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Home: Current Issues: Persecution: LINKS_PAGE Current Issues: Persecution: LINKS_PAGEArticles:What Saudi students learn - Freedom HouseThis week, Freedom House, a U.S.-based NGO that seeks to promote democracy around the world, released Saudi Arabia’s Curriculum of Intolerance, a report on Islamic-studies textbooks published by the Saudi Ministry of Education. What follows are excerpts from the report. Read more... What the New Atheists Don’t See - Theodore DalrympleTo regret religion is to regret Western civilization. Read more... What to Do About Sudan - Elliott AbramsThe government in Khartoum regularly bombs clinics, schools, and food stations in the southern part of the country and in the Nuba Mountains. As a local bishop put it to me during a visit to Sudan last year, “They are trying to blow out the candle” of Christianity in Sudan. Read more... When did the Bible become 'hate speech'? - Father Raymond J. de SouzaFour years ago, I wrote an article entitled "Thinly Disguised Totalitarianism" for the religious journal First Things, surveying the erosion of Canadian religious liberty under various regulatory bodies, professional associations and human rights tribunals. Read more... When Ratzinger Defended Galileo at “La Sapienza” - Giorgio IsraelIt is surprising that those who have chosen as their motto the famous phrase attributed to Voltaire — "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it" — should oppose the pope's delivering an address at the "La Sapienza" university of Rome. Read more... When Shrimps Learn to Whistle: Elton John as Cultural Philosopher - Iain BensonWell-known cultural philosopher Elton John has proclaimed that organized religion should be banned. Good for him. Read more... Who Remembers the Armenians? - Nichlas JubberSo far, Turkey has been able to resist the drive for international recognition of the Armenian genocide, in large part because of the nation’s superior resources and strategic importance. For Armenians, the sense of national identity is bound up with the genocide. As much as they are Armenian, they believe they are victims. Until their suffering has been acknowledged, they will not rest. Read more... Why is it OK to bash Catholics? - John FraserIt is a dramatic sign of the rampaging secularization of North American and European life during the past half-century that a book like “The New Anti-Catholicism: The Last Acceptable Prejudice” by Philip Jenkins, has come about. Read more... Without God, Gall Is Permitted - Sam SchulmanModern atheists have no new arguments, and they lack their forebears' charm. Read more... World-Class Abusers? China's Olympic Bid - Eve TushnetHuman-rights activists say that if medals were awarded for egregious abuses of freedoms, China would get the gold. Read more... Pages: [<<] ... 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 [>>] Related Categories:Pages Updated On: 07-Jan-2009 - 14:31:19
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