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India slammed in new US report on religious freedom

India was spotlighted for explicitly targeting religious minorities in the US State Department’s newly released 2022 Religious Freedom Report, joining a list of countries that includes Russia, China and Iran for its treatment of religious minorities. The report details a range of concerns about religious freedom in India. Among them is the continued prohibition against religious conversion in multiple Indian states, attacks against religious minorities, and systemic discrimination directed against Muslims - including […]

today18 May 2023

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US Muslim inmate wins second chance in religious freedom lawsuit against jail

A US federal court has partly undone a decision made against a Muslim inmate, ruling that a Virginia jail must defend its practice of broadcasting Christian services on every television screen on Sundays, which the inmate argues is a violation of the Constitution's freedom of religion clause. The US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit stated the case should return back to the district court for reconsideration. The court cited the […]

today19 January 2023

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The Irony of Uniforms in SA Schools

By Yaseen Kippie South Africa celebrated as a vanguard of multiculturalism- has seen a rise in cases of schools being accused of intolerance towards religious expression. Whilst the outrage over black hair at a girls’ high school in Pretoria in 2016 thrust the issue of school racism and cultural expression into the spotlight, other less prominent cases such as a Johannesburg school requiring Muslim pupils to carry a ‘concession card’ […]

today23 August 2017

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Why advocate for Palestinian rights?

OPINION by Marthie Momberg Why do civilians campaign publicly on the relentless matter of Israeli oppression of all Palestinians? Is it not a waste of time, an “irresolvable deadlock”, and a “disastrously confused situation”? Why willingly expose oneself to violence in its many forms? Why be involved in this struggle rather than in any of the many other causes in the world? Why focus on the exploitation of Palestinians and […]

today15 May 2017

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