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Afghanistan's Senate Welcomes Reporter's Death Sentence for Insulting Islam

January 30, 2008

Author: AMIR SHAH

Source: Star Tribune

Wire Service: AP

http://www.startribune.com/world/14904246.html

Afghanistan's upper house of parliament lauded the death sentence handed down against a local journalist who was found guilty of insulting Islam, an official said Wednesday.

In a statement signed by Sibghatullah Mojaddedi, the chamber's chairman, the Senate also condemned what it called "international...

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Oxford Clergyman Attacks Muslim Plans for Calls to Prayer

January 30, 2008

Author: Ruth Gledhill

Source: The Times

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article3278746.ece

The clergyman who runs one of Oxford’s largest and most successful churches has attacked Muslim plans to begin calls to prayer from the city’s Central Mosque.

The Rev Charlie Cleverley, Rector of St Aldate’s, a thriving charismatic evangelical church in the heart of Oxford, claims non-Muslim residents...

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Malaysian Buddhists Lose Conversion Case

January 29, 2008

Author: JULIA ZAPPEI

Source: Lexington Herald-Leader

Wire Service: AP

A Malaysian court on Tuesday rejected a petition to have a dead man declared a Buddhist after he was buried as a Muslim in the latest interfaith dispute to rock this multiethnic but largely Muslim nation.

Relatives of the late Gan Eng Gor had asked the High Court in southern Seremban state to reverse a decision by an Islamic Shariah court that declared him a Muslim. But the High Court rejected the...

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Pro-Muslim Tilt in Malaysia's Courts

January 29, 2008

Author: Simon Montlake

Source: The Christian Science Monitor

http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0129/p06s01-woap.html

An Islamic court ruled last week that a Malaysian man receive a Muslim burial, despite insistence by most of his family that he hadn't converted to Islam. His son, a Muslim, maintained that he had.

Such cases have become more common in Malaysia, whose leaders tout their multiracial democracy as a model of Islamic moderation and...

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'Few' Muslim Anti-Terror Police

January 29, 2008

Author: Barnie Choudhury

Source: BBC News

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7215431.stm

Muslim police are being prevented from playing a part in fighting terrorism, a senior Muslim officer has pointed out.

Supt Dal Babu was speaking at the first annual conference of the National Association of Muslim Police Officers.

Only a few Muslim officers work in counter-terrorism, he told his audience, who included Home Office minister Tony...

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Interfaith Leaders Call for Intervention In Gaza

January 28, 2008

Author: Staff Writer

Source: Muslim Public Affairs Council

http://www.mpac.org/article.php?id=597

As the growing humanitarian crisis continues in the Gaza Strip, interfaith leaders in Southern California held a press conference and a vigil to call for an end to the collective punishment of 1.5 million residents. Interfaith leaders highlighted the importance of social justice and its centrality to Abrahamic faith traditions."

"Violence done in the name...

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MSA Launches First Islam Awareness Week

January 28, 2008

Author: Dougal Sutherland

Source: The Swarthmore Daily Gazette

http://daily.swarthmore.edu/2008/01/28/msa-launches-first-islam-awareness-week/

This week, the Muslim Students Association (MSA) will be hosting the inaugural Islam Awareness Week, an attempt to raise awareness of the group's (and the religion's) presence on campus. There will be several events throughout the week, focusing mostly on the experience of Muslim...

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Nazia Fights and Wins a Battle for Muslim Women Rights

January 27, 2008

Author: Kashif-ul-Huda

Source: TwoCircles.net

http://www.twocircles.net/2008jan26/nazia_fights_and_wins_battle_muslim_women_rights.html

A 19 year old Muslim girl has successfully changed a 50 year old tradition. Nazia Tabassum, a student of History is making history of her own.

It all started when breaking stereotypes, the girl in hijab won the election for the post of Joint Secretary at the Ranchi...

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Zoning Panel's Rejection of Proposed Mosque Raises Questions

January 27, 2008

Author: Jim DeBrosse

Source: Dayton Daily News

http://www.daytondailynews.com/n/content/oh/story/news/local/2008/01/27/ddn012708mosque.html

SUGARCREEK TWP., Greene County — When the First Baptist Church here advertised a speaker last fall who would tell "the truth about Islam," Dina Ezzeddine of Kettering assumed it would be an interfaith gathering aimed at dispelling negative publicity about her religion...

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Survey: Europeans Think Islam is Dangerous

January 27, 2008

Author: Jason Groves

Source: Daily Express

http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/32867/Europeans-think-Islam-is-dangerous

AN “overwhelming majority” of Europeans believe immigration from Islamic countries is a threat to their traditional way of life, a survey revealed last night.

The poll, carried out across 21 countries, found “widespread anti-immigration sentiment”, but warned Europe’s...

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Turkish PM Challenges Headscarf Ban

January 26, 2008

Author: Staff Writer

Source: Al Jazeera

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/AF64357F-1B17-41B5-A036-CF5E23252E0F.htm

The Turkish prime minister has challenged a ban on Muslim headscarves in universities and public offices, saying there was no need to wait for a constitutional change to remove the ban, state media says.

Recep Tayyip Erdogan is pushing to lift the ban which he says is merely a question of...

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European Party to Defend Against Islam

January 26, 2008

Author: Staff Writer

Source: National Post

Wire Service: Reuters

http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=265215

The heads of leading far-right parties unveiled a plan for a new European "patriotic" party yesterday to defend the continent against Islam, immigrants and the impact of globalization. Heinz-Christian Strache, head of Austria's Freedom Party, said the group, whose backers include French National Front leader...

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