Some interesting law & religion stories from around the web this week:
- Jihadist fighters linked to Al-Qaeda have reportedly set fire to statues and crosses inside Christian churches in northern Syria
- A suicide attack on a historic church in northwestern Pakistan killed at least 78 people on Sunday in one of the deadliest attacks on the Christian minority in Pakistan in years
- An Egyptian court has banned deposed President Mohamed Mursi’s Muslim Brotherhood and ordered its funds seized
- On Wednesday, Egyptian security forces shuttered the office of the newspaper of the Muslim Brotherhood’s political party and confiscated furniture and documents
- Abercrombie & Fitch has agreed to revise its “Look Policy” for its store employees as part of a settlement in two religious discrimination cases (more here)
- A Pennsylvania mining company is being sued by the federal government on behalf of a worker who refused a biometric headscan because he believes in the Bible’s mark of the beast prophecy
- Small groups of Jews are increasingly ascending the Temple Mount in Jerusalem’s Old City, a sacred site controlled for centuries by Muslims, who see the visits as a provocative
- Iranian Jews in the U.S. rejected an invitation to meet President Rouhani, saying that when the President had a chance to redeem himself on the question of the Holocaust, he did not amend his previous statements
- Stanley Fish on Ronald Dworkin’s last book, “Religion Without God”