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A Halal Spin on Italian and Mexican Food at My Halal Kitchen

Naazish YarKhan | Posted 09.20.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Islam, Halal, Natural Food, Muslim, Organic, Meat, Food Blogs, Food, My Halal Kitchen, Yvonne M. Maffei, Halal Cooking, Chicago News

Growing up enjoying culinary feasts like lasagna, Sicilian pizza and Puerto Rican rice and beans, Yvonne M. Maffei embraced Islam and its dietary laws. What becomes of those appetites and indulgences?

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Model in Malaysia To Be Caned For Drinking Beer

AP | JULIA ZAPPEI | Posted 09.19.2009 | World

Read More: Islam, Muslim, Alcohol, Model, Kartika Sari Dewi Shukarno, Malaysia, Sharia, Caning, Islamic Law and Alcohol, World News

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — A Muslim part-time model will be caned next week, becoming the first woman in Malaysia to be given the punishment under...

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Iraqi and Afghan Gays and Women Losing Freedom

Wayne Besen | Posted 09.18.2009 | World

Read More: Islam, Muslim, Womens Rights, Lgbt, Transgender, Afghanistan, Homosexual, Lesbian, Human Rights Watch, George W. Bush, Iraq, Gay, World News

It is incomprehensible to waste American lives fighting the Taliban to protect a regime that looks an awful lot like the Taliban. If women are not equal partners, let's pack up and leave.

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India: Muslim Student Leaves College Over Headscarf Row

The Huffington Post | Posted 09.18.2009 | World

A Muslim girl who was asked by her college near Mangalore, India, to stop wearing her headscarf to class due to classmates' complaints has left her st...

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Rifqa, the Reverand and Apostasy

Salam Al Marayati | Posted 09.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Apostasy, Church, Bible Study, Muslim Americans, Runaways, Religious Conversion, Prayer, Muslim, Honor Killing, Politics News

Mohamed Bary says she can practice any faith she wants -- clearly, he is not a fundamentalist. He believes his daughter was brainwashed and kidnapped.

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IS RELIGION THE SOURCE OF GOOD?

Bill Shireman | Posted 09.12.2009 | Home

Read More: George Bush, Christianity, Islam, Religion and Politics, Religion, Hate Speech, Muslim, George W. Bush, Home News

There is an intrinsic truth in religious belief and if you take away the literal interpretations that bastardize the spirit of faith, you discover that the essence of good, and of God.

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Writer Wears Burka For One Week: "It Felt Like A Prison"

Daily Mail | Liz Jones | Posted 09.11.2009 | Style

Read More: Women, Islam, Liz Jones, One Week, Woman, Opinion, Burka, Muslim, Style News

Squatting next to me is my burka. It looks so innocuous: just a few yards of black fabric. But, my goodness, how oppressive it is, how suffocating, ho...

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Don't, Please: An Atheist's Defense

Landon Ross | Posted 10.05.2009 | Living

Read More: LA Times, Religion, Atheism, The Friendly Atheist, Charlotte Allen, Christianity, Atheists, Jews, Islam, Philosophy, Judaism, Science, Muslim, Living News

Charlotte Allen tries to trivialize the Atheist movement on the basis that we are boring, even if angry, fanatics who whine about being oppressed. Allen is wrong about everything; except this: I'm an Atheist, and I'm angry.

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What Religion Are You?

Tom Matlack | Posted 09.07.2009 | Living

Read More: Religion, Fatherhod, Faith, Dogs, Jews, Buddhist, Finding God, Christians, Self-Reflection, Muslim, Quakers, Self-Realization, Living News

"What religion are you?" my 13 year-old son Seamus asked me last night. His mother and I have been divorced since he was six months old. He's grown up a strict Catholic. I was born a Quaker.

