Source: Huffington Post By Carol Kuruvilla Muslims and other religious groups in Quebec are concerned about the new right-wing ruling party’s plans to bar certain public employees from wearing religious […]
Source: Huffington Post By Carol Kuruvilla ASSOCIATED PRESS The Rev. William J. Barber II is a prominent progressive Christian pastor and civil rights advocate. President Donald Trump openly embraced the label “nationalist” at […]
Source: Huffington Post By Alanna Vagianos Pope Francis likened getting an abortion to “hiring a hitman” during an address at the Vatican on Wednesday. “I ask you: Is it right to […]
European Court of Human Rights Makes a Landmark Decision on Free Speech and the Prophet Muhammad Insulting Prophet Muhammad not ‘free speech,’ ECtHR rules Source: Daily Sabah Defaming the Prophet Muhammad […]
Insulting Prophet Muhammad not ‘free speech,’ ECtHR rules Source: Daily Sabah Defaming the Prophet Muhammad exceeds the permissible limits of freedom of expression, ruled the European Court of Human Rights, […]
Epigraph: Every human life is precious and sacred and killing one is like triggering a genocide. (Al Quran 5:32/33) Saudi Arabia’s King and Crown Prince Call Slain Journalist Jamal Khashoggi’s […]
% who say Islam is “fundamentally incompatible” with their country’s culture and values: 🇫🇮Finland 62% 🇮🇹Italy 53% 🇩🇪Germany 44% 🇬🇧UK 42% 🇪🇸Spain 37% 🇫🇷France 34% 🇸🇪Sweden 34%https://t.co/26OkMQwVSA pic.twitter.com/NYfUIwg1bW — Pew […]
Source: Economist By Zanny Minton Beddoes, Editor-in-Chief Our cover this week holds out Australia as an example for the world. Rising incomes, low public debt, an affordable welfare state, popular […]
Source: Associated Press By EDITH M. LEDERER UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Genocide is still taking place against Rohingya Muslims remaining in Myanmar and the government is increasingly demonstrating it has […]
Source: Wall Street Journal By Stacy Meichtry and Nick Kostov PANTIN, France—Every Sunday, parents in this working-class neighborhood just north of Paris bring their children to a small school operated by the […]
Source: Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — The European Court of Human Rights says an Austrian woman’s conviction for calling the prophet of Islam a pedophile didn’t breach her freedom of speech. The Strasbourg-based ECHR ruled Thursday that Austrian courts had “carefully balanced her right to freedom of expression with the […]
Source: The Guardian BY Harriet Sherwood Irish voters will decide on Friday whether to remove a clause in the country’s constitution that makes blasphemy a criminal act. A yes vote […]
Source: Vice By Trevor Bach July 7 was a clear day in northern Michigan. Late in the evening, Jeremy Sheaffer climbed onto the roof of the cottage on Bluff Street, […]
Source: Bloomberg By Noah Feldman A South Carolina foster-care agency has asked the Trump administration to rule that it has a constitutional right to discriminate against non-Protestant and gay parents under the […]
Source: Chicago Tribune BY Tracy Swartz Contact Reporter Chicago Tribune A documentary about a tenured Wheaton College professor who lost her job after she posted pictures of herself in a hijab […]
Source: Jewish Telegraphic Agency By Ron Kampeas WASHINGTON (JTA) — When Ron DeSantis, the Republican congressman running for governor of Florida, was asked in a debate to defend his record on […]
Source: USA Today Former University of Cincinnati associate head basketball coach Larry A. Davis Thursday pleaded guilty to federal misdemeanor assault charges in Charlotte, N.C. over an incident that also cost the […]
Source: Independent By Harriet Agerholm A Muslim and a Christian have made a new translation of the Quran to underline the similarities between their two religions. The authors, who are also friends, said they hoped the […]
Source: CNN BY Fozia Bora Fozia Bora is a lecturer in Middle Eastern History and Islamic History at University of Leeds. The views expressed in this commentary are solely those […]
Source: Time By TIA POWELL, JULES CHYTEN BRENNAN, VIRAJ PATEL, VAFA TABATABAIE Dr. Powell is Dr. Shoshanah Trachtenberg Frackman Chair in Biomedical Ethics at Montefiore Health System and Albert Einstein College […]