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“Dawn” — – While we’re still arguing about whether there’s life after death, can we add another question to the cart? Is there life after democracy? What sort of life will it be? By democracy I don’t mean democracy as an ideal or an aspiration. I mean the working model: Western liberal democracy, and its variants, such as they are. …

The saga of the June 12th presidential elections in the Islamic Republic of Iran which started as a roar has for all purposes faded into a whimper and is dying off if not dead. The Western powers mounted an unrelenting massive propaganda blitzkrieg using its media mafia to support the opposition led by Mir Hussein Mousavi and denounced the elections …

I refer to Kath Noble’s letter in the Island of July 1, in which she writes that the image she projected of me as holding David Miliband’s bag while he gave Sri Lanka a good slap wasn’t based on a general impression that I am a great fan of DM, after which she goes on, “I was pointing out that …

It would seem that disagreeing with Izeth Hussain is an offence punishable by deportation. As he pointed out in his charming letter of June 22nd entitled ‘Go home, Kath’, I devoted one paragraph of my last article to his comments on the Human Rights Council vote. My suggestion that he might offer to hold David Miliband’s bag while he gave …

Mao wrote famously, “Power flows through the barrel of a gun.” So do Constitutions. It is true that a Constitution, the fundamental law of the people, should have behind it a broad consensus among the people, but that consensus will mean nothing at all unless it is backed by the gun, with the means of legitimate violence in the hands …

OTTAWA — The Canadian Islamic Congress condemns the brutal murder last week of a pregnant Muslim woman in a German courtroom and the silence of Canada’s news media in failing to report on this hate-motivated crime. Marwa Sherbini, 32, was fatally stabbed on July 1 by a racist attacker in a Dresden courtroom before shocked onlookers — including her husband …