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9/11

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Teen Vogue columnist calls 9/11 an ‘attack on heteropatriarchal capitalistic systems’ that ‘many White Americans fight to protect’

OpIndia Staff - 11 September, 2021

Jenn M. Jackson, Teen Vogue columnist, caused an outrage after making a controversial comment on the 9/11 terror attack.

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‘No proof of Osama Bin Laden’s role in 9/11, USA used it as an excuse to attack Afghanistan’: Taliban

OpIndia Staff - 26 August, 2021

“We respect women, they are our sisters.," said the Taliban spokesperson when asked about women and their rights in Afghanistan.

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Here is how the international media called Osama Bin Laden ‘a warrior building road to peace’ 27 years ago

OpIndia Staff - 7 December, 2020

Years before the gruesome 9/11 attacks, Osama Bin Laden was hailed by the international media as a philanthropist who emancipated Muslims in the Afghan war and was helping build roads for the poor in Sudan

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Why the 1893 speech of Swami Vivekananda at World’s Parliament of Religions is still relevant today

Guest Author - 11 September, 2020

The famous Chicago speech of Swami Vivekananda at the World's Parliament of Religions in 1893 is still relevant to this day.

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‘Shaheed kar diya’: Imran Khan refers to terrorist Osama Bin Laden as martyr while speaking in Pakistan parliament

OpIndia Staff - 25 June, 2020

Pakistan OM Imran Khan said in parliament that USA had martyred Osama Bin Laden in Pakistan

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WaPo’s sympathetic headline on Baghdadi shows how frightening modern ‘liberalism’ is

Abhishek Banerjee - 28 October, 2019

Washington Post seemed to be glorifying ISIS chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi who killed himself after detonating his suicide vest during US raids.

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If Western ‘liberals’ can whitewash 9/11, imagine what they did to our history

Abhishek Banerjee - 12 September, 2019

One can imagine the New York Times newsroom, the eggheads sitting around, racking their brains, trying to come up with a way to mention 9/11 without any reference to Islamism. Language is a funny thing.

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New York Times blames aeroplanes while downplaying the 9/11 terror attacks, updates article after backlash on social media

OpIndia Staff - 11 September, 2019

“Airplanes took aim at the World Trade Center and brought them down”, NYT said on 18th anniversary of 9/11 terror attacks

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The fat tail of terrorism and why the graphs shared by Bill Gates mislead

Mayuresh Didolkar - 13 June, 2019

Recently, Bill Gates shared an infographic showing causes of death in the US, what people most commonly search for and what media reports on. Here is why he was wrong in the conclusion he drew

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