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Tuesday, 20 January 2015

Breakdown: Unanimous Supreme Court backs prisoner in religious beard case
(Tobin Grant, Religion News Service)

Constitutional Contraction: Religion and the Roberts Court
(Marc O. DeGirolami, SSRN)

How have Christians and non-Christians fared before the Supreme Court in RFRA and RLUIPA cases?
(Eugene Volokh, The Volokh Conspiracy (Washington Post))

King, Religion, and Civil Rights
(Cornerstone Blog, Religious Freedom Project: Berkley Center for Religion, Peace and World Affairs)

King’s religion today: Responding to King, Religion, and Civil Rights
(Jacqueline C. Rivers, Cornerstone: Religious Freedom Project: Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs)

Religion is the heart of the civil rights movement: Responding to King, Religion, and Civil Rights
(Alveda C. King, Cornerstone: Religious Freedom Project: Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs)

Rabbi Jack Moline to head the Interfaith Alliance
(Lauren Markoe, Religion News Service)

Former U.S. Congressman Frank Wolf named Wilson Chair in Religious Freedom at Baylor University
(Lori Fogelman, Baylor Media Communications)

Anti-Semitism in France: J’accuse, eventually
(The Economist)

Anti-Semitism watchdog: Belgian public schools becoming ‘Jew-free’ zones
(JTA)

Shiite rebels shell Yemen president's home, take over palace
(Ahmed Al-Haj and Maggie Michael, Associated Press: The Big Story)

Christianity and free speech: Mothers, punches and turning cheeks
(B.C., The Economist [Erasmus: Religion and public policy])

Islamic terror – The Pope speaks, but more must be said
(Douglas Kmiec, Huff Post Politics - Opinion)

Hundreds of thousands protest in Chechnya against Mohammad cartoons
(Reuters)

Mohammed cartoons spark “largest ever” protest in Chechnya
(Nina Achmatova, AsiaNews.it)

St. Paul-Minneapolis Archdiocese files for bankruptcy reorganization
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Nienstedt: Bankruptcy best path for clergy sex abuse claims
(Martin Moylan and Madeleine Baran, MPR News)

Ban on prison beards violates Muslim rights, Supreme Court says
(Adam Liptak, The New York Times)

The “number of the beast,” hand scanners (to clock in and out), and a $150,000 damages award to employee
(Eugene Volokh, The Volokh Conspiracy)

Employee who objected to biometric scanning as mark of the beast wins $150,000 verdict
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Retired Consol worker wins religious discrimination suit
(Observer Reporter)

Counter-terrorism: Going dark
(The Economist)

China's draft counterterrorism law is a recipe for abuses, says HRW
(Eurasia Review)

Ordinance allows nativity displays on courthouse lawn
(Batesville (IN) Herald-Tribune)

Indiana county fights creche suit by enacting open forum law
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

German anti-Islam group vows that it won't be silenced
(Kerstin Sopke, Associated Press, ABC News)

The migration of French Jews
(Nicola Nasser, Middle East Monitor)

Growing fear among Belgium's Jewish, Muslim communities
(CNN)

Turkish government replaces dozens of police chiefs
(Hürriyet Daily News)

How Islam (and Turkey) may be saved
(Baskin Oran, Hürriyet Daily News)

Churches in Niger and other former French colonies torched over Charlie Hebdo cartoons
(Fredrick Nzwili, Religion News Service)

70+ churches destroyed as ‘anti-Charlie’ protests spread in Niger
(World Watch Monitor)

Israelis in Berlin: The insidious, and mistaken, media meme around the irresistible story of Israelis choosing to live in Germany
(James Kirchick, Tablet: A New Read on Jewish Life)

More preliminary details of Pope's September U.S. visit emerge
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Houthis seize Yemen presidential palace after deadly clashes with Army
(AFP, Reuters, Al-Akhbar, Al-Akhbar English)

Greece: The great leap rightward
(Kostas Kallergis, Balkan Insight)

ISIS threatens to kill 2 Japanese hostages unless Tokyo pays $200 million
(Jethro Mullen and Greg Botelho, CNN)

Rohingya political prisoner released. Dozens of activists still in jail
(AsiaNews.it)

Court won't hear priest's appeal of ruling reviving lawsuit
(Associated Press: the Big Story)

Employment Tribunal hears case of NHS worker disciplined for giving book to Muslim colleauge
(Christian Concern)

Caste discrimination in the Employment Tribunal
(Neil Addison, Religion Law Blog (UK))

What Charlie Hebdo meant for Lebanon
(Nicolas Hindi, The Daily Star)

Boycott of French products suggested
(Ibrahim Naffee, Arab News)

Christians to the closet? Faith, gay marriage, and the public square
(Eric Metaxas, BreakPoint Commentaries)

Bishkek rally demands ban on Prophet Muhammad cartoons
(Interfax-Religion)

Gaza jihadist supporters rally against France, praise Islamic State
(Nidal al-Mughrabi, Reuters)

Noam Chomsky: Obama's drone program 'the most extreme terrorist campaign of modern times'
(Andrea Germanos, Common Dreams: Breaking News & Views for the Progressive Community)

More on the Charlie Hebdo attack in Paris & aftermath

More on the Charlie Hebdo attack & aftermath

Monday, 19 January 2015

Turkey turns up the heat on the press
(Jamie Dettmer, The Daily Beast)

