Islamophobia Threatens Democracy in Europe, Report Says

In a report on the health of democracy in the post-Soviet world, Freedom House painted a bleak picture of the state of liberal values in parts of Europe. The Washington-based human rights advocacy organization, which publishes a global freedom index every year, highlighted a number of worrying trends in 29 countries in Eastern and Central Europe, the…

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The Jewish-Christian tradition, upheld in the German Islam debate, is an invention

22 Oct 2010 There is only one main opponent on the current battleground — Islam. It is therefore necessary that Jewish intellectuals and Muslims in Germany engage in a new relationship, writes the philosopher Almut Shulamit Bruckstein Coruh in this essay. Every day in Germany, one hears talk of the Jewish-Christian tradition in the West….

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Please don’t hate us: UK ad campaign to target extremism

A British advertising campaign is launched to prevent people in Pakistan from engaging in extremism. In a series of television and radio commercials, prominent British Muslims declare that it is no contradiction to be British and Muslim and condemn violent extremism. The commercials will be broadcasted on major channels in Pakistan from Monday, 16 February,…

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