The slaying of the 20-year-old psychology student in Turkey, Özgecan Aslan, during an alleged attempted rape has prompted angry street protests across the country and demands that the Turkish government do more to combat violence against women. Police on Friday discovered the charred corpse of Özgecan Aslan in a riverbed in southern Mersin province. According to authorities, she was killed while fighting back a sexual assault by the driver of…

News Three young Muslims students; Deah Barakat, his wife, Yusor Mohammad, and her sister, Razan, were executed by a militant, gun-toting anti-theist in Chapel Hill, N.C., on the 10th February 2015, and yet no one from the Western media dared suggest that it was an act of terrorism.On Twitter, however, the face of the killer, Craig Hicks, was tweeted by "Bipartisan Report" with the caption "the face of American terror"…

Democracy Shows Hypocrisy in Factory Arson Case A report submitted by a Rangers official in the Sindh High Court on 7 February said that MQM (Muttahida Qaumi Movement) was behind the fire incident that claimed the lives of at least 258 factory workers. The report was based on the information collected from an alleged MQM worker, Rizwan Qureshi. The reason the state and its institutions would hesitate to act against…

News: On the 6th of February, Al-Jazeera reported on the dire situation facing thousands of Syrian refugees in Lebanon who were left homeless due to the country's army clearing refugee settlements in areas that border Syria as a result of perceived security threats. This recent decision made by the Lebanese authorities is said to affect 32 informal settlements housing around 7000 Syrian refugees and labourers. The Al Jazeera article stated…