Turkey’s opposition woos Erdogan’s vast housewife vote
By AFP – May 25,2023 – JORDAN TIMES A huge electoral poster bearing a portrait of Turkish President and presidential candidate of AK Party Recep Tayyip Erdogan with a slogan which reads […]
Intra-civilization clash in Türkiye after the earthquakes
BY İBRAHIM KARATAŞ MAR 13, 2023 – DAILY SABAH A Turkish flag flies next to damaged buildings in the aftermath of a deadly earthquake in Kahramanmaraş, Türkiye, March 9, 2023. […]
France: Secular state to double funding to Christian schools in Middle East
Secular France is doubling its funding for Christian schools in the Middle East while pursuing a wide-scale crackdown against French Muslim communities which has led to Muslim schools being shut […]
Macron’s colonial nostalgia: anti-Muslim Islamic project
February 10, 2022 at 5:24 pm | Published in: Article, Europe & Russia, France, Opinion French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris, France on 11 January 2022 [EU Council/Anadolu Agency] Prof. Salman Sayyid February 10, […]
Group calls for probe into violence, sexual abuse of kids in religious communities
Finland should establish an independent commission about the issue, following the example of other countries, according to the director of the Support for Victims of Religions group. Nelli told Yle […]
Bill to end compulsory worship in non-faith schools proposed
Posted: Fri, 14 May 2021 A bill that would end a requirement to hold acts of collective worship in schools without a religious character in England is set to be presented […]
In France’s Military, Muslims Find a Tolerance That Is Elusive Elsewhere
In a nation wary of the growth of Islam, France’s military has embraced and integrated its Muslim soldiers by facilitating their religious practice. By Norimitsu Onishi and Constant MéheutJune 26, 2021, 5:00 a.m. ETLire […]
Military letter warns Macron against making ‘concession’ to Islamism
AFP Paris, France ● Mon, May 10, 2021 A group of serving French soldiers has published a new open letter in a conservative magazine warning President Emmanuel Macron […]
Sex abuse allegations pile up against Israeli rescue chief
Meshi-Zahav was once a member of a radical ultra-Orthodox sect that opposed Israel’s existence, believing a Jewish state could only be established after the arrival of the Messiah AP March […]
ANALYSIS: Has Macron succeeded in creating an ‘Islam for France’?
Source: The Local Three months ago, President Emmanuel Macron made a speech in the Paris suburbs in which he promised a law to combat radical, Islamic ‘separatism’ writes John Lichfield. […]
Coronavirus: The Great Disruption. Will religion post-Covid-19 be more personal, less communal?
By Mohammad Alami Musa For The Straits Times How will religion adapt to the pandemic? The answers to five key questions point to more individualism, and a new state-religion relationship […]
How the Battle of Gallipoli was hijacked by religion
Angels, Muslim saints, and soldiers disappearing into fluffy white clouds. The tour guides are rewriting history and the secularists are none too happy, Robert Fisk reports @indyvoices 11 hours ago […]
Conflict, corruption and sectarianism made Iraqis fustrated
Nov 06,2019 -JORDAN TIMES – MICHAEL JANSEN Mass protests against mismanagement, corruption and sectarian rule are gripping Iraq, a poor country which should be wealthy. The Organisation of the Petroleum […]
Parents’ Responsibilities to Safeguard Their Children’s Faith in a Secular Society
5th October 2019 Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad (aba), Worldwide Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community at Jalsa Salana (Annual Convention) France 2019. At the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community’s annual convention in […]
Opinion: Hindus and Muslims are no longer talking to each other in New India
Thursday, 22 August 2019 E- paper The fear that Muslim stakes in the political power structure are more tenuous than ever before needs to be addressed By Swapan Dasgupta Published […]
Theorizing about religion been one of the core areas inquiry in IR: Peter Haas
By Javad Heirannia International April 30, 2019 TEHRAN – Peter M. Haas, a professor of Political Science at the University of Massachusetts Amherst says that the crux of the argument […]
Bangladesh: Hefazat and the rise of bigotry
FEB 21 2019 SYED BADRUL AHSAN The demand for banishing Ahmadiyyas from Islam carries ugly echoes of the past, originating primarily in Pakistan. Photo: Mohd Firdaus Zulkefili — © […]
Why I’m starting a global campaign to remove religion from politics
The world’s leading powers have made grave mistakes when dealing with ideological conflicts, playing into the hands of extremists. That’s why it’s time for an international treaty to ban the […]
Beyond religious bigotry and secular freedom
Source: The News By Sher Ali Tareen, who is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Franklin and Marshall College in the U.S. He received his PhD from Duke University. stareen@fandm.edu […]
On the follies and failures of secular convictions-I
Sher Ali Tareen December 30, 2018 1 Comment Furthering the conversation around the interaction of religion, secular power, and minority suffering in Pakistan and beyond My mid-September essay in […]