Secularism
Apr 12 2011, Amal Arunesh

French government decision on ban on burqa comes as no surprise as it was in the cards for some time. French constitution has given the concept of liberty, equality and fraternity to the worlds. Many governments were inspired by the French...

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ARVIND K.PANDEY, PRAYAG
It’s really ironical that some people talk about crushing communalism of majority community, forgetting that it’s not the majority which is a real threat...
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Aditya S, New Delhi
“Hi name is not important. I have a comment. I don’t like your attacks on the hindu faith. I think your ideas are full of shit. Let me tell you something....
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Sreeja, Mumbai
Even as the burqa controversy triggered by France refuses to die down, I am of the view that India should also follow the footsteps of France, which is home to...
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Incognito, Atlanta
The Lebanese people are fed up with the way their country is being led, and so, in an attempt to take back their country, they showed up en masse, as thousands...
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Shiv, india
Let me lob another bombshell. Can Varun Gandhi be the PM? I personally do not like any one who disturbs our secular character. I tried in vain to find the legal meaning...
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Shyam Jaiswal, new delhi, rairangpur, orissa
The Babri Masjit demolition is the reason for BJP’s down fall? I think answer will come in “yes” from every one. Always BJP’s main agenda is...
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Richard, London
Europe is facing a population crisis because of attacks on religion by secular writers, Britain’s chief rabbi has said. Lord Sacks blamed Europe’s falling...
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NEW DELHI: Muslims will not be singing Vande Mataram as some verses violate the Islam’s faith in Allah is the fatwa released from the Jamiat -e-Ulema-e-Hind by their...
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Erkut, Ankara
Almost all of 77 million people in Turkey are Muslim, but signs of Islamic faith are noticeably divorced from everyday life. But a growing number of Turks are joining...
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Souransu, Calicut
The ruling, by one of the country’s senior judges, has provoked a wave of anxiety throughout India’s secular establishment which has until now been content...
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Michael C, Lyon
Persistent violence and threatening behavior in French hospitals caused by tensions between the French and Muslim concepts of hospital procedures have led to calls for...
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Shiv, india
Cholche cholbe are the magic words one hears as soon one enters Bengal. The proposal to set up a campus of Amu in Murshidabad is another instance of religious...
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Marco Villa, Connecticut
Turkey’s secular elite often likes to pose to outsiders as the defenders of a democratic and secular order in Turkey against a creeping Islamism they claim is the...
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Keith, London
Secularism is the religion of contemporary France. And the enforcers of that faith have a new target. “Today ... we are confronted by certain Muslim women wearing...
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View Point, Shimla
France is to make a move to ban veil in public places. It’s aimed at protecting the rights of women forced to efface themselves by covering their bodies entirely....
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Brij Lal Gupta, Bulandshahr
Nationalism, Some times I think about the word Nationalism and secularism. What is necessary for a nation, Nationalism or Secularism? A man who is devotee for his...
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Ashish Banerjee, Gurgaon
Indian Muslims have always been regarded as a vote bank, and irrespective of their economic conditions they are alleged to have cast their vote as per the fatwa...
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Muslim leaders unanimous in criticizing Justice Katju’s comments By Manzar Bilal, TwoCircles.net, Recently a 16-year old Muslim student Mohammad Saleem of a...
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Amit Vashist, chandigarh
Varun Gandhi is well known to the world, now. He has shown a ray of hope for Hindu community. It is well known that if somebody will raise voice for Hindus, our media...
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Allan, London
Since we have been on a bit of a religious kick for the last few articles I thought you might be interested in this piece that was in the “Religious News...
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Ranbir Dahiya, Rohtak
ON January 26, this year, we have entered the 60th year of our secular democratic Republic. In ancient living civilisations like those in China and India, 60 years is...
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Sarah, Cairo
I was flipping through the channels on the Nilesat satellite, and a trend caught my eye. The rediculous amounts of religiously-oriented channels and the names they...
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Shiv, india
When I read this word I become wary at once of the context & for most of the time my hunch is right & the phrase becomes a fig leaf for accomplishment of...
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Neha Finney, Terre Haute
The very fabric of the Indian society today is made of different races starting from the Aryans, to the Moughals, Chinese, Jews, Arabs and the English most of whom...
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Mustafa Hamido, Aleppo
I have already written about the Islam and how some of Islamic scholars who have kidnapped the Islamic views and adopt it to be suitable for its religious views. What I...
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View Point, Shimla
Turkey’s highest Constitutional Court yesterday reinstated the ban on headscarves. The ruling AK party proposed to lift the ban in February, however, the move was...
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Why is it that a handful of politicians rule the majority of us? Few who behave in the most irresponsible manner should be sorted out and thrown out of the society. It...
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Niruthan, Chennai
If you happen to live in or visit India and are told that religion is harmful or that God is evil, be not surprised. Religion is post-independence India’s most...
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Pankaj, Shimla
YES # This amendment is a troubling sign of the secular state’s eroding authority and the creeping Islamisation within Turkish society. # Lifting the ban against...
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# Islam has not been kind to writers who have differed with their own religion. Fundamentalists have hounded them. # Taslima, persecuted for her musings, is homeless...
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Conservative Turkish women protest against the country’s top prosecutor’s move to disband the governing Islamic-rooted party in Istanbul, Turkey, Saturday, March 15, 2008. Chief prosecutor Abdurrahman Yalcinkaya has asked the Constitutional Court that...