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Kevin Frayer / Getty China's Jaw-Dropping Family Separation Policy
Children and parents are being ripped apart on a massive scale. It may rob an entire generation of their Muslim identities.
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Jason Lee / Reuters China Is Treating Islam Like a Mental Illness
The country is putting Muslims in internment camps—and causing real psychological damage in the process.
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AFP / Getty / The Atlantic China Is Going to Outrageous Lengths to Surveil Its Own Citizens
New tech—including drones disguised as birds—can be a nightmare for Muslims in particular.
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Chris Wattie / Reuters The Two Words That Made Saudi Arabia Furious at Canada
The kingdom, accusing Canadians of interference, expelled their ambassador—and that was just the beginning.
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Reuters Banning Muslim Veils Tends to Backfire—Why Do Countries Keep Doing It?
Denmark has become the latest country to prohibit wearing the burqa and niqab in public.
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Mark Blinch / The Canadian Press via AP Canada Is Raging Against Gun Violence—But Not Like America
After a shooting in Toronto, the country is debating a total ban on handguns.
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Dan Cretu / Getty / Katie Martin / ... Artificial Intelligence Shows Why Atheism Is Unpopular
“I lose sleep at night on this.”
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Chris Keane / Reuters Why Richard Dawkins Thinks ‘Allahu Akbar’ Sounds ‘Aggressive’
As explained by linguists.
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Lucy Nicholson / Reuters Atheists Are Sometimes More Religious Than Christians
A new study shows how poorly we understand the beliefs of people who identify as atheist, agnostic, or nothing in particular.
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Christinne Muschi / Reuters ‘There’s a Perception That Canada Is Being Invaded’
Justin Trudeau’s government has started rejecting more refugee claims from migrants who cross the U.S.-Canada border on foot.
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Margaret Hagan A Design Lab Is Making Rituals for Secular People
Will it work?
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Carlo Allegri / Reuters Canada's 'Incel Attack' and Its Gender-Based Violence Problem
A Toronto van killing attributed to misogynist motives was shocking, but not entirely out of keeping with the country’s past.
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Zein Al Rifai / AFP / Getty Images What If There Is No Ethical Way to Act in Syria Now?
Moral philosophers around the world confess they’re at a loss.
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Alberto Pizzoli / AFP / Getty The Vatican Is Wooing Silicon Valley
And the tech sector is flirting back.
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De Agostini / Getty / Mega Pixel / ... It’s Disturbingly Easy to Buy Iraq’s Archeological Treasures
U.S. forces invaded the country 15 years ago this week—and left behind a booming trade in looted artifacts.
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Sigal Samuel What It Takes To Make Saudi Islam ‘Moderate’
Can you curb religious fundamentalism by “eliminating fake and extremist texts”?
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Silke Schurack / Joshua Roberts / Reuters / ... What To Do When Racists Try To Hijack Your Religion
White supremacists are coopting Norse heathen symbols. Should the heathens ignore them? Protest them? Create a new theology?
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Annika Larsson The Strangely Revealing Debate Over Viking Couture
An archeological discovery has raised questions about Muslims’ influence on Europe.
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Faisal Nasser / Reuters A Saudi Woman's ‘Mixed Feelings’ About Winning the Right to Drive
“This is the problem with women’s rights in Saudi Arabia—it’s always used by the political system as a negotiation card.”
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Don Carstens / Getty Reading the Bible Through Neuroscience
What was it like inside the brain of an ancient prophet?
