Fundamentalisms

After Tito's death in 1980, and especially at the end of the 1980s, the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY) faced a serious political and social-economic crisis.
Intervention à la réunion publique su« La censure au nom de l’islam » organisée par l’Association du Manifeste des liberté sccueillie par le Théâtre du Soleil, à la Cartoucherie de Vincennes le 24 février 2006.
Once again the axe of prohibition has fallen on a culturally and aesthetically most gratifying festival of spring - Basant. Playing to the tunes of clerics, the Punjab government earned the stigma of banning the colourful festival of kite flying.
Professional manipulators of Religion on the one side, and the Generals and the establishment (aided by Uncle Sam) on the other have heavily contributed to sour the dreams of Pakistan's silent majority and spread mayhem elsewhere too.
Although a year on from the time of this address by Dr. Nurit Peled-Elhanan, the issues and need for such honesty remain the same.
"Who is actually guilty of bringing disrepute to the religion of Islam?" questions Wole Soyinka, the Nigerian playwright, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1986.
Canada has just been the battle field for Muslim fundamentalists trying to impose religious arbitration in family matters.

In some contexts, such as Sri Lanka, women from the minority have been demanding positive reform in the existing separate legal system that is binding upon Muslims and in the Philippines an entire alternative Code has been drafted; in Israel, Arab women’s groups have focused on demanding access to the State Family Court, rather than reforming the Shari’a Courts).

Les caricatures de Mahomet ont provoqué des réactions massives allant parfois jusqu’aux délires les plus outranciers.
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