Secularism

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• The question of tolerance —Rasul Bakhsh Rais

  
  Let us build Pakistan — Authority: 439
  Intolerance stems from arrogance, from a belief that a person’s religion and ideology are true while all else is false. But above all intolerance grows from an individual taking responsibility for scrutinising and guarding the beliefs and practices of other and passing a final judgement on them. We need to build ...
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• Middle East International Refounded

  
  Project on Middle East Democracy (POMED) — Authority: 512
  The Middle East International has  restarted its printing press  after a six-year hiatus, releasing a  free PDF issue  online in commemoration. According to the Arabist, MEI offers “long articles and analysis from writers based in-country who [know] what they [are] talking about.” There are several articles ...
  19 hours ago

• Selfish Europe is “dying” claims Chief Rabbi

  
  Interfaith — Authority: 127
  Europe is a “dying” continent whose people are too selfish to have children, the Chief Rabbi claimed this week. Lord Sacks said Europe’s secularism and its culture of “consumerism and instant gratification” were to blame for the continent’s declining population. Europe is the most secular region in the ...
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• Ethics and War in a Secular Age

  
  Prometheus Unbound — Authority: 142
  Decoupling religion from war is not an easy thing. The poet Stephen Spender, in reflecting upon World War II, wrote these lines (in his poem, “Rejoice in the Abyss”): Against an acrid cloud of dust, I saw The houses kneel, revealed each in its abject Prayer, my prayer as well: ‘Oh, God, Spare me the lot ...
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• Rising of the Moon: Sindhis Demand Freedom

  
  Sherryx's Weblog — Authority: 112
  Sultani-e-Jumhoor ka aata he zamana Jo Naqash-e-kuhan tum ku nazer aye mita do Sindhies come out in thousands to demand freedom! The oppressed nationalities of Pakistan are now demanding their rights. The ruling elite and its allied middle classes are devoting all their energies to destroy PPP, but their acts are ...
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• The farce of Indian Secularism!

  
  Janamejayan's Weblog — Authority: 128
  To be in mainstream education is communal!! Saturday, 07 November, 2009 , 03:20 PM  In order to speed up the process of implementation of the proposal to establish the much delayed  Central Board for Madarsa Education , the  Union Human Resource (HRD) Minister, Kapil Sibal , had a detailed discussion with ...
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• The Role of Religion in Building Coalitions Over Healthcare

  
  Hallowed Secularism — Authority: 118
  11/8/2009—The House of Representatives passed its version of healthcare reform yesterday. Hopefully the Senate will do the same in due course. I haven’t been following the legislative changes in detail, but the final version was sufficiently neutral on abortion that Democrats for Life felt able to support the ...
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• “Bring Back Jinnah’s Pakistan” II

  
  Pak Tea House — Authority: 525
  Ardeshir Cowasjee writing in Dawn:There has to be something seriously wrong with a country in which many of its citizens are still arguing as to whether it should or should not have been made, or debating as to whether it came into being by accident, intent, design or even intrigue. All possible accusations have been ...
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• First Group of "Traditionalist" Anglicans in Britain Votes to Enter Catholic Church

  
  Particular Baptist Kev's Random Thoughts — Authority: 133
  By Hilary WhiteROME, November 6, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a move that is a surprise to no one, the UK branch of the Traditional Anglican Communion (TAC), the largest of the groups that broke away from the mainstream Anglican Church over the ordination of woman and the latter’s support for active homosexuality, ...
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• Saving the Soul of Secularism

  
  Notes from underground — Authority: 120
  Recently someone sent me, quite unsolicited, a link to this article Saving the Soul of Secularism : Since February 2003, millions in the U.S. and around the world have participated in marches, rallies and varied protests, making a bold, ethical stand against U.S. military aggression. Citizens have engaged in ...
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• Freedom from Religion

  
  Harry's Place — Authority: 668
  This is a guest post by Gabriel In 1985, the Canadian Supreme court ruled that The Lord’s Day Act, the law that forbade stores from opening on Sunday, was enforcing a Christian belief and therefore violating the rights of all Canadians. The Lord’s Day act, thanks to the 1982 introduction of the Charter of ...
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• Whose authority?

  
  Anglican Mainstream — Authority: 152
  By Justin Thacker, Guardian  When is a right not a right? When it concerns the education of children. The respective (and entirely contradictory) decisions of the children’s secretary Ed Balls and the European Court of Human Rights this week would be laughable if they weren’t both so serious. In the ...
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• Europe’s humanist population is to selfish to have children

  
  No Apologies — Authority: 146
  The Daily Telegraph, reported today that, “Europoe is ‘dying’ because its secular population is too selfish to have children, according to the leader of Britain’s Jewish community. Lord Sacks, the Chief Rabbi, claimed that the continent’s population was in decline because people cared more about shopping ...
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• Bibles in Pollock Halls? You’ve got to be joking…

  
  The Not-Quite-So-Friendly Humanist — Authority: 446
  Unfortunately not. The Christian Union at the University of Edinburgh have put forward a motion for the student association’s AGM to allow themselves or another organisation to put Bibles in each of the bedrooms in Pollock Halls. If you’re a student at Edinburgh University, I urge you to read this post, although ...
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• Chief Rabbi: ‘Europe will die by selfish secularism’

  
  The Christian Institute News — Authority: 619
  Europe is a “dying” continent because its secular culture means people are too selfish to marry and have children, warned the Chief Rabbi yesterday. Lord Sacks blamed Europe’s declining population on a culture of “consumerism and instant gratification”. Quoting the famous slogan used by cosmetics company ...
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• Hopeful Signs in the Vote in Maine

  
  Hallowed Secularism — Authority: 118
  11/6/2009—It must be an age thing. While many people are bemoaning the vote in Maine last Tuesday that repealed Maine’s progressive gay marriage legislation, I was amazed and gratified that 47% of any State would vote to support gay marriage. There are two aspects to the vote. First is the nature of ...
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• A couple of quotes on humanism and secularism

  
  Martin In The Margins — Authority: 415
  First, Austin Dacey (via B&W ) on the futility of seeing secular humanism as a replacement for religion: Humanists are right to think that there is more to life than atheism, but wrong to think that they are the ones to provide it. It is not the job of religion’s critics to organize a ...
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• The Politics of Symbolism

  
  Pak Tea House — Authority: 525
  The Indian national song, Vande (or Bande) Mataram, has officially been accorded, at least since the time of independece, the same status in terms of reverence as the official national anthem ”Jana Gana Mana”. The song has a history of controversy surrounding it, surfacing from time to time, stretching back to ...
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• An invitation to young atheist writers

  
  The Freethinker — Authority: 520
  IT’S always good to learn of efforts to promote atheism on the internet, so we were naturally delighted by the news that a new blog, which aims to give a voice to young freethinkers, went “live” this week. Young Freethought is the brainchild of student Michael Campbell, Chief Editor, who says it was created: ...
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• Iraq Election Law Stalls

  
  Project on Middle East Democracy (POMED) — Authority: 512
  The Huffington Post is reporting that the Iraqi Council of Representatives ended their session today without approving a new election law. According to the article, “the head of Iraq’s Independent High Electoral Commission, Faraj al-Haidari , earlier this week warned lawmakers that if they did not have an ...
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