Posts from — August 2007
Let’s hear it for religious freedom
As Bilo reports, Life can be deeply unpleasant, not to say downright dangerous, for Egyptians whose religious identity does not conform to a very narrow set of criteria. A statement made by Nina Shea, Vice Chair of the US Commission on International Religious Freedom to the Congressional Task Force on Religious Freedom on 23 May this year, sets out some of the really nasty things that can happen to Baha’is, Buddhists, Humanists, “unorthodox” Muslims, anyone in fact, who is not a Muslim, Christian or Jew:
These violations include continued prosecution in state security courts and imprisonment of those accused of
August 1, 2007 1 Comment
