February 18, 2006
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Cartoons: a contrived provocation?
THE protest storm over the caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed (peace be upon him) which were initially published on September 30, 2005, in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten is now spreading across the Muslim world with growing intensity.... 
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Genesis of the rise of Hamas
“What sort of world was this, where the order of things was continual murdering, looting and persecution and where at the same time the air was filled with phrases about justice, freedom, love.”...
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Freedoms cannot be absolute
THE modern western society emerged from mediaeval Europe by fighting a tyrannical regime which, in the name of order, subordinated vast societal resources to the whims of a brutal aristocracy, and...
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Villages for sale in India
THE tally is growing. First it was only confined to the frontline agricultural state of Punjab. But now the ultimate symbol of growing rural despair — putting villages on sale — has spread to central India....
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