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Belgium’s New Civilizing Mission


Posted by seema on 12 Apr 2016 / 0 Comments
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I will never be surprised by the amount of discrimination and racist language used in state policy. From Canada’s Bill C-51 to America’s Patriot Act, proposed bills and enforced legislation say a lot about current atmospheres of tension. Most recently, a proposal has been made in Belgium to ask newly admitted immigrants to sign an […]

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Culture/Society

Coverage of the Assaults in Cologne, or When People Suddenly Decide Rape is a Muslim Problem


Posted by nicole on 18 Jan 2016 / 0 Comments
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The New Year’s Eve assaults and sexual assaults in Cologne (as well as in other European cities, including mine, Zurich) have been all over the news lately and people have been taking cultural relativism a little too far. Within the difficult context of the ongoing influx of refugees since last year in Germany, many see […]

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Books/Magazines

Review: Michel Houllebecq’s Submission


Posted by nicole on 02 Dec 2015 / 0 Comments
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On the occasion of Michel Houllebecq’s Submission being released in English, I volunteered to read it in order to review it here. In fact, I refused to read Submission when it first came out in French, and I still approached the book begrudgingly. The short version? I hated it. At the ripe old age of […]

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