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Truth Behind Jamal Khashoggi

Photo Source: Evening Standard Written by Naveed Qazi | Editor Globe UpFront When the pilgrim watchers of the Muslim world went on a killing spree in Yemen, it shut the mouth of its cronies that represented the Kingdom, both regionally and internationally.  The global media has gone amok against the killing silence of Saudi government lately, when a mysterious killing of a Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi happened in the Saudi embassy in Turkey. Who was Jamal Khashoggi? What threat did he pose to the monarchy? If we dwell into the truth, he was one among many, who was killed for speaking the truth against the Saudi kingdom. Sometime earlier, there had been calls for beheading of a Shiite woman, Isra-al-Ghomgham, representing the rights of the Shiite community in Saudi Arabia, in the Qatif province, when she was sentenced in the General Intelligence Prison in al Damaam under secret.  Saudi Arabia has been notorious for its human rights violations for quit...

Danish Ghetto Laws

Photo Source: WBUR Written by Naveed Qazi | Editor, Globe UpFront In the quest for national assimilation in Denmark, the minority liberal government has passed a law called ‘ghetto deal’ in March 2018 targeting the neighbourhoods, compromising primarily of Muslim immigrants, with different ethnic backgrounds, who will eventually go into cultural training centres. The government has  introduced the political plan 'One Denmark without parallel societies – no ghettos by 2030' and enacted the concept of 'non-western' in Danish law. These ‘ghetto neighbourhoods’ are defined as low-income areas and the children living in them are called ‘ghetto children’.  Currently, there are around twenty-five ghettos identified by the Danish government.  The immigrants, who live in these ghettos, come from countries such as Pakistan, Somalia, Lebanon, Iraq, Syria and Turkey.  From 1980, immigrants have grown from 50,000 to 500,000 till date. Prime Minister Lars Lokk...