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Falun Gong: defying the odds

Leeshai Lemish talks about Falun Gong’s resistance and the complicity of the West

In religion

China’s other world

  • By Leeshai Lemish
  • 20 August

Leeshai Lemish tells of his and Ethan Gutmann’s journey into the persecution of Falun Gong

Why is Falun Gong Banned?

  • By Leeshai Lemish
  • 19 August

Leeshai Lemish looks at the history and causes of the Chinese Communist Party’s campaign against Falun Gong

Being a Falun Gong practitioner

  • By Leeshai Lemish
  • 18 August

Often in the news but rarely understood, Falun Gong is regularly associated with Chinese human rights issues. Leeshai Lemish gives his understanding of what Falun Gong practitioners actually believe

Israel's Quran project

  • By Ofer Grosbard
  • 18 August

A new Israeli project about the Quran has drawn suspicion and criticism from some Islamic scholors. Project supervisor, Dr. Ofer Grosbard, gives his response to the critics

A world system

  • By Tajudeen bin Tijani
  • 14 August

Do you know what the system of this world is? Tajudeen bin Tijani writes that the Quran claims to have the answer

Bedside reading

  • By Kunal Dutta
  • 14 August

Observations on the Gideons

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Weird science

Weird science

According to some Muslim scholars, everything from genetics to robotics and space travel is described in the Quran. What nonsense

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Tolerance v terror

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