India has never been short of religions: although 80 per cent Hindu, it also incorporates Islam, Christianity, Buddhism, Jainism, Sikhism, Judaism and Zoroastrianism as well as hundreds of lesser known faiths.
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Ravidassia sect sends shockwaves across world’s Sikh community (Times Online)
Protestant Christians in Pakistan’s Punjab province were searching for a place of worship Wednesday, February 3, after angry Muslims apparently attacked their partly constructed church, injuring scores of worshippers. Christians are a minority in Islamic Pakistan and rights investigators say there has been an increase in anti-Christian violence, with at least 130 Christians killed last year.
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Muslim Mob Storms Pakistan Church; 65 Injured
Amsterdam – An Amsterdam court on Wednesday ruled it was authorized to hear the criminal case against lawmaker and Islam- critic Geert Wilders for incitement to hatred and discrimination. The court rejected the argument by Wilders’ defence at the sta…
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Court rules it is authorized to hear Dutch Islam-critic’s case (EARTHtimes.org)
By Shweta Srinivasan, New Delhi, Feb 3 : Works on Islam and Buddhism are a big hit at stalls put up by publishers from South Asian countries at the World Book Fair here. Many avid book readers and scholars are happy to have spotted rare books that are not easily available in India.
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Rare books on Islam, Buddhism a hit at South Asian stalls (New Kerala)
Works on Islam and Buddhism are a big hit at stalls put up by publishers from South Asian countries at the World Book Fair here. Many avid book readers and scholars are happy to have spotted rare books that are not easily available in India.
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Rare books on Islam, Buddhism a hit at South Asian stalls (Calcutta News)
In “The Jihadist Next Door,” Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Andrea Elliott’s Sunday cover story in The New York Times Magazine , Elliott turns her laser focus on the journey of one American youngster who decides to join a Somali terrorist group linked to Al Qaeda. By going deep into one particular story, this long-form feature sheds light on bigger issues.
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From Baptist kid to jihadist fighter
By Neville Spykerman KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 3 — A church worker who had lodged a police report against Al Islam magazine (in picture) for desecration slammed the authorities today for their inaction so far. The magazine’s Muslim reporters allegedly posed as Christians, accepted what Catholic’s consider a holy wafer into their mouths, before spitting it out
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Police criticised for inaction over Al Islam ‘desecration’ report (The Malaysian Insider)
KUALA LUMPUR: Lawyers for Sudhagaran Stanley today expressed their disappointment over the lack of progress in the police report lodged against Al-Islam last July.
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Lawyers: No progress in Al Islam case (The Edge Daily)
Amsterdam – An Amsterdam court is to resume proceedings on Wednesday against Islam critic Geert Wilders to rule on the charges to be heard before the court and the number of witnesses to be called. The trial opened January 20 when the leader of the D…
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PREVIEW: Trial of Islam critic Geert Wilders set to resume (EARTHtimes.org)
Geert Wilders , the radical anti-Muslim Dutch politician, will seek to test free speech in Britain next month when he makes a second attempt to visit the House of Lords to screen a controversial film equating Islam to Nazism. Lord Ahmed, a Muslim peer, has promised to mobilise 10,000 Muslims to block Mr Wilders from entering the House of Lords
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Geert Wilders to test British free speech with anti-Muslim film screening
In case you are new to the Gospel, a couple of things: Welcome! Jesus loves you. Muslims aren’t huge fans of the Jews. To the latter, I don’t mean as in not carrying a foam finger reading, “There’s only one Savior for me.” It’s more like, “I have hated your guts for 6,000 years.
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Jesus turned water into wine, but Arabs are turning it into cash
The agreement between Rifqa Bary and her parents to settle their conflict through counseling has ended without a single meeting between the parents and their daughter, according to a motion filed in Franklin County Juvenile Court.
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Agreement between Rifqa Bary, parents to settle conflict short-lived
The Council on American-Islamic Relations plans to file a complaint with the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division over the State of the City speech given this week by Lancaster, California’s mayor, R.
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Muslim Organization Objects To Remarks In Speech By California Mayor
Our brave men and women need all the inspiration they can muster to fight for us overseas. Some have their family picture in the pocket. Others have voice mails of their loved one on the phone
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Cross Eyed: Well, since the Kingdom doth suffer violence…
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(Jan 28, 2010) – Whether it’s to offer support or to ask questions about the Muslim faith, the Muslim Association of Hamilton will welcome the public to an open house at the Hamilton Mosque this weekend.
