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After Arvind Kejriwal, Rajasthan CM Ashok Gehlot retorts to PM Narendra Modi's 'revdi culture' remarks

JAIPUR: Rajasthan chief minister Ashok Gehlot on Monday countered Prime Minister Narendra Modi's 'revdi culture' remark, saying welfare schemes for the people cannot be dubbed as freebies. Citing weekly payments made to the poor and elderly in developed countries, he said it is the responsibility of the government to implement…

The Times of India

Religions have long known that getting away from it all is good for the mind, body and spirit

Summer vacations are coming to an end – though not everyone took one.

The Conversation

The Increasingly Dangerous Variants of the "Most-Favored-Nation" Theory of Religious Liberty, Part I: The New Law of Free Exercise

Eugene has kindly invited me to contribute a series of posts, briefly describing my taxonomy of new variants of the most-favored-nation theory of religious liberty (forthcoming in the Iowa Law Review). I'm particularly pleased by the invitation, because I wrote the piece in conscious emulation of the kind of careful…

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First Thing: Iran says Salman Rushdie and supporters to blame for attack

Foreign ministry spokesperson says freedom of speech does not justify insults upon religion. Plus, Black women around the world share their birth stories

The Guardian - UK

Nationalism is not a mere political programme; Nationalism is a religion: Sri Aurobindo

While August 15 is celebrated as the Independence Day of India, this special day also marks the birth anniversary of one of the most important philosopher-sage of the 20th century, Sri Aurobindo. Born on August 15, 1872, he joined India's independence movement from British rule and later became a spiritual…

The Times of India

Prof. Andrew Koppelman (Northwestern) Guest-Blogging About Religious Liberty

I'm delighted to report that Prof. Andrew Koppelman (Northwestern) will be guest-blogging this coming week about his new article, "The Increasingly Dangerous Variants of the 'Most-Favored-Nation' Theory of Religious Liberty": The First Amendment prohibits discrimination against religion. In a short time, mostly in cases challenging efforts to contain the Covid…

Reason

Salman Rushdie teaches us an invaluable lesson

It is courageous and necessary to stand up against tyrants – even when those tyrants claim to have God on their side

The Guardian - US

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Himachal Assembly passes bill against forced mass conversion with voice vote

SHIMLA: The Himachal Pradesh Assembly passed a bill on Saturday forbidding "mass conversion". The bill enhances the maximum punishment to 10 years imprisonment in its 2019 law against any change of religion through force or allurement.

The Times of India

Salman Rushdie, the Booker Prize-winning author and fierce critic of religion with a bounty on his head

Salman Rushdie has lived under threat of death for decades after a fatwa was issued in response to the content of his fourth novel, The Satanic Verses.

ABC News

Elon Musk Is OK Going To Hell: But Does He Believe in God?

Among the topics discussed by Elon Musk on the Full Send Podcast was the meaning of life and if the Tesla Inc (NASDAQ: TSLA) CEO believes in God. Here's what Musk had to say about religion and philosophy.

Benzinga

Murder trial told of religious arguments

The son of a man bashed to death has denied making up claims that his father had heated arguments about religion with his employee, now on trial for murder.

AAP

American Sikhs are targets of bigotry, often due to cultural ignorance

Ten years ago, a white supremacist opened fire on a Sikh congregation in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, killing six people and injuring several others before taking his own life. An eighth person, Baba Punjab Singh, was left partially paralyzed and died from his wounds a few years later.

The Conversation

UK government honoured anti-abortion figure before editing women’s rights statement

Former US envoy given award at conference now engulfed in row over changes to reproductive rights pledges, while participant list revealed to have included members of a group accused of hate speech

The Guardian - UK

UK government deleted abortion rights from gender statement ‘to be inclusive of all perspectives’

Liz Truss hosted conference on religious belief but it was overshadowed by diplomatic row about abortion rights

The Independent UK

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Touch not my anointed: Holy fever grips Kenya in election season

In Kenya, where majority are Christians, politicians and clerics are invoking religion ahead of Tuesday’s crucial vote.

Chicago Sun-Times

Dear Abby: I have to do things Dad’s way or he’ll tell lies about me

Woman worries her manipulative father will turn her siblings against her if he learns she’s seeing someone from another religion.

The Guardian - AU

Melbourne’s western suburbs need real solutions, not an anti-trans culture war

The preselection of religious conservative Moira Deeming shows the Victorian Liberals are out of touch with Melbourne’s west

Liverpool Echo

Man turned to secretive religion after his mum died

He said he was hooked after seeing a sign saying "free personality test"

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Reuters

Muslim men likely targeted and killed in New Mexico, police say

The murders of three Muslim men in New Mexico's largest city in the past nine months were likely linked and they appear to have been targeted for their religion and race, police said.

Salon

Christian nationalism goes mainstream

Christian nationalist ideology suggests that unless they control the state, the state will suppress Christianity

The Independent UK

Monks’ role in Sri Lanka protests raises familiar questions

The protests that drove Sri Lanka's president from office brought together people from across the country’s diverse and sometimes warring ethno-religious groups: Tamils, Muslims, Christians, Sinhala Buddhists and the saffron-robed Buddhist monks who are fixtures of the political scene

Reuters

Hate crimes surge in Canada during pandemic

Canada has experienced a sharp rise in hate crimes targeting religion, sexual orientation and race since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to data released this week by Statistic Canada.

The Conversation

After Trump, Christian nationalist ideas are going mainstream – despite a history of violence

In the run-up to the U.S. midterm elections, some politicians continue to ride the wave of what’s known as “Christian nationalism” in ways that are increasingly vocal and direct.

Reason

Reasons Not to Limit Private-Employer-Imposed Speech Restrictions: A Constitutional Right Not to Associate?

As I mentioned yesterday, ten years ago I wrote a descriptive and analytical law review article called Private Employees' Speech and Political Activity: Statutory Protection Against Employer Retaliation, which aimed to catalog these often-little-known statutes. This year, I'm returning to the subject, trying to analyze the strongest arguments for and…

Chicago Sun-Times

Those who push religion into our government don’t belong there

Millions of Jews, LGBTQ people, gypsies and the disabled, were slaughtered with the goal of a “pure” society.

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