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Human Rights Council resolution on blasphemy2010-03-30
Reporters without Borders
Reporters Without Borders is extremely concerned by a resolution condemning #defamation of religions# which the United Nations Human Rights Council adopted on 25 March.
IFJ Backs Indian Calls for "Peace and Tolerance" in Media Reports of Religious Dispute2010-09-30
International Federation of Journalists
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today called for journalists to play their part in keeping the peace in India where there are fears of community violence in a long-running religious ...
Indonesia: light sentences for deadly attack threaten religious tolerance2011-08-01
Article 19
An Indoensian court sentenced 12 Islamist militants to three to six months imprisonment yesterday for the attack on members of the Ahmadiyah minority group in Cikeusik last February, which resulted in...
Making blasphemy an offence takes Europe back several centuries2010-01-04
Reporters without Borders
Reporters Without Borders condemns #with the utmost firmness# a new defamation law in Ireland that establishes blasphemy as an offence punishable by a fine of up to 25,000 euros. The law took effect o...
23 IFEX members and other organisations raise concerns about proposed mechanisms to combat racial and religious intolerance2009-10-22
International Freedom of Expression Exchange
23 IFEX members and other organisations raise concerns about proposed mechanisms to combat racial and religious intolerance.
A year after Charlie, RSF warns against "religious correctness"2016-01-11
Reporters Without Borders
On the eve of the first anniversary of the Charlie Hebdo tragedy in Paris and amid controversy about the satirical weekly's latest cover, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) cautions against the insidious...
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Anti-Christian violence in IndiaWikipedia articles
Article
Wikipedia
Anti-Christian violence in India refers to religiously motivated violence against Christians in India, usually perpetrated by Hindu nationalists. The acts of violence include arson of churches, re-con...
Atheist blogger hacked to death with machetes in Dhaka, BangladeshArticle
2015
CBC news
Machete-wielding assailants hacked to death a blogger in the Bangladeshi capital of Dhaka, in the latest of a series of attacks on writers who support freethinking values in the Muslim-majority nation...
Bangladesh and the shrinking space for free thinkers: 'Don't call me Muslim, I am an atheist'Taslima, Nasreen
Article
2015
Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
Writer Taslima Nasreen fled Bangladesh in 1994 when extremists threatened to kill her for criticizing Islam, and has been living in exile since. Her country has, in recent times, seen many intellectua...
Buddhist Pogropms and Religious ConflictsMalik, Kenan
Article
2013
Pandaemonium
Most observers would, rightly, reject the idea that there is something inherent in Buddhism that has led to the violence. Rather, most would recognize that the anti-Muslim violence in both Myanmar and...
Connexions Library: Race, Racism, Ethnicity, Multiculturalism FocusWebsite
2009
Connexions Information Sharing Services
Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on race, racism, ethnicity, multiculturalism, identity.
Connexions Library: Religion FocusWebsite
2009
Connexions Information Sharing Services
Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on religion.
DevsirmeWikipedia article
Article
Devsirme (literally collecting in Turkish) was chiefly the practice by which the Ottoman Empire took sons from their Balkan Christian every year. They were then converted to Islam with the primary obj...
Exhuming history: censored Jewish text brought to light by Library and Archives CanadaAbma, Sandra
Article
2016
CBC
Words that were once lost to history have been brought into the light by book conservationists at Library and Archives Canada. The 16th-century collection of sermons were by a rabbi and philosopher wh...
Human Rights Council resolution on blasphemySources News Release
Article
2010
Reporters without Borders
Reporters Without Borders is extremely concerned by a resolution condemning #defamation of religions# which the United Nations Human Rights Council adopted on 25 March.
IFJ Backs Indian Calls for "Peace and Tolerance" in Media Reports of Religious DisputeSources News Release
Article
2010
International Federation of Journalists
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today called for journalists to play their part in keeping the peace in India where there are fears of community violence in a long-running religious ...
Making blasphemy an offence takes Europe back several centuriesSources News Release
Article
2010
Reporters without Borders
Reporters Without Borders condemns #with the utmost firmness# a new defamation law in Ireland that establishes blasphemy as an offence punishable by a fine of up to 25,000 euros. The law took effect o...
A Marxist History of the World part 31: Crusade and JihadFaulkner, Neil
Article
2011
Counterfire
The Crusades lasted 200 years and represented the most extreme expression of the futile violence inherent in western feudalism - a murderous attack on the Middle East by western feudal thugs under the...
A Marxist History of the World part 37: The Counter-ReformationFaulkner, Neil
Article
2011
Counterfire
Neil Faulkner looks at how the Reformation was followed by a counter-revolutionary response which involved a dogmatic reassertion of Catholic orthodoxy: the Counter-Reformation.
On Buddhist FundamentalismHollywood, Please Take Note
Ali, Tariq
Article
2013
Counter Punch
Four years after the brutal assault on the Tamil population and the killing of between 8—10,000 Tamils by the Sri Lankan army, there is trouble again. The saffron-robed fanatics, led by the BBS — Bodu...
Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - October 15, 2016Lurching to War
Diemer, Ulli (ed.)
Serial Publication (Periodical)
2016
Connexions
The risk of nuclear war is as great now as it was at the height of the Cold War. From the time the Warsaw Pact dissolved itself and the Soviet Union collapsed, the United States has single-mindedly pu...
Religious persecutionSources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Article
Religious persecution is the systematic mistreatment of an individual or group of individuals as a response to their religious beliefs or affiliations. The tendency of societies or groups within socie...
St. Bartholomew's Day massacreSources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Article
A wave of Roman Catholic mob violence, directed against the Huguenots (French Calvinist Protestants).
The St. Petersburg DeclarationArticle
2007
We are secular Muslims, and secular persons of Muslim societies. We are believers, doubters, and unbelievers, brought together by a great struggle, not between the West and Islam, but between the free...
Syrian Minority Fear the End of Fighting More Than War ItselfPersecution of the Christians
Cockburn, Patrick
Article
2012
CounterPunch
If the opposition National Coalition, recognised by 130 countries as the legitimate government of Syria, does ultimately take power then its most effective fighting force will be Jadhat al-Nusra, with...
Terror in a Christmas Tree Israel Tries to Ban Non-Jewish Celebrations
Cook, Jonathan
Article
2012
CounterPunch
Who would imagine that Israeli Jews could be so intimidated by the innocuous Christmas tree?
23 IFEX members and other organisations raise concerns about proposed mechanisms to combat racial and religious intoleranceSources News Release
Article
2009
International Freedom of Expression Exchange
23 IFEX members and other organisations raise concerns about proposed mechanisms to combat racial and religious intolerance.
A year after Charlie, RSF warns against "religious correctness"Sources News Release
Article
2016
Reporters Without Borders
On the eve of the first anniversary of the Charlie Hebdo tragedy in Paris and amid controversy about the satirical weekly's latest cover, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) cautions against the insidious...
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