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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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WASHINGTON - More than half of Americans support President Barack Obama's apology for the burning of the Noble Qur'an at a US base in Afghanistan, a new poll has found.A Reuters/Ipsos survey found that 56 percent of Americ ...



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MINNEAPOLIS - Facing a strong Muslim opposition, a Republican lawmaker has withdrawn plans for introducing a bill to ban Islamic Shari`ah in the mid-we ...



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18 February 2012 New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art will next month be holding a unique exhibition on Byzantium and Islam. H ...



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20 February 2012 A new national Muslim organization based in Sunnyside has been founded to represent mainstream Islam in Nort ...



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05 March 2012 Members of an Islamic organization stood in front of police headquarters with signs Monday to support the New Yor ...



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05 March 2012 Interfaith leaders in Minnesota stood together and held a press conference on 5 March against a Senate bill they ...



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20 February 2012 The majority of Nigerian Mulsims do not back the views of Boko Haram, a militant group that has carried out de ...



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23 January 2012 As Senegal approaches an election watched nervously abroad as the latest test of democracy in Africa, virtually ...



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25 January 2012 Twenty-three Christian American university students arrived in South Africa at the beginning of January as part ...



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CAIRO - A secret Bible has been found in Turkey, in which Jesus Christ is believed to have foretold the coming of Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessing be upon him) to the Earth.“In line with Islamic belief, the Gospel trea ...



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PARIS - Toning up rhetoric against halal meat ahead of next month's election, French Prime Minister Francois Fillon called Monday, March 5, for Muslims and Jews to scrap their ritual slaughter in order to keep with “modern so ...



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CAIRO - A US Muslim student group in the university of Notre Dame will be hosting Tuesday, March 6, a session about the art of Qur'an recitation, a mov ...



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Islam and Islamic Shari`ah have become a central theme in electoral rallies of Republican hopefuls to get their party nomination to run in the November presidential election.Most candidates have toughened their tone in att ...



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KAMPALA - Marking the arrival of Islam to the East African country, Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has praised Muslims for their spirit of tolerance and contributions to the society.“I wish to congratulate all Muslims u ...



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SURRY, Britain - Following the Sunnah of Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessing be upon him), Muslims and mosques in the southern British country of Surr ...



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CAIRO - Muslim women in Australia's most populous state will have to remove veils to have their signatures officially witnessed under new identity chec ...



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25 February 2012 Welsh soldiers have paid a visit to a mosque to prepare them for their forthcoming tour to Afghanistan. ...



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04 March 2012 French President Nicolas Sarkozy declared that halal food in schools and special hours so that Muslim women can s ...



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




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