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Jamaat opposes govt 'bid to impose common civil code'

Edit The Times of India 12 Oct 2016
"Gender equality and dignity of women are non-negotiable," the government had told the apex court in an affidavit in which it also held that "religious practices cannot be an impediment to the rights and aspirations of individual women irrespective of the religion she practises"....

Jamaat opposes government 'bid to impose common civil code'

Edit The Times of India 12 Oct 2016
"Gender equality and dignity of women are non-negotiable," the government had told the apex court in an affidavit in which it also held that "religious practices cannot be an impediment to the rights and aspirations of individual women irrespective of the religion she practises"....

Triple talaq being given un-Islamic interpretation: Najma Heptulla

Edit The Times of India 12 Oct 2016
Asserting that Islam was "not a religion of inequality", she said that the practice of 'triple talaq' was being "wrongly interpreted", as the concept of one-time 'triple talaq' does not exist ... Regarding abolishing of the practice of polygamy in Islam as has been done in Hinduism, Heptulla said people should think about it and any injustice done to women in the name of Islam was "not correct"....

Uniform civil code: Law panel seeks public opinion on anti-women practices

Edit The Times of India 12 Oct 2016
The Law Commission's exercise to formulate a Uniform Civil Code reached a critical phase as it asked the citizens to give their views on ending several religious practices and customs that had been branded anti-women in all three major religions ... The question may appear aimed at ending the much criticised practice of a Muslim man permitted to marry up to four women....

#DNAReaderEdit: Not smart to build one’s life around religious beliefs

Edit DNA India 12 Oct 2016
Religion in effect has become more about the way you want the world to see you and less about your personal relationship with the divine being. Religion remains an extremely sensitive topic in India. Bring in religion during any debate and it’s hard to think of a stronger emotional argument ... Ideally, with more economic progress, the role of religion should have considerably reduced in our lives....

China targets parents in new religion rules for Xinjiang

Edit The Himalayan 12 Oct 2016
While China officially guarantees freedom of religion, minors are not supposed to participate in religious activity and authorities have cracked down on underground Muslim religious schools, or madrassas, in Xinjiang in recent years ... Many Uighurs resent restrictions on their culture and religion, and complain they are denied economic opportunities amid an influx of majority Han Chinese into Xinjiang....

Letter: 'Make America Phobic Again'

Edit The Salt Lake Tribune 12 Oct 2016
“Make America Phobic Again” should be the motto of the Republican Party in this election. They are making a successful attempt to forge a “grand coalition” of those who object to the rise of a black man to president, who fear the equality of women, who resent marriage equality and who deny the value of humans of other nations and religions ... If he wins,... ....

China targets parents and guardians in new Xinjiang religion regulations

Edit Taipei Times 12 Oct 2016
While China officially guarantees freedom of religion, minors are not supposed to participate in religious activities and authorities have cracked down on underground Muslim religious schools in Xinjiang in recent years ... Many Uighurs resent restrictions on their culture and religion, and complain they are denied economic opportunities amid an influx of majority Han Chinese into Xinjiang....

Saudi courts ordered not to look into genealogy-based marriage disputes

Edit Arabnews 12 Oct 2016
The circular stressed that Islamic Shariah originally came to ensure fair laws and orders to protect life, religion, property, mind and honor, while Islam bans injustice ... The judicial laws in the Kingdom focus on religious efficiency, not the origins of men and women ... ‘Efficiency of the religion has been proved in the Holy Qur’an and Sunnah, and ......

Foremost place for Buddhism in new Constitution, says Ranil

Edit The Hindu 12 Oct 2016
“If equality is a provision, then you cannot give primacy to one religion,” he told The Hindu on Wednesday. Terming the move “exclusionary”, he said while the TNA would not mind “some kind of recognition to Buddhism or Buddha’s teachings”, giving the religion the foremost place, explicitly, was discriminatory ... If a country does not have an official state religion, it is secular, Mr....

Police lens on one more school in Thrissur

Edit The Times of India 12 Oct 2016
The sources said the school has about 595 students and barring one, all of them were from a particular religion ... The intelligence reports also alleged that during the religious classes the students were taught that they must cultivate full loyalty to one religion and that all other religions were wrong. The officials said the school was also discouraging students from mixing with students belonging to other religions....

How divorce kills faith — and all of us suffer

Edit New York Post 12 Oct 2016
According to new data released by the Public Religion Research Institute this month, “Americans who were raised by divorced parents are more likely than children whose parents were married during most of their formative years to be religiously unaffiliated.” In fact, researchers concluded that high rates of divorce may actually be a major cause of the rise in the religiously unaffiliated today....

Hyderabad Jain samaj president blasts media for twisting facts on girls death

Edit The Times of India 12 Oct 2016
But the manner in which it has been circulated in the media that her death was a conspiracy and a result of blindly following the Jain religion then I must tell you all that the Jain religion is a scientific religion, every step taken by us is scientific," Sanklecha told the media here....
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