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Freedom of insult or freedom of speech? A reply to critics about the case of the Turkish pianist Fazil Say

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I know that I am walking a very fine line here but I will and I have to. Recently Fazil Say, the Turkish pianist, faced a sentence of up to one and a half years in prison for the crime of 'openly insulting the sacred values of a certain fraction of the general public'. By Sinem Tezyapar





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06 May 2012 Hussein al-Kharsan, a 25-year-old Iraqi, aims to writie the longest copy of the Qur'an in the world. Kharsan says t ...



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07 April 2012 Some of the world's most recognized and renowned authorites in Islamic Law and Islamic Legal Theory are meeting i ...



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28 February 2012 Deputy Ruler of Dubai and UAE Minister of Finance Sheikh Hamdan bin Rashed Al Maktoum has launched the world's ...



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08 February 2012 A joint declaration on Syria has been issued by 107 leading muslim scholars and intellectuals from nearly ever ...



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18 June 2012 The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), in a bid to enhance cooperation and integration with Islamic countr ...



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28 March 2012 Islamic bonds (sukuk) have staged a massive comeback since 2011, after several gloomy years in which even Muslim ...



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06 July 2012 A new, modern-style, green-domed mosque opened today in the paris suburb of Cergy. At 2,000 square me ...



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27 June 2012 Mario Scialoja (pictured), a retired Italian diplomat and the first president of the Italian office of the World M ...



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08 April 2012 The world's first air travel prayer time calculator has been launched to help Muslims know their prayer times alo ...



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26 February 2012 The Islamic Fashion Festival (IFF), a Southest Asian fashion event established in Malaysia in 2006, was hosted ...



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18 February 2012 Chinese authorities in the troubled northwestern region of Xinjiang have launched an ideological campaign amid ...



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29 July 2012 Dubai-based artist Raein Akbar Khanzadeh was blessed with an incredible gift from birth. He can read and write l ...



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27 June 2012 PBS will premier its state-of-the-art 90-minute documentary on Islamic art from 8-10:30 p.m. on WTVP-HD on Friday, ...



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10 June 2012 After a year of research and preparation, the giant screen film IMAX JERUSALEM 3D advanced into production with an ...



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05 June 2012 The Second International Summit on the Future of Health Privacy, scheduled for 6-7 June 2012 at the Georgetown Uni ...



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29 May 2012 A judge in Tennessee has ruled that the public wasn't properly notified about a meeting on a proposed mosque, meani ...



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ZURICH - Revving dreams of female Muslim footballers, soccer's rulemakers and its governing body FIFA agreed to allow Muslim women players to wear a headscarf during official tournaments. To all women players worldwide, co ...



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MOGADISHU - Seeing their country on the verge of change, Somali youth are currently involved in attending seminars organized by the National Somali Youth Council to discuss clauses of the new constitution that will end the tr ...



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Cairo: The holy month of Ramadan is likely to prove to be the toughest in decades especially for the Muslims in Middle East region as the summer is extremely hot in the Gulf States and days are relatively longer. By Farhan Iqbal



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GENEVA - Blasting the military crackdown on Rohingya Muslim minority in Burma's Arakan state, UN human rights chief Navi Pillay has called for an independent investigation into rising claims of abuses by security forces amid ...




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