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Forbidden Rituals At The Hajj

Betwa Sharma | Posted 11.23.2009 | World

Read More: Jannatul Baqee, Pakistan, Medina, Hussein, Iraq, Hajj, Karbala, Mosque, Shiite, Koran, Iran, Polytheism, Prophet Mohammed, Mecca, Saudia Arabia, Sunni, Turbah, Bid’ah, Kabaa, World News
Betwa Sharma

Since Shiites have no restriction on single women going for the Hajj, A Hajj first timer, Saju, is less than pleased to know that Saudi Arabia requires all women pilgrims below the age of 45 to be accompanied by a male relative.

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Guests of God: 2.5 Million Muslims Worship in Makkah, Saudi Arabia in This Year's Hajj

Qanta Ahmed, MD | Posted 11.19.2009 | World

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Qanta Ahmed, MD

Never has there been a more important time for Muslims to engage in greater introspection, self-evaluation. We face a Muslim world rife with conflicts, sectarian hatred, misogyny and injustice.

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Can Arab/Muslim Countries Criticize Israel Under the UN Anti-Blasphemy Resolution?

Ali A. Rizvi | Posted 10.30.2009 | World

Read More: Koran, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Palestine, Islam, Israeli Settlements, Bible, Gaza, West Bank, Judaism, Association for World Education, Pakistan, United Nations, Oic, Fgm, Canada, Arabs, Awe, Occupation, Female Genital Mutilation, Egypt, Torah, UN Human Rights Council, Quran, International Humanist and Ethical Union, Blasphemy, Zionism, Israel, Old Testament, Doru Costea, Sharia, Iheu, Avigdor Lieberman, Benjamin Netanyahu, Middle East, World News
Ali A. Rizvi

How do the Arab/Muslim countries of the OIC plan to continue their criticism of the Israeli occupation and settlement expansion without, in a way, violating their own proposed resolution?

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Sakena Yacoobi's Vision for Afghanistan

Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 10.11.2009 | Impact

Read More: Sheryl DuWunn, Afghanistan Infrastructure, Omega Women and Power Conference, Hijab, Women in Afghanistan, Sakena Yacoobi, Maternal Mortality Rate, Obama, Afghanistan, Nicholas Kristof, Creating Hope International, Koran, Education in Afghanistan, Impact News
Marcia G. Yerman

Sakena Yacoobi is on a mission to bring education to Afghanistan, a country that has a 70 percent illiteracy rate. Her organization, the Afghan Institute of Learning, seeks to empower women in a troubled society.

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Egyptian Divorcées, Girls Only, Burst Onto Web Radio Scene

Magda Abu-Fadil | Posted 11.21.2009 | World

Read More: Assafir, Arab World, DivorcéEs, Egypt, Robert De Niro, Tchaikovsky, Hussein Fahmy, Al Pacino, Brian Adams, Sting, Amani El Tunsi, Webcasts, Lebanon, Mahasen Saber, Arabic, Koran, Ed Harris, Moslem, Asharq Al-Awsat, Cairo, Blogposts, Banat W’ Basssss, Omar Sharif, Ayza Atala Wa, Jack Nicholson, Motalakat Radio, World News
Magda Abu-Fadil

Motalakat is an online radio station launched by Mahasen Saber, a thirty-something Egyptian divorcée and mother for other Egyptian women.

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Arabia Felix 103: Despite Crippling Travails, Yemen Draws Eager Tourists

Magda Abu-Fadil | Posted 10.18.2009 | World

Read More: Aramco World, Ali Abdallah Saleh, Al Qaeda, El Greco, Kidnappings, Al Saleh Mosque, Poverty, Terrorism, Dar El Hajar, Yemen Today, Sana’A, War, Houthi, Romans, Yemen, Al Beik Shibani, Separatists, Arab World, Arabian Peninsula, Koran, Janbiyya, King Solomon, Illiteracy, Arabia Felix, G. Lankester Harding, Toledo, Queen of Sheba, Bait Baws, World News
Magda Abu-Fadil

The inhospitable terrain, weather and occasional kidnapping of foreigners may keep the faint-hearted at bay, but itinerant archeologists, scholars and adventure seekers still flock to Arabia Felix.

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Pakistan Christian Attacks Planned In Advance: Rights Group

AP | ASIF SHAHZAD | Posted 09.03.2009 | World

Read More: Pakistan, Foreign Affairs, Advocacy, Pakistan Christians, Pakistan Christians Schools, Al Qaeda, Al-Qaeda, Al Qaida, Gojra, Muslim, Muslims, Quran, Religion, Koran, World News

ISLAMABAD — An independent Pakistani human rights commission said Tuesday that rioting that killed eight Christians last week was not spontaneou...

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Burqas: When Religion Trumps Citizenship

Joan Z. Shore | Posted 08.02.2009 | World

Read More: Burqa, Islam, Muslim, Persian Gulf, France-Burqas, Sarkozy, Afghanistan, Koran, World News
Joan Z. Shore

Muslim women in burqas are not being "protected"; they are being marginalized.

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Iran and the Paradox of Paradise

Deepak Chopra | Posted 07.18.2009 | World

Read More: Iranian Protests, Iran, Iranian Election, Koran, Quran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, World News
Deepak Chopra

The contradictions between a modern state and one based on the Quran are simply too great. The issue of theocracy comes down to that.

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Watch Out What You Pray For

Adam Neiman | Posted 07.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Koran, Religion, The Bible, Torah, Millennials, Gospel, Christian Right, Obama Anti-Christ, Western Civilization, Barack Obama, Peggy Lee, Politics News
Adam Neiman

The Christian right prayed for the end of the world. Sure enough, they got the end of their world. They prayed for a savior -- and got one in spades.

