Arab winter: how to explain the failure of democracy
Ten years ago this week Mohamed Bouazizi, a street vendor in Tunisia, set himself alight in front of a government building in rage at the...
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Religious groups on both sides face obstacles, US report says
The latest US State Department report on international religious freedom lists a number of areas where authorities on both sides restrict freedoms in this area....
India and the sacred cow debate
When India got its independence from Britain 70 years ago this week, it was founded as a secular democracy – secular because it acknowledged the...
Consumer giants court Muslims with halal face creams, shampoos
Some of the world’s biggest consumer groups are making halal face creams and shampoos for Indonesia ahead of a new labeling law, part of a...
Police in Cannes stop Muslim women wearing banned burkinis
By Geert De Clercq Ten Muslim women wearing burkinis to the beach have been apprehended by police in the southern French city of Cannes in...
Terrorism is not an existential threat
Belgium may be a boring country, but it still seems extreme for a Belgian politician to say that the country is now living through its...
Corbyn invites Trump to visit London mosque
Britain’s opposition leader invited U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, who sparked an outcry by calling for a ban on Muslims from entering the United...
Iran reacts with fury after Saudis execute Shi’ite cleric
By Sam Wilkin and Angus McDowall Iranian protesters stormed the Saudi Embassy in Tehran early on Sunday as Shi’ite Muslim Iran reacted with fury to...
Hasikos defends ‘we prefer Christian’ refugees’ remark (Updated)
By George Psyllides CYPRUS said on Monday it would be willing to take in up to 300 migrants fleeing upheaval in the Middle East under...
Pope urges Muslim leaders to condemn religious-based violence
Pope Francis on Monday condemned the killings by Islamist militants in Paris last week and urged Muslim leaders around the world to condemn fundamentalist interpretations...
A smokescreen cloaking the reality
By Gavin Jones POLITICAL parties within Europe which have employed immigration as one of their primary platforms have tapped into the rich seam of prejudice and angst, real or imagined, that has...
Middle Eastern Christians: Going, Going…Gone
By Gwynne Dyer TWO HIGH-PROFILE incidents last week, at opposite ends of the Arab world. In northern Iraq, recently conquered by the zealots of the...
Who will listen to the new ‘caliph’?
By Gwynne Dyer “LISTEN TO your caliph and obey him. Support your state, which grows every day,” said Abu Mohamed al-Adnani, announcing the rebirth of...