Notes on Church-State Affairs
Algeria In April, Said Djabelkhir, a university professor specializing in Islam, was convicted of blasphemy for offending the Islamic religion and sentenced to three years in prison. Some politicians, journalists, and teachers expressed outrage at the ruling, which is the first conviction of a profe...
| Summary: | Algeria In April, Said Djabelkhir, a university professor specializing in Islam, was convicted of blasphemy for offending the Islamic religion and sentenced to three years in prison. Some politicians, journalists, and teachers expressed outrage at the ruling, which is the first conviction of a professor for giving his opinion on his area of academic specialization. In his academic analysis of Islam and the Quran, he distinguished between the categories of history and myth, but his detractors assert that everything in the Quran is history and that to say anything else is to offend Islam.A Christian minister and part-time bookstore owner, Rachid Seighir, was arrested and given a one-year suspended sentence and fines because his store’s Christian literature allegedly agitated the Islamic faith. This came just weeks after his church was also closed by the state. In 2006, Algeria passed a law making it illegal to publish or distribute any material... |
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| ISSN: | 2040-4867 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: A journal of church and state
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jcs/csab071 |