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Multiple indices measure “worst” human‑rights records for different purposes; for worker rights the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) lists Bangladesh, Belarus, Ecuador, Egypt, Eswatini, ...
Thomas Jefferson bought an English translation of the Qur’an in 1765 and kept it in his library; that ownership became a lasting symbol of his willingness to include Muslims within the circle of civil...
Thomas Jefferson wrote and defended the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom to protect “the Jew and the Gentile, the Christian and Mahometan,” and he recorded that lawmakers rejected inserting “Jes...
Available sources consistently report that fertility in Muslim-majority countries has fallen sharply over recent decades: UN and compiled analyses show total fertility declines across nearly all Musli...
has long declared an ideological enemy and has inspired or directed attacks on and Israeli interests abroad, but its record shows relatively few direct, successful operations against the State of Isra...
Genetic studies show Israeli Jewish populations are neither genetically uniform nor unrelated to neighboring Levantine groups: major analyses find shared Middle Eastern ancestry across Ashkenazi, Seph...
Thomas Jefferson made a small number of explicit public statements about Islam but repeatedly defended the civil and political inclusion of Muslims; he wrote that his goal for religious freedom was to...
The main waves of Mizrahi immigration to Israel after 1948 unfolded in several distinct surges driven by the Jewish exodus from Arab and Muslim countries, with , and continuing arrivals through the 19...
International human rights bodies generally judge Sharia-based laws through the lens of universal treaties and often find them incompatible with gender-equality norms when state practice produces sex-...
Thomas Jefferson’s most concrete primary evidence relating to Islam is material and documentary: the Qur’an he purchased in 1765 that later entered his library, plus his library catalogue, notes and p...
Thomas Jefferson’s dealings with the Barbary States—diplomatic missions in the 1780s and naval action as president in 1801–05—shaped him to view the North African corsairs as a political and commercia...
Israel’s intelligence presence in Africa spans covert rescue and migration networks in the 1950s and 1960s, targeted operational support and high‑profile rescues through the Mossad and military units,...
and have both reworked constitutions and family laws in recent decades in ways that recast but did not erase sharia’s public role: Morocco’s reasserted Islam as state religion while channeling religio...
is best documented as the eccentric founder of the , a decorated World War II officer who led daring desert raids, was captured in 1943 and spent the rest of the war as a prisoner . The sources review...
Across the , the countries that carry out the largest numbers of are those with the biggest migration enforcement apparatus or the highest irregular arrivals — notably , , and — as measured in return ...
Contemporary Muslim-majority countries display a wide spectrum of Sharia-based criminal justice: some apply classical Sharia across the state legal order, others confine Sharia to family law or niche ...
Haiti stands out as the single clearest and largest case of an independence debt extracted by a former colonizer—an indemnity imposed by France in 1825 that crippled Haiti’s finances for well over a c...
Thomas Jefferson owned an English translation of the Qur’an, welcomed a Muslim ambassador to the White House in 1805, and wrote that his aim in protecting religious liberty was to “comprehend… the Chr...
France’s Muslim population is commonly estimated around 8–10% today and is projected by Pew to reach about 10.3% by 2030 — driven primarily by migration and demography rather than conversion . Availab...
Drip (micro/precision) irrigation typically reduces orchard water use by large margins versus traditional flood/basin irrigation — studies and industry sources report savings from roughly 45% up to 70...