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Wednesday, 11 February 2015

French Muslims, never fully at home
(James Estrin, The New York Times: Lens blog)

Supreme Court upholds hijab ban in Russian region’s schools
(RT)

Ravenswood schools face criticism from anti-religion group
(The News Center (WV))

Faith schools are not brimming with unqualified teachers
(Stephen Gorard and Beng Huat See, The Conversation)

Ukraine crisis: Minsk peace talks - live
(Rob Crilly, The Telegraph)

Convicted killer says state won't let him practice religion
(Pat Eaton-Robb, Associated Press)

Convicted killer says state won’t let him practice religion
(Associated Press, The Washington Post)

Kansas governor eliminates anti-discrimination protection for LGBT state employees
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Governor Sam Brownback issues Executive Orders
(Press Release, Office of the Governor (Kansas))

Obama asks Congress to authorize three-year ISIS fight
(Peter Barker, New York Times)

Former Israeli Chief Rabbi indicted for bribery
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Former chief rabbi Metzger indicted for taking millions in bribes
(Aviel Magnezi, Y Net News)

Al Qaeda supporters in Yemen pledge allegiance to Islamic State: group
(reporting by Noah Browning; editing by Robert Birsel, Reuters)

Sharia4Belgium trial: Belgian court jails members
(BBC News)

Dawkins among atheists urging Irish PM to hold blasphemy law referendum
(Henry McDonald, The Guardian)

Supreme Court declines to stay Missouri execution
(Mark Berman, The Washington Post)

Manslaughter charge prompts church to examine relationship with alcohol
(Michelle Boorstein, The Washington Post)

[China] United Front head pays festive visit to religious groups
(Xinhua Net)

How fringe religions find followers behind bars
(Daniel Genis, Chicago Tribune)

New D.C. laws violate religious liberty, leaders say
(Staff, Baptist Press)

House 'religious freedom' law passes on voice vote
(Spencer Williams, Arkansas Online)

CUA, Washington Archdiocese join USCCB urging Congress to protect religious freedom
(Kimberly Scharfenberger, The Cardinal Newman Society)

After satanist coloring book controversy, Orange County schools to ban distribution of religious materials
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)

Orange School Board bans distribution of outside Bibles, Satanic materials in schools
(Lauren Roth, Orlando Sentinal)

Original Magna Carta copy found in scrapbook
(Stephanie Pappas, Live Science)

New York Church taking Walmart to court over gun sales
(Clare O'Connor, Forbes)

Uzbekistan: Detention, fine, literature confiscation was "hospitality we got for bringing mandarins"
(Forum 18 News Service)

Israelis take 'Bridge to Arabic'
(Nurit Canetti, Al-Monitor: Israel Pulse)

Is Turkey becoming a police state?
(Semih Idiz, Al-Monitor: Turkey Pulse)

“Spiritual influence” and elections
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)

Anti-Arab racism becomes tool in Israeli elections
(Mazal Mualem, Al-Monitor: Israel Pulse)

Hamas condemns killing of Jordanian pilot
(Adnan Abu Amer, Al-Monitor: Palestine Pulse)

The world war inside Islam: Why the United States can do very little to alter the course of events in the Middle East right now
(James Traub, Foreign Policy)

36 years after the revolution, where is Iran now?
(Seyed Hossein Mousavian, Al-Monitor: Iran Pulse)

Learning from history with Iran
(Behzad Saberi, Al-Monitor: Iran Pulse)

Iran conservatives see defiance in Khamenei speech
(Arash Karami, Al-Monitor: Iran Pulse)

Worlds collide: Gay rights and religious freedom
(Editorial, News-Sentinel.com (Indiana))

White House struggles to clarify Obama suggestion that Paris kosher deli attack was random
(Julie Pace, Associated Press, U.S. News & World Report)

Turkey’s media watchdog fines TV station for using ‘God’ instead of ‘Allah’
(Hürriyet Daily News)

Fez, niqab now allowed in marriage photos in Turkey
(Meltem Özgenç, Hürriyet Daily News)

International Legal Experience and the Mormon Theology of the State, 1945-2012
(Nathan B. Oman, William & Mary Law School, Iowa Law Review / SSRN)

Redefining marriage redefines parenthood
(John Stonestreet, BreakPoint Commentaries)

Alabama minister arrested for disorderly conduct after trying to officiate gay marriage
(Corinne Cathcart, Joshua Hoyos, and Susanna Kim, ABC News)

Turkish military court sentences conscientious objector to 15 months despite ECHR ruling
(Hürriyet Daily News)

Moscow charges American spies working inside Orthodox church
(Russia Religion News)

State of the states on same-sex marriage
(Joanna Piacenza, Public Religion Research Institute)

How I resisted jihadist temptation - French ex-Guantanamo prisoner speaks
(Allison Hird, RFI)

Russian Supreme Court upholds ban on wearing hijab at school
(Interfax: Religion)

Is China making its own terrorism problem worse?
(Justine Drennan, Foreign Policy)

Is being good good for you?
(Stephen Post, Big Questions Online)

EVENT, 11 February 2015: The State of Islamism: The New Generation
(The Wilson Center)

