Express Tribune: Farahnaz Ispahani. Pakistan has become a brutal place to live, especially if you are a member of a religious minority. Most observers agree that the country is being swept by a rising tide of hate encouraged by unbridled hate speech. Hate speech is defined as any spoken or physical […]
Prime Minister Commodore Voreqe Bainimarama Your views PM slams SDL’s constitution submission Read or post your comments PM slams SDL’s constitution submission Publish date/time: 12/08/2012 [12:11] Print this page Email this page Shut down the party and go home if you cannot come up with proposals that will bring a […]
Haaretz: Circumcising boys violates their right to decide over their own body, says children’s watchdog Dr. Anne Lindboe. Norway’s ombudsman for children’s rights has proposed that Jews and Muslims replace male circumcision with a symbolic, nonsurgical ritual. Dr. Anne Lindboe told the newspaper Vart Land last month that circumcising boys […]
Huff Post: Simran Jeet Singh On Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks shook the American nation to its core. Nineteen individuals associated with al Qaeda coordinated to hijack four passenger jets and use them as weapons of mass destruction. The terrorist attacks of 9/11 claimed approximately 3,000 lives, including all […]
Inquirer News: The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) leads tens of thousands in a prayer-rally at the Edsa Shrine in Mandaluyong City on Saturday to show Congress that most Filipinos oppose a bill that would curb the country’s population growth. Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile and Senators Vicente […]
The Express Tribune: Omar Kamal bin Farooq One of the biggest disadvantages of living in a nation as homogeneous as ours is that it is very seldom that you get to hear alternative narratives on history, religion, culture and society in general. People who try and present narratives that are different from […]
Source : NY Times. PHILADELPHIA — Msgr. William J. Lynn, the first Roman Catholic official in the United States to be convicted of covering up sexual abuses by priests under his supervision, was sentenced to three to six years in prison on Tuesday. “You knew full well what was right, […]
The church should not dictate to the state. And the state has no business — none — dictating to the church. If you disagree with that, or if you still […]
Anti-Islam Bus Ad Defended By Judge July 22, 2012 08:15 PM EDT comments: 1 According to a report by the Associated Press, on July 20, a Federal Judge ruled in favor of Pamela Geller’s right to place an Anti-Islam ad on New York City buses which refers to enemies of Israel as […]
28 March 2007 | Paris/Geneva – In response to the urgent need to reduce the number of new HIV infections globally, WHO and the UNAIDS Secretariat convened an international expert consultation to determine whether male circumcision should be recommended for the prevention of HIV infection. Based on the evidence presented, […]
The German government says Jewish and Muslim communities should be able to continue the practice of circumcision, after a regional court ruled it amounted to bodily harm. Chancellor Angela Merkel’s […]
Christians in Gaza protesting ‘forced’ conversions to Islam Fox News Dozens of Christians in predominantly Muslim Gaza have staged a rare protest, claiming two members of their community were forcibly converted to Islam and are being held against their will. See all stories on this topic » Gaza Christians hold rare protest over […]
Source: BBC The German government says Jewish and Muslim communities should be able to continue the practice of circumcision, after a regional court ruled it amounted to bodily harm. Chancellor […]
KRAUTHAMMER: Islamic uprising, not Facebook revolution Santa Rosa Press Democrat Post-revolutionary Libya appears to have elected a relatively moderate pro-Western government. Good news, but tentative because Libya is less a country than an oil well with a long beach and myriad tribes. Popular allegiance to a central national … See all stories on […]
Source: Cult Girl/Ahmadiyya: One of the countless, debilitatingly endemic problems with anti-Ahmadiyya hate sites is that they provide a platform for any old ignoramus to pose as a scholar and offer their own opinions as ‘Islam,’ whilst providing no supporting evidence whatsoever. Such people seem to become so enamoured with […]
Express tribune.com: by Saroop Ijaz One of the most majestic and arresting structures of Europe is the Great Mosque of Cordova. Apart from exquisite architecture, the unique thing about the […]
Fiji wants village law on fishing by pregnant women enforced Updated 1 June 2012, 10:29 AEST Fiji’s Ministry of iTaukei Affairs wants a village law preventing women from fishing once they are more than five months pregnant to be more strictly enforced. http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/sites/all/libraries/jwplayer/player.swf Fiji wants village law on fishing by […]
Huff Post NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Construction of a Tennessee mosque that has been strongly opposed by critics of Islam likely will be stopped after a judge ruled Tuesday that local […]
Huff Post The Hayat Mall in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, probably sees a constant stream of religious police, or mutaween, attempting to keep a check on female morality. But when one brave Saudi woman had enough, she flipped on her camera phone and made sure her harasser — and the rest […]
Huff Post KANSAS CITY, Kan., May 25 (Reuters) – Republican Kansas Governor Sam Brownback signed a bill aimed at keeping state courts and agencies from using Islamic or other non-U.S. laws when making decisions, his office said on Friday, drawing criticism from a national Muslim group. The law has been […]