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Hello and Welcome to The Hyat Report and this is Omar Hyat. I am a writer, a blogger and a social and political commentator. In this podcast, I will be commenting on some of our generation's critical global social and political issues. This is a fortnightly podcast and each episode of this podcast will be my commentary on a different social and/or political issue.
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I recently hosted a space where my guest speaker and I discussed Australian Immigration System, it was a generic discussion ranging from how Australian in the recent past treated refugees who attempted to seek asylum but had come by boats to how both parties Liberals and Labour despite promising reforms in Parent visas, did not deliver substantive …
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Hi Everyone, so Today, I wanna talk about Vania Shaikh, a female dental student, a Muslim in India who was allegedly sexually harassed by a Hindu man, according to some reports on social media, Vania in fact protested against this harassment, however, she was allegedly physically assaulted for protesting by her abuser. This then led to vania commit…
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In this episode I talk about why it's a simplistic and a very naive argument to say that if the current government of India loses next elections then everything will be hunky dory for Muslims of India. In this episode, I list various events, where Muslims were the victims and these events took place under various regimes.…
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Warning: The content of this podcast might be distressing, it contains details of an atrocious crime that occurred in India. So today, I am going to talk about this case from India, where a 21 old year old girl, who was a civil defence employee in Delhi, which is India’s capital was abducted, brutally assaulted.…
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Today I wanna talk about my heritage and the country where my parents come from and some of the issues that that country is facing and how people of my faith are being marginalised, so I will start by saying, I have always had this love-hate relationship with my heritage, on one side I loved my ancestry for things like food, culture, history and on…
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Almost 20 years ago, the United States and its allies invaded Afghanistan to root out Al Qaeda and Taliban, as a response to horrific and brutal 9/11 terrorists’ attacks against the United States in 2001. Over the years we in the west were told that the country, Afghanistan, was making and had made significant progress in terms of education and wom…
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Before pandemic without restrictions or lockdowns, I rarely paid any attention to the rabbit hole that is reality television. I had watched a few episodes of Keeping Up with the Kardashians, very early on, in 2009 or 2010 and decided it was not for me, but every now and then read about them and admired their brilliant marketing and public relations…
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First topic that I want to discuss is, Emmanuel Macron, the President of French Republic, claims to be a champion of free speech, in an interview to Al Jazeera in October 2020, he had said “I will always defend in my country the freedom to speak, to write, to think, to draw”. There is no doubt that some truly condemnable and atrocious incidents too…
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I am a die-hard capitalist at heart, I love the concept of free-market economy, limited government and a thriving middle class that benefits from a fair and free market. However, lately, United States and its allies have been using the buzzwords like “Protection of Rules- Based International Order”, at times explicitly and sometimes implicitly to e…
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from time to time, we, in the western liberal democracies, mostly with the best of intentions, from our ivory towers, pick sides rather easily when it comes to politics of Global South, without fully understanding the complexities. Don’t believe me? Think about the co-operation that took place between former dictator of Pakistan, Musharraf and the …
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Nizar Banat, a Palestinian activist, an outspoken critic of Palestinian Authority and its corruption, was murdered on the 24 June 2021, by the Palestinian Preventive Security force – policing arm of the Palestinian Authority, in the occupied West Bank. This isn’t shocking to many who have studied Oslo Accords and have followed Israel-Palestine rela…
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Last year when a BBC journalist while interviewing Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev, asked him about the restrictions on free press in his country, he rebuked the reporter and said “You have no moral right to talk about free media when you do these things”, by these things he meant treatment of Julian Assange by the U.K government. It’s been ove…
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I was scrolling through my twitter feed and came across tweets where some (not all) American progressives were quoting their intelligence community to demonstrate how bad the former President of the United States, Donald Trump, was. The irony of these tweets isn’t lost on anyone. I was a child when America declared its war on terror and subsequentl…
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So, today I am going to talk about Hong Kong’s popular pro-democracy newspaper/tabloid, Apple Daily, its shutting down this weekend. This comes against the backdrop of 5 of Apple Daily’s editors and executives being arrested by Hong Kong’s authorities under its new Security Law that was introduced a year ago. Now, to understand why and under which …
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As I was scrolling through my twitter feed this morning, I came across tweets claiming that Press TV’s websites, which is an Iranian news channel, were seized by the United States. I am someone who do not usually just believe everything I read on social media, so I decided to do some research. Obviously, I first went to PressTV.Com and there indeed…
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On the 16 June 2021 U.S President Biden met with his Russian Counterpart President Putin in Geneva, Switzerland. Soon after this meeting, the President of the United States addressing the press corp in an effort to declare Putin as gone rogue, innocently declared “his credibility worldwide shrinks” and then he went on to again very naively question…
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According to Human Rights Watch, since 2015, the armed conflict in Yemen has resulted in the largest humanitarian crisis in the world with 20 million people experiencing food insecurity and ten million of these people are at the risk of famine. And Mind you according to U.N estimates total population of Yemen is just over 30 million. So, let’s talk…
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Torture, Sexual Violence and Genocide, are some of the allegations against China’s so called “re-education” camps in Xinjiang. China claims that these are its de-radicalisation/vocational centres for Uyghurs. Most western democracies allege that these so-called re-education camps is a fancy phrase for internment camps. So, let’s talk about Uyghurs …
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