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Religious Diversity AlterLinks Topic Index Beyond the Veil Resource Type: Article Published: 2013 The question of the Muslim veil seems never to leave the headlines for long. The latest controversies have erupted in Britain after a defendant in a criminal trial demanded the right to wear a niqab in court and a college attempted to proscribe it. Broadcast Licenses for Religious Groups Resource Type: Article Published: 1999 Religious freedom does not imply the right of any group to use the public airwaves to promulgate their own religious views while excluding all conflicting points of view. Bussy-Saint-Georges, the town with built-in religious harmony Resource Type: Article Published: 2012 Planners hope construction of a multi-faith district will bring together the citizens of a new town near Paris. Citizens for Public Justice Media Profile in Sources Resource Type: Organization Connexions Library: Religion Focus Resource Type: Website Published: 2009 Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on religion. IFJ Backs Indian Calls for "Peace and Tolerance" in Media Reports of Religious Dispute Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2010 The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today called for journalists to play their part in keeping the peace in India where there are fears of community violence in a long-running religious dispute. Inclusion or exclusion Resource Type: Article Published: 2008 People who advocate a vision of distinct communities that speak different languages, keep apart from each other, and communicate with the structures of the larger society only through interpreters, are doing more harm than good. What they are advocating is not diversity but entrenched division. The Islamophobia Myth Resource Type: Article Published: 2005 Pretending that Muslims have never had it so bad might bolster community leaders and gain votes for politicians, but it does the rest of us, whether Muslim or non-Muslim, no favours at all. The more that the threat of Islamophobia is exaggerated, the more that ordinary Muslims come to accept that theirs is a community under constant attack. It helps create a siege mentality, stoking up anger and resentment, and making Muslim communities more inward looking and more open to religious extremism. Making blasphemy an offence takes Europe back several centuries Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2010 Reporters Without Borders condemns #with the utmost firmness# a new defamation law in Ireland that establishes blasphemy as an offence punishable by a fine of up to 25,000 euros. The law took effect on 1 January. Malik, Kenan Resource Type: Website Website and blog of Kenan Malik, featuring articles on race, identity, multiculturalism, diversity, and censorship. More than 100 rights organisations urge UN to oppose defamation of religions Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2011 More than 100 rights organisations worldwide have banded together to urge member states at the United Nations Human Rights Council session this month to renegotiate defamation of religions resolutions that make criticising religion a crime. The Perils of Faith-Based Multiculturalism The Case of Shari'a in Canada Resource Type: Article Published: 2006 Conservative religious leaders have become more vocal and demanding, and governments are giving in to their demands without much regard for the serious consequences for democracy and citizens’ rights. Radical Digressions 2 Resource Type: Website Published: 2000 The St. Petersburg Declaration Resource Type: Article Published: 2007 We are secular Muslims, and secular persons of Muslim societies. We are believers, doubters, and unbelievers, brought together by a great struggle, not between the West and Islam, but between the free and the unfree. 23 IFEX members and other organisations raise concerns about proposed mechanisms to combat racial and religious intolerance Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2009 23 IFEX members and other organisations raise concerns about proposed mechanisms to combat racial and religious intolerance.

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