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Academics & Education
Abaya controversy tests French schools’ secular limits
(AFP) A reported increase in Muslim girls wearing the abaya dress at French schools has triggered a debate about their violation of the country’s sacrosanct commitment to secularism in education. France’s identity has long been wedded to its conception of secularism in […]
Government & Politics
UK officials who oversaw funding of extremist Muslim groups must be sacked: counterterrorism expert
(Arab News) UK Prevent program officials who have overseen the public funding of Muslim groups that promote extremism should be sacked, a counterterrorism expert has said in the Times newspaper. Prof. Ian Acheson, a senior adviser to the Counter Extremism Project, which […]
Government & Politics
American Islamists push blasphemy narrative in India’s prophet controversy
(IPT) Deadly riots broke out in several Indian cities June 10 over perceived blasphemous remarks by a spokeswoman for India’s ruling Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP). Enraged Islamist mobs burned posters and hanged effigies of Nupur Sharma after Jummah prayers over her controversial […]