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Le Liban sera exposé tant que son système politique basé sur le confessionnalisme n’aura pas été réformé.
11 avril 2007Pendant la guerre de 1975-1990, chaque communauté du Liban a tenté d’avoir sa « période de gloire » dans la quête générale du pouvoir : les chrétiens en se rapprochant d’Israël, les sunnites et les druzes en défendant la cause palestinienne. Engagée en (...) -
Egypt : Leading woman novelist condemned for ‘insulting Islam’
29 March 2007Barely a week after an Egyptian blogger was sentenced to four years for inciting hatred towards Islam, the distinguished novelist Nawal El Saadawi faces similar threats from the country’s religious establishment. Jo Glanville reports.
Al Azhar, (...) -
Fundamentalists demand that Nepal be declared a Hindu State
28 March 2007Hindustan Times
DECLARE NEPAL A HINDU STATE, DEMAND RELIGIOUS LEADERS
by Rajesh Kumar Singh Gorakhpur, December 23, 2006
THE HINDU religious leaders (Dharmacharyas) on Saturday called for declaration of Nepal as Hindu state and restoration of (...) -
Muslims for Secular Democracy to meet in Bombay [October,1 -2, 2003]
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India: Independent People’s Tribunal on Fascism’s Rise and the Attack on the Secular State
28 March 2007MARCH 20-22, 2007 VENUE: INDIAN SOCIAL INSTITUTE, LODI ROAD INSTITUTIONAL AREA NEW DELHI
A. BACKGROUND
Jawaharlal Nehru about eighty years back had said that ’if fascism comes to India it will come in the form of communalism’. Most leaders and (...) -
An Open Letter to Ontario Premier Dalton Mcguinty
26 March 2007Dear Mr. McGuinty:
An important tenet of Canadian democracy hangs in the balance of your response to the matter of religious arbitration in the province of Ontario. While many Canadians may assume that we are all governed by one system of laws, (...) -
Don’t succumb to imams, rabbis, and priests
25 March 2007In 1991, as the full impact of a recession hit the NDP government in Ontario, it explored all avenues to cut costs. Budgets were slashed and many promises, such as public auto insurance, fell by the wayside. However, one cost-cutting initiative (...) -
USA: A Country Ruled by Faith
23 March 2007The right wing in America likes to think that the United States government was, at its inception, highly religious, specifically highly Christian, and even more specifically highly biblical. That was not true of that government or any later (...)