Freedom of Religion

Articles

• Indonesian Village Struggles With Ban on Muslim Sect
  16 June 2008
  (Published in: International Herald Tribune, June 11, 2008)
  MANIS LOR, Indonesia — A large sign spans the road just outside the main mosque in this quiet, well-kept village in West Java here reading, in big red letters, “Banned.†Residents  (...)
• Indonesia: Blasphemy law violates women’s rights
  19 April 2010, by siawi2
  Source: The Jakarta Post, Tuesday, April 20, 2010 04:05 AM http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2010/03/13/blasphemy-law-violates-women%E2%80%99s-rights-commission.html
  The law on blasphemy tramples on the rights of women, the National  (...)
• Religious persecution in Pakistan
  23 March 2014, by siawi3

  Blaise Pascal observed that “men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it for religious conviction†. His words could apply to Muslim-killing Hindus of Gujarat, 2002. Or to today’s Pakistan, where your religious affiliation—whether by birth or conviction—can land you in your grave. The 19^th section of the Pakistani Constitution says that freedom of speech and expression are “subject to any reasonable restrictions imposed by law in the interest of the glory of Islam†. It is not logically possible for a state based upon religion to treat all its citizens equally. Of course it may still be able and willing to tolerate and protect them. For now, watered down pluralism is the best that one can hope for.

• Recent Infringements of Shia Religious Freedom in Bahrain
  1 May 2010, by siawi2
  It has been reported that yesterday evening, the Security Forces (made of foreign mercenaries) raided a Shia mourning procession in Hamad Town[1], which has a mixture population of Shia and Sunnis. It has been customary for many generations that  (...)
• Algérie : Des intégristes armés font appliquer leurs interdits religieux.
  3 avril 2012, par siawi3

  Attaques au sabre contre des buveurs d’alcool

• At U.N., Islamic world questions West on free speech
  30 September 2012, by siawi3

  Warning that Islamophobia was becoming a new kind of racism akin to anti-Semitism, Foreign Ministers of member countries of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) adopted a declaration stating that the continuing instances of ‘intolerance, discrimination, profiling, negative stereotyping, stigmatisation, religious hatred and violence against Muslims as well as denigration of their religion, Prophet, Holy Book and symbols’’ were against international human rights norms and the principle of freedom of religions.

• Pakistani Muslims Form Human Chain To Protect Christians During Lahore Mass
  10 October 2013, by siawi3

  Standing in the small courtyard of St Anthony’s Church, as Mufti Mohammad Farooq delivered a sermon quoting a few verses of the Holy Quran that preached tolerance and respect for other beliefs, Father Nasir Gulfam stepped right next to him after having conducted a two hour long Sunday service inside the church. The two men stood should to shoulder, hand in hand as part of the human chain that was formed outside the church not just as a show of solidarity but also to send out a message, ‘One Nation, One Blood’.

• UK: Just Say No To Sharia Law
  25 November 2009, by siawi2
  Let us support the courageous Muslims who, often at great personal risk, are campaigning against religious extremism
  by Peter Tatchell
  guardian.co.uk, Thursday 19 November 2009
  This Saturday’s London rally against sharia law and all religious  (...)
• Blasphemy law, a shackle to the Indonesian people
  19 April 2010, by siawi2
  Source: The Jakarta Post, Tuesday, April 20, 2010
  http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2010/02/11/blasphemy-law-a-shackle-indonesian-people.html
  Indonesia, the third-largest democracy in the world, may be facing gloomy days ahead. In  (...)
• le voile face au concept d’égalité
  25 novembre 2009, par siawi2
  par R. von W., Avocat
  Le Monde, 19.11.09
  A lecture de l’article paru dans « Le Monde  » le 13 novembre 2009 concernant les fondements juridiques du projet d’interdiction de la burqa, je m’étonne en tant que juriste que le principe d’Egalité ne soit  (...)

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