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Decoding religious freedom claims
by Jessica Polebaum...hundred years later) as on behalf of liberty. It is a code phrase alternately benign and sinister, much like that other clever cloak for bigotry, “states’ rights.” In the context...
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Ducking the Arab Spring in Morocco
by Abdeslam Maghraoui...The World Bank, Western donors, and International NGOs have bankrolled this strategy. With the exception of the widely applauded family code reforms introduced in 2004, all of the king’s reform...
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Catholic guidelines for the blogosphere
by Nathan Schneider...considerable concern: Archbishop Celli said he didn’t think a Catholic bloggers’ “code of conduct” would accomplish much, especially when what is really needed is a reflection on what it means...
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Glenn Beck now telling you what church to attend
by Rebecca Sager...to describe their efforts to address poverty and human rights, is a “code word” for communism and Nazism. Beck urged Christians to discuss the term with their priests and to...
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Banning Shari‘a
by Anver Emon...religious or moral code with the force of law in the adjudication of any case under its jurisdiction.” The reference to “foreign religious or moral code” is curious—on the one...
Uprising in Egypt
The power of a new political imagination
by Malika Zeghal...the Moroccan PJD. He has underlined his acceptance of the Tunisian Personal Status Code, imposed by President Bourguiba in 1956. This legal code makes polygamy and divorce by repudiation illegal,...
Islam and the Secular State
Islam and authority
by John R. Bowen...the possibility of open debate and legitimate disagreement, and always has contained variation and disagreement. Islam as a set of state laws flattens Islamic jurisprudence into a single code. The...