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<br /> The death of 3-year old <keyword id="3035349" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="Aylan-Kurdi">Aylan Kurdi</keyword> brought to the forefront the horrendous tales of the Syrian <keyword id="3082516" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="refugee-crises">refugee crises</keyword>. We all knew there was a war and there were war crimes. But it took an infant’s death to hit us hard with the reality. <br /><br />

	Here are some instances where it took millions to die before the world came forward to their aide, or at least they say are doing their best.

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5 most horrific refugee crises the world never talks about

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The 21st century has already witnessed some horrific wars, natural disasters and acts of terrorism. Such unfortunate incidents are synonymous to inhuman conditions and gruesome atrocities for residents of the affected areas.<br />
<br /> Recently, the image of Syrian toddler <keyword id="3035349" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="Aylan-Kurdi">Aylan Kurdi</keyword> and three others washed ashore dead on a Turkish shoreline shocked the world. However, he is hardly the first child victim of such crisis.<br />
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Business Insider India went back in time and found some of the most impactful pictures that paint a distressing picture of what humanity is currently going through.<br />
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Note: The post contains strong graphic content. Viewer discretion is advised.<br />
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Top 10 child photographs that shocked the world

<p></p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_right"><div><div class="image on-image"></div><p></p></div></div>The satirical French weekly publication, Charlie Hebdo, <a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-35306906">has come under fire</a> for publishing a cartoon that suggests that <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/photo-of-drowned-syrian-child-migrant-crisis-2015-9" target="_blank">Aylan Kurdi</a>, a toddler who drowned off the coast of Turkey while attempting to flee war-torn Syria, would have grown up to sexually assault&#xa0;European women.<p><span>"What would little </span><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/AylanKurdi?src=hash">#AylanKurdi</a><span> have grown up to be? Ass groper in Germany," the cartoon reads.</span></p><p class="embed-spacer">The cartoon's references the "gropers" or groups of drunk young men, <a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-35280386" target="_blank">mostly of migrant origin</a>, who <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/germany-cologne-new-years-attacks-women-2016-1" target="_blank">harrassed or attacked about 90 women</a> in Cologne, Germany, on New Years Eve.</p><p class="embed-spacer">Charlie Hebdo has a history of publishing controversial material, especially related to Islam.</p><p class="embed-spacer">Just over a year ago, Islamic terrorists stormed the Paris office of Charlie Hebdo killing 12 in response to the Charlie Hebdo's publications of images of Islam's central prophet, Mohammed,&#xa0;of whom Islam strictly prohibits depictions.&#xa0;</p><h2 class="embed-spacer">&#xa0;</h2><p class="embed-spacer"><div></div></p><p class="embed-spacer">&#xa0;<span>Laurent "Riss" Sourisseau, a survivor of the 2015 attack, and current acting editor of the publication, drew the cartoon.&#xa0;These days, Riss has to be <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/charlie-hebdo-cover-cartoon-jokes-about-death-of-drowned-syrian-toddler-aylan-kurdi-10499645.html">escorted by plain-clothes policemen </a>everywhere he goes.</span></p><p>For many, the image of the drown Syrian toddler put a human face on the Syrian refugee crisis that <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/dec/31/alan-kurdi-death-canada-refugee-policy-syria-boy-beach-turkey-photo" target="_blank">overcame xenophobic </a><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/afp-syrian-boys-picture-galvanises-migrant-response-2015-9" target="_blank">concerns</a><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/dec/31/alan-kurdi-death-canada-refugee-policy-syria-boy-beach-turkey-photo" target="_blank"></a>&#xa0;about the arrival of immigrants from a different culture.</p><p class="embed-spacer"></p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image"></div><p></p></div></div><p class="embed-spacer"><span>The publication has depicted <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/charlie-hebdo-cover-cartoon-jokes-about-death-of-drowned-syrian-toddler-aylan-kurdi-10499645.html">Kurdi twice before</a>,&#xa0;both times using Kurdi's death for satirical purposes.</span></p><p class="embed-spacer">The suggestion that a toddler, who was forced out of his home due to a brutal, seemingly endless civil war, would grow up to become a violent or sexual criminal assumes the worst about humanity, and many think it falls visibly short of humor.</p><p class="embed-spacer"><div></div></p><p class="embed-spacer">&#xa0;<div></div></p><p class="embed-spacer">&#xa0;<div></div></p>    <div class="margin-top">        <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/charlie-parker-four-stack-giant-pancake-challenge-2015-12">What it's like to do the four pancake challenge that only two people in the world have finished</a></h3>        <div>            <div>        <div class="ooyala-video-player" data-video-autoplay="false" data-video-id="d4NnBieToXf1xR6GhTLV7xE7PBBVuwJc" data-player-variable="ooyalapopvideo" id="ooyalaplayer_popvideo" style="width:1280px;height:720px"></div>        </div>        </div>            </div>

