- Anti-Christian violence in India
Wikipedia articles
Resource Type: Article
Anti-Christian violence in India refers to religiously motivated violence against Christians in India, usually perpetrated by Hindu nationalists. The acts of violence include arson of churches, re-conversion of Christians to Hinduism by force and threats of physical violence, distribution of threatening literature, burning of Bibles, raping of nuns, murder of Christian priests and destruction of Christian schools, colleges, and cemeteries.
- Atheist blogger hacked to death with machetes in Dhaka, Bangladesh
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Machete-wielding assailants hacked to death a blogger in the Bangladeshi capital of Dhaka, in the latest of a series of attacks on writers who support freethinking values in the Muslim-majority nation.
- Bangladesh and the shrinking space for free thinkers: 'Don't call me Muslim, I am an atheist'
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Writer Taslima Nasreen fled Bangladesh in 1994 when extremists threatened to kill her for criticizing Islam, and has been living in exile since. Her country has, in recent times, seen many intellectuals expelled or killed. In this interview, she speaks about the shrinking space for free thinkers in Bangladesh and says that Islam cannot be exempt from the critical scrutiny that other religions undergo.
- Banned Books
Informal Notes on Some Books Banned for Various Reasons
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1970
- Buddhist Pogropms and Religious Conflicts
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
Most observers would, rightly, reject the idea that there is something inherent in Buddhism that has led to the violence. Rather, most would recognize that the anti-Muslim violence in both Myanmar and Sri Lanka has its roots in the political struggles that have engulfed the two nations. The importance of Buddhism in the conflicts in Myanmar and Sri Lanka is not that the tenets of faith are responsible for the pogroms, but that those bent on confrontation have adopted the garb of religion as a means of gaining a constituency and justifying their actions.
- The Christian Genocide During the Ottoman Empire Sounds a Dark Warning for the Future
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2019
Review and discussion of The Thirty-Year Genocide: Turkey’s Destruction of Its Christian Minorities 1894-1924 by Benny Morris and Dror Zeevi.
- Connexions Library: Race, Racism, Ethnicity, Multiculturalism Focus
Resource Type: Website
Published: 2009
Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on race, racism, ethnicity, multiculturalism, identity.
- Connexions Library: Religion Focus
Resource Type: Website
Published: 2009
Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on religion.
- The Deadly Costs of Muslim Sectarianism
Sunni v. Shia
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2011
A war of extraordinary brutality is being waged across the Muslim world which is largely ignored by the media. It is a war in which victims are assassinated or massacred with no chance to defend themselves. Most of those who die are poor people murdered in obscure places without the world paying any attention.
- Devsirme
Wikipedia article
Resource Type: Article
Devsirme (literally collecting in Turkish) was chiefly the practice by which the Ottoman Empire took sons from their Balkan Christian every year. They were then converted to Islam with the primary objective of using them for the military or civil service of the Empire.
- Exhuming history: censored Jewish text brought to light by Library and Archives Canada
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
Words that were once lost to history have been brought into the light by book conservationists at Library and Archives Canada. The 16th-century collection of sermons were by a rabbi and philosopher who sought to keep the faith alive during a dark era of persecution and censorship, when Jews were facing possible expulsion from their homes if they did not convert to Christianity.
- Freedom of Speech? Dubious Settlement in School Prayer Case
Resource Type: Article
- From Fatwa to Jihad
The Rushdie Affair and its Legacy
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2009
Tells the story both of the Rushdie affair and of its transformative impact on cultural and political landscape of the West. The book explores the issues that the Rushide affair raised. in particular the questions of muliculturalism, radical Islam and free speech, and shows how in responding to these issues Western liberals have betrayed the fundamental beliefs of liberalism.
- Hekmat, Mansoor - Writings - Index
Resource Type: Article
Writings of Mansoor Hekmat (1951-2002).
- Homosexuality and Civilisation
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2003
- Human Rights Council resolution on blasphemy
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
Reporters Without Borders is extremely concerned by a resolution condemning #defamation of religions# which the United Nations Human Rights Council adopted on 25 March.
- 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.
- Indonesia: light sentences for deadly attack threaten religious tolerance
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2011
An Indoensian court sentenced 12 Islamist militants to three to six months imprisonment yesterday for the attack on members of the Ahmadiyah minority group in Cikeusik last February, which resulted in three deaths.
- Infidel
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2007
Ayaan Hirsi Ali is a Somali woman who escaped a forced marriage and moved to the Netherlands, where she became a spokeswoman for Muslim women's rights. She tells the story of how her experiences led her to question her faith.
- 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.
- A Marxist History of the World part 31: Crusade and Jihad
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2011
The Crusades lasted 200 years and represented the most extreme expression of the futile violence inherent in western feudalism - a murderous attack on the Middle East by western feudal thugs under the banner of religion.
- A Marxist History of the World part 37: The Counter-Reformation
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2011
Neil Faulkner looks at how the Reformation was followed by a counter-revolutionary response which involved a dogmatic reassertion of Catholic orthodoxy: the Counter-Reformation.
- On Buddhist Fundamentalism
Hollywood, Please Take Note
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
Four years after the brutal assault on the Tamil population and the killing of between 8—10,000 Tamils by the Sri Lankan army, there is trouble again. The saffron-robed fanatics, led by the BBS — Bodu Bala Sena: the most active and pernicious of Buddhist fundamentalist groups that have sprouted in Sinhala strongholds throughout the island— are on the rampage again.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - October 15, 2016
Lurching to War
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2016
The risk of nuclear war is as great now as it was at the height of the Cold War. From the time the Warsaw Pact dissolved itself and the Soviet Union collapsed, the United States has single-mindedly pursued a hyper-aggressive strategy of surrounding Russia with hostile military forces and missiles aimed at the Russian heartland.
- Pakistan Government fails to protect basic human rights of Ahmadis yet again
Sources News Release June 11, 2008
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2008
- St. Bartholomew's Day massacre
Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article
A wave of Roman Catholic mob violence, directed against the Huguenots (French Calvinist Protestants).
- 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.
- The Spanish Holocaust: Inquisition and Extermination in Twentieth-Century Spain
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2012
Paul Preston charts how and why Franco and his supporters set out to eliminate all ‘those who do not think as we do’ – some 200,000 men, women and children across Spain.
- Strip-Searching Children
Humiliation and Child Abuse at Israeli Checkpoints
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2007
Israeli officials have been regularly strip-searching children for decades.
- Syrian Minority Fear the End of Fighting More Than War Itself
Persecution of the Christians
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
If the opposition National Coalition, recognised by 130 countries as the legitimate government of Syria, does ultimately take power then its most effective fighting force will be Jadhat al-Nusra, with an ideology similar to al-Qa’ida. It is prospects like this that fill Syrian Christians with alarm.
- Terror in a Christmas Tree
Israel Tries to Ban Non-Jewish Celebrations
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
Who would imagine that Israeli Jews could be so intimidated by the innocuous Christmas tree?
- 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.
- A year after Charlie, RSF warns against "religious correctness"
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
On the eve of the first anniversary of the Charlie Hebdo tragedy in Paris and amid controversy about the satirical weekly's latest cover, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) cautions against the insidious imposition of a "religious correctness"
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