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Objection To School Curriculum A middle school in Georgia, USA, has modified its curriculum on the Middle East after a parent complained that the material for one of his daughter’s assignments positively slanted towards Islam. The Offending Material The material used for Hal Medlin’s daughter’s 7th-grade course at Campbell Middle School included a fictitious letter from a woman in [...] ”No Place For Human Rights, Democracy Or Citizenship In Islam” Remember Egyptian Sheikh Adel Shehato who declared recently that democracy “is not the faith of Muslims, but the faith of Jews and Christians”? Well he is not alone. Now Ayatollah Mohammad Taghi Mesban-Yazdi has endorsed that view, and expanded it to include human rights and citizenship in [...] Integration Bill The Dutch parliament is debating the Integration, Bonding and Citizenship Bill, introduced by the center-right government because “the government shares the social dissatisfaction over the multicultural society model and plans to shift priority to the values of the Dutch people”. The bill will thus make things tougher for immigrants. Dissatisfaction With Multiculturalism The 1.2 million Muslims in [...] The Survey Nearly 15% of the world’s population of Muslims live in Malaysia and Indonesia, and about half of them are aged under 25. Living as they do in multiethnic and multireligious countries, these Muslims differ from those in the Middle East in their cultural backgrounds. Will their backgrounds and much opportunity to interact with so many [...] The Family Massacre “I’m sorry for what I did to my family. I regret it every day, and I pray for them,” so said 33-year-old James A Larry. What was this man so sorry for? Had he cheated on his family? Had he gambled away the family’s assets? What he had done was massacre his family. About [...] Position Of Islam In Germany Poor Aziz Pitakumpol, the Muslim spiritual leader in Thailand. He left for Germany a few days ago at the invitation of the German government to learn something about its policies in dealing with cultural discrimination. Aziz Pitakumpol had been unhappy about a ban on Islamic headscarves at a school in Bangkok, and [...] Expat Muslims Hampered By Language Barriers When a Muslim attends Friday prayer at a mosque, he also expects to hear a khutbah (Friday sermon) on issues concerning Islam. But in Saudi Arabia, all mosques deliver the khutbah in Arabic which many expat Muslims don’t understand. Expat Muslims are thus hampered by language barriers when trying to understand [...] All People To Practice Faith Openly With a clarion call delivered from a Vatican document, Pope Benedict XVI called for all states to guarantee religious freedom – which in other words, for all people to “practice their faith publicly”. In the document, Pope Benedict XVI said the Catholic Church respected all religions and recommitted the Vatican’s stance [...] |
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