Charlie Hebdo apparently released a cartoon mocking the drowned Syrian toddler

<p></p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_right"><div><div class="image on-image"></div><p></p></div></div>Sen. John McCain displayed a <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/photo-of-drowned-syrian-child-migrant-crisis-2015-9" target="_blank">photo of the body of a 3-year-old Syrian refugee</a> on the Senate floor Wednesday as he urged stronger leadership from President Barack Obama on Syria.<p>McCain, a Republican, stood next to an enlarged, close-up photo of Aylan Kurdi, who drowned along with his 5-year-old brother and mother when their small rubber boat capsized as it headed for Greece. McCain said the photo has "opened the world's eye to this devastating crisis."</p><p>McCain said it should haunt Americans that "the United States will continue to do nothing meaningful" about conflicts like that in Syria that have led to a surge in refugees.</p><p><span>"This image has haunted the world. But what should haunt us even more than the horror unfolding before our eyes is the thought that the United States will continue to do nothing meaningful about it," he said.</span></p><p>Secretary of State John Kerry said after meetings on Capitol Hill Wednesday that the U.S. will take in more refugees.</p><p>In his 15-minute address on the floor of the US Senate, McCain lent a reminder that the US has called the Syrian crisis&#xa0;the "greatest humanitarian tragedy of our times." He urged the press to stop referring to the people fleeing the conflict in Syria as "migrants" - because, he said, "these are refugees fleeing from torture, from murder, from killing, from genocide."</p><p><div></div></p><p class="embed-spacer">The number of refugees arriving in Europe has been growing every month since the beginning of the year, with about <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/immigration-crisis-in-europe-2015-8" target="_blank">330,000 refugees arriving so far</a>, according to the European border agency. More than&#xa0;<a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/08/28/us-europe-migrants-idUSKCN0QX0UH20150828" target="_blank">2,600 are believed to have died</a>&#xa0;while attempting the journey.&#xa0;</p><p class="p1"><span class="s1">Syria is the single biggest outsource of refugees in the world. More than 3 million refugees from the country have sought refuge in Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan, and Iraq.</span></p>    <div class="margin-top">        <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/all-of-europe-is-dealing-with-a-migrant-crisis-2015-9">Suddenly all of Europe is dealing with a massive migrant crisis</a></h3>        <div>            <div>        <div class="ooyala-video-player" data-video-autoplay="false" data-video-id="Bmd3RidzqlNP4WfxKLX-5zlaVEfZpmuB" data-player-variable="ooyalapopvideo" id="ooyalaplayer_popvideo" style="width:1280px;height:720px"></div>        </div>        </div>            </div>

John McCain displayed the gut-wrenching photo of the drowned Syrian child on the Senate floor to urge US action

