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Minorities' rights
Saudi Cleric: Punishment for Homosexuality is Flogging
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Does Germany Have a Problem With Gay Hate Crime?
Spiegel Online July 03 2008
By Michael Scott Moore
Migration to Germany from countries including Turkey and Russia, where homosexuality is taboo, has led to a rise in crime against gays. Gay-bashing hip hop music isn't helping, either. So how should liberal-minded Germans deal with less-tolerant immigrants? 
Algeria: Christians get suspended jail terms for proselytising
Adnkronos July 03 2008
Algiers. Two Algerian nationals have been given a suspended six-months sentence for proselytising for Christianity.
Turkey commemorates 15th anniversary of Sivas massacre
ANSAmed July 02 2008
Tens of thousands of people are expected to attend the commemoration service today for the 37 people killed in Turkey's central province of Sivas on July 2, 1993, daily Hurriyet reports. Many of those killed were Alevi intellectuals.
A secular world is a sane world
Islam isn't the real problem. It just exploits the space we're making for superstitions, by name of 'religion', in society:
Turkey Has Trouble Facing Up to Its Past
AINA June 29 2008
Hanim Tosun last saw her husband Fehmi in 1995 as he was being dragged into a car outside their home by men in civilian clothes who she is convinced were government agents. His disappearance is among hundreds of old allegations of state-linked abductions and murders in a country that -- even as it seeks entry into Europe's club of democracies -- seems unable or unwilling to fully confront its history of authoritarianism.
Second Coptic Church Burned in Egypt
AINA June 27 2008
For the 2nd time in less than a month, a Coptic church in Egypt has been destroyed by fire. A Coptic church in the town of Kafr el Sheij was burned last week. Dozens of firefighters were required to bring the blaze under control, the Al Ahram newspaper reports. Three weeks earlier another church had burned under suspicious circumstances.
Turkish Government Denies Water to Church in Ankara
AINA June 27 2008
The Washington-DC based human rights group, International Christian Concern (ICC) www.persecution.org has just learned that the Turkish government is now attempting to shut down the Batikent Protestant Church in Ankara by shutting off the church building's water supply.
Jizya, Jihad, and the Murder of the Assyrian Bishop
AINA June 27 2008
The New York Times (June 26, 2008) has published a somber account of the recent murder of Iraqi Archbishop Rahho, and how the Iraqi Christian population has been subjected to the full recrudescence of dhimmitude, punctuated by the re-application of the jizya-the Koranic (Koran 9:29) poll tax on non-Muslims, whose etymology, as per the seminal Arabic lexicographer, E.W. Lane, belies its origins: "the tax paid in lieu of being slain."
