The horrific attacks at a Brussels Metro station and airport, just five months after the atrocities in Paris in November has once again thrown the problems of radicalisation among young Muslims and questions over European border controls, (in particular the Schengen agreement) into the limelight. Despite revisions to the agreement expected to be announced as…
Tag: Terrorism
Paris is the tragic symptom of a wider problem
The deplorable events which took place last night need no restatement. They were repugnant and any kind of point these terrorists wished to project was automatically discredited by the sheer massacre they inflicted on over a hundred innocent civilians. But upon further inspection there was no statement worth hearing from these people. After all, this is…
The plight of Raif Badawi.
Note- This is article is a bit of a tirade, if anything. Three years ago, a man by the name of Raif Badawi was arrested on a charge of insulting Islam through electronic channels. The reason I revisit this old case is that despite international outcry, the decision for his punishment to be carried out…
Pertinent Problems 