<p><span><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_right"><div><div class="image on-image"><p class="source"><span>Reuters/Shamil Zhumatov</span></p><p class="caption">A tomtit bird flies past a squirrel running on a fence after a snowfall in a park in Almaty, Kazakhstan, January 12, 2016.</p></div><p></p></div></div></span></p><p><span>Good morning! Here's what you need to know on Thursday.</span></p><p><strong>1. <a href="http://uk.businessinsider.com/explosions-reported-outside-a-un-office-in-indonesia-2016-1" target="_blank">At least six people have reportedly been killed after several explosions erupted near the Sarinah shopping mall in Jakarta, Indonesia.</a><span> </span></strong>Police say they are treating the incident as a terrorist attack, The New York Times reported. </p><p><strong>2. <a href="http://uk.businessinsider.com/video-us-navy-sailors-iran-2016-1" target="_blank">Video footage released by Reuters that was apparently obtained from the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps appears to show the moment 10 US Navy sailors were detained by Iran in the Persian Gulf.</a></strong></p><p><strong>3. <a href="http://uk.businessinsider.com/goldman-sachs-is-reportedly-cutting-10-of-its-workforce-2016-1" target="_blank">Goldman Sachs is preparing to drop up to ten percent of its fixed-income division later this quarter, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal.</a></strong> The layoffs could affect about 250 employees.</p><p><strong>4. <a href="http://uk.businessinsider.com/chart-shanghai-stocks-just-tipped-into-a-bear-market-again-2016-1" target="_blank">It's been another ugly opening for China's share market on Thursday with stocks tumbling yet again following a 2%-plus slide on Wednesday.</a></strong></p><p><strong>5. <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/r-california-lottery-says-it-has-a-powerball-winner-2016-1" target="_blank">The California Lottery said on its Twitter feed that it has a winner for the $1.5 billion lottery held on Wednesday, with the winning ticket being sold in Chino Hills.</a></strong></p><p><strong>6. <a href="http://uk.businessinsider.com/charlie-hebdo-cartoon-mocking-syrian-toddler-2016-1" target="_blank">The satirical French weekly publication, Charlie Hebdo, has come under fire for publishing a cartoon that suggests that Aylan Kurdi, a toddler who drowned off the coast of Turkey while attempting to flee war-torn Syria, would have grown up to sexually assault European women.</a></strong></p><p><strong>7. <a href="http://uk.businessinsider.com/albert-edwards-if-im-right-the-us-stock-market-will-fall-75-2016-1" target="_blank">Societe Generale economist Albert Edwards has said that if the US economy plunges into a recession led by weak manufacturing output, stocks will be worth about a quarter of what they're priced at now.</a></strong></p><p><strong>8. <a href="http://uk.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-florida-mic-pay-2016-1" target="_blank">Real-estate tycoon Donald Trump blasted the unnamed "bastard" responsible for setting up a faulty sound system at a Wednesday-night campaign rally.</a> </strong>"And by the way, I don't like this mic," Trump said after criticising US trade policy with China during his speech in Pensacola, Florida.</p><p><strong>9. <a href="http://uk.businessinsider.com/rbs-the-chance-of-an-imminent-recession-is-75-2016-1" target="_blank">Andrew Roberts, the research chief for European economics and rates at RBS, says the chance of an imminent recession is currently 75%.</a></strong></p><p><strong>10. <a href="http://uk.businessinsider.com/afghan-forces-to-receive-russian-arms-as-moscow-seeks-expanded-role-2016-1" target="_blank">Russia will ship small arms to Afghanistan next month, a top diplomat announced Wednesday, expanding Moscow's role as the United States winds down its military mission and the Taliban and other militants appear to gain ground.</a></strong></p><p><strong>And finally ... <a href="http://uk.businessinsider.com/inside-el-chapo-guzmans-secret-lair-2016-1" target="_blank">Step inside the secret hideout of Mexican drug lord 'El Chapo' Guzman, who was recaptured last week.</a></strong></p>    <div class="margin-top">        <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/volkswagen-brand-chief-apology-ces-scandal-vw-herbert-diess-2016-1">Volkswagen's brand chief gave an extended apology before their CES keynote</a></h3>        <div>            <div>        <div class="ooyala-video-player" data-video-autoplay="false" data-video-id="Z2OTcxMDE6jEOoKMTCYmvKW9Pm28yMpX" data-player-variable="ooyalapopvideo" id="ooyalaplayer_popvideo" style="width:1280px;height:720px"></div>        </div>        </div>            </div>

