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• “Parents Who Won’t Vaccinate Kid Sue Catholic Preschool”

  
  Overlawyered — Authority: 648
  “A Rockland County family filed suit against the New York Archdiocese after a Catholic preschool wouldn’t accept their child because she has not been fully vaccinated, according to the Post . The couple — who filed the suit anonymously — claim they are the victims of religious discrimination and are seeking a ...
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• Bloodshed in Pakistan-administered Kashm…

  
  Talk Islam — Authority: 502
  Bloodshed in Pakistan-administered Kashmir as a suicide bomber attacks Shiites. Five people dead, 81 wounded, 10 of them seriously. Earlier I blogged about the issue of minority victimization in Pakistan which seems to be finding its source and inspiration in strident Sunni Islam. The Spittoon has a blog post ...
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• A Discordant Note On Christmas

  
  Wolf Howling — Authority: 585
  I have blogged here often on the mistreatment of Christians and Jews in Muslim states. As I wrote a few months ago: . . . [The] Wahhabi, Salafi, and Deobandi sects in particular interpret the Koran to mean that they can freely murder non-Muslims or enslave them and rape them . [Update: For specific references ...
  6 days ago

• Islams Institutionalized Religious Discrimination

  
  Wolf Howling — Authority: 585
  Pictured above is the Hagia Sophia, one of Christendoms oldest and most revered of churches. The minarets were added when the Ottoman Empire captured Constantinople and convereted the church to a mosque. It is today treated as a museum. From Germanys most senior Catholic clergyman, commenting on the treatment of ...
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• A US appeals court has ruled that Muslim…

  
  Talk Islam — Authority: 502
  A US appeals court has ruled that Muslims and Arab non-citizens have no right “to be free of selective enforcement of the immigration laws based on national origin, race, or religion….” The plaintiffs initiated the lawsuit in 2002 on behalf of Arab and Muslim aliens who were held on immigration violations ...
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• Bacon-scoffing Muslim chef who lost discrimination claim faces £76,000 costs

  
  The Freethinker — Authority: 524
  A MUSLIM chef who lost a claim of religious discrimination against Scotland Yard after complaining he was forced to cook sausages and bacon faces a legal bill of more than £75,000. Hasanali Khoja Hasanali Khoja accused the Metropolitan Police of failing to consider his Islamic beliefs when he was asked to ...
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• Compelled expression and the New Mexico photographer case

  
  Overlawyered — Authority: 648
  A New Mexico court has upheld state-levied fines against a photographer who refused a job taking pictures at a same-sex wedding (Elane Photography v. Willock). Eugene Volokh, who has written about the case previously , now has a series of posts on the implications of the court’s effort to force creators to “ ...
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• Europe Muslims face rising discriminatio…

  
  Talk Islam — Authority: 502
  Europe Muslims face rising discrimination: report. Nothing new here to anyone that is paying attention. a
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• Joe Dallin’s “Perfect” : A Coming Out Story About Loving One’s Self

  
  Tasithoughts's Weblog — Authority: 128
  I am an avid book reader.  There are books that capture me from the first sentence and are hard to put down.  Joe Dallin’s “Perfect” is one of them. Part of the reason is that I met the author many years ago in Portland through a mutual friend of ours attending our first Affirmation conference.   Also, I ...
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• Please Don’t Call That Christian – A Protest Song

  
  Tasithoughts's Weblog — Authority: 128
  This is a down home song on guitar pointing out the obvious.  A protest song with good lyrics and something to think about for the season.
  2 weeks ago

• Updated: Christian registrar Lillian Ladele loses appeal

  
  PinkNews.co.uk — Authority: 694
  An Islington registrar who refused to carry out civil partnerships for gay couples has lost her appeal. The Court of Appeal ruled today that Lillian Ladele had not been discriminated against.
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• Fort Hood ups challenge to recruit Musli…

  
  Talk Islam — Authority: 502
  Fort Hood ups challenge to recruit Muslim, Arab troops. Army recruiter Sgt. Chris McGarity is on the front lines of the military’s effort to add troops who speak Arabic and understand Middle Eastern culture — a battle that grew more challenging after the shooting at Fort Hood, Texas. McGarity says he recently ...
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• North Carolinians Seek to Bar Atheist From Office

  
  God is Pretend — Authority: 111
  Here’s the gist: North Carolina’s constitution says that no one denying the existence of god can hold public office. The US Constitution says that there shall be no religious test for holding office. Which one trumps the other? I think that should be fairly clear, but to the residents of North Carolina that seem ...
  3 weeks ago

• Islamophobia & Religious Discrimination: contextualising the need

  
  walls come tumbling down — Authority: 111
  My opening speech from the “Islamophobia & Religious Discrimination: new perspectives, policies and practices” event yesterday (9th December 2009):Why do we need an event that focuses on Islamophobia and religious discrimination when, as Alistair Campbell once famously remarked to Tony Blair, as a nation “We ...
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• Muslims must practice discreetly

  
  Talk Islam — Authority: 502
  Erudite Sarkozy speaks loosely in La Monde Nicolas Sarkozy stoked the debate over immigration today with a warning to Muslims to practise their religion discreetly or face rejection by moderate Islam in France. The President voiced sympathy for Swiss voters who opted last week to ban minarets as he tried to reassert ...
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• Europe: Is There Room for Allah in the Workplace?

  
  Talk Islam — Authority: 502
  Time Europe asks : Are European societies anti-Islam? That’s a question more people are asking in the wake of Switzerland’s referendum to ban the building of minarets in the Alpine country. Almost 6 out of 10 Swiss voters supported the ban — charges of racism be damned. France passed a law in 2004 that bans ...
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• PRESS RELEASE: “Decision-makers need to ‘think hard’ about what needs to be done on Islamophobia & Religious Discrimination”

  
  walls come tumbling down — Authority: 111
  In a year when the British National Party (BNP) won two seats in the European parliament, the English Defence League have marched in protest against the ‘Islamification’ of Britain in various towns and cities, and more recently, there has been a referendum in Switzerland to ban minarets, the University of ...
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• Mayoral Mistake: California Official Should Stay Out Of The Salvation Business

  
  The Wall of Separation — Authority: 515
  Some years ago, I attended a press conference held by notorious anti-abortion zealot Randall Terry. There weren’t many people at the event, and afterward Terry asked me where I was from.When I told him I worked at Americans United, he replied, “You and Barry Lynn had better watch it – you’re going to hell!”I ...
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• Jewish Groups Object to Switzerland’s Minaret Ban

  
  Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines — Authority: 742
  Recognizing that this week’s popular vote to forbid the building of minarets in Switzerland represented a blatant show of religious intolerance it couldn’t ignore, an association of Jewish organizations is expressing its strong disagreement with the ban and calling on Swiss leaders to defend religious freedom.  ...
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• MacFarlane Loses Second Tribunal Case

  
  An Exercise in the Fundamentals of Orthodoxy — Authority: 424
  You might remember the story of Gary MacFarlane who was sacked as a Relate counsellor because he refused to counsel homosexual couples. We carried the story back in January of the Employment Tribunal where it was ruled that MacFarlane was not discriminated against. There has now been another Tribunal hearing, an ...
  4 weeks ago

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