Critics denounce Quebec ban on religious symbols in public sector
Jun 17, 2019 – http://www.swissinfo.ch By Allison Lampert MONTREAL (Reuters) – Civil liberties and Muslim groups on Monday vowed to challenge a new law in the Canadian province of […]
Don’t open ‘Pandora’s Box’ in Middle East, China warns
Jun 18, 2019 By Ben Blanchard BEIJING (Reuters) – The Chinese government’s top diplomat warned on Tuesday that the world should not open a “Pandora’s Box” in the Middle East, […]
Muslim men face pressure to ignore their mental health problems – it is time to stop the denial
Stoicism and the belief that faith should be able to overcome mental illness is stopping men from getting the help they need. This has to change Mohammedabbas Khaki The Independent […]
The rise of female Sharia judges in India
Source: Aljazeera Mumbai, India – Earlier this year, Maya Rachel McManus, a British Muslim, walked down the aisle in Kolkata on her wedding day and exchanged garlands with her partner. Later, […]
The gift of overcoming barriers eludes the world’s Orthodox Christians
Source: The Economist SCORES OF millions of Orthodox Christians will on June 16th mark the feast of Pentecost. This celebration centres on the moment when, according to church tradition, the […]
The EU’s Islamophobia is getting worse – Britain must fight this from within
Suggested reading: ‘Egg Boy’ Donates Almost $70,000 To Victims Of New Zealand Massacre Source: The Guardian By Yasmin Qureshi, who is shadow justice minister and Labour MP for Bolton South East. She […]
Vatican Opens Door to Limited Ordination of Married Men as Priests
Epigraph: Then We caused Our Messengers to follow in their footsteps; and We caused Jesus, son of Mary, to follow them, and We gave him the Gospel. And We placed […]
Quebec Bans Religious Symbols in Some Public Sector Jobs
Source: The New York Times By Dan Bilefsky MONTREAL — The Quebec government passed a bill late Sunday barring schoolteachers, police officers, judges and other public employees from wearing religious […]
Indian magician Chanchal Lahiri drowns attempting Houdini trick
Source: BBC News An Indian magician who was lowered into a river while shackled in a bid to recreate Harry Houdini’s world-famous trick has drowned, police confirmed. Chanchal Lahiri was […]
Iran nuclear deal: Enriched uranium limit will be breached on 27 June
Source: BBC News Iran has announced it will breach on 27 June the limit on its stockpile of enriched uranium that was set under a 2015 nuclear deal with world […]
Garages – the new affordable houses
Source: BBC News By Bryan Lufkin Would you ever set up home in someone else’s garage? Or let a stranger move in to yours? More and more people are asking, […]
I will quit if Boris Johnson becomes PM – Tory Muslim chairman
Source: The Guardian BY Mattha Busby The chairman of the Conservative Muslim Forum has drawn a comparison between Adolf Hitler and Boris Johnson, saying “many horrible people have been popular” and […]
Thousands of children are abused in Senegal’s religious schools
Source: The Economist Mbar lifts up his trousers and points at the marks where the chains wore his skin away. He was 11 when his father sent him from his village […]
A Quebec bill to ban some from wearing ‘religious symbols’ is fueled by Islamophobia
Source: The Washington Post By Nora Loreto Nora Loreto is a Canadian freelance writer and author of “From Demonized to Organized: Building the New Union Movement.” Fatima Ahmad was attacked in […]
Being Christian in Western Europe
Source: Pew Research Center Western Europe, where Protestant Christianity originated and Catholicism has been based for most of its history, has become one of the world’s most secular regions. Although […]
Indian Court Convicts 6 Hindus in Rape and Murder of Muslim Girl, 8
Source: The New York Times By Kai Schultz NEW DELHI — An Indian court on Monday convicted six men over the kidnap, rape and murder of a Muslim nomadic girl […]
Groups launch challenge of Quebec’s secularism bill one day after it becomes law
Source: CTV News Less than 24 hours after it became law, groups representing Canadian Muslims and civil liberties advocates sought Monday to have Quebec’s secularism legislation struck down as unconstitutional. The National Council of Canadian Muslims, the Canadian Civil Liberties Association, and Ichrak Nourel Hak — a Universite de Montreal […]
Bill 21: Quebec passes secularism law after marathon session
Eleven years after the Bouchard-Taylor report recommended the idea, Quebec now has secularism legislation that bans the wearing of religious symbols by certain public servants in positions of authority by overriding their fundamental rights Source: The Montreal Gazette Eleven years after the Bouchard-Taylor report recommended the idea, Quebec now has […]
Is showing compassion to migrants a crime?
Source: MSN By Moustafa Bayoumi On 11 June, a federal jury in Tucson, Arizona refused to convict the immigration activist Scott Warren on felony charges that could have sent him […]
Bangladesh changes prison breakfast after 200 years
FRENCH PRESS AGENCY – AFP BGD/Dhaka Division/Dhaka Published 16.06.2019 Bangladesh authorities have upgraded a 200-year-old colonial-era breakfast menu in all its prisons, an official said Sunday, as part of a […]