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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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02 February 2012 Philadelphia City Council members Curtis Jones, Jr. and Maria Quinones Sanchez have introduced Resolution 120031, ...
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01 February 2012 Post A Prayer has converted its platform into a multi-faith prayer center that welcomes prayer requests from all ...
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25 January 2012 Twenty-three Christian American university students arrived in South Africa at the beginning of January as part of ...
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23 January 2012 As Senegal approaches an election watched nervously abroad as the latest test of democracy in Africa, virtually all ...
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CAIRO - A British High Court ruling banning prayers before local council meetings has triggered a storm of criticism from Muslim and Catholic leaders a ...
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MELBOURNE - A new research study has found that tolerant Islamic teachings help young Australian Muslims cope with Islamophobic and racist campaigns ag ...
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WASHINGTON - Rising up against US President Barack Obama's birth control plans, Catholic Church leaders have vowed a fight against the controversial schemes for free contraceptives.Obama's proposal continues to involve ne ...
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DOHA - Veiled female athletes in the Middle East are overcoming different challenges to excel in various sports fields and shatter western stereotypes ...
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PARIS - Seeking to catch up with frontrunners before the April elections, French President Nicolas Sarkozy is seen leaning further to the far-right in ...
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12 February 2012 This week, Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd has invited Professor Ekmelledin Ihsanoglu, the Secretary General of the Or ...
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PARIS - Trailing in the polls and with elections just 10 weeks away, French President Nicolas Sarkozy has been accused of leaning further to the far-ri ...
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MALE - The destruction of several historical priceless Buddhist artifacts exhibited at the Maldives National Museum has alarmed Maldivians, provoking w ...
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KUALA LUMPUR - Malaysia has deported a Saudi blogger accused of insulting Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessing be upon him) to his home country, where he faces the death penalty. The Saudi writer was repatriated to his hom ...
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LONDON -As the debate is heating up on the shape of Tunisia's nascent democracy, reformist Islamist Rachid Ghannouchi believes that the British version ...
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UNITED NATIONS - A Russian-Chinese veto against a UN Security Council resolution condemning the ongoing bloodshed in Syria has invited a storm of world ...
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CAIRO - Israeli forces barred far-right Jews on Sunday, February 12, from entering Al-Aqsa mosque, Islam's third holiest shrine, in Al-Quds (Occupied E ...
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BERLIN - Tens of thousands of people took to the streets across Europe on Saturday, February 11, to protest against an international anti-piracy agreement seen as Big Brothers-style surveillance. We don't feel safe anymore ...
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11 February 2012 Three Democratic New York state senators want an independent inspector to oversee the New York Police Department a ...
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WASHINGTON - In a clear concession, US President Barack Obama announced on Friday, February 10, that religious employers would not be required to offer ...
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CAIRO - Egypt marked on Saturday, February 11, the first anniversary of the overthrow of President Hosni Mubarak, as poor turnout for a strike called b ...
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