The 10 most important things in the world right now

<p><em><strong>Editor's note: The images and video in this article may be upsetting to some readers.</strong></em></p><p>A powerful&#xa0;image&#xa0;of a wounded&#xa0;Syrian boy sitting in an ambulance, covered in&#xa0;blood and dust after an air strike in Aleppo on Wednesday, August 17, has captured the attention of people across the globe.</p><p>The image was taken from a video released by the <a href="https://twitter.com/AleppoAMC">Aleppo Media Center</a>, which&#xa0;shows rescuers carrying the five-year-old boy into the&#xa0;ambulance. The boy is in such a daze, he doesn't appear to realize that he is&#xa0;wounded until he puts his hand to his head, and sees the blood on his hand.</p><p>The boy has since been identified as&#xa0;Omran Daqneesh, from the&#xa0;Qaterji neighborhood of Aleppo, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/aug/18/boy-in-the-ambulance-image-emerges-syrian-child-aleppo-rubble">The Guardian </a>reports. He was joined in the ambulance by two other children.</p><p></p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"></div><p></p></div></div>The picture is a powerful reminder of the true cost of war. As such, it&#xa0;almost immediately went viral, bringing up emotions for people all over the world.<p>People of different ethnicities, faiths, nationalities and political beliefs&#xa0;have been reacting to the image online. Regardless of their thoughts about the civil war waging in Syria, there seems to be a general consensus: This image is absolutely heartbreaking.</p><p><div></div></p><p><div></div></p><p><div></div></p><p><div></div></p><p>It also got the attention of celebrities such as model Chrissy Teigen, <a href="https://twitter.com/chrissyteigen?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor">who tweeted&#xa0;to her 2.42 million&#xa0;followers</a>&#xa0;that she was too upset about the image to <a href="http://www.thisisinsider.com/ryan-lochte-statement-rio-gas-station-incident-2016-8">care about the Ryan Lochte scandal</a>.</p><p><div></div></p><p><div></div></p><p><div></div></p><p><div></div></p><p>The photo was also turned into a<span>&#xa0;haunting cartoon from artist&#xa0;@</span><a href="https://twitter.com/khalidalbaih" data-mentioned-user-id="26192631">khalidalbaih</a><span> linking Omran Daqneesh and Aylan Kurdi, the<span> <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/aylan-kurdi-s-story-how-a-small-syrian-child-came-to-be-washed-up-on-a-beach-in-turkey-10484588.html">Syrian three-year-old&#xa0;who&#xa0;washed up dead on a beach</a>&#xa0;in Turkey in 2015.</span></span></p><p><span><span><div></div></span></span></p><p>Watch the video below.</p><p><div></div></p>    <div class="margin-top">        <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/sydney-restaurant-serves-steak-on-fire-2016-8">People love this flaming beef dish from a restaurant in Sydney</a></h3>        <div>            <div>        <div class="ooyala-video-player" data-video-autoplay="false" data-video-id="1pNG4yNTE6ERhQ6O0sLsezxWBkvqishy" data-player-variable="ooyalapopvideo" id="ooyalaplayer_popvideo" style="width:1280px;height:720px"></div>        </div>        </div>            </div>

