Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
, by HOBSON Theo
If a secularist revolution were to emerge in Britain, where would it start? London is too pragmatic to care about such an earnest cause – you can’t imagine Boris picking a fight with a bishop. What about the Oxford of Dawkins and Pullman? No: the whiff of royalism and incense lingers in that (…)
, by DEBOICK Sophia
Supporters of creationism in Northern Ireland are abusing the language of rights and equality in order to gain a foothold.
Last month Nelson McCausland , DUP assembly member and Northern Ireland culture minister, wrote to the trustees of National Museums Northern Ireland about how “to ensure (…)
, by HELIE LUCAS Marieme
A South-North Transfer of Political Competence: Women of migrant Muslim descent champion secularism in France.
This article first gives an overview of migration in France – specifically from Muslim countries – and discusses the social and political context in which Muslim fundamentalists (…)
, by Radical Socialist (India)
In country after country in Europe, political forces ranging from liberals (Belgium) to the openly right wing (Sarkozy in France, the Northern League in Italy) have been initiating actions to ban Muslim women from wearing the veil, or seeking punishment for those wearing it. The Netherlands and (…)
, by SHEHRBANO ZIA Afiya
In a world where there are such chronic class and gendered inequalities, it is disappointing that socialist and feminist debates have been reduced to repeat discussions on a few yards of cloth - that is, the veil. Some publications choose to embellish the description by adding ’Islamic’ to the (…)
, by GUPTA Rahila
None of the main political party manifestos tackle the encroachment of religion on our society. As more and more public spaces are devoured by religious interests creating particular problems for women, Rahila Gupta argues that it is time to end state funding of religion and faith based (…)
, by CLARKSON Frederick
A veteran analyst of right-wing militancy notices a creeping maturity in the media’s ability to talk about the religious elements of terrorism—even when it’s Christian.
The arrest of the Michigan-based Hutaree Militia has drawn worldwide attention, and in so doing surfaced one of the (…)
, by BERLET Chip
Christian Soldiers of the Apocalypse have been running around the woods of Michigan planning attacks on federal law enforcement in their war against the Antichrist. How does the Hutaree Militia fit into the history of American militias and conspiracy theorists?
On Monday, the nine members of (…)
, by Reporters sans frontières (RSF)
Reporters Without Borders is extremely concerned by a resolution condemning “defamation of religions” which the United Nations Human Rights Council adopted on 25 March. It was submitted by Pakistan on behalf of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC).
“Under the pretext of trying to (…)
, by SUROOR Hasan
Can religious bodies claim a privileged status and demand exemption from secular laws, especially those intended to prevent discrimination?
While across the Channel in France secularists are on the march and busy banning any hint of religiosity in public, in Britain the wind appears to (…)
, by BATOU Jean
“A century after the date when Muhammad, an obscure camel driver, had begun to gather around him in his house a few poor Meccans, his successors dominated the approaches of the Loire and the lands beyond the Indus, from Poitiers to Samarkand”. ... from now on, Islam – which was then the ideology (…)
, by International Bureau for Laicite
Press Release
9 December 2009
A wide number of non governmental organizations and individuals from across Asia, Africa, Europe and the Americas have signed a common public statement affirming the nefarious role of fundamentalist politics and the need to counter it internationally.
This (…)
, by DAVIES Lizzy
As the piano strikes up, the congregation sways, palms to the ceiling, fists in the air, murmurs of hallelujah punctuating the music. Pastor Franck Lefillatre, besuited and bathed in the spotlight on his podium, intones into a microphone.
“Let out the words that are in your heart,” he urges. (…)
, par BOTERO Catalina, HARASZTI Miklos, LaRUE Frank , TLAKULA Faith Pansy
We are publishing below three articles and documents on the concerns raised by the growing trend for criminalising criticism of religion.
IN GOD’SNAME Miklos Haraszti
The growing trend for criminalising criticism of religion is a declaration of war on freedom of speech, says Miklos (…)
, by POLLITT Katha
I thought President Obama’s Cairo speech was basically fine: begin anew, extend the hand, reject “crude stereotypes” all around, turn the page on the Christian triumphalism of the Bush years. But there’s no denying that the section on women’s rights was rather minimal, just three paragraphs, (…)
, by HELIE LUCAS Marieme
It is beyond doubt that many people around the world, of various political opinions and creeds, will feel relieved after the discourse the President of the USA delivered in Cairo today. It is apparently a new voice, a voice of peace, quite far from Bush’s clash of civilisations. But is it so? (…)
, by BENNOUNE Karima
While President Barack Hussein Obama clearly aimed to strike a blow against Islamic extremism with his speech in Cairo today, it often seemed that he was actually capitulating to parts of the social agenda of those very movements to do so. Perhaps more than anything else, his address was a stark (…)
, by WLUML
The Women Living Under Muslim Laws (WLUML) international solidarity network is deeply concerned about the United Nations Resolution on ‘Combating defamation of religions’. On 18 December 2007, the UN General Assembly adopted this resolution recommended by its Third Committee (Social, (…)
, by AMIN Samir, AMIN-KHAN Tariq
In December 2007, the Monthly Review published an article of Samir Amin on political Islam. In March 2009, it published a critique by Tariq Amin-Khan and Samir Amin’s answer.
On ESSF, Samir Amin original article on political Islam, is available at: Political Islam in the Service of (…)
, by Reporters sans frontières (RSF)
In the resolution it adopted yesterday on the defamation of religions, the United Nations Human Rights Council has yet again demonstrated its inability to defend the values enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Reporters Without Borders said.
“The Council had just dealt a (…)
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