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Search for Hindu Temple Goes Outside City

February 28, 2010

Author: Staff Writer

Source: Oxford Mail

http://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/5033289.Search_for_Hindu_temple_goes_outside_city/

Oxfordshire's Hindu community is widening its search for a temple after voicing fears it may not find a suitable home in Oxford.

Organisers of the project originally hoped to build a £2m temple around three-quarters of the size of Oxford Ice Rink in the city.

However, the...

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EU Says Bangladesh Must Curb Violence Against Buddhists And Christians

February 28, 2010

Author: Staff Writer

Source: Nepal News

http://www.nepalnews.net/story/606692

The European Union has condemned last week's ethnic violence in Bangladesh. 

A number of families have been displaced from the Chittagong Hill Tract area, which has a significant Buddhist population. 

At least five people were killed and over twenty injured when a number of people from the Buddhist groups were targeted and their houses burned down....

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Hindus Urge Massachusetts Schools for Choice In Studying Of Religious Texts

February 28, 2010

Author: Staff Writer

Source: The First Reporter

http://www.thefirstreporter.com/entertainment/hindus-urge-massachusetts-schools-for-choice-in-studying-of-religious-texts/

Hindus have urged Massachusetts (USA) schools to either allow students the flexibility to choose the religious text to study in the class instead of just mandating one religious text on the entire...

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Lawsuit By Moroccan-American Muslim Accuses Police Of Bias In Hiring

February 28, 2010

Author: Colin Moynihan

Source: The New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/01/nyregion/01muslim.html

As the New York Police Department has initiated and expanded counterterrorism efforts in foreign countries over the last several years, it has also aggressively tried to recruit speakers of Arabic and other languages of countries where Islam holds sway.

But a Moroccan immigrant who applied to become a police officer as a...

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‘Sikhs In Pak Insecure, Uncertain About Future’

February 27, 2010

Author: Staff Writer

Source: Indian Express

http://www.indianexpress.com/news/sikhs-in-pak-insecure-uncertain-about-future/585088/

“There is tremendous sense of insecurity among the Sikhs in Pakistan after the beheading by Taliban,” said a Sikh Jatha member who returned from Pakistan on Friday. “Many Sikhs have taken shelter in Gurdwaras after fleeing the areas under Taliban control and trouble-...

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Danish Newspaper Provokes Uproar With Apology Over Muhammad Cartoon

February 27, 2010

Author: David Charter

Source: The Times Online

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article7042939.ece

A Danish newspaper was accused yesterday of betraying the freedom of the press after it apologised to Muslims for offence caused by its reprinting a cartoon showing the Prophet Muhammad with a bomb-shaped turban.

Politiken, a leading Danish newspaper, had printed the cartoon as a gesture of...

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