The world reacts to a powerful image of a wounded Syrian boy

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We’ve all seen the picture of the <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/The-haunting-photo-of-a-drowned-Syrian-child-is-finally-forcing-the-world-to-take-notice-of-a-years-long-crisis/articleshow/48793011.cms">drowned toddler</a> washed up on a Turkey beach circulate across social media. The picture which showed the little boy wearing a red t-shirt and shorts lying face-down on a beach near the resort town of Bodrum had us captivated mainly because how extraordinary powerful and horrifying it was.<br />
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There was another picture, as widely circulated as the first one. In it, a grim-faced policeman carries the body away.<br />
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The child, who is thought to be <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=syrian+refugees">Syrian</a>, is one of the 12 refugees feared to have drowned in an evident attempt to flee the war-ravaged country and reach the Greek island of Kos.<br />
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The lifeless body was that of a three year old. His name is Aylan Al-Kurdi. The body of his elder brother, five-year-old Galip was found washed up in another part of the beach.<br />
<br /> While no one is unfamiliar with the civil war plaguing <keyword id="6354913" type="COUNTRY" weightage="80" keywordseo="Syria">Syria</keyword>, what these pictures managed to remind everyone is the reality of the horrors and helplessness of the refugee crisis.<br />
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It is no wonder then that these very pictures have managed to set off a worldwide outrage and a fresh discourse on how Europe’s paltry response to the ongoing refugee crisis must be amended.<br />
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And, most importantly, who was responsible for that innocent toddler’s death?<br />
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To put things in perspective, Britain’s Prime Minister <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=david+cameron">David Cameron</a> had described the attempts of migrants wanting access to Europe as ‘swarms’ and had clearly indicated that he would not allow people to break into the country.<br />
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Incidentally, the government in Britain has accepted a lower number of asylum seekers in proportion to its population compared to most other <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=european+union">EU</a> countries.<br />
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What Prime Minister Cameron needs to understand at the moment is that the ‘swarm’ of migrants are not fleeing their homeland by choice, but due to desperation. Theirs is an extremely difficult choice between life and death. And, as one of the world’s superior powers, Britain’s greater involvement will facilitate help for these helpless, if not anything.<br />
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Far away, a little after this tragedy unfolded, an unsympathetic China held its biggest display of military might in a parade to commemorate its World War II victory over Japan, even as President <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/r-xi-says-chinese-military-will-cut-forces-by-300000-2015-9?IR=T">Xi Jinping</a> announced that it would cut troop levels by 300,000.<br />
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The irony of the event aside, the massive show could duly be deemed ‘scary’ especially at a time when countries (Syria in particular) are still reeling from the consequences of war.<br />
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Granted that seven decades have passed since the war ended, but trotting soldiers, tanks, jet fighters and other weapons to celebrate what can it be described as a global bloodshed and atrocities is still plain revolting.<br />
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To say the least, the timing of it was awful.<br />
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It is the actions of these powers like Britain and China and their leaders that indirectly shape the fate of countries like Syria, which are struggling for existence. At a time like this, what is expected is compassion and unconstrained assistance, not indifference.<br />
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It is they who should tell the world that #RefugeesareWelcome<br />
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Image credit: Indiatimes<br />

