I’m certainly no fashionista. Most of my shirts are of the T variety, and I’m still rocking a lot of the clothes I acquired (second hand) in high school. So take with a grain of salt the following evaluation of a recent Los Angeles Times article about Islamic headscarves getting fashionable .
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Headscarves divide Muslims too?
Well, both my channels are in danger of being deleted, so I decided to create a channel just for the Riffing Religion videos, so they’ll still be up even if the Wes964 channel gets taken down. Please subscribe. 
Also, I made a brand new Riffing Religion video (another riff on some Harun Yahyah creationist claptrap about “science” in the Quran), which I should be putting up shortly
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Riffing Religion – New Channel, Highlights, and Outtakes
Campbell Soup Co., the Camden, N.J., food giant, has been fighting a grass-roots boycott of its products after its Canadian subsidiary rolled out a line of soups certified as halal, meaning they’re prepared according to Islamic dietary laws.
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A Canadian line of Campbell’s soups has activists stewing over Islamic connection
Fox News commentators raises questions of ties between a proposed Islamic center and a Saudi prince. But that prince, a Fox News owner, doesn’t take it personally.
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Fox News Insinuations Just Make Prince Shrug
Back in July, we sprawled all over this Wall about some sanctimonious loon who decided it would be a grand idea to burn a wheelbarrow full of Qu’rans in an effort to talk smack about Muslims on September 11. Never mind that only an underground stink tank full of extremists committed those heinous acts on
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Here’s a driving reason to burn a Qu’ran
“Allahu Akbar!” For anyone who paid attention to the news last year, the words shouted by the gunman responsible for a rampage that killed 13 people and wounded 32 at Food Hood, Texas, come as no surprise. In widespread news accounts, witnesses reported that Maj. Nidal Hasan, an American-born Muslim, shouted the Arabic phrase for “God is great!” before opening fire.
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Do all readers speak Arabic?
Islamic banking is growing fast in Malaysia which is promoting itself as the world’s center for Shariah compliant financial products. Bloomberg Business Week reports today that Malaysian banking assets that comply with the Islamic ban on interest rose to the equivalent of $109 billion (US)– 20% of Malaysia’s total banking assets. Also Islamic insurance (takaful) now accounts for 9% of Malaysia’s insurance industry.
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Malaysia Promotes Islamic Finance
By comparison with Christianity, coverage of other world faiths is static and limited. Coverage of Islam in textbooks is similar to Hinduism, Buddhism and Judaism in its focus on early origins rather than change over time.
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Religious Bias in US Textbooks?
Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan returned Tuesday to Fort Hood in a wheelchair and combat fatigues for a pretrial hearing 11 months after he opened fire in a base processing center, killing 13 people and wounding 32 more. At the end of the proceedings, which are expected to continue for weeks or even months, Colonel Pohl will decide whether Major Hasan will face a court-martial, and possibly the death penalty
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Muslims terrorism suspect Nidal Malik Hasan in Court for Hearing at Ft. Hood
Nicholas Kristof has created a quiz that exposes unflattering passages from all the leading brands of revealed faith — Islam, Christianity, and Judaism. What is the point of his little quiz? [T]he point of this little quiz is that religion is more complicated than it sometimes seems, and that we should be wary of rushing to inflammatory conclusions about any faith, especially based on cherry-picking texts.
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Scriptures Demoted