Syria’s education minister has issued a decree banning women on university campuses from wearing veils that cover their faces. The minister’s decree follows a decision last month to dismiss 1200 Syrian school teachers who wear the face veil in class. Education officials, at the time, stressed that Syria was a “secular society,” and that extremism is “unacceptable.”
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Syrian Education Minister Bans Full Face Veils in Universities
Yossele Rosenblatt, known as the Jewish Caruso, died in 1933, but a Brooklyn devotee has made CDs of the cantor’s 78s without the crackles.
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Bit by Electronic Bit, a Great Cantor Is Restored
Gerald Otahal arrived at death row early on a recent Thursday morning, ready for his regular visit to counsel and pray with condemned inmate Gregory Wilson. What happened next left Otahal puzzled – guards turned him away at the door with instructions to go home as the Kentucky Department of Corrections cracks down on pastoral visits at the Kentucky State Penitentiary.
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Kentucky prison restricts pastoral visits to inmates
Suspected Muslim militants shot and killed two Christian men who were due to appear in court on charges of blasphemy against Islam in Pakistan’s Punjab province. Brothers Sajid Emmanuel, 30, and Rashid Emmanuel, 32, were assassinated by masked gun men Monday, July 19, inside a district court building in the city of Faisalabad.
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Pakistan Christians Shot Dead By Pakistan Militants
ndonesia’s top Islamic body says it may forbid followers from drinking the world’s most expensive coffee — extracted from the dung of a civet cat — over concerns it is unclean. Indonesian Muslim groups have been criticized for issuing a raft of fatwa covering the spectrum of human behavior though they have no legal standing and are often ignored by most.
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Indonesia Muslim group may ban Kopi Luwak, world’s most expensive coffee
Yesterday’s Tulsa World reports that Oklahoma’s Nov. 2 ballot will include State Question 755 which would amend the state constitution to prohibit state courts from considering or using international law or Sharia law. ( Ballot language .) Titled by the legislature the “Save Our State Amendment” ( full text of HJR 1056), the proposed amendment reads: The courts provided for in subsection A of this section, when exercising their judicial authority, shall uphold and adhere to the law as provided in the United States Constitution, the Oklahoma Constitution, the United States Code, federal regulations promulgated pursuant thereto, established common law, the Oklahoma Statutes and rules promulgated pursuant thereto, and if necessary the law of another state of the United States provided the law of the other state does not include Sharia law, in making judicial decisions
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Oklahoma’s November Ballot Will Include Constituitonal Amendment To Bar Courts’ Use of Sharia Law
Yesterday’s Washington Times reports that a new education law enacted in Sweden last month will limit both home schooling and religious practices in “Confessional schools.” The aim of the new law is to make schools across Sweden more uniform in offering a comprehensive and objective education. Home schooling will be banned other than in exceptional circumstances such as health reasons of distance from a school
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Sweden’s New Education Law Restricts Confessional Schools and Home Schooling
ANI The contribution of NRIs (Non-Resident Indians) belonging to Punjab is immense as far as providing help in the sectors of health, sports and education. NRIs residing in the United Sates have been making efforts to encourage and mobilise education in Punjab.
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US-based NRIs raise funds for imparting education to Punjab’s needy students
JALANDHAR: The BJP has demanded that the government grant citizenship to Hindus and Sikhs from Pakistan who have fled to India after facing harassment there. “Every person who wishes to return to our country, should be granted citizenship, irrespective of the community he or she belongs to,” BJP MP Navjot Singh Sidhu said here. He was asked about the demand of Hindu and Sikh families from Pakistan, who have been residing here for over a decade, that they be given Indian citizenship
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BJP favours granting citizenship to Hindus, Sikhs from Pak
Sikhs are shocked and outraged at a ruling by a Texas Court of Appeals ordering that the only Sikh Temple (Gurudwara) in Austin, Texas be torn down. Austin Gurdwara Sahib (AGS), a non-profit, Sikh organization purchased land in West side of the Greater Austin area in 2003 to start the first permanent Gurudwara in the Capital City
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Court orders destruction of Sikh temple in Texas, USA