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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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CAIRO - As their candidate was voted to the helm of power of the Arab world's most populous state, the Muslim Brotherhood has reached agreements with the ruling military on the president's powers and a dissolved Islamist-led ...
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CAIRO - Arab women and men favor Islamic Shari`ah to play a bigger role in legislation in their countries and that devout men are more likely to support women's rights than those who are less religious, a new survey has found ...
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Editor's Note: This article is republished here with kind permission from the writer with slight editorial modifications.KOTTE - The end of the civil war brought hopes that the country could become united. B ...
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CAIRO - After more than three decades of serving the community, an Islamic school in Seattle is closing its doors and ending its message over a lack of funding and dwindling numbers of students. Here, everything was taught ...
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VIRGINIA - Islamic finance companies are making the American dream of home ownership come true for many practicing Muslims, offering them Shari`ah-compliant payment systems to buy their own homes.We like the house very mu ...
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12 May 2012 Work on Australia's first Islamic Museum, to be built in Melbourne, will begin in August after a $1.5 million grant ...
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25 June 2012 The Dutch Muslim Party (NMP) has folded because the time is not ripe for a Muslim party in parliament.
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11 June 2012 Australia has gone from the second most hated country among Indonesians to the second most loved, according to ann ...
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26 May 2012 New York City police did not violate New Jersey laws when they conducted surveillance of Muslim businesses, mosques ...
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12 May 2012 Fifteen U.S. Muslims, including four military veterans, are suing the federal government, alleging they were placed ...
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Washington: The lawmakers of the House have been divided on the party lines at a hearing which was held after Muslim responses to earlier hearings on the “radicalization” of American Muslims. By Farhan Iqbal
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Washington: A plan to build an Islamic center in the basement of the former Medtronic headquarters off Old Hwy has been rejected by the members of St. Anthony City Council which disappointed the Muslims. By Farhan Iqbal
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New York: A man of New York has been sentenced to eleven-and-a-half-year in imprisonment as he was found guilty of the charges for being involved in threatening on internet to the writers of the South Park television series and other writers as well who are critical of Islam. By Farhan Iqbal
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WUHAN, China - Plans to force Badminton women players to wear skirts have been shelved by the game's world body following a fierce opposition that threatened to overshadow the Olympics. We have shelved the ban (on women we ...
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OCCUPIED JERUSALEM - The election of Muslim Brotherhood's Mohamed Morsi as Egypt's new president has sparked deep worries in Israel, amid Israeli worries of an Islamic winter in the Middle East. It's s**t for Israel, Am ...
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MANIPUR, India - The portrayal of Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessing be upon him) in primary school book is inviting a storm of anger from Indian Muslims, amid calls for banning the blasphemous book.Islam prohibits pict ...
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NAIROBI - Muslim organizations in Kenya have thrown their weight behind a proposed bill to fight terrorism in the eastern African country, stressing that terrorist acts run counter against the Islamic teachings.We fully s ...
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CAIRO - Egypt's first democratically-elected president Mohamed Morsi has vowed to be a president for all Egyptians and honor the country's international treaties as he inherited an office whose powers were curtailed by the ru ...
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29 May 2012 A substantial collection of books that belonged to an Arab scholar who was a highly influential figure within Briti ...
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03 April 2012 Google has just announced a massive expansion of its Art Project, adding collections from a number of museums aro ...
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