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Published in: Global Extremes: OpinionGood religion or bad religion? Secularism and the Afghan questionEmpowering religious groups to become political actors does not constitute freedom of religion for all and violates...
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Published in: Global Extremes: OpinionReligion and the state: unintended effects of anti-radicalisation policiesEuropean governments’ anti-radicalisation policies may threaten the relationship between the citizen and the state
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Published in: Global ExtremesIs religious fervor compatible with democracy?If one believes that democracy is an abomination and against God’s rule, one may not even ponder it.
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Published in: Global ExtremesEurope must open up to new ideas about the secular stateWith the recent fallout between France and some Muslim nations, this is a reminder to open up to alternative solutions.
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Published in: 50.50Has rape become a weapon to silence atheists in Bangladesh?“There is no place for me in Bangladesh," says a young woman blogger who fled the south Asian country in 2017...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaThe battle between Syrian secular activists and feminists: we all loseYet another pushback for Syrian women to leave the public spaces for the powerful men who behave as if these spaces...
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Published in: 50.5070 years after partition: is India, like Pakistan, turning to religious extremism?Pakistani director Sabiha Sumar's brave new documentary, Azmaish, looks at retreats from liberal democracy on both...
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Published in: 50.50The right to blasphemy: is this the boundary between civilisation and barbarism?Former Charlie Hebdo journalist Zineb El Rhazoui collects fatwas like badges of honour. Her recent book outlines...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaFor a secular interpretation of prophethoodThe conception of secularism has developed in a prolonged and convoluted historical path and has been so diversified...
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Published in: 50.50“I don’t want to die because I’m an atheist”: ex-Muslims speak outIn the UK and beyond, filmmaker Deeyah Khan has documented the experiences of ex-Muslims and the “extraordinary...
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Published in: 50.50Where is the line between Islam and Islamism?A recent conference on freedom of expression threw up issues around relationships between ex-Muslims and reformist...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaLebanese model an improvable precondition to prevent authoritarianismThe model of Lebanon is indicative of the importance of state weakness, which is possibly a necessary stage for...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaOn the duality of laicism and dictatorship and the rise of political IslamIs there another outlet or framework in the Arab world outside the dichotomy of Islamism or nationalism? [عربي]
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Published in: 50.50'Faith and family': shrinking common ground at the UN CSWThe Worldwide Organization for Women took a hard line against all forms of comprehensive sexual education, often...
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Published in: 50.50Sharia, security and the church: dangers of the British Home Office InquiryDoes the UK’s Sharia Review resemble the sharia ‘courts’: secretive procedures and discriminatory advisors? Are the...
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Published in: 50.50Feminist Dissent: why a new journal on gender and fundamentalism?The journal Feminist Dissent creates a space to interrogate the multi-faceted links between historical and resurgent...
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Published in: 50.50Who are they, these revolutionary Rojava women?Meredith Tax just had to find out who they were - the revolutionary women of Rojava, bearing arms against ISIS,...
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Published in: 50.50Whitewashing Sharia councils in the UK?In an Open Letter to Theresa May, hundreds of women’s human rights organisations and campaigners warn against a...
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Published in: 50.50Furthering freedom of religion and belief in Muslim-majority countriesBallot boxes before a culture of toleration for diversity of beliefs takes root in the minds of people can make...
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Published in: 50.50Preventing violent extremism: a noose that is both too tight and too looseThe British government's programme to counter violent extremism hands religious fundamentalists the gift of a...
