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- Swiss anti-Islam vote draws protests from Jews and Christians 8 Dec 2009 20:14 GMT
... anti-Islam vote draws protests from Jews and Christians Poster in Zurich backing the referendum banning ... those crying foul. Jewish organizations have joined Muslims, the Vatican and other groups in warning ... of mosque minarets could fuel hatred, jeopardize religious freedom and further polarize an already divided ...
- "The irrational fear of Islam has struck once again in Europe," said the French Libération newspaper in an editorial headed "Absurd". 30 Nov 2009 13:31 GMT
... far right, widespread hatred and fear of Islam – apply just as much to other ... yet satisfactorily regulated its relations with the Muslim religion," says Libération. The paper believes the only ...
- Cardinal Foley on Christians in the Holy Land 7 Dec 2009 22:36 GMT
... > See information Cardinal Foley on Christians in the Holy Land "A Source of ... also to other Catholic, ecumenical and indeed interreligious initiatives in the area made up of ... Jews in Israel and the very strong Muslims throughout the region have a much higher ...
- Jews and Christians Protest Swiss Anti-Islam Vote 8 Dec 2009 17:55 GMT
... voters may have been taking aim at Islam, but Jewish and Catholic leaders are among ... those crying foul. Jewish organizations have joined Muslims, the Vatican and other groups in warning ... of mosque minarets could fuel hatred, jeopardize religious freedom and further polarize an already divided ...
- Sunday Forum: Jewish history, Muslim reality (12/06/2009) 8 Dec 2009 09:35 GMT
... Europeans try to coerce the assimilation of Muslims, they draw on methods once employed against ... In the last decade, as the global Islamic community has gone through convulsions, this has ... decrees regulating Jewish life. First, the Jewish religion would be organized into a series of ...
- Europe's problem with Islam 30 Nov 2009 16:42 GMT
... indicative of what they perceive as a Muslim tendency to oppress women. Although the Swiss ... cultural conflicts in Europe has been over religion and secularism, an obvious example of which ... this argument accepted that this was about Christianity and its role in the state. The ...
- Sunday Forum: Jewish history, Muslim reality (Yesterday) 7 Dec 2009 06:11 GMT
... Europeans try to coerce the assimilation of Muslims, they draw on methods once employed against ... In the last decade, as the global Islamic community has gone through convulsions, this has ... decrees regulating Jewish life. First, the Jewish religion would be organized into a series of ...
- Jewish history, Muslim reality 7 Dec 2009 23:42 GMT
... Europeans try to coerce the assimilation of Muslims, they draw on methods once employed against ... In the last decade, as the global Islamic community has gone through convulsions, this has ... decrees regulating Jewish life. First, the Jewish religion would be organized into a series of ...
- Sunday Forum: Jewish history, Muslim reality (Today) 6 Dec 2009 09:45 GMT
... Europeans try to coerce the assimilation of Muslims, they draw on methods once employed against ... In the last decade, as the global Islamic community has gone through convulsions, this has ... decrees regulating Jewish life. First, the Jewish religion would be organized into a series of ...
- Islam and Switzerland: The return of the nativists 8 Dec 2009 18:44 GMT
... decent, right-thinking people, the sort who think religions can rub along together. To the shock ... of the Islamic Conference (which groups 57 Muslim countries), the citizens of Switzerland voted by ... for clinging stubbornly to the remnants of Christian theocracy, the referendum on November 29th was ...
- Jews Back Muslims On Swiss Minaret Ban 4 Dec 2009 07:13 GMT
... Jews Back Muslims On Swiss Minaret Ban (RTTNews) - Some ... move was unjustifiable and a case of religious discrimination. The Alpine country Sunday voted by ... right-wing parties regard as symbols of militant Islam. David Harris of the American Jewish Committee ...
- The Islamic Divide at Work: Advice for French Bosses 7 Dec 2009 10:12 GMT
... on full-body coverings like a burqa. And Muslims in multicultural Britain have also repeatedly accused ... to work out solutions to living with religious differences in Europe. Take a recent book ... from Muslim workers than with those from Christian, Jewish or Buddhist staff. "Evaluate Mona as ...
