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Why is state-sponsored Hindu terrorism in India getting a pass?

Hindu extremism and violence are on the ascendant in India: why is nothing being done about it?

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Repeat after me: thou shall not kill!

Why is it that so many so-called ‘religious’ terrorists seem to ignore the very tenets against murder that their religions explicitly espouse?

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Quick Hits 163 – Should Canadian MPs decide who is and who is not a terrorist?

Jagmeet Singh says there’s a link between anti-maskers and far-right extremism.

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May 6, 2007: Attack at UN school in Gaza Strip

On May 6, 2007 a clash broke out at a United Nations-run school in the Gaza Strip in which one person was killed and six wounded.

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Quick Hits 157 – Language matter when talking about terrorism!

Necessary coinage or political correctness?

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February 15, 2004: Terrorists attack alcohol vendors in Iraq

On this day in 2004 in Basra, Iraq masked men leaped out of two pickup trucks and unloaded their Kalashnikov rifles at a group of sidewalk alcohol vendors

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Quick Hits 138 – We need to call religious extremism what it is – extreme!

Why extreme views may not be violent but still can an effect on public safety.

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How religious extremism begets religious extremism

It is time for the Modi government to disavow violent Hindu extremism in Assam and elsewhere as well as time for all nations to crack down on Islamist terrorism

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Quick Hits 131 – So, what’s up with Christian extremism?

The links between Christians extremism and the far-right.

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Gulf State religious moderation falls by the wayside in Pakistan

Countries like Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Qatar have so far turned a blind eye to mounting sectarian sentiment in Pakistan against Shiites and Ahmadis.