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Erdogan's overthrow of freedom

Erdogan's overthrow of freedom

spiked-online.com — Turkey's president Recep Tayyip Erdogan has promised to 'clean the virus' from all state bodies following the failed military coup. A state of emergency has been declared so that he can bypass parliament to draft new laws that will close the net on the coup-plotters. Around 60,000 military personnel, judges, teachers and university heads have been suspended or detained under suspicion of being behind the failed takeover. Academics have been banned from leaving the country; 21,000 schoolteachers have had their licenses revoked; and 1,500 university heads have been sacked. There are now reports of numerous journalists being arrested.
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It's time to stop using the word 'Asians'

It's time to stop using the word 'Asians'

The Telegraph — Is it time to stop using the word "Asian"? In recent weeks Britain's Sikh and Hindu communities have complained angrily about the use of the misleading term in reporting of the Rochdale grooming convictions of men of Muslim Pakistani descent. Headlines like "Asian grooming - why we need to talk about sex crime", "Child sex grooming: the Asian question", and "Grooming offences committed mostly by Asian men, says ex-Barnardo's chief" show the problem. Obviously Sikhs and Hindus and other "Asian" non-Muslims, including Jains, Zoroastrians, Christians and Buddhists, don't want to be associated with sexual grooming of vulnerable white girls.
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Sikh lives matter in Britain too - whether Sikh or Muslim, racists don't discriminate

Sikh lives matter in Britain too - whether Sikh or Muslim, racists don't discriminate

The Telegraph — One Sunday morning just after the 2010 election, Parmjit Dhanda, who had just been deposed as MP for Gloucester, had a knock on his door. A frightened lady was on his doorstep with her dog trying to pull away from her towards something in his driveway. The thing in question was a decapitated pig's head. "After nine years' service," notes the blurb for his new book, My Political Race, "people didn't even realise [he] was actually a Sikh and not a Muslim." Sadly, this rather macabre narrative by a former government Minister fits the experiences of many Sikhs in modern day Britain - including my own.
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How Brighton Pavilion became a temporary hospital for Indian soldiers in WW1

How Brighton Pavilion became a temporary hospital for Indian soldiers in WW1

The Telegraph — The Prince of Wales at the Chattri Memorial, 1921 PHOTO: Courtesy of Royal Pavilion and Museums, Brighton & Hove Great sensitivity was shown in allocating accommodation for the different castes and religions. The British had learnt that the viability of the Raj depended on the loyalty of the native army, and religious insensitivity had led to rebellion during the first Indian uprising of 1857. There were separate kitchens - Muslim soldiers had meat prepared in accordance with Islamic rites, whereas Hindus and Sikhs had a separate supply; beef, pork and bacon, while popular with the British, were prohibited from entering the grounds; extra plumbing was installed with separate taps labelled for Muslims and Hindus.
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UK Sikhs remain invisible victims of 'anti-Muslim' hate crime

UK Sikhs remain invisible victims of 'anti-Muslim' hate crime

International Business Times (U.K.) — London mayoral hopeful Sadiq Khan recently reached out to London's 125,000 strong Sikh community in a speech at Trafalgar Square, during which he pledged to make sure that hate crimes against the community were properly documented. After offering the traditional Sikh greeting: "Waheguru Ji Ka Khalsa Waheguru Ji Ki Fateh", the Labour MP for Tooting went on to tell his audience: "Some crimes where Sikhs are targeted are wrongly recorded by the police as Islamophobic incidents due to mistaken identity. If I'm mayor I will make sure crimes against Sikhs are properly recorded [as] hate crime[s]."
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A case for no win, no fee | Hardeep Singh

A case for no win, no fee | Hardeep Singh

The Guardian — Last week, my three-year libel case - dubbed His Holiness v Singh - was finally thrown out of the court of appeal after the claimant failed to pay security for the costs of the appeal. Unfathomable as it may sound, I was sued by an Indian "holy man" living 4,000 miles away in the Punjab, who had no connection to England, had not visited England and spoke no English. Despite this, he was able to instruct a Leeds-based law firm to continue to sue me personally, even after the publishers of the Sikh Times had apologised.
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The Islamist war against Sikhs is arriving in Europe | Coffee House

The Islamist war against Sikhs is arriving in Europe | Coffee House

Spectator — Terror attacks in Germany are becoming remarkably unremarkable. So when a bomb went off in the German city of Essen, near Düsseldorf - and killed nobody - it barely registered. The three teenagers who detonated the device were all members of a Whatsapp group called 'Supporters of the Islamic Caliphate', so their intentions seemed pretty clear: they wanted to wage war against the infidels of the West.
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Our fear-ridden culture | New Humanist

Our fear-ridden culture | New Humanist

newhumanist.org.uk — Free speech, libel, self-censorship, religious sensitivities - it's a minefield. Sikh journalist Hardeep Singh, who's been on both sides of the divide, tries to find a path through
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Star Wars: Church of Jedi 'sees 1,000 new recruits per day' as The Force Awakens released

Star Wars: Church of Jedi 'sees 1,000 new recruits per day' as The Force Awakens released

International Business Times (U.K.) — In Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, Obi Wan Kenobi said: "The Force is what gives a Jedi his power. It's an energy field created by all living things. It surrounds us and penetrates us. It binds the galaxy together."
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It's time the Government ended its silence on Sikh hate crime victims | Coffee House

It's time the Government ended its silence on Sikh hate crime victims | Coffee House

The Spectator — On 15 September 2001, Balbir Singh Sodhi, a gas station owner, was arranging flowers outside his family business in Arizona. He had just returned from Costco, where he purchased some American flags and donated money to a fund for victims of 9/11. Moments later, he was shot dead.
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Don't ban Tommy Robinson, debate him

Don't ban Tommy Robinson, debate him

spiked-online.com — Ex-English Defence League leader Tommy Robinson has been banned from speaking at yet another university. Oxford Brookes Students' Union, where he was due to speak at a student event last week, said his presence posed a likely risk of 'public disorder'.
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The bravery of the ex-Muslim

The bravery of the ex-Muslim

spiked — It takes guts to renounce Islam, even in 21st-century Britain. The UK is a country that celebrates fundamental freedoms - including freedom of belief. We are free to put our faith in gods, tooth fairies, men in turquoise shellsuits who proclaim divinity, or the mystical powers of the occult, if we so choose.
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