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A thorough breach of the norms

USA: Donald Trump broke down established norms and led democracy astray, but he would never have reached this far, if the groundwork had not been laid by others – this new tradition of imprecise wording, secrecy and dodgy methods.
Hans Henrik Fafner -

Nyosmanism

TURKEY: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is perceived by many as an Ottoman sultan and behaves accordingly. He has become increasingly angry as the West has opposed him.
Jan Eric Smilden -

Brexit: The price of dishonesty

CHALLENGES OF EUROPE: The Brexit chaos seems to culminate in the British leaving the EU – now that the election of Boris Johnson has been postponed. Brexit is the price the British have to pay for not having had an honest discussion about immigration, multiculturalism and the British Empire. But are Britain's problems unique?
gary@nytid.com -

Heroines Hatun

DEADLY INDEPENDENCE FIGHT: The German docu-drama Nur eine Frau portrays Hatun Sürücü's fateful struggle for independence and ends with her brother's honor killing.
Pinar Ciftci -

A female imam is struggling to create a collective

MARIAM MOSKEEN: In 2015, Syrian-Finnish Danish Sherin Khankan decided to start a women-led mosque in Copenhagen. Instructor Marie Skovgaard has followed her struggle between personal vision and the challenges of creating community.
Nina Trige Andersen -

The legacy of Atatürk

The man who founded Turkey as a modern state in 1923 did so on authoritarian grounds. Thus, Erdogan and Atatürk are just two cubits out of one piece, claims Halil Karaveli.
Hans Henrik Fafner -

What would Machiavelli do?

China and India are emerging as the new superpowers, and the West must find a new foothold in a moving world
Henning Næs -

To turn the tolerance sheath after the wind

The eagerness to accuse immigrants and Muslims of being intolerant of slaves seems rather peculiar when one considers the kind of attitudes that still exist among so-called Norwegian ethnicists.
nina@skeivverden.no -

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