On the 21st of February, the European Union Council issued a new statement which essentially reaffirmed their earlier November 2009 conclusions condemning acts of discrimination based on religious beliefs. Whilst the statement specifically targeted acts of violence against Christians and their places of worship, as well as toward Muslim Pilgrims, the statement clearly attempts to [...]
Even though democratic, “free” countries like the United States guarantee that the government will not stand in the way of ones’ freedom to establish a religion and practice that religion as they see fit, there are still significant challenges to true religious freedom in practice – ones which the author would submit get overlooked by [...]
Jewish groups exert communal effort to get the U.S. Department of Education more deeply involved in probing allegations of anti-Semitism on college campuses.
By The Forward and Josh Nathan-Kazis
Are Jews an ethnic or a religious group?
This perennial question is now at the heart of a Jewish communal effort to get the U.S. Department of Education [...]
In a desperate bid for ratings CNN’s Anderson Cooper tries an old gambit that may seem like a good idea but which in fact routinely fails to revitalize fading careers: an attack on Scientology.
This week CNN posted its lowest ratings ever as a network. The numbers for Anderson Cooper 360 are now so far [...]
What happens when a newspaper fails to serve the community? After Freedom Magazine published an in-depth report on the St. Petersburg Times last summer, a number of journalists formerly associated with the St. Petersburg Times came forward. They related incidents at the Times which revealed serious violations of journalism ethics.
When it was suggested to the [...]