17 February 2008
Turkish PM seeks to smooth secularists’ worries
Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan tried to smooth worries about secularism after the law lifting the ban on headscarf in universities and repeated his criticism against the media on Sunday.
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16 February 2008
Jail term for Catholic priest in Algeria
A Roman Catholic priest has been sentenced to a year’s imprisonment in Algeria for leading a Christian worship service in a private home
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Human rights complainant attacked in her home
Calgary police are investigating an assault on one of three women who recently launched a human rights complaint against a local Muslim leader.
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Vandals trash library of Gaza City's YMCA, director says; no claim of responsibility
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip: Vandals set off explosives inside the library of Gaza's YMCA early Friday, severely damaging the one-story building and shaking Gaza's tiny Christian minority
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14 February 2008
Islam, Britain
With all the elegance of a bull in a china shop, Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury, last week made a foray into the difficult subject of how Muslims fit into Western societies. The ensuing crashing and banging is still going on in Britain and
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Italy: Muslim women literally living in chains claims rights activist
Rome, 14 Feb.(AKI) - Association of Moroccan Women in Italy president, Souad Sbai, claims that some Muslim women in the north of Italy are being kept chained up in
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13 February 2008
Stoning Women Pays
If the practice of stoning (lapidation) exists across the Islamic world—most visibly in Afghanistan, Iran, Nigeria, Sudan, and the United Arab Emirates—it speaks much to Western forbearance that this same penalty, though reviled, can make the
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DHS, FBI Warn of Possibility of Female Homicide Bombers
(foxnews.com) The growing use by terrorist groups of women — some disguised as expectant moms — to deliver deadly homicide bombs has prompted...
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12 February 2008
Lent fast re-branded as 'Christian Ramadan'
Dutch Catholics have re-branded the Lent fast as the "Christian Ramadan" in an attempt to appeal to young people who are more likely to know about Islam than Christianity
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Arrests over cartoonist kill plot
SEVERAL people were arrested in Denmark today in connection with a plot to murder one of the 12 cartoonists whose drawings of the Prophet Mohammad caused worldwide uproar in 2006, Danish media said
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10 February 2008
Pakistan Christian "Kidnapped" For Trying To Marry Muslim
LAHORE, PAKISTAN (BosNewsLife)-- The father of a Pakistani Christian continued to search Sunday, February 10, for his son who was allegedly kidnapped two weeks ago by suspected religious extremists, after attempting to marry a Muslim woman.
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