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Tajik Universities Bar Hijab-Wearing Girls From Exams

August 3, 2007

Author: Staff Writer

Source: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2007/08/B6C95CD6-4F04-4AE5-8FD8-4C4CDCCA982C.html

August 3, 2007 (RFE/RL) -- Officials in Tajikistan's State Teacher Training Institute have told RFE/RL's Tajik Service that female applicants are no longer allowed to take university entrance exams there wearing Islamic head scarves.

Today's remarks come after...

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Mothers of Missing in Russia's Islamic Region of Dagestan Stage Protest, Declare Hunger Strike

August 3, 2007

Author: Arsen Mollayev

Source: The Union-Tribune

Wire Service: AP

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/world/20070803-1036-russia-dagestan.html

MAKHACHKALA, Russia – About 50 women occupied a central square in this provincial Russian capital on Friday, declaring a hunger strike and vowing not to leave until authorities tell them what happened to their missing children.

Police tried...

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Muslim Clerics Angered by Religious Edict

August 3, 2007

Author: Ramadan Al Sherbini

Source: Gulfnews

http://archive.gulfnews.com/articles/07/08/03/10143839.html

Cairo: Egypt's top Muslim cleric has recently angered fellow clerics for allegedly permitting a Muslim to choose his own faith without fear of worldly punishment.

Ali Juma, the country's Grand Mufti, was quoted as saying in a posting on a Washington-Post-Newsweek forum that Muslims are free to change their religion without being...

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Islamic Creationist Group Launches Glitzy, Global Blitz

August 3, 2007

Author: Yigal Schleifer

Source: The Christian Science Monitor

http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0803/p01s10-woeu.html

ISTANBUL, TURKEY - On a recent afternoon inside Istanbul's busiest subway station, a young man beckoned commuters into a subterranean "fossil exhibit" full of skulls and insects dating back millions of years.

But this was no mainstream scientific display. One colorful poster advertised the "myth" of the evolution of the horse....

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Race Crime Up After Terror Attack

August 2, 2007

Author: Stephen Stewart

Source: BBC News

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/glasgow_and_west/6924745.stm

Racist crime in the west of Scotland had increased after the suspected terror attack on Glasgow Airport, BBC Scotland has learned.

Strathclyde Police have released figures on racist crime and a senior officer confirmed that there had been a noticeable rise.

Community and political leaders were quick to call for...

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Republican Candidate Advocates Threat to Bomb Islamic Holy Sites as Response to Terrorist Attack on U.S.

August 2, 2007

Source: PR-Inside.com

Wire Service: AP

http://www.pr-inside.com/republican-candidate-advocates-threat-to-r193291.htm

WASHINGTON (AP) - Republican presidential hopeful Tom Tancredo says the best way he can think of to deter a nuclear terrorist attack on the U.S. is to threaten to retaliate by bombing Islamic holy sites. The Colorado congressman on Tuesday told about 30 people at a town hall meeting in the state of Iowa...

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Imams Drop Passengers from Lawsuit over Removal from Flight

August 1, 2007

Author: Gregg Aamot

Source: Minnesota Public Radio

Wire Service: AP

http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2007/08/01/imams/

Minneapolis — (AP) The six imams who were removed from a US Airways flight after passengers reported they were acting suspiciously won't include those passengers in their lawsuit against the airline and police, an attorney for the imams said Wednesday.

Attorney...

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Ellison Returns from Trip to Iraq

August 1, 2007

Author: Staff Writer

Source: USA Today

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2007-07-30-ellison-iraq_N.htm

WASHINGTON (AP) — Rep. Keith Ellison made a weekend trip to Iraq, where a pair of sheiks urged Congress' only Muslim lawmaker to help in countering al-Qaeda's vision of Islam.

Ellison, D-Minn., said he met in Ramadi in Anbar province with the two sheiks, who oversee several hundred thousand congregants.
...

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Pork at Issue in Doughnut Franchise Row

August 1, 2007

Author: Ameet Sachdev

Source: Chicago Tribune

http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/chi-wed_dunkin_0801aug01,0,119660.story

Every day for nearly 30 years, Walid Elkhatib has sold doughnuts. Glazed, chocolate frosted, Bavarian Kreme and other varieties. As a Dunkin' Donuts franchisee, he expanded the menu to include breakfast sandwiches, such as egg and cheese bagels.

But he drew the line at serving sandwiches...

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Nigerian Shia Base Knocked Down

August 1, 2007

Author: Staff Writer

Source: BBC News

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/6926119.stm

Nigeria's security forces have demolished the headquarters of a Shia sect, whose members were accused of killing a rival Muslim cleric.

The security forces destroyed a school, a clinic and the living quarters of the sect in the north-western Sokoto state.

Although no official explanation was given for the demolition, it is being suggested...

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Police Investigate Vandalism of Mosque

August 1, 2007

Author: Loresha Wilson

Source: Shreveport Times

http://www.shreveporttimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2007708010324

A faded green marijuana leaf remained on the outside of a Shreveport mosque late afternoon Tuesday, despite efforts to wash off the graffiti. The imam of the Islamic Association of Arabi Inc. arrived for prayers about 5:30 a.m. Tuesday and found the drug symbol spray painted on one side and profanity on the other,...

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Arab Boy Bound & Beaten in Class, Suit Says

July 31, 2007

Author: JOHN MARZULLI

Source: New York Daily News

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime_file/2007/07/31/2007-07-31_arab_boy_bound__beaten_in_class_suit_say.html

Two Brooklyn schoolgirls allegedly bound a boy of Arab descent with tape, locked him in a classroom closet and bombarded him for eight minutes with ethnic slurs before their substitute fourth-grade teacher did anything.

The...

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Progressive Filipino Muslim Woman Leader Tours NZ

July 30, 2007

Source: Press Release: Philippines Solidarity Network of Aotearoa / Scoop Independent News

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0707/S00358.htm

Amirah Ali Lidasan is the National Vice-Chairperson of the Suara Bangsamoro Party List Organisation, which aims to get representation in Congress for the Philippines’ several million Muslims (known as Moros and heavily concentrated in the southernmost islands). Amirah is a young progressive Muslim woman, with a history of senior...

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