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US Report: Saudi Arabia Has Zero Religious Freedom
By Betwa Sharma - AOL News(Nov. 17) -- Saudi Arabia has no religious freedom in theory or practice, according to a report released today by the U.S. State Department. The report also slammed other countries, including Iran and China, for their lack of tolerance of diverse faiths. "The public practice of non-Muslim religions is prohibited" and Saudi government officials "continued to raid private non-Muslim religious gatherings," the report said. A body called the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice in Saudi Arabia "sometimes confiscated the personal religious materials of non-Muslims," ...
Vanity Plates, the First Amendment, and a Judge on the Rise
By Andrew Cohen - Politics DailyEvery once in a while, a federal appeals court judge somewhere, generally unknown beyond her or his jurisdiction, will offer up for the rest of us a gem of a ruling, which both offers an interesting recitation of legal principle and explains itself in language accessible to ordinary people. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you now the latest work of 2nd U.S. Circuit Court Judge Debra Ann Livingston, a Harvard Law School graduate, former federal prosecutor, and 2007 judicial nominee of former President George W. Bush. Her decision last week is perfect water-cooler fodder for a work week cut short ...
Opinion: At the UN, Obama Should Speak Out for Religious Freedom
By not in system - AOL News
(Sept. 22) -- President Barack Obama will be delivering an address on Thursday to the U.N. General Assembly and, as in previous years, it is almost certain that he will have to share the podium with a rogue's gallery of the world's most oppressive human rights and religious freedom abusers. President Obama has the ability and the standing abroad to leverage this opportunity by speaking forcefully and eloquently on behalf of the cause for universal human rights. Worst Violators of Religious Freedom China Iran Saudi Arabia Eritrea Nigeria North Korea Sudan Vietnam Burma Pakistan Uzbekistan ...
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 ...
Terry Jones Cancels Quran Burning Cancellation: So Wait, Is It Back On?
By Carl Franzen - AOL News(Sept. 9) To burn or not to burn, that is the question. On Tuesday, would-be Quran-burning Pastor Terry Jones, leader of the decidedly non-mainstream Dove World Outreach Center christian church, said he would consider the vehement objections of numerous other high profile figures and pray before making his final decision on whether or not to proceed with the virulently anti-Muslim demonstration on this coming Saturday, Sept. 11. Then, on Thursday, it seemed as though the anti-Muslim bonfire was back on, prompting cautionary alerts from the U.S. State Department and Interpol about a ...
Plan to Burn Qurans Latest Religious Fire-Starter
By Andrea Stone - AOL NewsANALYSIS WASHINGTON (Sept. 7) -- The Florida pastor who's caused an international firestorm with his plan to burn the Muslim Quran on the ninth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks is being widely condemned for inciting religious hatred. Yet he is hardly an original thinker. History is filled with book burnings, censorship and persecution of those who espouse different religious, political or artistic beliefs. In some cases, as in the destruction of the ancient library at Alexandria in Egypt or the more recent firebombing of the Bosnian national library in Sarajevo in 1992, vast stores of ...
Orrin Hatch Backs 'Ground Zero Mosque,' Breaks With GOP Colleagues
By David Gibson - Politics DailyRepublican Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah has come out strongly in support of the controversial Islamic center proposed for construction in New York, even as his party appears to be using opposition to the so-called "Ground Zero mosque" as a campaign issue. In an interview over the weekend with Fox 13 News in Salt Lake City, Hatch noted that "there's a huge . . . lack of support throughout the country for Islam to build that mosque there, but that should not make a difference if they decide to do it." "I'd be the first to stand up for their rights," said Hatch, a Mormon and longtime supporter of ...
Opinion: It's About Religious Freedom. Period.
By Alan Colmes - AOL News(Aug. 27) -- Let's take a quick look at the misinformation surrounding the so-called ground zero mosque. First, it is neither at ground zero, nor is it a mosque. It's kind of like Joe the Plumber. His name isn't really Joe and he isn't a licensed plumber. For me, this calls into doubt even the "the." All the grave concern about a mosque in that building two blocks away from ground zero ignores that there is already a mosque in that building. I'm not aware of any damage that the prayer space there, already being used by Muslims, is causing. Now, in addition to that prayer space, they want ...
Obama Supports Allowing Mosque Near Ground Zero
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (Aug. 13) - President Barack Obama on Friday forcefully endorsed building a mosque near ground zero, saying the country's founding principles demanded no less. "As a citizen, and as president, I believe that Muslims have the same right to practice their religion as anyone else in this country," Obama said, weighing in for the first time on a controversy that has riven New York City and the nation. "That includes the right to build a place of worship and a community center on private property in lower Manhattan, in accordance with local laws and ordinances," he said. "This is ...
Top Court's Ruling in School Case Skirts Bigger Issue
By Tamara Lytle - AOL News(June 29) -- The Supreme Court has decided a California law school can deny university recognition to a campus club that bars non-Christians from its membership. But the ruling still hasn't settled the larger issue of how far colleges can go in pressing student groups not to discriminate. Many public universities have policies requiring campus groups not to discriminate on the basis of things like religion, sexual orientation and race. However, in making its decision Monday the court passed up the opportunity to rule on how those policies apply to religious groups -- whether a Christian ...
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