Law and Religion Headlines
Friday, 26 August 2016
Legendary NBA star Kareem Abdul-Jabbar speaks out against attacks on Muslims
(Billy Hallowell, Deseret News National Edition: Faith)
Pope says non-violence is the only response to a world at war
(Inés San Martín, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
US bishops, Iranian clergy seek abolition of WMDs
(Mark Pattison, Catholic News Service)
The right to spiritual equality, does it exist in Islam? (Responding to Religion and Women's Equality)
(Shafferan Sonneveld, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
Georgia county bans new houses of worship after anti-mosque uproar
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)
Religious liberty is not a Liberal or Conservative political idea
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)
Ruling allows Ocean Twp. yeshiva, dorm
(Shannon Muleen, Asbury Park Press)
Hundreds erupt in elation after Sterling Heights mosque denial
(Evan Seeman, Karla Chaffee and Dwight Merriam, RLUIPA Defense)
Buddhist meditation center sues Mobile, AL
(Karla Chaffee, Evan Seeman and Dwight Merriam, RLUIPA Defense)
Denial of zoning variance to yeshiva violates RLUIPA
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Top French court invalidates burkini ban
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Canadian Mounties approve hijab as optional uniform choice
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Why we're in Court: Plaintiffs seek equal treatment for non-theists in Pennsylvania
(Americans United)
Atheists sue PA House of Representatives over discriminatory invocation policy
(American Atheists)
Atheists sue Pennsylvania House over invocation policy
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Muslim groups laud Oloyede’s appointment as JAMB Registrar
(Sulaimon Salau, The Guardian (Nigeria))
Nigeria: Ahmadiyya women group meets on national peace
(The Guardian (Nigeria))
‘Why Nigeria remains a multi-religious state’
(The Guardian (Nigeria))
Russia: Punishments under anti-sharing beliefs law begin
(Forum 18 News Service)
American missionaries ordered out of Russia
(RIA Novosti, Russia Religion News)
Samara court orders expulsion of six American Mormons who didn't register with migration authorities
(Interfax-Religion)
US Christian among first victims of Russia's anti-evangelism law
(Mark Woods, Christian Today)
Exhumation and reburial of ashes in Germany
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
Iran arrests 11 Christians caught attending house church service
(Lorraine Caballero, Christian Daily)
Rebels, civilians evacuating long-besieged Damascus suburb
(Albert Aji and Zeina Karam, The Associated Press, The Big Story)
Kurdish militants claim deadly car bomb attack in Turkey
(Suzan Fraser, The Associated Press, The Big Story)
Anti-Semitic graffiti found at playground across from Lakewood yeshiva
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Report: Fatah leaders consider cancelling local elections
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Argentine graduates’ Nazi salutes provokes brawl with Jewish pupils
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
The stark contrast between the work of the ACLJ and the Military Religious Freedom Foundation
(Wesley Smith, American Center for Law and Justice)
Candidates capitalize on the ever-powerful 'religious vote'
(Bill Barrow, The Charlotte Observer)
A complicated prognosis for medicine and religious liberty
(Kimberly Leonard, U.S. News & World Report)
Haji Ali verdict: Victory of constitutional principles over religious dogmas
(Satya Prakash, Hindustan Times)
Progressives embrace religious liberty for their own causes
(G. Jeffrey MacDonald, Religion News Service)
‘ISIS on a mission to exterminate Christians’
(World Watch Monitor)
Baghdad considers security overhaul
(Omar Sattar, trans. Joelle El-Khoury, Al Monitor: Iraq Pulse)
Russian Jews will help project synagogues and opening Jewish museums in Europe
(Interfax-Religion)
Islamist from Russia caught in Bishkek with large quantities of extremist books, ammunition
(Interfax-Religion)
Europe's rabbis at Moscow congress stunned by absence of anti-Semitism in Russia
(Interfax-Religion)
Imam Velitov placed under house arrest in justification of terrorism inquiry
(Interfax-Religion)
US, Turkey at an impasse over extraditing Muslim cleric
(Josh Lederman and Eric Tucker, The Associated Press, The Big Story)
Clergy do not decide to give judgment to preaching by imam Velitov charged with extremism
(Interfax-Religion)
Women lead Friday prayers at Denmark's first female-run mosque
(Harriet Sherwood, The Guardian)
Boko Haram leaves 1.4 million children displaced, dozens used as suicide bombers - UNICEF
(Harry Farley, Christian Today)
Some hotels in Chinese city block people from five Muslim countries
(Ben Blanchard, Gao Liangping and James Pomfret, Reuters)
Senegal clamps down on Quranic schools that exploit children
(Carley Petesch, The Associated Press, The Big Story)
Indonesia's most-wanted awakens new generation of jihadis
(Randy Fabi and Kanupriya Kapoor, Reuters)
Dutch far-right party says it will ban mosques, Koran
(Agence France-Presse)
Walgreens clinics run by Catholic organization to include birth control
(Jim Salter, The Associated Press, The Big Story)
Atheists’ lawsuit is financial setback for Baptist convention in Kansas City
(Lynn Horsley, The Kansas City Star)
