Archive for 'Sectarianism'
The Return of Galloway, The Return of Sectarian Britain
With the exception of Northern Ireland, it has been some time since Britain had a nakedly sectarian political party. I’m open to correction, but the last one was probably the Liverpool Protestant Party.
And now sectarianism is back.
Make no mistake. Galloway’s win in Bradford West was fought on the basis of religion. This was a candidacy [...]
Posted: March 30th, 2012 under Sectarianism.
Qatar’s Sunni Side
Cross-Post by Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi from the American Spectator
How could Qatar’s foreign policy best be defined during the Arab Spring? In the midst of the conflict between Gaddafi’s forces and the rebels in the Libyan civil war, Qatar was hailed by Barack Obama in April for building a broad coalition of international support for the NATO [...]
Posted: November 1st, 2011 under Bahrain, Islamism, Sectarianism.
Preserving Iraq’s Assyrians: Federalism
Cross-Post by Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi from the Assyrian International News Agency
As U.S. troops continue to pull out from Iraq, it is worth visiting the question of what future there is, if any, for the country’s Assyrians. Since the 2003 American-led invasion, the Christian population has declined from some 1.2-1.5 million to 400-800,000 today, and it [...]
Posted: October 24th, 2011 under Iraq, Sectarianism, Syria.
How does this end?
This is a cross-post by Shiraz Maher from Standpoint Magazine
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And so Pakistan’s descent into chaos continues to gather pace this morning with the news that another opponent of the country’s blasphemy laws has been assassinated. Shahbaz Bhatti, minister for religious minorities, was gunned down in Islamabad while travelling to a meeting. [...]
Posted: March 2nd, 2011 under Pakistan, Sectarianism, Terrorism, Your View.
Jihadists Threaten Commonwealth Games in India
This is a Cross-Post from the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation, King’s C0llege
The 2008 Mumbai terrorist attack heralded a new phase of jihadism in India, and since then the country has been on high alert. Next month, they will host the Commonwealth games and already the United States, Britain and Australia have issued [...]
Posted: September 21st, 2010 under Afghanistan, India, Islamism, Sectarianism, Terrorism.
Hoo-ray!
The Supreme Court has spoken:
The Supreme Court has ruled a Jewish school in London did act unlawfully by refusing places to pupils it did not consider to be ethnically Jewish.
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The boy has a father who is Jewish by birth and a mother who is Jewish by conversion.
But the conversion ceremony was conducted by a Progressive [...]
Posted: December 16th, 2009 under Sectarianism.
When Is Banning A Mosque Not Islamophobic
This is a cross post by Abdul Hamid al Manchesteri from The Spittoon
Plans to convert an old, disused city-centre warehouse into a mosque for the Ahmadiyya Muslim community in Walsall were rejected after more than 800 complaints were received.
A man protesting the mosque development plans was jubilant:
“It is a victory for the people, there are enough places [...]
Posted: December 8th, 2009 under Sectarianism.