Multiculturalism

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• U.K. 85 Islamic sharia courts now operating
  16 May 2010, by siawi2
  Tuesday, 30 June 2009 02:36 The Daily Mail
  At least 85 Islamic sharia courts are operating in Britain, a study claimed yesterday. The astonishing figure is 17 times higher than previously accepted.
  The tribunals, working mainly from mosques,  (...)
• France: la République Laïque cautionne la formation des imams
  16 May 2010, by siawi2
  Source: La Croix
  11/05/2010 17:23
  Eric Besson annonce l’extension de la formation d’imams
  Le ministre de l’intégration s’est rendu mardi 11 mai à l’Institut catholique de Paris pour rencontrer les responsables et les diplômés du cycle de cours «  (...)
• Québec: Letter: Bravo to Fatima Houda-Pepin
  25 January 2014, by siawi3

  For standing for secularism and for the rights of women against far-right forces disguised as religious, Deputee Houda Pepin had to leave the Liberal party that she served for 20 years.
  Houda-Pepin has illustrated great and unfailing courage by choosing her deepest beliefs over the party line. Bravo!

• Malaysia: Christians allowed to use the word ’Allah’ for ’God’
  9 January 2010, by siawi2
  Source: http://www.malaysiakini.com/news/120891 Court declares ’Allah’ ban invalid
  Hazlan Zakaria
  Dec 31, 09
  In a landmark judgment, the Kuala Lumpur High Court presented the Catholic Church a belated Christmas present by ruling that the home  (...)
• UK: Is faith based agenda compatible with minority women’s rights
  16 April 2010, by siawi2
  Thursday 13^th May 5.00-6.30pm,
  In collaboration with SOAS Centre for Gender Studies
  Pragna Patel, Director of Southall Black Sisters
  “Cohesion, Faith and Gender: Is the cohesion and faith based agenda compatible with gender equality for  (...)
• Musique. Faraj Suleiman, un air de jazz venu de Galilée
  9 mars 2019, par siawi3

  En concert le 10 mars. « Ce que je veux, c’est que le piano devienne un instrument palestinien. »

• Belgique: interdiction totale de la burqa ?
  7 April 2010, by siawi2
  Source : France Info - 12:51 31 mars 2010
  Pour être entérinée, l’interdiction totale de la burqa en Belgique, y compris dans la rue, doit maintenant faire l’objet d’un vote en séance. Il pourrait intervenir dans quelques semaines. La Belgique serait  (...)
• Multiculturalism & the Illusion of Diversity
  1 November 2016, by siawi3

  As any LGBTI person born in the West before 1975 or in a Muslim-majority country today knows, culture can be a form of oppression or captivity. A large part of what culture involves is socialisation. Even as multiculturalism’s Western European or American defenders rage against patriarchal constructions of gender in their own cultures, they simultaneously defend very similar religious constructions of gender in minority cultures. Unless socialisation is grounded in free, informed choice (rarely the case in religious indoctrination), then it amounts to an assault on personal autonomy, and becomes what traditional liberals have called ‘a tyranny of the majority’. Liberal states secure the individual’s liberty (freedom from coercion by others) to pursue goals that are genuinely his own.

• UK: A play about ’mixed marriages’: Winning the coconut
  13 April 2018, by siawi3

  Interracial and interfaith relationships are still taboos around these in South Asian and Muslim cultures. Whilst these relationships might be taboo, plenty of people are choosing to follow through with them. Whilst previously South Asians might have dated non-Asians in secret, now there is a greater confidence in being able to ‘come out’ to parents and have the partnership accepted.

• AI (continued)- ’Soft law’ and hard choices: a conversation with Gita Sahgal
  19 April 2010, by siawi2
  by Deniz Kandiyoti, 19 April 2010
  In the first of a two-part conversation, Deniz Kandiyoti and Gita Sahgal explore the challenges posed by the international conjuncture following the “war on terror” for gender justice and women’s rights.
  DK: We  (...)

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