Nonbelievers sue over Pennsylvania House's opening prayers
(Mark Scolforo, The Associated Press, The Big Story)
Survey: Germans want a burqa ban
(Carla Bleiker, Deutsche Welle)
California judge considers new physician-assisted suicide law
(Steve Gorman, Reuters)
France's top court overturns burkini ban in Riviera town
(France 24 International News)
Nuns barred from wearing habits on the beach, says deputy mayor of Nice
(Harry Farley, Christian Today)
Why wearing the burqa is on the rise in South Asia
(Shamil Shams, Deutsche Welle)
Troubled Europe debates burqas, niqabs and burkinis
(Michelle Martin, Richard Lough, Maria Haase Coelho, Shadia Nasralla, Sonya Dowsett, Philip Pullella, Stephen Jewkes, John Miller, Toby Sterling and Robert Muller, Reuters)
The surprising Australian origin story of the burkini
(Adam Taylor, The Sydney Morning Herald)
Opinion: Why the burqa ban is wrong
(Martin Muno, Deutsche Welle)
Opinion: Banning the burqa is the right thing to do
(Alexander Kudascheff, Deutsche Welle)
French court suspends burkini ban, controversy goes on
(Chine Labbé and Ingrid Melander, Reuters)
The burkini is a sad symbol of Islam going backwards – and burkini bans are a sad symbol of France doing the same
(Julia Ebner, The Independent)
Forced unveiling of Muslim women
(Qanta A. Ahmed, National Review)
France: Upholding burkini ban risks giving green light for abuse of women and girls
(Amnesty International)
Thursday, 25 August 2016
France’s burkini ban could not come at a worse time
(Fraser McQueen, The Conversation)
French politicians spar ahead of administrative court ruling on burkini
(Deutsche Welle)
In wake of burkini ban, imam blocked from Facebook for photo of clothed nuns at beach
(Oded Yaron, Haaretz)
French burkini bans face legal challenge as tension mounts
(Philippe Sotto, The Associated Press, The Big Story)
French official threatens to sue social media users who share burkini photos
(Amar Toor, The Verge)
French town official threatens to sue those circulating photos of burkini ban
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
A Muslim woman’s right to self-determination (Responding to Religion and Women's Equality)
(Aisha Rahman, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
No U.S. burkini bans, but work yet to do: Column
(Stephen Prothero, USA Today)
Some churches in Zimbabwe demand Mugabe's impeachment
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)
Power in a union: How the working class shaped religion in America
(Matthew Pehl, Religion Dispatches)
Russian servicemen built a church of Karelian pine at Khmeimim airbase in Syria
(Interfax-Religion)
Passenger not allowed to flight from Moscow with a liter of holy water
(Interfax-Religion)
Hotel reportedly removes Bibles from rooms after atheist complaint
(Billy Hallowell, Deseret News National Edition: Faith)
Indonesia and the United States: Diversity and democracy in turbulent times
(Katherine Marshall, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs)
Faith-based volunteers help search for quake victims
(Josephine McKenna, Religion News Service)
The NYPD broke its own rules when spying on Muslims, inspector general says
(Tess Owen, VICE News)
Investigation says NYPD does not stick to guidelines in surveilling Muslims
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Court refuses to dismiss minister's suit saying ministerial exception is not a jurisdictional bar
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Citing anti-Semitism, French Jews eschew public education
(Cnaan Lipshiz, Haaretz)
Outside Paris, a clinic aims to tackle an age-old practice
(Elizabeth Bryant, Religion News Service)
Bathroom bills and religious freedom laws: Losing battles for the GOP
(Susan Milligan, U.S. News & World Report)
With Wyoming judge’s case, left aims to ban religious people from legal field
(Holly Scheer, The Federalist)
Spanish municipality to rescind BDS resolution following legal action
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Portugal pulls out of law enforcement project led by Israeli university
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Al-Aqsa Mosque back in the eye of the storm with renewed clashes, arrests
(Daoud Kuttab, Al Monitor: Palestine Pulse)
Uncertain future for Syrians as EU-Lebanon migration deal looms
(Tom Rollins, Al Monitor: Egypt Pulse)
Is Israel at fault for surging Arab crime?
(Shlomi Eldar trans. Sandy Bloom, Al Monitor: Israel Pulse)
Will 50 years of occupation unite Israel's peace camp?
(Akiva Eldar trans. Ruti Sinai, Al Monitor: Israel Pulse)
FARC: ‘Colombia wins, death loses’ in peace deal, but not everyone is convinced
(World Watch Monitor)
Report: Pakistan school textbooks riddled with religious 'hate material'
(World Watch Monitor)
Lawyer for Islamic party designated as extremist in Tajikistan accused of disclosing state secret
(Interfax-Religion)
Immoral actions reduced in Russian Army thanks to cooperation with the Church - Defense Minister
(Interfax-Religion)
Jewish Israeli BDS activist requests political asylum in Canada
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Radical Muslims kill 8 people in Nigeria, vandalize churches after Christian student is accused of insulting Islam
(Stoyan Zaimov, The Christian Post)
Christians urged to help 'save Christian mom Asia Bibi from execution' in petition to Pakistan Supreme Court
(Stoyan Zaimov, The Christian Post)
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