BBC The Austrian parliament has passed controversial reforms to the country’s century-old law on Islam. The bill, which is partly aimed at tackling Islamist radicalism, gives Muslims more legal security but bans foreign funding for mosques and imams. Austria’s Integration Minister, Sebastian Kurz, defended the reforms but Muslim […]
Reuters More than 1000 Muslims formed a human shield around Oslo’s synagogue on Saturday, offering symbolic protection for the city’s Jewish community and condemning an attack on a synagogue in neighboring Denmark last weekend. Chanting “No to anti-Semitism, no to Islamophobia,” Norway’s Muslims formed what they called a […]
The atheist in question was a fan of both Richard Dawkins and Sam Harris. Will all atheists be required to now stand up and condemn this man, as well as being collectively held responsible, as would be the case if the shooter-terrorist happened to be a Muslim? The […]
VOX Whenever the subject of Islamist terrorism comes up, the national conversation almost always circles back to a somewhat bigoted question: are Muslims more violent than other kinds of people because of their religion? What these conversations usually lack is data; that is, evidence that Muslim societies are […]
Many are starting to pick up on the double standards concerning the supposed ‘free speech’ in France. Associated Press When cartoonists at a French publication that had poked fun at the Prophet Muhammad were shot dead, millions around the world felt it as an attack on freedom of […]
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