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Karachi
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Aziz Poonawalla
Traveling to Karachi from the US is not easy. But traveling back is even worse. I returned a couple weeks ago from my trip and have been coping with the usual jet lag and GI/respiratory baggage that comes from an extended trip to the far side. The pace of events during Ashara itself was too…
16 after 9-11
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Aziz Poonawalla
I don’t write about 9-11 every year, because on the 12th anniversary I looked back at over a decade of writing about it and realized I had nothing much left to say. On the 13th anniversary, I said, and I still believe, that: The simple truth is that our response to 9-11 – the Afghan…
workplace hijab can be banned in the EU
By
Aziz Poonawalla
I have long argued that there is an inherent tension between the ideals of the Enlightenment and spirituality. This ruling from the European Court of Justice (the EU equivalent of the US Supreme Court) is a case study for that tension: Companies may ban staff from wearing Islamic headscarves and other visible religious symbols under…
Goodbye CVE, CRIE me a river
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Aziz Poonawalla
Presented without comment for now, though I will have more to say on this later. WASHINGTON/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – The Trump administration wants to revamp and rename a U.S. government program designed to counter all violent ideologies so that it focuses solely on Islamist extremism, five people briefed on the matter told Reuters. The program,…
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