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Seventh-Century Shipwreck Uncovered Off The Coast Of Israel Containing Christian And Islamic Symbols
About 1,300 years ago, this 85-foot-long ship sank less than 100 feet off the coast of Israel. Now, archaeologists excavating ...
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Behind the veil: Why Islam’s most visible symbol is spreading
Islamic religious scholars disagree on whether Muslim ... In France, where the Islamic head scarf (and other “conspicuous” faith symbols) was banned from state schools in 2004, President ...
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64 countries have religious symbols on their national flags
Of the 64 countries in this category, about half have Christian symbols (48%) and about a third include Islamic religious symbols (33%), with imagery on flags from the world’s two largest religious ...
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Religious Tradition or Political Symbol?: Muslim Headscarves Test the Limits of German Tolerance
The judges refused to follow the state's pious law, arguing that regulations that treat Christian symbols as good, but Muslim symbols as the devil's work, were unacceptable under the German ...
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France's century-long crusade against religious symbols at school, from the crucifix to the abaya
The Catholic far right defended France's Christian identity ... Myard tabled a bill against the "Islamic headscarf" in schools, which he described as "a symbol of sexual discrimination." ...
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EU states can ban religious symbols in public workplaces
The issue of the Islamic headscarf has divided Europe ... The headscarf and other "conspicuous" religious symbols were banned in state schools in 2004. In August France's Education Minister ...