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President Obama Commends Role of Morocco-Hosted Conference in Enhancing Protection of Religious Minorities

US President Barack Obama praised Wednesday the initiatives made worldwide to enhance the protection of religious minorities, giving as an instance the conference on religious minorities’ rights in Muslim countries that just concluded its proceedings in Marrakech the same day. In remarks he made at Righteous among Nations Award Ceremony held in Washington on the […]

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Israel: Iran and the Nazis are the same, PM Netanyahu

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has attacked Iran by saying that they have similar objectives as compared to the Nazis during the annual ceremony marking the Holocaust Remembrance Day. His claims were made based on the Iranian nuclear program and Tehran’s stance towards the Jewish state. According to Netanyahu, “the Nazis strived to trample civilization and […]

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Commemorating Holocaust: Tunisia to Boost its ‘Tolerance Credentials’

Tunisia has recently commemorated the deportation of 5,000 Jews from the country during the Second World War between 1942 and 1943 – an act that astonished many Tunisians. According to the general societal feeling though, the commemoration of the Holocaust – among Jews known as “shoah” – is an interesting step that comes at a […]