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6 Mar 2020, 12:30 pm
[Threatening a ref, double jeopardy, and slave labor.] [read post]
30 May 2022, 9:00 pm
” EEOC, What You Should Know § K.12; NYCCHR, Equitable Implementation at 3 (“[T]he NYCHRL protects not only employees who belong to organized religions, such as Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, and Judaism, but also employees who have religious, ethical, or moral beliefs that are sincerely held with the strength of religious views. [read post]
29 Dec 2015, 3:47 pm
Three men were convicted under Myanmar’s blasphemy law and sentenced to 2 and a half years in prison in March for insulting Buddhism by publishing a flyer showing Buddha wearing headphones to promote their bar. [read post]
14 Mar 2022, 1:29 pm
Some of the fighters called themselves the Volunteer Army to Defend Buddhism (Tib., Tensung Dhanglang Magar). [read post]
Underlining the Obvious: Remarks by Vice President Pence on the Administration’s Policy Toward China
4 Oct 2018, 8:05 pm
On the morning of 4 October 2018, Vice President Pence traveled to the offices of the Hudson Institute, a public policy think tank with a reputation as a politically conservative organization, to deliver a carefully designed Remarks on the Administration’s Policy Toward China. [read post]
30 Jun 2016, 4:19 am
PDF version A review of Elizabeth Shakman Hurd's Beyond Religious Freedom: The New Global Politics of Religion (Princeton, 2015) and Saba Mahmood's Religious Difference in a Secular Age: A Minority Report (Princeton, 2016) *** In recent years, the principle of religious freedom has been drafted into America’s culture war. [read post]
3 Jun 2018, 1:52 pm
After Kant, because human animals alone have dignity they can make necessary and compelling or objective claims on each other (hence reciprocal notions of ‘obligation’ or ‘duty’ and ‘right’), and thus our actions are capable of embodying or expressing the “motive” proper to morality, one that also accounts for the (rational) recognition of the objective worth of others as “ends in themselves. [read post]
9 Nov 2018, 2:19 pm
The repercussions have been severe and overtaken by the mass democratic mobilizations that have emerged around both the blasphemy law and governmental suggestions that it might be softened for infractions against Islam (no one speaks of the effects of blaspheming or insulting Christianity, Baha'i, Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism or the like), and popular action against government officials who support this change in the blasphemy laws (or defend the Christian peasant women condemned to… [read post]
4 Mar 2017, 4:34 pm
In my previous blog on propaganda, I noted that private information, when stolen and put in a public context, can prove useful for propaganda efforts. [read post]
17 Apr 2013, 4:37 pm
“Even those who think that death is a continuation, and not an ending, can benefit from contemplating the implications of annihilation. [read post]
30 Sep 2022, 7:00 pm
A ceremony, which from the Russian perspective was characterized as the celebration of the absorption by the Russian Federation of the Ukrainian territories now called the Donetsk People's Republic, the Lugansk People's Republic, the Zaporozhye Region and the Kherson Region, took place in of the Grand Kremlin Palace’s St George Hall on September 30, 2022 at 16:00.At the event, the President of the Russian Federation delivered… [read post]
2 Aug 2018, 12:46 pm
Students of Chinese constitutionalism and its founding ideology have been engaging in an interesting and important discussion about the nature of the character of the fundamental ideology on which the principles, operations and objectives of the Chinese Communist Party (CPC), and the state apparatus which operated under the leadership of the CPC, are based. [read post]
30 Mar 2021, 7:19 am
Authorities have expanded the ‘‘sinicization’’ campaign to target not only religions perceived as ‘‘foreign,’’ such as Islam and Christianity, but also Chinese Buddhism, Taoism, and folk religious beliefs. [read post]
2 Jul 2013, 1:41 pm
The other day, I was blogging about tags, and somebody asked what are all the tags. [read post]
11 Feb 2017, 5:25 am
In addition to the political and military dimensions, the Manchu, Mongolian and Tibetan alliance structure had a strong religious bond in Tibetan Buddhism. [read post]