Radical Islamists try to storm French center in Gaza
(Al Bawaba News)

The fight for human dignity - how MLK speaks to ISIS, abortion
(Matt Hadro, Catholic News Agency)

Anti-blasphemy laws? Anti-hate speech laws? Some things to consider before you vote
(Denyse O'Leary, MercatorNet)

Californians deserve the right to die with dignity
(Editorial, Los Angeles Times Opinion)

Evangelicals, Muslims, and indigenous Filipinos, grateful for the pope's visit
(AsiaNews.it)

Pope Francis to visit Washington D.C., New York and Philadelphia in September
(Washington Times)

Pope Francis to visit New York City during trip to US
(CBS New York / AP)

Myanmar: US rights rep cautions MPs over religion bills
(Ei Ei Toe Lwin, Myanmar Times)

Interview: Women unequal under Lebanon’s law
(Lama Fakih, Amy Braunschweiger, Human Rights Watch)

Lebanon's religious courts are failing women, HRW says
(Liisa Tuhkanen, Reuters)

UK plea to imams to fight extremism draws charge of Islamophobia
(Andrew Osborn, Reuters)

Muslim mobs burn down churches, pastors' homes in Niger for Charlie Hebdo's Prophet Muhammad cartoons; 10 people dead in protests
(Stoyan Zaimov, The Christian Post)

Saudi Arabia publicly beheads woman in holy Mecca as blogger lashings are postponed
(Ben Tufft, The Independent)

Oklahoma pastors will preach in hoodies to protest proposed state bill banning hoods
(Greg Horton, Religion News Service)

Antisemitism fears grow in UK’s Jewish communities after Paris shootings
(Robert Booth, The Guardian)

"Snap Symposium": Same-sex marriage and the 14th Amendment
(Tom Goldstein, Larry Joseph, William Eskridge, David Cruz, Steve Sanders, Austin Nimocks, Andrew Brasher, SCOTUSblog)

Symposium: Lawyers as heroes or goats in the fight over same-sex marriage
(Tom Goldstein, SCOTUSblog)

Symposium: Supreme Court should address the domestic-relations exception to federal jurisdiction in its marriage-case decision
(Larry Joseph, SCOTUSblog)

Symposium: Original meaning, public deliberation, and marriage equality
(William Eskridge, SCOTUSblog)

Symposium: Unveiling marriage equality?
(David Cruz, SCOTUSblog)

Symposium 2014: Let's be clear – the marriage bans are about animus
(Steve Sanders, SCOTUSblog)

Symposium: Good faith and caution, not irrationality or malice
(Andrew Brasher, SCOTUSblog)

World Religion Day 2015
(Alex Guyver, OUPblog Religion)

Regina residents celebrate World Religion Day with prayers for peace
(Steve Silva, Global News)

Today is Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Martin Luther King, Jr., "The quest for peace and justice"
(The Nobel Peace Prize 1964, Lecture, paragraph 18-19, Nobelprize.org)

Remembering Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on his 86th birthday
(Clarence B. Jones, Huffington Post)

Martin Luther King, Jr., "The quest for peace and justice" [Audio]
(The Nobel Peace Prize 1964, Lecture, 2-minute excerpt, Nobelprize.org)

Martin Luther King Day marks a celebration of religious faith
(Archbishop Charles Chaput, Delco Times (Pennsylvania))

The meaning of The King Holiday
(Coretta Scott King, The King Center)

Gallery: Remembering Martin Luther King Jr.
(Sacramento Bee)

Martin Luther King Jr. honored nationwide
(Photo Gallery, NBC News)

5 ways to honor the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
(Calvin Lawrence Jr., ABC News)

Tributes, protests mark Martin Luther King Jr. Day
(Laila Kearney and Sebastien Malo, Reuters)

The 15 best quotes from Martin Luther King's 'I Have a Dream' speech
(Deseret News)

Civil rights, civil wrongs
(American Ride, BYUtv)

What Selma meant to Jews like my father
(Susannah Heschel, The Jewish Daily Forward)

World Religion Day brings faithful together in South Bay
(Joe Rodriguez, Contra Costa Times)

Google commemorates Martin Luther King Jr. with Selma doodle
(Chris Matyszczyk, Google Doodle)

America pays tribute to Martin Luther King as events held across the nation
(Fox News)

Martin Luther King Day, 1983-2015
(Yahoo Photos)

The individualistic American law of religious exemptions
(Eugene Volokh, The Volokh Conspiracy (Washington Post))

Freedom to discuss religious beliefs at work tied to job satisfaction, finds new study
(the Weekly Number)

Muslims in Europe: the misperceptions, and the facts
(Michael Holtz, The Christian Science Monitor)

Lords Spiritual (Women) Bill completes Commons stages
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)

They drew first: the balancing exercise between freedom of speech and religious sensitivities
(Saad Rasool, The Nation (Pakistan))

Scholar links global crises to radical speech
(interview of Agnès Callamard by Hassan Benmehdi, Magharebia)

Blasphemy, the law and Greece: sainthood and stoicism
(B.C., The Economist [Erasmus blog: Religion and Public Policy])

Merkel vows to uphold protest rights after threat halts anti-Islam demo
(Alexandra Hudson and Andreas Rinke, Reuters)

Merkel vows EU financial support for military response against Boko Haram
(Sputnik News)

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