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U.S. commission accuses Western Europe of ‘very aggressive secularism’
A US panel criticized Western European countries Tuesday for “aggressive secularism” as it released a report on religious freedom that took aim at laws banning full-face veils in public. For the first time, the US Commission on International Religious Freedom — whose members are appointed by the government — included…
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Modesty squads in Israel are beginning to be prosecuted. I’ll confess that the whole situation made me wonder. Israel is basically a Western nation, a liberal democracy like ours or one in Western Europe. So how on earth do vigilante religious groups think they have a right to persecute women?…
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