The Reality Behind The So-Called “Headscarf Ban”
Companies can ban "the visible wearing of any religious sign", but the rule must be applied to all members of staff equally
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An Interview with Anders Stjernholm
Anders Stjernholm is a comedian and Chairman of the Atheistic Society. In this interview he talks about atheism, scepticism and Ateistisk Selskab.
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Interview with Dr. Nora Repo
Nora Repo is a Finnish Doctor of philosophy who specialises in Islam in the Balkans and has a lot of experience in ecumenical and interfaith dialogue initiatives. Her doctoral dissertation covered Albanian women in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia which identified some very interesting tendencies in interplay of identities, Islam and religiosity.
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Destructive identity politics – Serbia is ready for a presidential election
Did someone say “circus”? A recipe for disaster? Imagine being stuck in the Hans Christian Andersen short tale “The Emperor’s New Clothes”, in the sequence when he tries on his new “clothes”, without ever moving forward. This is what the current political atmosphere in the Balkan region looks like, and especially in Serbia at the […]
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Fears and Terror: Europe under Attack
For over five years I have been living in Europe, and I have never at any time been as worried as I am right now for humankind. I have never had any reason to be more apprehensive or more disturbed about the future than I am today, at this very moment. This is because the […]
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The Twofold Wrongheadedness Of The Burkini Row
“The burkini is like a uniform, a symbol of Islamist extremism.” These were the words of David Lisnard, the Mayor of Cannes, explaining why he was banning the use of ‘burkinis’ on beaches in his city – a city just a few miles away from Nice, which last month was the target of an Islamist […]
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