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Bieber defends manager after Taylor Swift ‘bullying’ accusation
WASHINGTON - Justin Bieber accused Taylor Swift of “crossing a line” Sunday after she reignited their longstanding feud in a post attacking his manager for buying the rights to much of her multi-platinum back catalog. Swift said she suffered years of “manipulative bullying” at the hands of Scooter Braun, an industry powerhouse whose Ithaca Holdings recently bought Big Machine Label Group, which produced Swift’s first seven albums. “Essentially, my musical legacy is about to lie in the hands of someone who tried to dismantle it,” Swift wrote, claiming she had never been offered the chance to buy the rights to her back catalog, which includes “Fearless” and “1989”. “Never in my worst nightmares did I imagine the buyer would be Scooter,” she wrote Sunday, signing off “Sad and grossed out.”
Canadian superstar Bieber took to Instagram to defend Braun, a music industry powerhouse who also manages Ariana Grande and has worked with Kanye West -- another artist who has feuded with Swift in the past. “For you to take it to social media and get people to hate on scooter isn’t fair,” Bieber wrote, posting alongside an old photo of him and Swift together in the early days of their joint rise to pop superstardom. “Seems to me like it was to get sympathy u also knew that in posting that your fans would go and bully scooter.” Swift’s huge social media presence is backed up by legions of fiercely loyal fans -- known as “Swifties” -- who frequently round on those perceived as slighting her. “I feel like the only way to resolve conflict is through communication,” Bieber wrote. “So banter back and fourth online i dont believe solves anything.” (afp)
is quitting acting because it is incompatible with her Islamic faith, sparking a social media storm.
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In this file photo taken on June 24, 2018 Bollywood actress Zaira Wasim poses for a picture as she arrives for the IIFA Awards of the 19th International Indian Film Academy (IIFA) festival at the Siam Niramit Theatre in Bangkok.
In a lengthy social media post published Sunday, Zaira Wasim said she was leaving the profession because becoming a Bollywood star had “damaged” her relationship with God. The 18-year-old won major awards for her two film roles to date and was considered a rising star of Indian cinema. “This field indeed brought a lot of love... my way, but what it also did was to lead me to a path of ignorance, as I silently and unconsciously transitioned out of imaan (faith),” she wrote on Instagram. “While I continued to work in an environment that consistently interferes with my imaan, my relationship with my religion was threatened,” she added. Wasim, from the restive Indian-administered area of Kashmir, shot to fame in 2016 when she starred alongside Bollywood icon Aamir Khan in the hit movie “Dangal”. She won a National Film Award
Jokowi does not need to increase coalition: Observer
JAKARTA - There was no need to add more parties to join the coalition of supporters of Jokowi-Ma’ruf Amin, Political observer of the Syarif Hidayatullah state Islamic university, Jakarta, Iding Rosyidin said. “If we talk about a democratic perspective, I don’t think it is important that (the coalition) must be big, because if the opposition is small, ‘check and balances’ are lacking,” Rosyidin said when contacted here Monday. IBP/net
Justin Bieber Reacts to Taylor Swift’s Scooter Braun Slam, Bullying Claim.
Bollywood star quits acting over Islamic faith MUMBAI - A Bollywood actress who starred in India’s highest-grossing movie said she
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for her role as an aspiring female wrestler, and the film went on to become India’s highest-grossing movie. It also enjoyed massive success in China. Wasim followed that up with a Filmfare Critics Award for her outing in 2017’s “Secret Superstar”, in which she played a young, Muslim singer-songwriter who becomes a YouTube sensation. Bollywood has a long tradition of Muslim movie stars -- the three Khans: Aamir, Salman and Shah Rukh have dominated box offices for the last three decades. There are far fewer Muslim actresses however -- in particular from the divided Kashmir region -- and some social media users took to Twitter to criticise Wasim for invoking Islam as her reason for stepping away from acting. “Exit is your choice, reason, by all means. Just do not demean it for everyone else. The industry where all work shoulder to shoulder, no differences, caste, religion
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or where you come from,” wrote actress Raveena Tandon. Jammu and Kashmir police officer Imtiyaz Hussain said he respected her decision, but added that she “can’t invoke religion and faith” to justify it. “Are others in the field some kind of sinners? This dawning of new reality should be her own truth & her own interpretation of religion. Period,” he wrote. Others rallied to her defence. “It’s her life to do with as she pleases. All I will do is wish her well & hope that whatever she does makes her happy,” tweeted former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah. Wasim’s last film will be “The Sky is Pink”, due out in October, where she will be seen alongside Priyanka Chopra Jonas. The filmmakers said in a statement that Wasim had been “a complete professional” throughout the shooting of the movie, which finished in June. (afp)
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For example, there is the National Mandate Party (PAN), which from the beginning became the Prabowo-Sandiaga coalition party, Rosyidin said adding that PAN should not join the Jokowi-Ma’ufuf coalition. While for Democrats, Rosyidin assessed that since the beginning they had joined the Prabowo coalition only to fulfill Prabowo’s requirements to advance in the nomination of the 2019 Presidential Election. “For Democrats, even though they are in the coalition (Prabowo-Sandi), yesterday it was just not fulfilling the requirements, it was not fully visible to the Democrats,” he said. On the other hand, on a parliamentary seat count, Jokowi-Ma’ruf coalition was superior. Therefore, an addition in the coalition parties is not necessary, he said. Meanwhile, the decision of the Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) to remain an opposition party was right, according to Rosyidin. “PKS is a medium power. Actually, in my opinion, the PKS is good in opposition with Gerindra, with a pretty 10 percent victory of the candidates, the highest achievement for PKS,” he explained. However, the right opposition was an opposition that could provide criticism as well as solutions, not critics who seemed to be “nosy”, Rosyidin stressed. He gave an example of the government of Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (SBY) when the Democrats came to power, the PDI-P as the opposing party was an example of an opposition that could be the balance of the government at that time. “The problem is just how to be the opposition. Well, Gerindra’s mistake is that his opposition tends to be from criticism. The opposition must sort out what issues are worth criticizing or not,” he said. Regarding the importance of the opposition’s role in government, he explained that the opposition is important because it functions as a counterweight and controls the power to avoid corrupt actions. “In any country with an authoritarian system, for example, there must be an extraordinary phenomenon of corruption because there is no one controlling,” he said. (ant) News can also be heard in “Bali Image” at Global Radio FM 96.5 from 9.30 until 10.00 am. Listen to Global Radio FM at http://globalfmbali.listen2myradio.com or live video streaming at http:// radioglobalfmbali.com and http://ustream.tv/ channel/global-fm-bali.