When the world’s most powerful people are guilty of
a three-year old’s murder

<p></p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_right"><div><div class="image on-image"></div><p></p></div></div>One of the main things people find so unappealing about columnist and radio host Katie Hopkins is that she appears to have no sympathy for people who are suffering.<p>In October 2015, <a href="https://twitter.com/kthopkins/status/650264042448273408" target="_blank">she attacked overweight kids with the tweet</a>: "I refuse to speak to fat children." In March of the same year, <a href="https://twitter.com/KTHopkins/status/582134650568642562" target="_blank">she took on the mentally unwell</a>: "To be diagnosed as depressed is the holy grail of illnesses for many. The ultimate passport to self obsession. Get a grip people."</p><p>Worst of all, during the height of the refugee crisis last spring, Hopkins wrote in a <a href="https://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/suncolumnists/katiehopkins/6414865/Katie-Hopkins-I-would-use-gunships-to-stop-migrants.html" target="_blank">now deleted</a> Sun column: "Show me pictures of coffins, show me bodies floating in water ... I still don't care."</p><p>Hopkins' words&#xa0;were deemed to have gone too far to be ignored. Her description of migrants as "cockroaches" was strongly redolent of Nazi propaganda, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2015/apr/24/katie-hopkins-cockroach-migrants-denounced-united-nations-human-rights-commissioner" target="_blank">according to </a><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2015/apr/24/katie-hopkins-cockroach-migrants-denounced-united-nations-human-rights-commissioner" target="_blank">the UN high commissioner for human rights, Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein</a>. Following the article, a <a href="https://www.change.org/p/the-sun-newspaper-remove-katie-hopkins-as-a-columnist" target="_blank">petition</a> to remove her as a Sun columnist gained more than 300,000 signatures. Hopkins has since been questioned by police on multiple occasions for investigations relating to hate crimes, she told Business Insider. She clearly takes the threat of arrest for her words seriously, but will not let it deter her. "I will end up in prison, I think," she said.</p><p>When I meet Hopkins at her favourite French restaurant in Covent Garden, her hair is still short. It's a reminder of the risky brain surgery she underwent in February to cure her nocturnal epilepsy, which has forced her to endure "four or five" seizures every night since she was 19.</p><p><div></div></p><p>The brain surgery was not an immediate success. Hopkins contracted meningitis, briefly lost the ability to walk downstairs, and experienced weakness in her left arm as a result of the operation. She has since had to re-learn these basic skills. "Pavements became a big deal," Hopkins said. "I was a toddler again."</p><p>However, the operation does appear to have cured Hopkins of epilepsy. "I'm not going to have any more fits," she said, with a determined glint in her eye. "This may be peak happiness."</p><p>Before the lesion was removed, Hopkins regularly woke up with a dislocated arm. In a three-year period this happened 42 times, <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3458287/KATIE-HOPKINS-Today-surgeons-cut-brain-try-cure-epilepsy.html" target="_blank">she wrote in the Mail Online</a>. On each occasion, Hopkins ignored the pain and forced herself to run, "just to prove it hadn't got the better of me." For Hopkins, running is a sign of strength in the face of struggle. At lunch, she pairs bright pink trainers (in preparation for a run later that afternoon) with a formal necklace and floral top.</p><p></p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_left"><div><div class="image on-image"></div><p></p></div></div>Hopkins' epilepsy made her childhood dream of being in the army impossible, and haunted her with violent fits. I asked her if she ever feels sorry for herself.<p>"I think some people will compete to be a victim and be the worst off ever, but then maybe someone near to you has died, or something similar," Hopkins said. "I've never had anything like that."</p><p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">"I feel awkward talking about [my epilepsy] actually," she said. "I don't identify with it at all."</span></p><p>Hopkins is certainly more comfortable on the attack, than when discussing her illness. Before we have even looked at the menus, she tried to pick a fight with me over <a href="http://uk.businessinsider.com/kevin-roberts-on-women-in-leadership-roles-2016-7" target="_blank">an interview by Business Insider's Lara O'Reilly with Kevin Roberts</a>, the executive chairman of the advertising agency Saatchi &amp; Saatchi. In the interview, Roberts said that the debate about gender diversity in the advertising industry was "over" and that he spent "no time" thinking about it. These comments ultimately led to <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/saatchi-and-saatchi-chairman-kevin-roberts-has-resigned-2016-8" target="_blank">Roberts' resignation</a>.</p><p>Hopkins contended that the interview - which she said was written "elegantly and with excellence" - had "directly led to a brilliant man, an affable, lovely, commercial man, losing his job."</p><p>Hopkins has built a career as a professional contrarian. She first came under the spotlight as the <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1553806/Apprentice-contestant-Katie-fires-Sir-Alan.html" target="_blank">first contestant on "The Apprentice" to 'fire' Sir Alan Sugar</a>. She rejected Sugar's offer of a place in the show's final, where she would have competed with just one other contestant for the prize job. The former business woman then entered "I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!" and "Celebrity Big Brother," but she believes it was her appearances on breakfast television shows, like "This Morning," that made her famous.