1. Ahwazi Exiles Hold Four Massive Freedom Rallies in London, The Hague, Canberra, And Berlin
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2017
   Demonstrators hold flags of the region of Al-Ahwaz as they take part in a rally in support of the Ahwazi people in Iran, in Berlin, Germany, 21 April 2017. Dozens of demonstrators took part in the march striving for the recognition of this population and their human rights.
2. Bangladesh and the shrinking space for free thinkers: 'Don't call me Muslim, I am an atheist'
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2015
   Writer Taslima Nasreen fled Bangladesh in 1994 when extremists threatened to kill her for criticizing Islam, and has been living in exile since. Her country has, in recent times, seen many intellectuals expelled or killed. In this interview, she speaks about the shrinking space for free thinkers in Bangladesh and says that Islam cannot be exempt from the critical scrutiny that other religions undergo.
3. Banned Books
   Informal Notes on Some Books Banned for Various Reasons
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1970
   
4. Buddhist Pogropms and Religious Conflicts
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2013
   Most observers would, rightly, reject the idea that there is something inherent in Buddhism that has led to the violence. Rather, most would recognize that the anti-Muslim violence in both Myanmar and Sri Lanka has its roots in the political struggles that have engulfed the two nations. The importance of Buddhism in the conflicts in Myanmar and Sri Lanka is not that the tenets of faith are responsible for the pogroms, but that those bent on confrontation have adopted the garb of religion as a means of gaining a constituency and justifying their actions.
5. The Christian Genocide During the Ottoman Empire Sounds a Dark Warning for the Future
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2019
   Review and discussion of The Thirty-Year Genocide: Turkey’s Destruction of Its Christian Minorities 1894-1924 by Benny Morris and Dror Zeevi.
6. Connexions Library: Race, Racism, Ethnicity, Multiculturalism Focus 
   Resource Type: Website
   First Published: 2009
   Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on race, racism, ethnicity, multiculturalism, identity.
7. Connexions Library: Religion Focus
   Resource Type: Website
   First Published: 2009
   Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on religion.
8. The Deadly Costs of Muslim Sectarianism
   Sunni v. Shia
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2011
   A war of extraordinary brutality is being waged across the Muslim world which is largely ignored by the media. It is a war in which victims are assassinated or massacred with no chance to defend themselves. Most of those who die are poor people murdered in obscure places without the world paying any attention.
9. Freedom of Speech? Dubious Settlement in School Prayer Case
   Resource Type: Article
   
10. From Fatwa to Jihad 
    The Rushdie Affair and its Legacy
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2009
    Tells the story both of the Rushdie affair and of its transformative impact on cultural and political landscape of the West. The book explores the issues that the Rushide affair raised. in particular the questions of muliculturalism, radical Islam and free speech, and shows how in responding to these issues Western liberals have betrayed the fundamental beliefs of liberalism.
11. Hekmat, Mansoor - Writings - Index
    Resource Type: Article
    Writings of Mansoor Hekmat (1951-2002).
12. Homosexuality and Civilisation
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2003
    
13. Infidel
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2007
    Ayaan Hirsi Ali is a Somali woman who escaped a forced marriage and moved to the Netherlands, where she became a spokeswoman for Muslim women's rights. She tells the story of how her experiences led her to question her faith.
    
14. Know-Nothings of 2010
    The New War of the Christian Crusaders
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    Over the last four centuries, Quakers, Mormons, Catholics, Jews and many others have been targets of religious persecution, often the victims of imprisonments, hangings, lynchings and other acts of violence.
15. A Marxist History of the World part 31: Crusade and Jihad
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    The Crusades lasted 200 years and represented the most extreme expression of the futile violence inherent in western feudalism - a murderous attack on the Middle East by western feudal thugs under the banner of religion.
16. A Marxist History of the World part 37: The Counter-Reformation
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    Neil Faulkner looks at how the Reformation was followed by a counter-revolutionary response which involved a dogmatic reassertion of Catholic orthodoxy: the Counter-Reformation.
17. On Buddhist Fundamentalism
    Hollywood, Please Take Note
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    Four years after the brutal assault on the Tamil population and the killing of between 8—10,000 Tamils by the Sri Lankan army, there is trouble again. The saffron-robed fanatics, led by the BBS — Bodu Bala Sena: the most active and pernicious of Buddhist fundamentalist groups that have sprouted in Sinhala strongholds throughout the island— are on the rampage again.
18. The Price of Torching Mosques
    Burning Rage
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    By reminding Palestinians on either side of the Green Line of their common fate, Israel may yet unleash a force too powerful to control. The price tag – this time demanded by Palestinians – will be high indeed for the Jewish supremacists.
19. Revered Rabbi Preaches Slaughter Of Gentile Babies
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    Rabbis who are among the leading idelogues of the growing fascist movement in Israel say that violence against non-Jews, including the killing of babies, is justied by religious law. According to Rabbi Yitzhak Shapira and Rabbi Yosef Elitzur, Jewish law permits the killing of non-Jews in a wide variety of circumstances. In a recent boo, they say "There is justification for killing babies if it is clear that they will grow up to harm us".
20. The Road to Civil War
    Against The Current vol. 113
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2004
    Everybody in Israel is talking about the Next War. The most popular TV channel is running a whole series about it.
21. The St. Petersburg Declaration
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2007
    We are secular Muslims, and secular persons of Muslim societies. We are believers, doubters, and unbelievers, brought together by a great struggle, not between the West and Islam, but between the free and the unfree.
22. The Spanish Holocaust: Inquisition and Extermination in Twentieth-Century Spain
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2012
    Paul Preston charts how and why Franco and his supporters set out to eliminate all ‘those who do not think as we do’ – some 200,000 men, women and children across Spain.
23. Strip-Searching Children
    Humiliation and Child Abuse at Israeli Checkpoints
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2007
    Israeli officials have been regularly strip-searching children for decades.
24. Terror in a Christmas Tree
    Israel Tries to Ban Non-Jewish Celebrations
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    Who would imagine that Israeli Jews could be so intimidated by the innocuous Christmas tree?

Experts on Pers‚cution religieuse in the Sources Directory

1. Women Living Under Muslim Law