse) is illegal? It seems that we are still unable to let go of our primitive inclination towards self-destructive short termed pleasures and…
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