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• Revolution - The Islamist challenge to secular Bangladesh
  21 May 2007
  The headquarters of Al-Markazul Islami, an Islamic organization in Bangladesh, is a single tower whose frosted green windows rise several stories above the coconut trees and rooftops of Muhammadpur, a neighborhood in central Dhaka. Below, in the  (...)
• Brésil : Le Pape au Brésil condamne l’avortement, le préservatif et l’euthanasie
  18 May 2007
  C’est en souhaitant que l’Eglise latino-américaine impulse le respect de la vie, “ depuis sa conception jusqu’à son déclin naturel ”, que Benoît XVI effectue sa première visite en Amérique latine. Tandis que l’opus dei en la personne de Mgr Echevarria*  (...)
• Fears for Democracy in India
  18 May 2007
  On February 27, 2002, the Sabarmati express train arrived in the station of Godhra, in the state of Gujarat, bearing a large group of Hindu pilgrims who were returning from a trip to the purported birthplace of the god Rama at Ayodhya (where,  (...)
• Pakistan: Pandering To Extremists Fuels Persecution Of Ahmadis
  17 May 2007
  (New York, May 6, 2007) — The Pakistani government should stop pandering to Islamist extremist groups that foment harassment and violence against the minority Ahmadiyya religious community, Human Rights Watch said today.
  Human Rights Watch  (...)
• Bangladesh: Rising Number of Fatwa Victims
  14 May 2007
  A survey by Bangladesh Mahila Parishad reveals that the number of victims of fatwa is on the rise. Over the last four months alone, 50 women in seven districts fell victim to the obscurantist religious decree. Needless to mention, the  (...)
• AL Shoots Itself In The Foot
  14 May 2007
  What a tribute the Awami League has paid to the martyrs of the Liberation War in the very month of our victory. There was perhaps no better way to ’honour’ the intellectuals who were brutally killed on 13^th of December, 1971 for a modern,  (...)
• An Open Letter To Awami League General Secretary Abdul Jalil
  14 May 2007
  Dear Mr Abdul Jalil:
  Ever since this morning, I am feeling very sick to my stomach. I feel like vomiting all day.
  It is not because of something I ate but it is because something you did, which is proving very hard to digest. You left us, who  (...)
• Pakistan: Employ extremism, die by it
  14 May 2007
  (Source: Daily Times, May 14, 2007)
  Pakistan’s military and political leadership have not behaved differently from each other in using religion to win greater political legitimacy. In fact, most leaders tend to revert to religion and religious  (...)
• Protect the rights of artists from religious fundamentalists
  14 May 2007

  India’s artists up in arms against the arrest of an art student in Gujarat, accused by the Hindu right of making offensive paintings

• Painting the art world red
  14 May 2007
  (Source : Hindustan Times, May 13, 2007)
  The outrageous arrest of Chandramohan, a final-year fine arts student at the Maharaja Sayajirao University, Baroda, on May 9, has confirmed that the only right that is taken seriously in India today is  (...)

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