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• Turkey: Science State Council halts publication of evolution books
  25 January 2013, by siawi3

  The evolutionist books have long been listed as “out of stock†on TÃœBÄ°TAK’s website, but their further publication are now slated to be stopped permanently.

• Timbuktu mayor: Mali rebels torched library of ancient manuscripts
  31 January 2013, by siawi3

  Islamist insurgents retreating from the ancient Saharan city of Timbuktu have set fire to a library containing thousands of priceless ancient manuscripts, some dating back to the 13^th century, in what the town’s mayor described as a “devastating blow” to world heritage.
  The Ahmed Baba Center that was burned contains 40,000 historical manuscripts: ’This is a crime against Islamic history itself’...

• Mali Islamists Torch 20,000 Timbuktu Books
  30 January 2013, by siawi3

  The Ahmed Baba Institute, one of several libraries and collections in the city containing fragile ancient documents dating back to the 13^th century, is named after a Timbuktu-born contemporary of William Shakespeare and houses more than 20,000 scholarly manuscripts. Some were stored in underground vaults.
  Fighters from the Islamist alliance in north Mali, which groups AQIM with Malian Islamist group Ansar Dine and AQIM splinter MUJWA, had also destroyed ancient shrines sacred to moderate Sufi Moslems, provoking international outrage.

• Canada : Hidjab et politique - Le courage des uns et des autres
  5 October 2011, by siawi3

  ils rappellent les origines culturelles, plutôt que religieuses, du hijab et s’inquiètent de voir la version égyptienne et saoudienne de ce vêtement s’imposer, depuis quelques décennies et sous l’influence des islamistes et des musulmans orthodoxes, comme le symbole de la piété et de l’identité musulmane

• World’s Leading Authors: State Surveillance is Theft
  18 December 2013, by siawi3

  More than 500 of the world’s leading authors, including five Nobel prize winners, have condemned the scale of state surveillance revealed by the whistleblower Edward Snowden and warned that spy agencies are undermining democracy and must be curbed by a new international charter.

• France : Pour Eschyle (et contre les entraves aux échanges re-baptisés « appropriation culturelle »)
  10 avril 2019, par siawi3

  « Le theÌ aÌ‚tre est le lieu de la meÌ tamorphose, pas le refuge des identiteÌ s.  »

• In Defense of Pete Seeger, American Communist
  4 February 2014, by siawi3

  When the legendary folk singer Pete Seeger died Monday at the age of 94, remembrances of him, unsurprisingly, focused less on his music than on his social activism. All the better - Seeger, the epitome of tireless commitment to “the cause,” would have liked it that way. Stateside Communists were the underdogs, fighting the establishment for justice - the victims of censorship and police repression, not its perpetrators.

• Ultraconservative Salafists Destroy Sufi Landmarks in Libya
  5 September 2012, by siawi3

  A wave of bombings of historic mosques and shrines by ultraconservative Salafists has the postrevolution Libyan government fuming.

• Les pamphlets antisémites de Céline réédités au Québec
  6 septembre 2012, par siawi3

  Les éditions québécoise Huit vont publier prochainement les pamphlets antisémites de Louis-Ferdinand Céline, dont la réédition est interdite en France depuis la fin de la Seconde Guerre mondiale.

• Egypt: Security Forces Destroy Alexandria’s Historic Book Market ( Global Voices online)
  15 September 2012, by siawi

  Egyptians woke up this morning to the news of the destruction of bookshops on pavements along Prophet Danial’s street in Alexandria by the Ministry of Interior. The raid, at dawn, left netizens angry with the Muslim Brotherhood, which they claim is waging a war on culture.

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