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Learn about Islam at Muslim group’s open house (Hamilton Spectator)
VERMILLION — Tension between Islam and the West dates back centuries, but the current jihad further illustrates the Muslim extremists’ willingness to die for their religion, two University of South Dakota panelists said Wednesday.
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USD Panel: Tensions Between West, Islam Part Of Long-Standing History (Yankton Press & Dakotan)
I wonder if this exemplifies one of those inescapable parts of the human condition that appeal to millions of human beings across the globe sunnily recounted by renowned scholars? Slather on the SPF-75 sunscreen and feel the rays : A 16-year-old girl who was raped in Bangladesh has been given 101 lashes for conceiving during the assault … Her rape emerged after her pregnancy test and Muslim elders in the village issued a fatwa insisting that the girl be kept in isolation until her family agreed to corporal punishment
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South African police released the Tunisian owner of Britain’s Islam Channel after holding him for two days on an international terror warrant issued by his homeland, saying Wednesday that Tunisia had failed to respond to queries about the case.
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S. African police free owner of Islam Channel (AP via Yahoo! Finance)
» In at least three Islamic places of worship the remains of abandoned animals found, considered “impure” by the followers of Muhammad.
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01/27/2010 12:40 MALAYSIA Kuala Lumpur, mosques desecrated with pig’s head (AsiaNews.it)
The Greater Los Angeles Area office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-LA) today called on the California Republican Party to repudiate anti-Islam comments posted on Facebook by a Republican member of the Lancaster, Calif., city council.
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CAIR: Calif. GOP Asked To Repudiate Councilwoman’s Anti-Islam Posting (OfficialWire)
A long awaited report from a French parliamentary committee released today recommends a ban on women wearing the Muslim full-face veil in hospitals, schools, government office and on public transport.
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French Parliamentary Report Urges Ban of Full Face Veil In Public Buildings and Transport
PUTRAJAYA, 26 Jan — Buku Wanita Islam dan Cabaran Terhadap Fahaman Islam Yang Melampau boleh menimbulkan keraguan dan kegelisahan awam, kata Ketua Pengarah Jabatan Kemajuan Islam Malaysia (Jakim), Datuk Wan Mohamad Sheikh Abdul Aziz. Beliau berkata kandungan buku itu didapati bercanggah dengan Garis Panduan Penapisan Bahan-Bahan Penerbitan Berunsur Islam yang dikeluarkan jabatan itu pada tahun …
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Umat Islam diminta waspada bacaan bercanggah syariat Islam (The Malaysian Insider)
Bangladesh has taken another step toward banning religious-based political parties. Earlier this month, the country’s Supreme Court reinstated a constitutional ban on such parties. (See prior posting .) Now, according to RTT News today, the Election Commission has written to three Islamic political parties directing them to amend their charters to remove various religious references
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Bangladesh Takes Next Step To Ban Religious Political Parties
PARIS — A parliamentary panel will recommend on Tuesday that France ban face-covering Muslim veils in public locations such as hospitals and schools, but not in private buildings or on the street, the group’s president said. The decision appeared to indicate that the 32-member, multiparty panel had heeded warnings that a full ban of the all-encompassing veils would be unfair, possibly unconstitutional, and could even cause trouble in a country where Islam is the second largest religion.
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Panel to favor partial ban on full veil in France
O heavens. It appears that Sam Harris and company are now defiling the very grave of Socrates by making definite claims about the shortcomings of faith as a truth-finding mechanism and the really existing consequences of religious enthusiasm — so unlike wiser men writing in gentler times . Look away if you have a weak stomach: many of the claims are expressed with a bluntness that doesn’t seem crafted to flatter a worldwide majority of religious believers.
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The Truth Pressed Flat
‘God willing, our raids on you will continue,” said Osama bin Laden — or someone purporting to be him — in a message broadcast on al-Jazeera over the weekend. The blunt message to “Obama from Osama” is intended to reaffirm that, despite Barack Obama’s overtures to the Islamic world, he and his country remain infidels, every bit as evil as they were under George W. Bush
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Al-Qaeda is losing. Prepare for a daring hit