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Obama's Second Hundred Days

Chris Weigant | Posted 09.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Michael Jackson, Supreme Court, Latina, Sessions, Burris, Empathy, A Tale of Two Cities, Al Franken, Reform, Dickens, Sarah Palin, Second 100 Days, Muslim, Latino, Sotomayor, Health Care, Analog Television, Birthers, Age of Foolishness, Budget, Democrat, Congress, Sanford, Democrats, Barack Obama, Transparency, Rahm Emanuel, First Hundred Days, Health, Sonia Sotomayor, Credit Card, Souter, Healthcare, Senate, Polls, Mark Sanford, Cap and Trade, Gates, President Obama, Cia, Speech, Second Hundred Days, Jeff Sessions, David Souter, Flu, Obama, Democratic, Iraq, Media, Scotus, Republican, Bush, Pelosi, Television, Iran, Gay Rights, Nuclear Weapons, Baucus, Russia, Beer Summit, Arlen Specter, Credit Card Reform, House, Specter, Photo Op, Msm, Beer, Franken, Worst of Times, Charles Dickens, Roland Burris, Gay, Mainstream Media, Waterloo, Best of Times, First 100 Days, Torture Photos, Chris Weigant, Palin, Cairo, Max Baucus, Bipartisanship, Torture, Politics News

Our look back at Obama's second 100 days will begin with a short overview, and then move on to the categories: "the best of times," "the worst of times," and "the age of (media) foolishness."

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Christian Pakistanis, Called "America's Dogs," Have Long History Of Persecution In Punjab

Naveen Naqvi | Posted 09.05.2009 | Home

Read More: Spotlight-on-Pakistan, Spotlight on Pakistan, Pakistani Christians, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Christians in Pakistan, Pakistani Muslims, Christians, Muslims, Blasphemy, Muslim, Gojra, Gojra-Pakistan, Home News

Worshipers said that as the gunmen opened fire they declared Pakistan would become a graveyard of Christians to avenge deaths in Afghanistan.

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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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Muslims in America

Salam Al Marayati | Posted 08.31.2009 | World

Read More: Islam, U.S. Constitution, Muslim, American Muslims, World News

It is an Islamic obligation to defend what we are taking an oath to, namely the constitution of the United States of America.

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Rana Husseini: Jordanian Journalist Who Exposed 'Honor Killings' Tells Story In New Book

WideAngle | Posted 08.28.2009 | World

"Jordan Farmer Kills Sister Over Alleged Affair," read a recent headline from the Agence France-Presse. The 24-year-old man stabbed his sister afte...

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Hear The Evil; See The Evil; Feel No Evil - Where's the Outrage Over Deadly Church Bombings?

Rabbi Abraham Cooper | Posted 08.14.2009 | World

Read More: Christians, Turkey, Pakistan, George W. Bush, United Nations, Twitter, Obama, Iraq, Facebook, Simon Wiesenthal Center, Iran, Muslim, Suicide Bombing, Ban Ki Moon, Arab, Youtube, Internet, Israel, Afghanistan, Pope, World News

The Internet guarantees we will all hear the Evil, see the Evil, but it cannot make us care about Evil. And as recent events in Iran proved -- Technology cannot defeat Evil -- only people can.

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Saving the World in One Day - Shabbat Around the World

James M. Lynch | Posted 08.11.2009 | Living

Read More: Energy, Shabbat, Peak Performance, Rest, World, Judaism, Wiccan, Christian, Pollution, Peace, Religion, Jew, Ecology, Inspiration, Activism, Effectiveness, Muslim, Living News

How does taking a 25 hour break have anything to do with saving the world? Well for me, it is not only physical and spiritual recharging; it's also emotional and intellectual.

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If Only the Uighurs Were Buddhist and China Was Israel

Mona Eltahawy | Posted 08.08.2009 | World

Read More: Women, Sting, Twitter, Bloggers, U.S., Tibet, Facebook, Uighurs, Bjork, Darfur, Arabs, Buddhist, Sudan, Egypt, Xinjiang Province, Muslim, Israel, China, Bono, World News

If these Uighurs were Buddhists, Bjork, Sting, Bono and all those other one-named saviors of the world's poor and oppressed would have held "Free Xinxiang" concerts already.

