Mapping the Global Muslim Population – Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life
Mapping the Global Muslim Population – Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life.
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Robert Fisk: Exodus. The changing map of the Middle East
From Israel to Iraq, a Christian flight of Biblical proportions has begun. The mosque’s minarets tower over the cathedral, but the Maronites were built a spanking new archbishop’s house between the two buildings as compensation. Yet every day, the two calls to prayer – the clanging of church bells and the wailing of the muezzin –
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The outcome of the Alevi initiative is unknown – Hurriyet Daily News
The outcome of the Alevi initiative is unknown Sedat Ergin Last Saturday was the 18th anniversary of the Madımak Massacre where 35 people were burned alive on July 2, 1993, and we came across a situation that we never saw before in the commemoration ceremonies of previous years. Since the first commemoration organized on
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It’s hard to make light of the plight of my people, the Bahá’ís
Omid Djalili | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk The Bahá’í community has faced repression for years in an Iran that seeks to control private thought and beliefs. A Copacabana beach protest supporting the members of the Baha’i religion sentenced to 20 years’ jail in Iran. Photograph: Ana Carolina Fernandes/AFP/Getty Back in the mid-90s in
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Cleric slams abuse of women in Turkey – Hurriyet Daily News
Cleric slams abuse of women in Turkey Thursday, July 21, 2011 ANKARA – Hürriyet Daily News The Directorate of Religious Affairs sees the problems of all religious groups in Turkey as its own, its head Görmez (R) tells Greek Orthodox Patriarch Bartholomew. The mistreatment of women is the result of “excessive ignorance” about Islam,
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Conservatism on the rise in Turkey – Hurriyet Daily News
Conservatism on the rise in Turkey July 21, 2011 ISTANBUL A recent survey reflects little progress on the women’s issues in Turkey.Both conservative and democratic values are being more widely adopted by Turkish society, according to a recent poll conducted as part of the World Values Survey.“I do not have any findings that support
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Jinnah Institute Report on the Status of Religious Minorities in Pakistan
As part of the Jinnah Institute’s Open Democracy initiative, ‘A Question of Faith’: A Report on the Status of Religious Minorities in Pakistan’ is a research-based analysis of the same. It documents the deterioration in the political, economic and social status of members of these communities in the context of the rising tide of vigilante violence and
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Clerics in Lahore accuse Samina Ghurki of Blasphemy
Clerics from Muslimabad area of Lahore have declared Samina Khalid Ghurki (President Pakistan People’s Party Lahore Wing) and one of her supporters as blasphemers. The clerics protested against Samina and her supporter Haji Nasir outside the Lahore Press Club on Sunday for supporting a Shia cleric, Zulfiqar Naqvi, who had allegedly blasphemed against the Holy
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Targeting of Shias continues in Balochistan
Jinnah Institute Extremism watch: July 11 – 17. July 11: Targeting of Shias continues in Balochistan In what appears to be a sectarian killing, three people were shot dead by masked gunmen riding motorcycles on Qambrani Road. According to a senior police officer, the victims, two of whom were Shias were on their way home when they
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Shiite Party Al Wefaq Withdraws from Bahrain Talks – NYTimes.com
Shiite Party Al Wefaq Withdraws from Bahrain Talks – NYTimes.com.
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