March 2012 ToM: Religious violence in Nigeria

Some recent coverage of the rise of Boko Haram in northern Nigeria:   Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s Lurid Picture of Nigeria’s Muslims in Newsweek (13 Feb 2012) Nigeria names former soldier as suspect in the Christmas Day church bombing (15 Feb 2012) Islamist sect has support in Nigerian government – president Plus: Written statement submitted by the Jubilee Campaign to […]

Thomas Mathew on Obama’s election

Dear Friends, Peace Greetings. At last, the whole world has become testimony to change – a change extremely radical and noteworthy.The world received the news that Mr. Barack Obama had been elected as the President of USA with aweand appreciation. The Oval house door is now open for the first Afro-American President in the historyof […]

January 2012 ToM: Resolution 16/18

  Resolution 16/18,  a measure adopted “by consensus” – without a vote – at the U.N. Human Rights Council – was introduced by Pakistan on behalf of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), a coalition of 57 Muslim states. Formally entitled “combating intolerance, negative stereotyping and stigmatization of, and discrimination, incitement to violence and violence against […]

December 2011 ToM: Syrian secularism under transformation

  Topic of this month is the demise of secularism in an Arab republic. http://wwrn.org/articles/36648/   Site of film to which above article refers    

November 2011 ToM: The fate of USCIRF

  Has the U.S. Senate “chosen to quietly shut down the independent U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom” (USCIRF)? Do the American people “need to remind their senators of the importance of religious freedom in foreign policy and of USCIRF’s key role”? Consider this article by Nina Shea.

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