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Muslim Holidays Make Sense for New York City Schools

Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf | Posted 08.08.2009 | New York

Read More: New York City Schools, Holiday, Islam, Id Al-Fitr, Id Al-Adha, Muslim, Michael Bloomberg, New York News

Not recognizing these holidays puts unnecessary pressure on Muslim students who must risk academic punishment if they choose to celebrate at home with their families.

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European Islamophobia A Creeping Threat: Analysis

Firas Al-Atraqchi | Posted 08.06.2009 | World

Read More: Islamophobia, Jews, Marwa Sherbini, Germany, European Islamophobia, Foreign Affairs, European Racism, Europe, Muslim, Advocacy, Anti-Muslims, Egypt, World News

European leaders must immediately condemn Sherbini's murder, hold her killer accountable, and acknowledge that Islamophobia is a growing threat--otherwise, they are precariously close to repeating past horrors.

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Headscarf Martyr Marwa Sherbini Mourned In Egypt

AP | MAGGIE MICHAEL | Posted 08.06.2009 | World

Read More: Islam, Religion, Marwa Sherbini, Headscarves, Axel W, Muslim Headscarf, Germany, Headscarf Martyr, Egypt, Terrorism, Foreign Affairs, Muslim, Elwi Okaz, Advocacy, Egyptian Woman Stabbed in Germany, Marwa El Sherbini, Marwa El-Sherbini, Marwa Al-Sherbini, Sherbini, Marwa Germany, Marwa Sherbini Photo, Germany Marwa, Marwa Dresden, Head Scarf Martyr, Dresden Court Marwa Sherbini, Marwa Sherbini Dresden, Marwa Al-Sherbini, 32, Sherbini Dresden, Martyr of the Head Scarf, Headscarf Martyr Germany, Egypt Mourns Headscarf Martyr, World News

CAIRO — Thousands of Egyptian mourners marched behind the coffin of the "martyr of the head scarf" on Monday _ a pregnant Muslim woman who was s...

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Sundance Film Afghan Star Incredible

Jim Luce | Posted 08.02.2009 | World

Read More: Kabul, Islam, Sundance Film Festival, Islamic Council, Britain’s Got Talent, Pakistan, United Nations, Adam Lambert, The Kite Runner, Democracy, Mathew Luce, Film, Dari, Oprah Winfrey, Muslim, Havana Marks, Pashtun, Herat, Taliban, Documentary, Rachel Reid, Pop Idol, Dance, Afghanistan, Sharia, Ismail Khan, American Idol, Afghan Star, Incredible, Mujahiddeen, Barack Obama, World News

Afghan Star is the perfect window into a country's tenuous, ongoing struggle for modernity. What I would normally consider frivolous entertainment is downright revolutionary here.

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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

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

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A Woman's Place, in Lebanon

Nadya Khalife | Posted 08.01.2009 | World

Read More: Women, Switzerland, Hezbollah Lebanon, Lebanon, Grassroots, Free Patriotic Movement, Women and Politics, Sunni, Hezbollah, Christians, Shia, Muslim, World News

Lebanese women won the right to vote in national elections 19 years before women in Switzerland. Yet political participation by Lebanese women remains dismal at the national level.

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Right Wing Hate Getting Out of Control

Mike Papantonio | Posted 07.31.2009 | Media

Read More: Tiller, Gop, Air America, Murder, Donnie Baker, Mike Papantonio, Right Wing, GoLeft.Tv, Golefttv, Barack Obama, Immigrant, Conservative, Muslim, Abortion, Hate Talk, Latino, David Neiwert, Joshua Cartwright, Republicans, Ring of Fire, Media News

About an hour's drive from where I live, a miserable 60-year old man by the name of Donnie Baker murdered two Chilean college students and wounded fiv...

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Stoning Soraya, Murdering Neda, and the Hope of Muslim Women

Sumbul Ali-Karamali | Posted 07.30.2009 | World

Read More: Islam, Politics, Religion, Iran, Islamic Republic of Iran, Islamic Law, Iran Election, The Stoning of Soraya M, Women and Politics, Religion and Politics, Muslim, Neda, Movies, New Movies, World News

No wonder, given stories like Soraya's and Neda's, that people worldwide assume Islam is oppressive of women.

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