Religious Right

Articles

• India: Challenging the links between the Prime Minister and far right organisations
  13 October 2015, by siawi3

  Women’s organisations and academics take Prime Minsiter to task, on the occasion of his visit to the UK : “We know that you yourself have been a life-long member of the RSS. We would like to remind you of some of the key themes of the ideology of the RSS and its sister organisations in the Hindutva fold, openly displayed in their leaders’ blatantly misogynistic and patriarchal remarks and frequent hate-filled pronouncements against women, Muslims, Dalits, Christians and Adivasis. Your own cabinet includes a number of ministers against whom criminal cases, including rape, are pending in various courts of the country. Do you approve of the hate crimes, patriarchal violence and misogyny perpetrated by the RSS and its affiliated organisations?”

• Add faithophobia to my crimes: I have no respect for religions that have little respect for me
  11 October 2015, by siawi3

  Now is a time to remember that tolerance has to be reciprocal or it is not tolerance at all. Crtiique is not blasphemy. There is much discussion of us and them, but the “them†are not simply or only Muslims. There are ultra-conservative forces at work at the moment, some deadly, and what they all share is an absolute refusal to give women agency and autonomy. So don’t ask me to have respect for these kinds of fundamentalism that have none for me.

• Israel-India’s alliance: Gods, Guns, and Country
  5 August 2019, by siawi3

  India and Israel’s strengthening bond seems symptomatic of the rise of far-right movements around the world—a trend characterized by strongman leaders who promote visions of a mythic past and a resurgent future, deriding pluralist democracy in favor of a nationalism centered on a singular ethnic majority.

• Total publie son premier « guide pratique » sur la religion au travail
  6 juillet 2017, par siawi3

  Alimentation, salles de prière, tenues vestimentaires : des conseils concrets pour les managers

• USA: Vindication for Planned Parenthood - Grand Jury Indicts Anti-Choice Zealots Who Produced Phony Planned Parenthood Videos
  30 January 2016, by siawi3

  Neither the videos nor the many investigations that followed have found any evidence that Planned Parenthood employees offered to sell fetal tissue for a profit. Texas is the 12^th state in which investigations stemming from the videos have found no wrongdoing by Planned Parenthood. A grand jury in Harris County, Tex., went a step further. Though it was convened to investigate Planned Parenthood, it indicted two members of the group that made the videos instead.

• UK: Second Kafir Comedy Night Hosted by Maha
  6 March 2014, by siawi3

  Look, we know it’s not easy defending yourself constantly against a religious mob. So take a break from the Facebook forums and let out the frustration with a laugh. If you’ve got some steam to let off, this is your night to do it.

• India: The story of three Bengali Muslim households which lost their men to lynching in 2017
  3 February 2018, by siawi3

  In June 2017, three Muslims were killed by a frenetic Hindu mob. The three men arrested for the lynching were released on bail after spending fifteen days in custody. Those who killed the three Muslim men, on 22 June, 2017 also filmed the entire incident. Ashin Mohammed came to know of his son’s demise through this video.

• A discussion of the report presented by the UN Special Rapporteur in the field of cultural rights
  31 October 2017, by siawi3

  With prominent speakers from India, USA, Myanmar, Poland, Pakistan, Bangladesh...

• Bangladesh: A matter of equality
  1 March 2018, by siawi3

  It’s been nearly 50 years since our constitution was written, and we’re still adhering to antiquated laws regarding inheritance under the Muslim Personal Law (Sharia) Act 1937, a colonial creation that sought to satisfy Muslim elites with the subtext that women are not equal to men. Equal rights for women in Bangladesh is the demand of the hour, which implies, the Muslim Personal Law (Sharia) Act 1937, as well as the discriminatory Hindu Succession Acts, have no place in the civilized country that Bangladesh is today. Sacrificing civil values to religious demand is not an obligation. The obligation is to uphold the core values of humanity- values such as human dignity, as well as principles of equality.

• Why Asma Jahangir was Pakistan’s social conscience
  16 February 2018, by siawi3

  For herself, there was no question of going anywhere. She stayed in Lahore right till the very end, fighting the good fight.

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