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'Guardian' trainee may sue over sacking
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A trainee journalist at The Guardian newspaper is considering legal
action after being sacked for refusing to give up membership of a
radical Muslim organisation, first revealed in The Independent on
Sunday.
Dilpazier Aslam, 27, was sacked on Friday after refusing to give up
membership of Hizb ut-Tahrir. The organisation is banned in Germany and
elsewhere. Although Hizb ut-Tahrir is non-violent and legal in this
country, The Guardian said it considered the organisation to be
anti-Semitic.
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Posted by SweenyTod on Tuesday, July 26 @ 08:52:42 EDT (1795 reads)
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Happy Week leads to jail for women
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Three women in Indonesia face jail sentences of up to five years if
found guilty on charges of trying to convert children to Christianity.
The case against Rebekka Zakaria, Ratna Mala Bangun and Ety Pangesti,
stems from the trio’s involvement in a children’s holiday initiative --
Happy Week -- in West Java.
The camp was organised for local Christian children, but allowed Muslim
children to attend with parental consent and supervision.
The charges against the women was brought by the local chapter of the
Indonesian Council of Muslim Clerics who alleged that the women enticed
Muslim children to participate and also that they tried to convert the
youngsters to Christianity.
The women were arrested despite the fact that all children had full
parental consent. None of the children changed religion and reportedly
no complaints have been lodged by the children’s families.
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Posted by SweenyTod on Tuesday, July 26 @ 08:46:45 EDT (1742 reads)
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Judge Favors Christian Fired for Refusing Pro-Gay Policy
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Anonymous writes "Fred Jackson & Jenni Parker
Agape Press
April 7, 2004
A Christian legal group says a court victory for a Colorado man fired by AT&T could set a precedent for the rights of Christian employees in the workplace.
A federal judge has awarded nearly $150,000 to a man who was fired by AT&T Broadband for refusing to sign a diversity policy requiring him to value the beliefs of others, including homosexuals. In a Friday ruling, Judge Marcia S. Krieger of the U.S. District Court in Colorado directed the company to recompense former employee Albert Buonanno of Denver for lost salary, 401k matching contributions, and emotional distress.
Although the judge did not find AT&T Broadband guilty of any direct religious discrimination against Buonanno, she did find that the company failed to show it could not have accommodated his religious beliefs without "undue hardship," as employers are required to do under the Civil Rights Act"
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Posted by SweenyTod on Sunday, April 11 @ 15:23:12 EDT (2524 reads)
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Jordanian Government Closes Newspaper After Journalists Are Accused of Insulting
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The government closed a weekly newspaper and detained three journalists for an article that discussed the sex life of the Prophet Muhammad, an editor at the paper said Friday.
The newspaper Al-Hilal, or the Crescent, published an article Tuesday that focused on the Muhammad's sex life with his favorite wife, Aisha, an extremely sensitive subject in the Muslim world.
Officials detained the paper's editor-in-chief, Nasser Qamash, a senior assistant editor, Roman Haddad, and the writer of the article, Muhanad Mbaidhin, for 15 days late Thursday, the official Petra news agency reported Thursday night. Petra also said Al-Hilal had been closed.
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Posted by SweenyTod on Sunday, January 19 @ 16:42:41 EST (2445 reads)
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Bangladesh court sentences Taslima
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The Bangladeshi feminist writer, Taslima Nasreen, has been given a one-year prison sentence on a charge of writing derogatory comments about Islam in several of her books.
This is the first sentence against the writer who was forced to flee the country in 1994 after receiving death threats from Muslim extremists.
Taslima Nasreen's criticism of traditional Islamic values and customs angered many hard line Islamic groups in Bangladesh.
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Posted by SweenyTod on Monday, October 14 @ 23:30:46 EDT (2048 reads)
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Europe's Most Repressive Religion Law Goes to Final Signature
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Source: Keston Institute
Following the adoption this morning (2 October) by the upper house of the Belarusian parliament of the controversial amendments to the country's religion law (see KNS article earlier today), the bill now goes to President Aleksandr Lukashenko for signature. The president has ten days to sign and the law then comes into force ten days after that. All religious organisations in Belarus will then have to undergo compulsory re-registration over the next two years (see separate KNS article), and bring their statutes into line with the new law.
