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En la Edad Antigua, cuando en Grecia y después en Roma se construyeron los primeros pilares en que se asienta la civilización occidental, la libertad era un concepto singular que se definía negativamente; un hombre libre era el que no tenía la condición de esclavo y constituía una categoría social dominante, en la que se asentaban tanto el poder como la cultura. No existía un conjunto plural de libertades que compusieran, como ahora lo entendemos, un entramado de derechos inherentes a la condición humana.
En pleno imperio de Roma apareció lo que se consideró inicialmente una secta judía, que se extendió hasta llegar a la capital y plantear un problema social.… Seguir leyendo »
The world is watching Myanmar as election day nears. The governments of the United States and other countries, which view this contest as a potential watershed for democracy, hope that Sunday’s voting will be “inclusive and credible.” But with just days to go, the election is shaping up to be just the opposite.
A central issue has been the deliberate exclusion of Myanmar’s Muslim minority, including my people, the Rohingya. Like other ethnic and religious minorities in Myanmar, the country’s Rohingya — estimated to number over one million — suffered under years of repressive military rule. Today the pseudo-democratic government continues to treat us as illegal immigrants from Bangladesh, even though our people have been in Myanmar for centuries.… Seguir leyendo »
Over the last several years, the Republic of Azerbaijan, widely acknowledged and praised for its commitment and pursuit of religious tolerance, has become a target of harsh criticism by the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIF). Apparently, somewhat confused about its mandate, the commission issues statements about political issues, which have nothing to with religion and religious freedom, refers to places within Azerbaijan by Armenian names revealing, inadvertently perhaps, its sources of information. Also, in its criticism of the country it follows the lines used frequently by the Iranian mullahs. Sadly, this reflects both the apparent personal bias and the lack of expertise and first-hand knowledge by the commission’s staff.… Seguir leyendo »
Myanmar is currently in the throes of a massive humanitarian crisis. Thousands of ethnic Rohingya are fleeing persecution. Boarding overcrowded boats (and often enduring horrific conditions), they’re going to countries scarcely able to help them — or in some cases, frankly, not interested in helping them.
How did this happen?
Who are the Rohingya?
The Rohingya are an ethnic Muslim minority in the majority Buddhist Myanmar. Many of their enemies refuse to acknowledge that the Rohingya are an ethnically distinct group. They claim instead that the Rohingya are Bengali and that their presence in Myanmar is the result of illegal immigration (more on that later).… Seguir leyendo »
The impact of Myanmar's repressive policy toward Rohingya Muslims was made clear in recent weeks with scenes of desperate people crammed into boats, an escalation of a miserable maritime flight in which an estimated 90,000 people have fallen prey to smugglers and traffickers since early 2014. The United Nations estimates that around 1,000 people have died on the way.
The root cause is the long-term reprehensible treatment of the Rohingya in Myanmar (also known as Burma) -- stateless, officially and socially reviled, with severe curbs on their rights to work, travel, get health care and education, and practice their religion.
Yet even as this anguishing exodus has gripped international attention, it has obscured a connected and equally troubling pattern of rising religious extremism in Myanmar.… Seguir leyendo »
Des organisations islamistes, sous des drapeaux variables, impriment, depuis plusieurs années, leur tempo à l’actualité de la planète, et font régner la terreur sur les populations de pays où, des siècles durant, ont prospéré de brillantes civilisations. Leurs vidéos répandent, dans le monde entier, le spectacle de leur folie de mort et de destruction. Leur offensive s’élargit sans connaître de frein. En Afrique, depuis avril 2011, les attentats-suicides de Boko Haram dans des églises. Dimanche dernier, en Libye, vingt-huit coptes éthiopiens massacrés face à la Méditerranée. Hier, à Paris, un projet d’attentat contre des églises de la banlieue parisienne. Partout sous la menace des islamistes, les chrétiens, mais aussi tout ce qui peut témoigner du génie de l’homme et de sa transcendance.… Seguir leyendo »
En el pasado mes de febrero, de regreso de una feria del libro en la Universidad de Dacca, Avijit Roy, bloguero americanobangladeshí conocido por su ateísmo, y su esposa fueron sacados del rickshaw en el que viajaban y atacados con machetes. La feria del libro, celebrada anualmente para conmemorar las protestas de 1952, de resultas de las cuales el ejército pakistaní abrió fuego contra estudiantes universitarios, es una típica reacción bengalí ante la violencia. Por dar la vuelta al tristemente famoso comentario acerbo del nazi Hermann Göring, cuando los bengalíes oyen la palabra “pistola”, echan mano de su cultura.
