Upholding true faith: A wake-up call for Muslims
Upholding true faith: A wake-up call for Ahmadi Muslims 27th April 2024 Editor’s Note. In the headline I omitted the word ‘Ahmadi’ as of course this really addresses all Muslims, […]
French schools’ ban on abayas and headscarves is supposedly about secularism − but it sends a powerful message about who ‘belongs’ in French culture
September 29, 2023 Surel Twitter Facebook81 LinkedIn Cetak France’s decision to ban public school students from wearing the abaya – a long dress or robe popular among women in certain Muslim cultures […]
Observers of France’s abaya ban should look to Britain for a sensible example
The UK seems to understand that coercion is counter-productive in a multi-faith society H A HELLYER RIM-SARAH ALOUANE The recent banning of the abaya in France’s public schools has become the new […]
Don’t tell women what to wear, UN says after France bans hijab at Olympics
UPDATED 2 HOURS AGO FacebookTwitter GENEVA – The United Nations stressed on Tuesday it was opposed to most dress codes for women, after France barred its Olympic athletes from wearing […]
‘Religion more likely to result in conflicts than in peace’
This content was published on October 27, 2014 – swissinfo.ch and agencies The Swiss continue to distance themselves from organised religion, with religious communities forced to compete with secular leisure […]
France abaya ban: ‘How far will clothes police go?’
To enforce the ban on the robes in classrooms, 14,000 educational personnel will be trained by the end of the year and 300,000 by 2025. Video Duration 01 minutes 34 seconds01:34 […]
Why the new French secularism is no longer exportable
Sari Hanafi 3 August 2023 Despite the merits of ‘historical secularism’ promoted by France around the world, the exclusionary and divisive character of the ‘new secularism’ has undermined its universality […]
Forgotten histories
Forgotten histories Arifa Noor Published July 11, 2023 IT turns out this Eid, many people of Pakistan didn’t just have their hands full with animals and qurbani or other festive chores. A report in Dawn claimed […]
France: Veiled Muslim women and the politics of the new secularism
Hanane Karimi 19 June 2023 The alliances created to protect the French hegemonic order, in particular between feminist groups and political groups, despise the ‘bad’ feminity of the veil Women […]
Malaysia’s Grim Islamic Future
POLITICS Politics, not religion, are responsible for this tragedy JUN 16, 2023 By: Dennis Ignatius A modern, moderate Southeast Asian nation of 34 million people with a healthy ethnic minority […]
In France, Secularism Is a Justification for Discrimination Against Muslims
Story by Audrey Pettit • Tuesday Growing up in the US, I admired France’s secular vision of social democracy. But teaching in Lyon’s working-class suburbs taught me that, in practice, laïcité is […]
Substitute meals for religion not against secularism: French court
BY ANADOLU AGENCY ANKARA FEB 02, 2023 DAILY SABAH School children on a field trip to picnic at the Luxembourg Palace and Gardens, a popular and historic park in the Montparnasse […]
French interior minister Gerald Darmanin under fire for ‘happy Ramadan’ tweet
World The New Arab Staff 03 April, 2022 Darmanin’s Ramadan greeting drew ire from Muslims and non-Muslims alike. French interior minister Gerald Darmanin has come under fire for a tweet in which he conveyed Ramadan greetings […]
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, […]
With the French elections on the horizon, who do France’s Muslim community turn to?
Ali Al-Enazi 10 February, 2022 As the 2022 French elections draw closer, the main candidates have each shown varying degrees of Islamophobia and antagonism towards France’s Muslim community. Who are […]
Indonesia mosque attack is a reminder that Ahmadi Muslims’ human rights need defending
Posted: Thu, 09 Sep 2021 by Kunwar Khuldune Shahid After a mob attacked an Ahmadi Muslim mosque in Indonesia and anti-Ahmadi rallies took place in Pakistan, Kunwar Khuldune Shahid says the failure […]
Individual freedoms exist at the core of Muslim theology
Berrin Sönmez bsonmez@gazeteduvar.com.tr The principle of laicism has existed in the Turkish constitution since the early days of the Republic. However, recently, the Chief Imam of the Ayasofya Mosque, Mehmet […]
Dinesh Trivedi exclusive: Words like secularism are irrelevant in India
Former TMC leader and MP tells Gulf News the party he helped found has lost its soul Published: February 17, 2021 10:00 Sheela Bhatt, Special to Gulf New Dinesh Trivedi […]
France: Commission approves bill targeting Muslims
Bill introduced by French president to fight so-called Islamist separatism Alaattin Dogru | 24.01.2021 PARIS A special commission in the French National Assembly approved the “charter of republican values” which […]
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. […]