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Tariq Ramadan To Give Keynote At CAIR Annual Banquet

hd — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 17:24:47 -0400

The Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) has announced that Global Muslim Brotherhood leader Tariq Ramadan will give the keynote address at its 16th annual banquet in October. According to

France Muslim rector urges calm over Koran 'provocation'

hd — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 17:21:52 -0400

A senior Islamic leader in France on Thursday urged Muslims to resist being provoked by a US church's plan to burn Korans on September 11, amid fears that the act would spark rage in the Muslim

Remembering 9/11 or Not?

hd — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 17:19:47 -0400

For eight years, I’ve started the school year asking my eighth graders where they were when they first heard about the tragic events of September 11, 2001, but I didn’t do that when school started

Victimizers Play the Victim

hd — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 17:19:02 -0400

The Associated Press ran a piece recently with this headline: For U.S. Muslims, a 9/11 anniversary like no other. It mimics a press release from Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations

The Question Is: Whose Books Are You Burning?

hd — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 17:18:08 -0400

For better or for worse, the Pentecostal pastor sure got the attention of the world. Hillary Clinton, Gen. Petraeus, the Vatican and even Angelina Jolie were outraged at Terry Jones's plan to burn

Islamist Propaganda in the K-12 Classrom

hd — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 17:17:19 -0400

A highly disturbing phenomenon is rising in our public school system today with hardly a peep of protest from parents and from our society at large: students are being force-fed a curious and bizarre

Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld Interview: Terrorism Funding Expert on SPEECH Act and 9/11

hd — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 17:16:14 -0400

On August 10, 2010, President Obama signed into law the SPEECH Act (the Securing the Protection of our Enduring and Established Constitutional Heritage) to guard American authors and publishers from

Israel and Islamism

pk — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 12:41:45 -0400

Two readers asked me questions well worth answering. The first asked whether Islam itself isn't the enemy; the second, how these distinctions appear from an Israeli

Pak asks Interpol to stop ''insane'' pastor from burning Quran

pk — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 12:04:59 -0400

Basit said the Pakistan government is in touch with the Organisation of the Islamic Conference to formulate a joint response and strategy in this regard. Pakistan's Religious Affairs Minister Syed Hamid Kazmi

Australian Cop Gunned Down by Muslim Gang During Raid

pk — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 11:43:44 -0400

A young policeman training in plain clothes died after a "hell of a firefight" in a Sydney unit block garage during a routine drugs raid. The NSW Police Commissioner paid tribute today to "one of the state's finest" after

Car bomb kills 15 at market in Russia's Caucasus

pk — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 11:31:46 -0400

At least 15 people were killed and dozens injured when a car bomb exploded in the city of Vladikavkaz in Russia’s troubled North Caucasus on Thursday.

Mauritanian president pardons 35 islamist prisoners

pk — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 11:23:28 -0400

Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz has pardoned 35 islamic fundamentalist prisoners detained at the Nouakchott prison. Official sources told Xinhua that 15 of those pardoned had already

Senegal Prostitutes Look Forward To Ramadan's End

pk — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 11:16:38 -0400

Wearing white to symbolize purity, worshippers throughout this African capital gathered to pray on one of the final nights of Ramadan. To purify the soul and purge sin, they hadn't eaten all day and refrained

Islam Did Attack Us on September 11

hd — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 15:23:15 -0400

From a technical standpoint, Mayor Bloomberg is correct. In the sense that all of Islam did not get together in four airplanes and fly them into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. In that same sense, Japan did not attack Pearl Harbor, only a few hundred Japanese people did, under the command of the Japanese Air Force.

Is burning Quran a hate crime or a free speech issue?

hd — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 15:19:15 -0400

Is burning a Bible because you hate Christianity, a hate crime? How about burning a Torah? Is that an anti-Semitic act? And this brings us to the question of burning a Quran.... Is the Dove World

Muslim Principal Sued for Discrimination Against Christians

hd — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 15:16:42 -0400

DETROIT, MI–The Law Offices of Debbie Schlussel, a Detroit-area law firm, yesterday announced the filing of a federal lawsuit against Imad Fadlallah, the Muslim man who was, until July, the principal

Muslim cleric warns of Koran burning consequences

hd — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 15:02:38 -0400

A TOP official at Cairo's Al-Azhar university is warning that a Florida church's plan to burn copies of the Koran risks destroying ties. "If the government fails to stop this, this will be the

Burning Elvis and Burning the Quran

hd — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 15:00:46 -0400

Thirty-five years ago my brother burned my Elvis records. At the time I was in India. He thought he was doing God's will. Included among them was Elvis' Greatest Hits Volume 1 which I had bought when

Christian Copts Living As Slaves to Muslims in Egyptian Village

hd — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 13:55:34 -0400

Since the Christmas Eve Massacre on January 6,2010, when six Copts were killed and nine seriously injured by Muslims in a drive-by shooting outside a church in Nag Hammadi (AINA 1-7-2010), the Coptic

Russia looking at banking the Islamic way

pk — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 13:40:37 -0400

As Russia's 20 million Muslims observe Ramadan, the country's banks are beginning to wake up to the growing opportunities offered by Islamic banking.