Pero el brutal asesinato de Roy (su esposa quedó mutilada, pero sobrevivió), junto con el acuchillamiento fatal de otro bloguero ateo, Washiqur Rahman, apenas un mes antes, revela otra fuerza activa en Bangladesh y que está subvirtiendo la tradición de secularismo y argumentación intelectual de ese país.… Seguir leyendo »
In February, the Austrian Parliament amended the country’s century-old “Islam Law.” The new legislation, though controversial, is a significant achievement. In promoting a moderate, homegrown Islam compatible with democratic values, Austria has taken a positive step to combat extremism while protecting religious liberties.
The original Islam law, passed in 1912, sought to integrate thousands of Muslims who officially came under the rule of the Austro-Hungarian Empire following its annexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1908. Predominantly Roman Catholic, Austria-Hungary extended Muslims the same rights of worship as other official religions, and granted state protection to Islamic customs, doctrines and institutions. But the empire’s breakup following World War I left just a few hundred Muslims in Austria, and the Islam Law became irrelevant.… Seguir leyendo »
A national firestorm has erupted over an Indiana law that, in all essentials, mirrors the legal standard protecting religious liberty in all federal courts and 31 state courts. Why? The answer, unfortunately, is “the culture war” — and, contrary to media portrayals, conservatives aren’t the aggressors here.
Who favors coercion in this debate? Who opposes tolerance and pluralism? The answer to both questions: activists on the left.
The laws under attack — Religious Freedom Restoration Acts — are designed to shield all faiths from government coercion. These acts have, for example, protected a Sikh woman’s freedom to carry religious articles at her workplace.… Seguir leyendo »
Last Monday, this city was briefly overrun with bands of sloganeering, stick-wielding youths. The demonstrators threw stones at police officers, burned car tires and smashed windows. One gang even plundered a 7Up truck, guzzling its goods before transfixed TV cameras. (I watched the footage — slow-mo jets of sparkly liquid, with strains of horror-movie music playing in the background — that night on the Internet.) There was a euphoric edge to the riots, apparent even when they took a grotesquely violent turn with the lynching of two men.
Who were these vandals? And what, if anything, did their actions demonstrate?
If you went by the original news bulletins, they were Christians reacting to a suicide bombing the day before of two churches in Youhanabad, a low-income area of Lahore that is home to some 100,000 Christians.… Seguir leyendo »
The past year was a particularly cruel one for minorities in the Middle East. Since Islamic State militants seized parts of Iraq and Syria, they have relentlessly persecuted the region’s religious minorities. In doing so, the militants are trying to eradicate ancient cultures and religions that date back to Mesopotamia.
After Islamic State and its allies captured Mosul, Iraq’s second largest city, in June, they gave Christian residents an ultimatum: convert to Islam, pay a religious tax or be driven out of their homes. Many Christians fled to Turkey or the Kurdish autonomous region in northern Iraq. The extremists drove out a Christian population that had lived in Mosul for two millennia.… Seguir leyendo »
La frase se ha utilizado y desgastado tanto, que antes de usarla es preciso ajustarse bien los machos. Demagogos, poetas malos –metidos o no en política– y la simple ingenuidad de gentes con poco bagaje cultural han apelado con frecuencia al «pedazo de pan», resumen simbólico del alimento. Sin embargo, cuando acompaña a verdaderos sucesos trágicos y no a retórica barata, recobra toda su sencilla carga emocional y muestra, sin ficciones, el sufrimiento de quienes, por hambre, padecen además la muerte. Nada más dramático que perecer trabajando, luchando por ganarse la vida. Y no nos extendemos sobre mineros, pescadores o albañiles para no caer en lo que criticamos.… Seguir leyendo »
Numerosos occidentales están llegando a Irak y Siria no para unirse a las filas del Estado Islámico —o mejor dicho Daesh, el término que los yihadistas aborrecen—, sino para actuar como instructores o combatientes en diversas formaciones cristianas que luchan contra el avance de los responsables y autores del ataque más cruel y efectivo contra la bimilenaria presencia cristiana en la región desde los tiempos de la primera expansión musulmana a mediados del siglo VII.
