Shari’ah Law as National Security Threat?

Cyra Akila Choudhury Florida International University College of Law September 18, 2012 Akron Law Review, Vol. 46, 2012 Florida International University Legal Studies Research Paper; No. 12-19 Abstract: In 2011, several states passed anti-shari’ah laws arguing that they were necessary to protect the United States’ from the infiltration of Islamic law. According to supporters, these…

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Survey: Americans overstate size of religious minorities

The typical American underestimates how many Protestants there are in the U.S., and vastly overestimates the number of religious minorities such as Mormons, Muslims, and atheist/agnostics, according to a new study. Grey Matter Research and Consulting asked 747 U.S. adults to guess what proportion of the American population belongs to each of eight major religious…

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Little Voter Discomfort with Romney’s Mormon Religion and Only About Half Identify Obama as Christian

Most voters continue to say it is important for a president to have strong religious beliefs. But voters have limited awareness of the religious faiths of both Mitt Romney and Barack Obama. And there is little evidence to suggest that concerns about the candidates’ respective faiths will have a meaningful impact in the fall elections….

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Inter-religious Research Training Group

June 18 Four German academic institutions joined forces and established a post-graduate programme, called “Theology as a science: historical and systemic analysis of the formation processes of self-reflection in faith traditions”. The institutions involved are the Universities of Frankfurt and Mainz, the Sankt Georgen Graduate School of Philosophy and Theology in Frankfurt and the College…

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Torrejon, Spain: Divided by a Mosque

01 July 2012 The Islamic community in Torrejon, with about 200 members, has been installed for more than a decade in a central garage two blocks away from the Plaza Mayor. They have purchased land and they have the architectural plans for the facade of its new building composed of two floors and a small…

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