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Bangladesh: Court bans use of religion in politics

Bangladesh’s dozens of Islamic political parties must drop Islam from their name and stop using religion when on the campaign trail following a court ruling, the country’s law minister said on Monday. The Supreme Court on Sunday upheld an earlier ruling by the High Court from 2005 throwing out the fifth amendment of the constitution, which had allowed religion-based politics to flourish in the country since the late 1970s. “All politics based on religion are going to be banned as per the original constitution,” Law Minister Shafique Ahmed said.

Europe: Le minaret vient heurter une identité chrétienne

Comment expliquer le rejet soudain et massif des minarets en France ? La société française est sécularisée. Pour autant, elle n’est pas devenue sans religion. L’imaginaire national reste pétri par le christianisme. François Mitterrand avait posé devant un clocher pour sa campagne de 1981, « la force tranquille ». Le minaret vient heurter ce paysage culturel, pour imposer un pluralisme religieux, qui passe mal. Les Français, comme les Européens, ont une réaction souverainiste, une réticence à la mondialisation, économique, culturelle et religieuse.

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International: Conference on secularism and women’s rights
This is a report circulated by Azar Majedi, chairperson of the Organization for Women’s Liberation and a member of the Worker-Communist Party of Iran (WPI) leadership.
International: Exploding the fatwa myths in the Rushdie affair
Writer on race and politics, Kenan Malik, argues that twenty years on it is time we laid to rest the myths of the Rushdie affair.
UPDATE: Canada: Canadian polygamist leader arrested
The leader of a polygamous community in western Canada who has admitted having numerous wives and dozens of children was arrested Wednesday [7 Jan. 2009] and charged with practicing polygamy, according to court documents and local officials.
France: European Court of Human Rights upholds secularism in veil court case
Presently aged 21 and 22, two young women were expelled at the beginning of 1999 from the school of Flers, in l’Orne, France after having refused to remove their headscarves during physical education class, despite repeated requests by their professor. The European Court of Human Rights observed that the purpose of the restriction on the applicants’ right to manifest their religious convictions was to adhere to the requirements of secularism in state schools.
Pakistan: Secularism is fundamental to ensuring equality
"The extent to which a woman is allowed or denied her fundamental rights granted by the state is mediated by her ethnic or religious group and its relationship with the state."
UPDATE: France: Couple officially married again after 'virginity lie' appeal overturned
A French appeals court reinstated the marriage of a Muslim couple today, overturning an earlier annulment won by the groom after the bride admitted lying about her virginity.
Germany: Muslim religion classes introduced in German schools
"According to the German constitution, Muslims do have a right to religious education for their children under the supervision of the state, just as Christians do. Now, for the first time, German schools will have a textbook for Islamic religion classes."
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