Is Michel Houellebecq Islamophobic or merely playing devil’s advocate?
On January 7, Michel Houellebecq published Submission, a novel about the election of an Islamic political party to the [...]
Religious Reader
News Service for Faith or Religious Communities
January 2015
Is there a big increase in religious slaughter of animals?
A recent report by the Food Standards Agency (FSA) quickly became front page news due its focus on religiously slaughtered [...]
Anti-Semitism: Teenage gang jailed for unprovoked assault on Jewish man
In a fresh batch of anti-Semitism, a gang of youths admitted assaulting a non-practising Rabbi in Gateshead. Motivated by [...]
Neo-Nazi jailed after assaulting Asian man on day of Lee Rigby’s funeral
A hardened neo-Nazi was today jailed for five years after his unprovoked assault meant an Asian man almost lost his ear. [...]
Lord Suri: Only the second turbaned Sikh to enter the House of Lords
Ranbir Singh Suri is just the second turbaned Sikh to enter the House of Lords. The businessman was introduced to the Lords [...]
Bradford: a beacon for Muslim-Jewish relations
The city of Bradford is once again a beacon of Muslim-Jewish relations after the city’s Synagogue Council appointed its [...]
Meet the Muslims who saved Jews from the Holocaust
As the unimaginable evil of the Holocaust brought a dark cloud over Europe, where indifference to Jewish suffering become [...]
Scandal may not stop Pegida’s momentum
The resignation of Pegida’s founder and co-leader Lutz Bachmann is the footnote to a difficult week for the far-right [...]
Christian-ethos free school faces closure after damning Ofsted report
A free school founded on Christian values is to close after a damning Ofsted found it ‘inadequate’ in all areas. Durham [...]
‘Black January’ Serves as a Memoriam for Azeris Globally
As the suffocating grip of Soviet totalitarianism eased across Europe amid a collapsing empire – some still paid the [...]