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Friday Talking Points [80] -- Parsing Obama's Cairo Speech

Chris Weigant | Posted 07.06.2009 | World

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Chris Weigant

This is an interesting and refreshing subtext in Obama's entire speech -- he says things are "facts" and not opinions. Considering the lunacy that passes for "political debate" on American television screens -- where there are always two points of view, and every "fact" is subject to spin from one side or another -- it is a breath of fresh air.

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Obama in Cairo: The Immutable Sapience of the Good Book(s)

Lionel | Posted 07.06.2009 | Living

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Lionel

I laugh not at the concept and notion of religion or the Bible. I laugh at how anything is susceptible to misinterpretation and how the easily-swayed inspire the most dreadful of behaviors.

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Cooperation and Conflict: Obama's Cairo Speech

Aaron Zelinsky | Posted 07.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: Koran, Islam, Obama-Speech-Cairo, Obama Notre Dame Graduation Speech, Bible, Obama Notre Dame Speech, President Obama, Islamic Extremists, Obama Cairo, Talmud, Cairo Speech, Barack Obama, Thomas Jefferson, Luke, The Bible, Obama's Cairo Speech, Reactions to Obama's Cairo Speech, Islamic Radicalism, Obama Speech Cairo, Tripoli, Obama Cairo Speech, Barbary Pirates, Politics News
Aaron Zelinsky

In Cairo, President Obama employed a variety of historical, liturgical, and political references to express America's hope for a new beginning with the Islamic world. Here are ten critical lines from the speech.

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Why Obama's Speech in Cairo Matters -- and Why it Doesn't

Kamran Pasha | Posted 07.04.2009 | World

Read More: Koran, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Islam, Jerusalem, Prophet Mohammed, Obama Cairo, Quran, Imperialism, Europe, Israel, Barack Obama, Obama Mideast Trip, World News
Kamran Pasha

America will not advance our economic, educational and political stature. That is something only Muslims can and must do.

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Greece: Muslims, Police Clash At Protest Over Alleged Defacement Of Quran

AP | DEREK GATOPOULOS | Posted 06.22.2009 | World

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ATHENS, Greece — Authorities fired tear gas and stun grenades at hundreds of Muslims in central Athens on Friday as they protested a Greek polic...

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Congressman Jim Moran on Torture and Accountability

Kathleen Wells, J.D. | Posted 06.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Koran, Geneva Conventions, Geneva Accord, Congressional Democrats, Democratic Congress, Congress, President Obama, Cheney, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, Military, Guantanamo Torture, Guantanamo Bay, Cheney Torture, President Bush, Accountability, Jim Moran, Politics News
Kathleen Wells, J.D.

Congressman Moran: Those who are culpable need to be judged by their peers and I think we need to put in place some kinds of structures to ensure that we never repeat our mistakes.

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Why We Are Not Winning Afghanistan

Doon Baqi | Posted 06.06.2009 | World

Read More: Koran, Quran, Religion, Farsi Translation, Al Jazeera, Pashto, Proselytizing, William Boykin, Afghanistan War, World News
Doon Baqi

I think we should pay a little attention to history, both ours and theirs, in order to come out ahead in this chaotic struggle for world peace and pro...

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Korans 'Burned In Russian Prison'

BBC NEWS | Posted 05.21.2009 | World

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Russian prison officials have been accused of burning copies of the Koran and assaulting Muslim prisoners, a migrants' organisation in Russia says....

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Women's Rights, Rape and Religion

Carol Hoenig | Posted 05.20.2009 | World

Read More: Hamid Karzai, Lds, Religion, Polygamy, Islamic Radicalism, Bible, Afghan Rape Law, Oprah, Afghanistan, Koran, Fundamentalists, Extremism, Women's Rights, World News
Carol Hoenig

For our Afghanistan sisters escaping from a domineering marriage can mean possible death without punishment for the husband since the government recognizes Islamic law as the law of the land.

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People of the Book are one Another's Trusted Friends

Harun Yahya | Posted 02.03.2009 | Living

Read More: Koran, Jews, Islam, Bible, Catholicism, Judaism, Understanding, Catholic, Tolerance, Religious Tolerance, Friendship, Islamophobia, Catholic Church, Catholics, Torah, Quran, Christians, Good Deeds, Muslim, Living News
Harun Yahya

Islam is the religion of peace, love and tolerance. However, nowadays certain circles are trying to give Islamic morality the wrong image. The religio...

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The Beloved Community and the Holy Land

Imam Yahya Hendi and Rabbi Gerald Serotta | Posted 02.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Koran, Palestine, Jews, West Bank, Gaza, America, World Council or Religions for Peace, Martin Luther King Jr., Hebrew, Talmud, Civil Rights, Barack Obama, Religion, Nonviolence, Martin Luther King, Middle East, Arab, Palestinian-Americans, Israel, Israel Gaza Airstrikes, Israel Gaza, Israel Gaza Operation, Israel Palestine, Politics News
Imam Yahya Hendi and Rabbi Gerald Serotta

The harming of civilians -- whether they play in school yards in Southern Israel or seek refuge in schools in Gaza -- constitutes a crime against humanity by any international standard.

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Dutch MP, Geert Wilders, To Be Tried For Comparing Muslims To Nazis

The Independent | Vanessa Mock | Posted 02.22.2009 | World

Read More: Koran, Geert Wilders Islam, Mein Kampf, Netherlands, Wilders, Europe Muslims, Freedom Party, Nazis, Dutch Politician Islam, The Independent, Dutch Mp Islam, Dutch Mp Nazis, Geert Wilders, Europe, World News

The Far-right Dutch politician who gained global notoriety with a film claiming links between the Koran and terrorism is to be put on trial for his pu...

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