AOL News has a new home! The Huffington Post.
Click here to visit the new home of Politics Daily!Hot on HuffPost:
Controversial Book On Obama Appears To Have Lifted Key Quote
Walker Recall Effort Struggles To Gain Momentum
freedom of religion
How Will France Enforce Impending Burqa Ban? [VIDEO]
By not in system - AOL News...
Justice Dept. to Sue on Behalf of Teacher for Pilgrimage [VIDEO]
By not in system - AOL News...
Netherlands Considers Banning Religious Animal Slaughter
By not in system - AOL NewsAMSTERDAM -- One of Europe's first countries to allow Jews to practice their religion openly may soon pass a law banning centuries-old Jewish and Muslim traditions on the ritual slaughter of animals. In the Netherlands, an unlikely alliance of an animal rights party and the xenophobic Freedom Party is spearheading support for the ban on kosher and halal slaughter methods that critics say inflict unacceptable suffering on animals. Peter Dejong, AP The Netherlands is considering a law that would affect how Halal butcher stores, like this one in Amsterdam, slaughter animals for ...
Judge's Ten Commandments Display in Courtroom Ruled Unconstitutional
By Andrew Cohen - Politics DailyA federal appeals court ruled unanimously Wednesday that a local trial judge in Ohio has no constitutional right to hang in his courtroom a poster of the Ten Commandments along with his own pointed comments about "moral relativism" and the rule of law. In a 17-page order, the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals declared that the presence of the poster in the courtroom of Richland County Common Pleas Court Judge James Deweese violated the First Amendment rights of lawyers and litigants appearing before him. Asserting that the judge's "secular" justification for the written message was "a ...
Pastor Who Threatened to Burn Quran Now Threatening to Move Church
By Mara Gay - AOL News(Sept. 17) -- The radical Christian pastor who threatened to burn copies of the Quran on the ninth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks says he plans to move his church. Terry Jones, the 58-year-old leader of the Dove World Outreach Center in Gainesville, Fla., says his small congregation may move to the Tampa area by the end of the year, according to a report in The Tampa Tribune. "A fresh start is a good term," Jones told the Tribune today. "There's a more favorable atmosphere for the church and our message in the Tampa-St. Petersburg area." Mohammad Sultan, imam of the Islamic Society of ...
Islam Takes Another Hit in Europe: Swiss Vote to Ban New Minarets
By Delia Lloyd - Politics DailyFirst, it was head scarves. Then it was burqas. The latest target in Europe's growing anti-Muslim sentiment: minarets. ...
Follow Politics Daily
POPULAR
- Nancy Pelosi Confirms House May Skip Up or Down Vote on Senate Health Bill
- Debrahlee Lorenzana: A Double Take on Those Double D's
- Campbell Brown Quits CNN With Shockingly Frank Farewell
- Palin Earnings Estimated at $12 Million
- The Five Most Racist Obama Cartoons?
- Soraya M., Stoned to Death for Being an "Inconvenient Wife''
- Jimmy Carter Leaves Church Over Treatment of Women
- No posts are available.
News From Our Partners
- Dragon arrives at space station in historic 1st
- Picking new leader, Egyptians search for superman
- Egyptians vote in first free presidential vote
- Moon chips from Vegas casino mogul sent to NASA
- Egyptians vote to rid nation of autocratic rule
- More Stories »
- Rudy Giuliani: Mitt's Great. I'm Just Better
- 'Masters of the Universe' Sure Have Fragile Egos
- Romney: My Mistakes 'Haunt Me'
- Newt Lauds Romney: He's Like Eisenhower
- Irked Senate Panel Votes 30-0 to Cut Pakistan Aid
- More Stories »
- Know Your Enemy
- Obama’s Challenge in Egypt
- The Edwards Waiting Game
- Are Doctors Doing Too Much?
- The Pagan Cult of Reagan
- More Stories »
- Ambition Counteracting Ambition
- Robert Blagojevich Speaks Out
- In Iowa, Obama Calls Romney's Words 'A Cow Pie of Distortion'
- In Iowa, Obama Calls On Congress to Act on Clean Energy Tax Credits
- Romney Has Interesting Morning in Inner-City Philly
- More Stories »
Top News
More News
More on Aol
Local News
More Blog/Sites
Sites and Services
HuffPost Politics