</p><p>"I guess the reason I got known, whatever that means, is just by doing sofa debates where I would take people out any which way I chose that day," Hopkins said. "'They are fat,' 'they're ugly,' 'they're ginger,' 'they're ridiculous.' I would just find a way to beat them with words."</p><p><div></div></p><p>In one of the more memorable encounters, Hopkins faced Peaches Geldof, the TV personality daughter of Bob Geldof and Paula Yates. Geldof, aged 25 and a mother of two babies under two, was defending "<a href="http://attachmentparenting.co.uk/" target="_blank">Attachment Parenting</a>" (AP) - an approach to child rearing which encourages parents share a bed with their babies and feed them on demand.</p><p>"Really all it is is a return to instinctive mothering," <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HkR-3Eai1Q" target="_blank">Geldof said on ITV's "This Morning"</a> in November 2013. "It's just about loving your child."</p><p>While Geldof continued explaining her approach to parenting, Hopkins - with her red face turned to one side - grimaced, presumably contemplating how best to launch her attack.</p><p>"A.P. is just one step away from C.R.A.P., crap parenting," Hopkins soon jibed. As with almost all of the reality TV star's "debates," it quickly got personal. Geldof labelled Hopkins a "rent-a-gob" and Hopkins hit back at Geldof by accusing her of dropping her baby on the pavement. In the end, Geldof was considered to have won the argument. <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2502513/Peaches-Geldofs-joy-obliterates-Katie-Hopkins-VERY-heated-television-debate.html" target="_blank">"Peaches Geldof obliterates Katie Hopkins in VERY heated debate,"</a> read a Mail Online headline.</p><p>Five months later, on April 7, 2014, <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-28438913" target="_blank">Geldof died after taking a fatal heroin overdose</a> while at home with her 11-month-old son, Phaedra, in Wrotham, Kent.</p><p>I asked Hopkins about the incident, hoping to elucidate some kind of emotional response. "As for an attachment parent that takes drugs with their kids and stuffed needles in their sweet jar?" she said. "If that's attachment parenting, then go you."</p><p>Though later in the interview, Hopkins revealed that one of her only regrets is "not taking drugs when I was young - only because I think you should try stuff when you are young and I didn't try that."</p><p>After a while, even Hopkins tired of constant appearances on morning TV shows. "Making stupid people look stupid, that is not a job," Hopkins said. "It definitely gets boring. When I became rent-an-argument I got very bored really quickly, but that led to my Sun column and my Daily Mail contract."</p><p>Hopkins believes that she has now found a sense of purpose in her life: giving a voice to "the shut down majority," in Britain. "We have become useless at talking the truth," she said. It is the first time she has found meaning in her work, since being kicked out of the army at the age of 23, she said.</p><p>Many of Hopkins' deepest beliefs and values come from her year in the British army. Her strong sense of nationalism, lack of empathy, and relish of confrontation appear to come directly from her superiors at the Royal Military Academy of Sandhurst.</p><p><div></div></p><p>The right-wing commentator joined the military academy immediately after graduating from Exeter University. She signed a 35-year contract with the intelligence core. "My plan was to become the first female general," Hopkins said. She spoke with glee about how she was once forced to "wrap sellotape around [her] hand to clean the carpet" during her first term at the military training academy.</p><p>When signing up, Hopkins knew that if she revealed that she had epilepsy, she would not be able to join the army. "I thought if I proved myself they'd let me stay," she said, "but I was wrong and that's fine. That's the rule. A rule is a rule."</p><p>Hopkins' 35-year contract with the British army was terminated, after she was discovered having an epileptic fit by superiors. She admitted it was "the worst thing to ever happen" to her. "I was 23 and I had to go back to live at home with my mum and dad," Hopkins said, as though the concept of someone living at home with their parents in their early 20s is shameful.</p><p>But Hopkins didn't "wallow" and quickly found a new path in life. In her mid-twenties, she "stole" her first husband, Damian McKinney, from another woman and moved to the US, where she became a business consultant at McKinney's company McKinney Rogers in New York City, for 10 years. One day in 2005, McKinney left Hopkins for his secretary.</p><p>"I have no grudge at all," Hopkins said about the end of her first marriage, "but at the time did I want to kill him? Absolutely. And I definitely [asked]: would it be cheaper to get a hitman than go to court?"</p><p></p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_right"><div><div class="image on-image"></div><p></p></div></div>Immediately, after the divorce in 2005, Hopkins returned to the UK. After getting a job as a brand consultant at the Met Office, she felt like she needed to do "something completely different," so, in 2006, she applied to be on the third series of "The Apprentice."<p>Hopkins returned to the Met Office immediately after quitting "The Apprentice" in 2007. There, she had an affair with a married colleague, Mark Cross. But after a photo of Hopkins and Cross having sex in a field appeared in the tabloids, Hopkins was fired by the Met Office for bringing the weather forecaster into disrepute, <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-461361/Youre-fired-Katie.html" target="_blank">according to the Daily Mail</a>.