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UK Councils Warn Schools: Children's Drawings Could Be Blasphemous Under Islamic Law Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, In yet another assault on free expression in British classrooms, schools are being instructed by Labour councils to treat kids’ innocent drawings as potential offenses under Islamic interpretations.  Guidelines warn that depicting humans or prophets could spark blasphemy complaints, forcing teachers to tiptoe around religious sensitivities at the expense of creativity and open education.  The push comes amid a broader Labour government drive to monitor and suppress any perceived slights against Muslims, turning schools into surveillance outposts...

Taiwan Semi Slides Despite Record Results In Warning Sign For Chip Companies Taiwanese chip giant, Taiwan Semiconductor Manfuacturing Co, said Thursday its net profit surged to a fresh record in the first quarter, fueled by the global artificial intelligence race despite the war in the Middle East. Massive demand for AI hardware means business is booming for TSMC -- the biggest contract maker of microchips used in everything from Apple phones to Nvidia processors. TSMC's net profit for the first three months of the year jumped 58.3% YoY to NT$572.5 billion ($18...

Approaching the one year anniversary of the massacre of Alawite civilians by a faction including government forces, more details are emerging about what happened to civilians, particularly women, caught up in this violence. An investigation by the BBC looked into reports of Alawite women who were abducted from the Alawite homelands in Syria’s coastal northwest […]