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• India: Stop infecting college campuses with the communal poison: Indian Muslims for Secular Democracy
  14 February, by siawi3

  More than 150 secular human rights activists strongly condemn the attempt by Hindutva forces and the BJP government of Karnataka to engulf college and school campuses in the already raging communal fire in the state. At the same time, IMSD disagrees with the claim of the agitating Muslim girls that their demand is in conformity with their Constitution-protected fundamental right to freedom of religion.

• Inde : Cessez d’infecter les campus universitaires avec le poison communautariste
  14 février, par siawi3

  Les Musulmans Indiens pour une Démocratie Laïque en appellent à toutes les sections de la société indienne pour soutenir les principes laïques et progressistes inscrits dans notre Constitution et aspirent à maintenir la paix et l’harmonie sur nos campus et dans la société en général.

• India: K’taka HC disallows wearing of any religious dress in class; denies interim relief to petitioners
  16 February, by siawi3

  The Karnataka High Court has released its interim order denying relief to the petitioners in the hijab-ban issue. The bench of Chief Justice Ritu Raj Awasthi and Justices Krishna Dixit and JM Khazi had orally stated at the conclusion of the February 10 hearing that they will pass order that institutions should reopen, but no student should insist on wearing any religious dress; thus denying the prayer for interim relief of the petitioners.

• France : Signes religieux à l’école : la loi de 2004 dans le viseur de profs et de collectifs militants
  16 février, par siawi3

  Jugée « raciste » et « sexiste » par certains militants d’extrême gauche, la loi qui interdit le port de signes religieux ostentatoires à l’école est saluée par la plupart des enseignants.

• France : Nomination : un idéologue conservateur à la tête du Conseil supérieur des programmes
  16 février, par siawi3

  Ancien conseiller de Raymond Barre, François Fillon et Xavier Darcos, Mark Sherringham prône un retour au christianisme dans les questions éducatives. La FSU, principal syndicat de l’Éducation nationale, exprime sa « vive inquiétude ».

• USA: The Obscene and the Innocent: Book Bans in Schools
  16 February, by siawi3

  In James Baldwin’s words, “It is the innocence which constitutes the crime.”

• USA: Confronting the Right-Wing Attacks on Racial Justice Teaching
  16 February, by siawi3

  We do not pretend that teaching for justice is easy or will not invite “the most determined resistance.” We affirm that it is critical and righteous work. And that by doing this work, we join an esteemed collective of educators, past and present, who went for broke teaching children that, to paraphrase Eduardo Galeano, tomorrow can be more than just another name for today.

• USA: On the South African-born anthropologist John Comaroff and the political economy of silence in academia.
  18 February, by siawi3

  The liberal managerialism that attempted to contain the abuses of feudal academia is increasingly delegitimized among younger generations of academics, who turn to social media and labor organizing to try to shift the balance of power. The lawsuit by Czerwienski, Kilburn and Mandava and the open support of their comrades may present an opportunity for this generation to begin to forge a new model for academia, in which solidarity isn’t just about protecting one’s powerful friends.

• India: What is at stake in the hijab issue
  18 February, by siawi3

  A young Muslim woman has poignantly commented in a chat group of secularists: “What have we come to as a community? We need to initiate (the) process of dialogue within to figure out how to counter the increasing conservatism and fundamentalism in the community. If we don’t, the BJP will.”

• Open letter to our secular Muslim friends in India
  18 February, by Marieme Helie Lucas

  The defense of victims of one (majority) religious fundamentalist extreme right should not lead to supporting another (be it minority) one.

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