- Study: Anti-Semitism, Homophobia on Rise in Europe 7 Dec 2009 20:56 GMT
... Study: Anti-Semitism, Homophobia on Rise in Europe Anti-Semitism ... study, released Sunday, found that fear of Islam and hatred of Muslims has dropped slightly since 2008 in Europe, ...
- FIRST-PERSON: Islam -- out of sight, out of mind? 1 Dec 2009 22:49 GMT
... now has 150 mosques serving about 400,000 Muslims in a population of 7.5 million Swiss. ... defiance of their country's historic commitment to religious liberty. Oddly, the measure appears to be ... Muslim as steeples with crosses are recognizably Christian. Any nation that is truly committed to ...
- Jewish Genealogy 101 30 Nov 2009 04:31 GMT
... Some surprising discoveries in my family tree research. In ... interest was researching genealogy. Like many American Jews, my family arrived in the United States ... circuitous route. When I started to explore Jewish genealogy, the first step was learning to ...
- China bemused by flat Europe 1 Dec 2009 10:10 GMT
... By Pepe Escobar BEIJING - As the new great ... new great game in Eurasia rumbles on, Europe in theory now has a unified voice. ... Van Rompuy, 62, is an anti-charisma Flemish Christian Democrat, and has been Belgium's prime minister ...
- Muslim Scholars Blast Swiss Minarets Ban 2 Dec 2009 16:35 GMT
... Qaradawi fears the anti-Muslim campaigns might move from rejecting minarets to ... mosques. Egypt's Al-Azhar, the highest seat of religious learning in the Sunni world, also denounced ... is the second religion in Switzerland after Christianity, with Muslims estimated at nearly 400,000. There ...
- WELCOME TO EUROPE'S CITIES? SYMPOSIUM SHEDS LIGHT ON THE INTEGRATION OF JEWISH IMMIGRANTS 7 Dec 2009 14:33 GMT
... To what extent did Jewish immigrants at the start of the 20th ... adapted to fit in with the majority Christian/Catholic society", explains symposium organiser Dr. Ingo Haar ...
- Swiss Ban Serves Rightists: EU Muslims 4 Dec 2009 17:15 GMT
... “Muslims should exercise self-restraint and work to show ... show the true and tolerant image of Islam to European societies,” Abu Shwaima said. The ... “Muslims should also seek the support of religious and rights organizations to defend the rights ...
- Top European rights watchdog hints Swiss minaret ban could be overturned 30 Nov 2009 21:00 GMT
... the towers used to put out the Islamic call to prayer. The 47-nation Council of ... the vote, which amounts to "oppressing a religion." "I hope that the Swiss will go ... "a clear discrimination against members of the Muslim community in Switzerland." Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, the secretary ...
- Why not Turkey in the EU? 3 Dec 2009 00:17 GMT
... Enlargement of the European Union to bring in ... be end of the European Union” if Muslim Turkey is allowed to join. This takes ... could survive the complete disappearance of the Christian faith.” Otherwise, one can say, what is ...
- European situation foretells United States issues 1 Dec 2009 08:10 GMT
... mosques that are typically used to call Muslims to prayer by Koranic chants. The referendum ... nation's reputation in order to preserve traditional Christian ways over sharia law. Those who voted ... looking to prevent Muslims from practicing their religion but are instead attempting to slow the ...
- Mona Eltahawy: Europe's call to religious intolerance 4 Dec 2009 11:39 GMT
... Mona Eltahawy | Egyptian-born writer and lecturer | Posted: ... to ban the building of minarets by Muslims, it was obvious that Switzerland’s image of ... denounced in similar terms the difficulty Egyptian Christians face in building churches in his country. ...
- Will Europe wake up? 7 Dec 2009 09:24 GMT
... Anyone who wondered about Iranian aspirations got an ... number of work and immigration visas to Muslims Expelling Iranian opposition figures back to Iran ... of mosques (with minarets, of course) and Islamic schools in any European city with a ...
- Muslims and HIV 1 Dec 2009 11:56 GMT
... they are desperate not to admit it. Religions are often credited as the means by ... who heads the HIV Unit in the Christian development agency Tearfund, says stigma and ignorance ... not Christian: six out of 10 are Muslim. Ibrahim - who's a Muslim and came ...
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