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Muslim Gay Rights Leader Slams Talk By Homophobic ‘Hate Preacher’ at SOAS

By Colin C. Cortbus A leading Muslim Gay Rights Advocate, has slammed a talk held at SOAS by the controversial homophobic preacher Dr Haitham Al-Haddad at SOAS on Monday the 17th of February. Omar Kuddus, an international LGBTQ Human Rights Activist and the director of Gay Asylum UK, a group

Goodbye, Tata Madiba

By Sabeehah Motala, LLB Law On Thursday 5th December, the world lost arguably the most iconic politician that ever lived. Mr Mandela – a leader, father of a nation, revolutionary, freedom-fighter, boxer and lawyer – passed away in the comfort of his home in Johannesburg, South Africa. The anti-Apartheid hero has found

Unrest in Turkey continues

Unrest in Turkey continues

“This is not a company, it is a university. We are not clients, we are students,” METU students in Ankara. Students of the Middle Eastern Technical University (METU), Ankara, have taken matters into their own hands after government-sponsored construction workers deforested several trees in the university fields in the hope

Suu Kyi dismisses ethnic cleansing claims

Suu Kyi dismisses ethnic cleansing claims. Pro-democracy campaigner and general secretary of the opposition National League for Democracy party Aung San Suu Kyi has dismissed claims of ethnic cleansing against Burma’s Royhinga Muslim minority. Speaking to the BBC’s Mishal Husain on 24 October, Suu Kyi responded to accusations