</p><p>"I just decide who I like and I go find them," Hopkins said about her habit of having relationships with married men. "I'm calling Mark my last husband. I was calling him my second husband for a while and then my father told me to start calling him my last husband."</p><p>Despite some major changes in her life since being kicked out of Sandhurst - moving to America, getting married twice, and becoming a celebrity - Hopkins remains fiercely dedicated to the army, and deeply fond of her country. Hopkins' devotion to those she perceives as her own people contrasts with her total disregard for people who are not. I ask her where this nationalism comes from.</p><p>"I would call it patriotism," Hopkins said. "It's now a short step from nationalistic to racist, thanks to Guardian readers."</p><p>"I look to stand up for my country and the people that live in it ... because I feel their voice is under-heard now," she said. "If you are a white, British male for generations, you don't stand a chance."</p><p>However, Hopkins' claim to be a hero of the white working class is dubious, given that she admits to being a snob. One of Hopkins' career-defining rants focused on names that she perceives to be working class, like "Charmaine, Chardonnay, and Tyler."</p><p>"A name, for me, is a short way of working out what class that child comes from," <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/katie-hopkins-branded-an-insufferable-snob-after-this-morning-debate-on-childrens-names-8690468.html" target="_blank">Hopkins told "This Morning" in 2013</a>. She said that she decides from a child's name whether "I want my child to play with them."</p><p>Hopkins' inspiration for the tirade came from a brief period when she sent her three children - aged 12, 11, and seven - to an "awful and disgusting" state school near her large Georgian home in Devon. They now attend a private school "up the road" from their house. Hopkins spends most of her week in Devon with her kids and "lovely Mark," who has also left the Met Office and now works in a donkey sanctuary.</p><p>On Fridays, Hopkins travels to London, where she spends three days working on her two weekend radio shows for LBC (London Broadcasting Company). On the day after our interview, a Saturday, I tuned into "The Katie Hopkins Show" for the first time. Hopkins was discussing <a href="http://uk.businessinsider.com/how-to-prevent-british-schoolgirls-like-kadiza-sultana-from-being-radicalised-by-isis-2016-8" target="_blank">Kadiza Sultana</a>, an East London schoolgirl who was killed after leaving home to join ISIS in Syria. Hopkins seemed entirely in her element,&#xa0;while a Muslim caller told her she&#xa0;was "sick" and a "compulsive liar." She responded calmly, telling the caller to move away from personal attacks and focus on "rational" arguments.</p><p><div></div></p><p>Being disliked is not something that worries Hopkins. In fact, it is something that she actively embraces. Nevertheless, there's a kinder side to the demagogue you discover when you spend time with her. At the start of the interview Hopkins made me a promise. She said that like other journalists, "you will find that when you leave, that you will fall deeply in love with me."</p><p>I can't say I fell in love with Katie Hopkins, but she came across as caring, even motherly in her own way, as she gave me career advice ("not the left-leaning, liberal media, BBC bollocks, darling"), and picked up the bill. I certainly enjoyed her company. When delivered without Twitter's 140 character constraint, her views seem more nuanced and just a shade more reasonable. Hopkins does not try to echo the views of London and she never will. She wants to speak for what she perceives to be the dispossessed silent majority, who don't like immigration or political correctness. And she's proud of that.</p><p>Nevertheless, there is something cold about Hopkins. She displays her trademark lack of empathy<span><strong>&#xa0;</strong>when she describes the day Britain reacted<strong>&#xa0;</strong>to the picture of three-year-old Syrian <a href="http://uk.businessinsider.com/heres-what-we-know-about-the-syrian-child-who-drowned-trying-to-escape-with-his-family-2015-9" target="_blank">Aylan Kurdi washed up on the beach</a>&#xa0;with an outpouring of sympathy as the "lamest day for this nation." I began to doubt if she was being authentic. I wondered if she treats those who she loves with the same detachment. Could she really be so unsympathetic to the human suffering of those close to her, despite having experienced so much pain herself? So I asked how she reacts if one of her children comes home from school upset, hurt, or depressed.</span></p><p>"If someone picked on them, or something?" Hopkins asked. "Then they'd need to get a grip on that."</p><p>"You wouldn't feel sorry for your kid if they came home after being bullied?" I ask.</p><p>"No, everyone's going to get picked on," Hopkins said. "Life is full of being picked on."</p><p>"But you've got to support them at that time, surely?" I ask.</p><p>"I'd support them to grow up," she said.</p>    <div class="margin-top">        <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/milo-yiannopoulos-defends-his-leslie-jones-tweets-2016-8">Milo Yiannopoulos defends his Leslie Jones tweets: All I did was crack a few jokes about a Hollywood star</a></h3>        <div>            <div>        <div class="ooyala-video-player" data-video-autoplay="false" data-video-id="wyN28yNTE6UVyvXrixnss2wwNxxI7vqn" data-player-variable="ooyalapopvideo" id="ooyalaplayer_popvideo" style="width:1280px;height:720px"></div>        </div>        </div>            </div>

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