Internationally, Germany has often been lauded for its reckoning with the Holocaust – its so-called Erinnerungskultur, or culture of remembrance.1 Whether this at times gushing praise of Germany’s historical conscience is fully warranted is another matter.2 (The right-wing populist Alternative for Germany party has, for one, always demanded that the country stop banging on about…
In a recent Le Monde op-ed, a group of Muslim religious leaders offered a response to the “Manifesto ‘against the new anti-Semitism’” published recently in Le Parisien. “We, the signatories of this appeal, would first like to express our compassion for all our fellow citizens who have been directly or indirectly affected by terrorism and by the…
An Ipsos Mori survey on Muslims in Britain reveals that a number of the British general public’s understandings regarding Muslims, including the number of Muslims in the country and the compatibility of Islam and British life, are misconceptions.
Writing on MuslimGirl.com, Leah Vernon observes that, while Muslim women’s movements have been making waves online recently, the majority of Muslim women still are not represented in the media, reflecting and propagating the discrimination they face from both outside and within the community.
Writing in The Religion Factor, experts in law, religion, and ethics have offered their analysis of the proposed ban on child circumcision in Iceland, revealing the nuances of, and the concepts dominating, the discourse surrounding it.
