The Weekly Standard Blog June 17, 2015 Female genital mutilation or cutting (FGM/C) exists in the Islamic Republic of Iran even while the redoubt of clerical dictatorship is absent from a recent survey of FGM in 29 countries, published by…
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The Huffington Post June 10, 2015 (Christopher Bilardi is an expert on the Yezidi faith and an associate member of the Center for Islamic Pluralism.) Until the tragedy that came early in August 2014, the people who call themselves the…
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The Weekly Standard June 15, 2015 Skopje/Shkupi In Homage to Catalonia, George Orwell described, on his return to Barcelona after serving in the front lines of the Spanish Civil War, “an unmistakable and horrible feeling of political rivalry and hatred”…
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TheWorldPost [The Huffington Post and Berggruen Institute on Governance] June 2, 2015 Prishtina, Kosova The Balkan republic of Kosova, with an overwhelming Muslim majority and a median age of 27, has committed itself to a consequential struggle against radical Islam….
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Uyghur Human Rights Project and Uyghur American Association June 2, 2015 [Note: The Center for Islamic Pluralism endorses this statement by the Uyghur American Association.] On the occasion of the 26th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre, the Uyghur American…
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TheWorldPost [The Huffington Post and Berggruen Institute on Governance] May 22, 2015 [Note: This commentary was written with Veli Sirin.] Violent protests by Iranian Kurds have taken the world by surprise, and mainstream reporting on them is sparse. That is…
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First Things Blog May 20, 2015 On September 23, at a mass in Washington, DC, Pope Francis is scheduled to canonize Blessed Junípero Serra (1713-84), the Franciscan founder of the Spanish missions in California. Serra was beatified by Pope John…
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The Weekly Standard Blog April 20, 2015 Last month the Kosovar Center for Security Studies (KCSS), a think-tank in the Balkan republic, published a “Report Inquiring Into the Causes and Consequences of Kosovo Citizens’ Involvement as Foreign Fighters in Syria…
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CIP April 3, 2015 The Center for Islamic Pluralism, reflecting the traditional and spiritual Islamic guidance of respect for the People of the Book – and specifically Jews and Christians – extends its greetings to them on their sacred observances….
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