Blasphemy laws neither define the crime nor protect the falsely accused. This invites abuses and fabricated charges motivated by business competition, personal grudges and religious fanaticism.
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Miriam Kremin arrived in Israel as a refugee in 1944 after being imprisoned in a Polish ghetto where the rest of her family was killed.
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While the eyes of the world remain fixed on Egypt's Tahrir Square, anti-Christian violence took more lives over the weekend in the village of Sharona.
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"All I can remember... is the element of fear," Joseph Abdel Wahed writes, reflecting on the events of his 12th year.
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Both peoples have come into the crosshairs of Islamists and are now fleeing the Middle East at alarming rates.
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Linda Menuhin wasn't yet born when anti-Semitic violence first struck Iraq in 1941, but she remembers the terrifying months following Israel's military victory against several Arab nations in 1967.
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The media has an apparent blind spot and – at least thus far – has barely mentioned the wanton violence that has occurred in response to Western speech or expression understood to oppose Islam.
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It's not just Jews who suffer at the hands of Hamas. Getting far less media attention is the situation facing 3,000 Christians who live inside the Gaza strip.
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Jews who fled Morocco were leaders in their communities. Frightened doctors, lawyers, merchants and bankers sailed away from their home - a day they describe in Arabic as 'nakba', or a disaster.
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In its efforts to impose Islamic Shari'a law, Sudan's attacks against its southern Christian (and animist) groups have killed two million people and displaced four million others.
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