No se trata necesariamente de fanáticos religiosos o personas con problemas de integración en sus sociedades, que acuden a la zona de manera semiclandestina, como ocurre con muchos occidentales que se unen a la yihad, sino que publicitan su acción y revelan su identidad, incluyendo entrevistas a medios de comunicación, con el propósito declarado de reunir fondos que sostengan la lucha para evitar la completa desaparición de los cristianos en esa parte del mundo.… Seguir leyendo »
The horror in Libya could have come from a Hieronymus Bosch painting of hell: 21 knife-wielding figures hacking the heads off 21 young men in orange jumpsuits along the shoreline, blood staining the surf red. But this was no imagined scene — it was the mass execution of Egyptian Copts who had been kidnapped by Islamic State terrorists.
The killers may have aimed to exploit sectarian hostilities — as they have in Iraq and Syria — and splinter Egyptian society. Paradoxically, however, this blatantly anti-Christian attack may finally lead to the easing of Christian-Muslim tensions in Egypt.
This week, Egypt's President Abdel Fattah Sisi responded to the beheadings with acts that unequivocally recognized the Copts as “innocent victims” and true sons of Egypt.… Seguir leyendo »
It took one session on Jan. 10 for a court in the Nile Delta province of Beheira to sentence Karim al-Banna, a 21-year-old student, to three years in prison for saying on Facebook that he was an atheist. The student’s lawyer complained that he was denied the right even to present a defense, but an equally chilling aspect of Mr. Banna’s case is that his father testified against him.
Also telling is that Mr. Banna was originally arrested, in November, when he went to the police to complain that his neighbors were harassing him. This was after his name had appeared in a local newspaper on a list of known atheists.… Seguir leyendo »
The typical trajectory of most French Islamist terrorists follows four steps: alienation from the dominant culture, thanks partly to joblessness and discrimination in blighted neighborhoods; a turn to petty crime, which leads to prison, and then more crime and more prison; religious awakening and radicalization; and an initiatory journey to a Muslim country like Syria, Afghanistan or Yemen to train for jihad.
Stints in prison were seminal for Chérif Kouachi, Amedy Coulibaly and other major figures of French jihadism in recent years — Mohammed Merah, Mehdi Nemmouche, Khaled Kelkal — as both a rite of passage and a gateway to radicalism.… Seguir leyendo »
Those were the words of Benjamin Hattab, the father of Yoav Hattab, one of the four killed last week in an attack on a Paris kosher grocery store, which followed the Charlie Hebdo shootings. Hattab is Tunisian and serves as the chief rabbi of the Muslim-majority North African nation — his comments, made in an interview after the attack, referred to his experience in Tunisia, not in France.
Sephardic Jews like Hattab — who originate from Spain, North Africa and the Middle East — have once again become a living barometer of Muslim-Jewish relations. To some, they represent the possibilities of co-existence.… Seguir leyendo »
The slaughter at the French magazine Charlie Hebdo brought hundreds of thousands of marchers and scores of world leaders onto the streets of Paris. The killings demonstrated the destructive core of religious persecution and how its influence is spreading from Third World dictatorships to First World democracies.
Religious minorities long have faced murder and prison around the world. Now the freedom not to believe by majorities in Western democracies is under attack.
Free expression goes to the very essence of the human person. While good judgment tells us not to express every thought we have, as moral agents responsible for our actions we must be free to assess the world and express ourselves in vibrant public debate.… Seguir leyendo »
Le réalisateur néerlandais Theo Van Gogh, assassiné par un islamiste à Amsterdam il y a à peine plus de dix ans, avait bien des choses en commun avec Charlie Hebdo. A l’instar des caricaturistes français, c’était un provocateur, à la morale anarchiste, un artiste qui choque – il n’y a pas un seul tabou qu’il n’ait voulu briser.
Parce que l’antisémitisme est le grand tabou européen de l’après-seconde guerre mondiale, Van Gogh n’a pas hésité à provoquer en faisant des blagues sur les chambres à gaz. On nous demande de « respecter » l’islam ? Van Gogh décide de tourner en ridicule Allah et son prophète, dans un esprit très proche de celui de Charlie Hebdo.… Seguir leyendo »
L’attaque terroriste contre Charlie Hebdo nous renvoie aux réactions démesurées de certains pays où des foules de djihadistes tuent pour défendre des lois « anti blasphème ». On est très loin du contexte français. Bien que la France s’oppose à de telles lois, elle en subit les conséquences. C’est dire à quel point cette problématique soulève des enjeux internationaux.
Près d’un pays sur deux (47 %) disposent de lois ou de politiques qui pénalisent le blasphème (insulte à la religion), l’apostasie (abandon de la foi) ou la diffamation (dénigrement ou critique de certaines religions ou de la religion, en général), selon une étude du Pew research center, réalisée en 2011.… Seguir leyendo »
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