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, by NSS (UK)
The Irish government has stopped Catholic primary schools and primary schools which have spare capacity from discriminating on religious grounds in admissions.
On Wednesday Ireland’s education minister, Richard Bruton, signed an order removing religion as a criterion which schools could use to (…)
, by TAJ Farhat
Mosque is organised like a church as access to a mosque is through membership-an idea clearly borrowed, out of economic consideration, from the Norwegian State-Church relationship.
The Norwegian-Pakistanis came as labour migrants in the late 1960’s and early 1970’s from certain specific (…)
, by SULEHRIA Farooq
The piece below was written for Weekly International (Stockholm) re Muhammad’s tasteless cartoons. A guy hardly known for his paintings who wanted some attention (he almost confessed it in a TV interview) who painted Muhammad as dog and sent these ’paintings’ to an exhibition in a small town in (…)
, by FAVRET-SAADA Jeanne
In 1989, the (Danish as well as European) Left massively supported Salman Rushdie, condemned to death by Ayatollah Khomeini for The Satanic Verses. In 2005, a large portion of the Left adopted an opposite position when a right-wing newspaper, the Jyllands-Posten, published twelve drawings (…)
, by FAVRET-SAADA Jeanne
Why was it in Denmark that the affair of the caricatures of Mohammed started? Is there a “Moslem community” there? If so, who are its self-proclaimed representatives? What effect has this crisis had on relations between Danes and their “Moslems”? And on relations between “Moslems” and their own (…)
, by Red-Green Alliance
The widespread protests against Denmark are an unmistakable sign that the political course of Denmark and the West must fundamentally change. The protests are to be seen in the context of the general political atmosphere, as well as of Western policy in the Muslim part of the world. The cartoons (…)
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