Tuesday, 10 February 2015

Eastern Catholics rejoice in the restoration of married priests
(Peter Smith, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)

Female Saudi TV host laughs in male guest’s face when he proposes a bizarre solution for the driving ban
(Terry Firma, Patheos Blog: Friendly Atheist)

Gov. Sam Brownback rescinds protection for gay and transgender state workers
(Bryan Lowry, Kansas.com)

Iranian writers welcome decline of censorship
(Arash Azizi, Al-Monitor: Iran Pulse)

Family, friends mourn death of American ISIS hostage Kayla Mueller
(Ashley Fantz, CNN)

Rivlin announces project to integrate Arab-Israelis into workforce
(JTA)

In Ukraine, Pope Francis backs effort for peace – not any particular party
(Catholic News Agency)

Health-law challenger’s standing in Supreme Court Case Is questioned
(Louise Radnofsky, Jess Bravin and Brent Kendall, The Wall Street Journal)

Dutch Muslim groups worried about mosque protest escalation
(Dutch News)

Sweden: Church receives death threats for supporting Muslims
(Carey Lodge, Christian Today)

In Massachusetts, Muslim families fear Charlie Hebdo backlash
(Rupa Shenoy, WGBH News)

Commentary: Muslim democrats of the world, unite!
(Ghaleb Bencheik, Anwar Ibrahim, Felix Marquardt & Tariq Ramadan, The Jakarta Globe)

Who's behind Italy's rising anti-Semitism?
(Yair Rosenberg, Tablet: A New Read on Jewish Life)

Catholic colleges must motivate alumni to stand for religious freedom
(Justin Petrisek, Cardinal Newman Society)

Considering run for attorney general, MU law professor pushes ‘student religious freedom’ bill
(Eli Yokley, Politic Missouri)

Anti-halal campaigner sued over claims Islamic certification supports terrorism
(Michael Safi, The Guardian)

China to publish Bible in two minority languages [Simplified Chinese]
(China News)

Same-sex marriage: The irony of trying to have it both ways
(Howard Wasserman, PrawfsBlawg)

Explaining the “Swiss cheese” of SSM in Alabama
(Orin Kerr, The Volokh Conspiracy)

Syria news round-up Feb. 9, 2015
(Matthew Barber, Syria Comment - Joshua Landis)

Gay marriage supporters plan to flood Supreme Court with a friendly push
(Richard Wolf, Religion News Service)

Arguing animus in the gay marriage cases
(Dale Carpenter, The Volokh Conspiracy)

Islamic State puts its own cleric on trial after he objected to burning of Jordanian pilot
(Mark Yapching, Christian Today)

Victorian schools struggling with the radicalisation of students and parents, Australian Principals Federation warns
(Henrietta Cook, The Age (Victoria))

Muslim teacher quits French Muslim school citing anti-Semitism, radicalism
(JTA)

Belgian teacher tells Jewish student: ‘We should put you all on freight wagons’
(JTA)

More students tricked into Islamisation in Malaysia
(Angie Chui, Christian Today)

Chinese Imams forced to dance
(OnIslam)

East Turkestan: China cracking down on religious freedoms by forcing Imams to dance
(Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization)

Jewish anti-vaxxers take note: Parental responsibility trumps parental rights
(Jeffrey Salkin, Religion News Service)

German Jews upset about government group on anti-Semitism
(Kirsten Grieshaber, The Associated Press, The Big Story)

Physician-assisted death in Canada: Carter v Canada (AG)
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)

Islam and democracy in 2015
(John Owen, Arc of the Universe: Ethics and Global Justice (Daniel Philpott))

Grandfather's body could be exhumed after relatives of Muslim buried alongside complain he was an unbeliever
(Gregory Walton, The Telegraph)

Archbishop of Canterbury condemns silence over religious persecution
(Cross Rythyms (UK))

Kerry says ISIS ‘insults the religion they falsely represent’
(Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu, The Jewish Press)

Abbas book tying Nazism to Zionism to be translated to Hebrew
(The Jerusalem Post)

Al-Shabab gunmen kill Somali MP Abdullahi Qayad Barre
(BBC News)

Bill to let college clubs pick leaders' religion fails
(Joey Bunch, The Denver Post)

Florida Teachers’ Union argues vouchers violate state education, religious freedom laws
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)

School board to decide on religious materials in Orange County public schools
(WFTV (Orlando))

The missing voices in Mideast policy debate
(Editorial, The Jewish Daily Forward)

Christians in Iraq: Peace or a sword?
(B.C., The Economist [Erasmus: Religion and public policy])

Shiite Yemen leader issues threats; US Embassy plans to shut
(Ahmed Al-Haj, Associated Press: The Big Story)

Niger approves sending troops to Nigeria to fight Boko Haram
(Hurriyet Daily News)

The first freedom — religious freedom — remains fundamental
(Ralph Hancock, Deseret News)

Rockets hit Jewish welfare center in Ukraine without exploding
(JTA)

Shiite militias mixed blessing in Iraq, Syria
(Barbara Slavin, Al-Monitor: The Pulse of the Middle East)

Court upholds firing of spiritual director by InterVarsity Christian fellowship because she failed to save her marriage
(Leonardo Blair, The Christian Post)

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