Helin Bölek died today after 288 days of hunger strike in Turkey. She was arrested for singing her songs. Imagine that you are arrested for singing about women's rights, feminism and freedom and equality for all nations. I will miss you and your songs. I loved how her band sang
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Tasos Leivaditis, If you want to call yourself a Human If you want to call yourself a Human, you will never stop fighting for peace and justice. You will go on the streets, you will scream, your lips will bleed from the screams, your face will bleed from the bullets but no step back. Every
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NEW DELHI: Award-winning and internationally bestselling author Salman Rushdie's new novel 'Quichotte' is in the race to win this year's 50,000 pound Booker Prize for Fiction. The news of the shortlist broke on Tuesday afternoon with an announcement from the organizers of one of the leading literary awards in the English-speaking
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A mosque in the Amsterdam district of Nieuw West wants to become the first in the Dutch capital to call worshippers to Friday prayers using loudspeakers. The Blauwe mosque and cultural center hope that the call to prayer will help ‘normalize Islam in this beautiful world city of Amsterdam,’ the mosque’s
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Edir Macedo became a Brazilian billionaire in part due to tithes he collected from the church he founded in 1977: the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God. The church’s myriad scandals include child trafficking, money laundering, and flat-out theft from its poorer members. But Macedo is in the news for a very different
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A Colorado pastor apologized to his congregation, then led them in a “cleansing” prayer, all because an openly gay speaker took the church’s stage during an outside event hosted there the prior week. (And now, I guess, those gay cooties are everywhere.) Last week, hundreds of non-profit leaders gathered in the city
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Salman Rushdie'nin "Şeytan Ayetleri" kitabını duymuşsunuzdur ama aranızdan kaç kişi bu kitab hakkında bütün bir bilgiye sahip? Evet ben de öyle düşünüyordum. Tam da o yüzden bu makaleyi yazıyorum. Bu olayın arkasındaki bazı gizli noktaları ortaya çıkarmak için bir kaç kaynaktan yardım almak gerekir. Aziz Nesin, Şeytan Ayetleri kitabını Türkçeye çeviren ilk
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Evinde köpek bulunduranlar üç cezadan birine çarptırılacaklar: 6 ay hapis, 74 kırbaç darbesi ya da 10.000 lira ceza. Köpek insanın en sadık dostudur. İnsanoğlu binlerce yıldır köpekle içiçe yaşamıştır. Antik Mısır’da kutsal sayılan köpeklerin mezarları tavaf edilirdi. Köpekler Orta Asya’da da kutsal sayılırdı ve eski 12 hayvanlı Türk takvimlerindeki yıllardan biri de
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