Both parliamentary and unofficial sources in Minsk told Keston that the revised religion law was adopted in the Council of the Republic with 46 votes in favour, 2 against and 4 abstentions, unchanged from the text adopted by the lower house of parliament on 27 June (see KNS 1 July 2002). One of the two senators to vote against the bill and the only one to speak up against it during the debate was Yadviga Grigorovich, deputy chair of the upper house's social affairs commission. "Religious peace in our country is very shaky. If this law is passed, interfaith conflicts await Belarus," she told Reuters.
If signed by the president, as everyone expects, the new law would outlaw unregistered religious activity, require compulsory prior censorship for all religious literature; ban foreign citizens from leading religious organisations; publishing and education would be restricted to faiths that have ten registered communities, including at least one that had registration in 1982; and there would be a ban on all but occasional, small religious meetings in private homes.
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Posted by SweenyTod on Sunday, October 06 @ 15:21:38 EDT (2495 reads)
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Court bans racist website
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AN Adelaide website has been ordered to removematerial that casts doubt on whether the Holocaust occurred, in a landmarkFederal Court decision.
It is the first time an Australian court has upheld a complaint about racial vilification on the internet, enforcesan October 2000 Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission decision. Adelaide Institute director Fredrick Toben was ordered yesterday toremove all offending material from the site within a week, and banned frompublishing similar material.
Note: For the curious, the Alelaide Institute website mentioned in the story can be found here.
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Posted by SweenyTod on Thursday, September 19 @ 16:09:25 EDT (2004 reads)
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Italian police black out 'blasphemous' websites
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Italian authorities have shut down five Internet sites which reportedly carried blasphemies against God and the Virgin Mary, following a complaint by the Vatican's newspaper.
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Posted by SweenyTod on Wednesday, July 10 @ 19:44:09 EDT (2232 reads)
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Don't preach in Uzbek, official tells church
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LONDON (BP)--A Pentecostal church group in Uzbekistan has been ordered not to preach in Uzbek, the state language of the Central Asian country, according to a May 27 report from the London-based Keston News Service.
The order is one of several developments in Uzbekistan "which could soon lead to a significant restriction on religious freedom in our country," according to an open letter from press officer Dmitri Pitirimov of the Evangelical Christians/Baptists of Uzbekistan.
Contacted by Keston on May 22, Minovarov stated, "I confirm the report that we advised Nechitailo to stop preaching in the Uzbek language, and also that we asked him not to distribute Uzbek-language religious literature from the Church of Christians of the Full Gospel."
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Posted by SweenyTod on Wednesday, May 29 @ 16:56:41 EDT (2492 reads)
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Canadian Christians Protest Loss of Free Speech Rights
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April 9, 2002 Oshawa, Canada .... [Jonathan Gallagher/ANN]
Christians in Canada say their freedom to express beliefs about morality and faith is under assault. The outcry comes after a recent decision by the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council that Christians are not permitted to make on-air moral statements on sexual behavior--in this case homosexuality.
A station broadcasting a program from the U.S.-based "Focus on the Family" was ordered to issue an apology for identifying homosexual practice as unacceptable from the standpoint of Christian morality. In earlier decisions, the CBSC has made similar determinations relative to homosexuality.
According to Canada's Anglican Archbishop, Michael Peers, many Canadians in public office now believe that values such as pluralism and secularism require that no reference to religion be made at any public event. He referred to the national service of mourning after September 11, which contained no religious references, and to warnings to Christian participants at the service to mark the Swissair crash off the coast of Nova Scotia not to quote scripture, not to pray Christian prayers, and not to mention Jesus.
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Posted by SweenyTod on Monday, April 15 @ 21:58:48 EDT (2711 reads)
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Anonymous: Investigating the 'death metal' murders (2/10)
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Anonymous: media has distorted the music industry (12/9)
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