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Beliefs: Matters such as Israel’s genocide of the Palestinian people and the role of women in society are among the issues that will decide where Muslim voters place their crosses in May’s elections. Photo David Turnley/Corbis/VCG via Getty Images

Who will Muslims vote for?

Few parties align with my beliefs as a follower of Islam and a South African, writes Ozayr Patel

Choosing a side: Algerian or Tunisian independence activists posing with their weapons in a maquis near the border, during the Algerian and Tunisian wars of independence in 1955. (Intercontinental/AFP)

Algerians grapple with ‘shame’ of fathers who fought for colonial France

Both France and Algeria have pushed narratives about the Harkis that are incorrect, the first being that these men joined the French army for ideological reasons

By threatening students and academics, the Indian government seeks to create a compliant nation. But it is also a push towards disaster. (Punit PARANJPE / AFP)

The world must act to stop India’s impending genocide

Democratic countries that are committed to human rights must take decisive action to pressure India to quell its abuses and protect minority communities.

The ‘Enemy’: India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi, with the help of his henchman, the president of the Bharatiya Janata Party and Home Affairs Minister Amit Shah, has pushed through the Citizenship Amendment Act that discriminates against Muslims.  (Kevin Frayer/Getty Images)

Democracy and charisma: A dangerous liaison

In India and the Philippines, strongmen have consolidated immense power through democratic means. How do we explain this?

Repudiated: Gandhi

The end of Gandhi’s India

The current dispensation is becoming a majoritarian Hindu state as Narendra Modi promotes hatred and intolerance of Muslims and minorities

Using fear of terrorism, governments have undermined human rights and civil liberties of their Muslim citizens. (Reuter/Danish Ismail).

Terrorism used as excuse to suppress Kashmir

Within India, the Bharatiya Janata Party government is stoking Islamophobia by using religion as an instrument of identity politics

From shades of startling red to hues of vivid tangerine

Orange is the new grey for Bangladeshi beards

Facial hair of sunset tones is now the go-to look for older men wanting to take off the years, with an array of henna options available

St Anthony Shrine in Sri Lanka was subject to attacks on Easter weekend. (Reuters/Dinuka Liyanawatte)

Easter blasts at Sri Lanka hotels and churches kill at least 207

The attacks were the worst act of violence to hit the country in the decade since the end of a bloody civil war that killed up to 100 000 people

A pair of flip-flops with a flower sit among the other pairs of painted white shoes, laid out at All Souls Church, in memory of the victims of Friday’s shooting, in Christchurch, New Zealand. (Reuters/Jorge Silva)

NZ begins releasing bodies to families in Christchurch mosque attack

The bodies of the first six victims have been released by the coroner to their families, while Prime Minister Ardern labels the gunman a ‘terrorist’

The two known targets were the Masjid al Noor in central Christchurch, and a second mosque in suburban Linwood. (Gallo)

40 dead in New Zealand mosque shootings

40 people have been killed by an Australian extremist at two mosque shootings in New Zealand’s South Island city of Christchurch

The Council for Medical Schemes estimates that fraud, abuse or waste accounts for about 15% of the R160-billion in claims that medical aids pay out annually. (Gallo)

Mozambique’s mysterious insurgency

Armed militants are burning villages and beheading civilians in northern Mozambique — and no one knows who they are, or what they want

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Unembargoed: June 15 to 21

‘Illegitimate president’: Cyril Ramaphosa’s position is under threat from multiple legal disputes and how Muslims are reclaiming Cape Town streets

(David Harrison/M&G)

Auction group cancels sale of historic burial land in Bo-Kaap

‘If those developers start digging, they’re going to find the remains of our ancestors,” says Igsaan Higgins, who argued against the sale’

(John McCann/M&G)

All the women in me are tired

As the initial joy of Ramadan wears off, the labour of fielding prejudice creeps in

Mourners carry the coffins of the men who were burnt alive in broad daylight through Ibrahim Babangida Square in Benue. The men were burnt to death allegedly because they looked like Fulani herders.

Mob justice grips central Nigeria

Clashes between farmers and nomadic herders have resulted in violent retribution

Emmanuel Macron has dismissed the scandal as a “storm in a teacup” but his opponents have continued to heap criticism on his handling of it, demanding he address the nation. (EPA)

Inside Emmanuel Macron’s draconian anti-terrorism law

France has been under a state of emergency for nearly two years and the president now wants to make certain controversial elements permanent law

The full Islamic veil has banned in Niger.

Muslims caught in Austrian election crossfire

Major political parties in Austria are openly endorsing anti-Islam messages in their campaigns ahead of the country’s elections next month

Faadil Soeker at the Auwal Masjid in the Bo Kaap.

Slice of Life: Building on a mother’s wisdom

We live and die and in between we must invest in something permanent – not only in banks.

Muslims urge US voters to defeat hate and own community to go represent in politics

Community leaders declare war on Islamophobia as Republican Trump ups the ante on xenophobia.

Eleven-month-old Akalapatan Kebo

Letters to the editor: July 8 to 14 2016

Readers write in about Eskom, and the openness of a mosque.