Irish peace activist Caoimhe Butterly converted to Islam during a trip to Kayseri to visit the family of Furkan Do?an, a 19-year-old Turkish-American peace activist slain during an Israeli commando raid on a flotilla of ships bearing humanitarian aid to the blockaded Gaza Strip in May.
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Jul 31, 2010
MIAMI – A Florida church said it plans to publicly burn copies of the Koran on the ninth anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks, prompting threats from Islamic groups and warnings the move will trigger a rise in hate crimes.
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By Greg Sargent
July 30, 2010
As you have probably heard, the Anti-Defamation League came out against the Ground Zero mosque today. I wanted to highlight this extraordinary bit from their statement:
Proponents of the Islamic Center may have every right to build at this site, and may even have chosen the site to send a positive message about Islam. The bigotry some have expressed in attacking them is unfair, and wrong. But ultimately this is not a question of rights, but a question of what is right. In our judgment, building an Islamic Center in the shadow of the World Trade Center will cause some victims more pain –unnecessarily — and that is not right.
Muslim civil rights group says Anti-Defamation League siding with bigots
(WASHINGTON, D.C., 7/30/10) — A prominent national Muslim civil rights and advocacy group today called on the Jewish Anti-Defamation League (ADL) to retract its statement against the construction of an Islamic community center in New York City.
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The Washington-based Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) said the ADL acknowledged that Muslims have the right to build the center, that the planned 13-story building is designed to send a “positive message about Islam” and that “bigotry” has been expressed by opponents, but that “ultimately this is not a question of rights.”A number of commentators have slammed the ADL for apparently caving in to a vocal smear campaign waged against the center by anti-Muslim bigots.
SEE: ADL – Some Opponents of Ground Zero Mosque are Bigots, But We Should Let Them Win Anyway
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July 29, 2010, Thursday
KUALA LUMPUR: Yang di-Pertuan Agong Tuanku Mizan Zainal Abidin on Tuesday urged Muslim countries to further strengthen cooperation with each other to achieve greater progress for the community at the global level.He said the socio-economic, political advancement and survival of Muslims called for greater cooperation among Islamic countries.
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Bulgarian Muslims submitted to the parliament a declaration signed by 200 000 demanding restoration of elected Chief mufti, state media reported.
Thursday, 29 July 2010 16:36
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Bulgarian Muslims submitted Thursday to the parliament a declaration signed by 200 000 demanding restoration of elected Chief mufti, state media reported.
Continue reading ‘Bulgaria Muslims rally for right to elect mufti, condemn govt’
A female lecturer has been prevented from teaching at a Muslim university in eastern India by students demanding that she wear a burka, according to a report.
Published: 6:16PM BST 29 Jul 2010
Aliah University in Calcutta is the first Muslim university in India’s West Bengal state and has no formal dress code, but its student union has demanded that female teachers cover themselves with a Muslim veil in class.
Sirin Middya told the Indian Express she had refused to comply and had been prevented from teaching for three months.
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A group called ‘Stop Islamization of America’ is promoting ads on major city public transportation that urge people to leave the Muslim faith. The anti-Islamic campaign is sparking thought about the religion’s place in American society.
Continue reading ‘‘Anti-Islamic’ bus ads appear in major cities’
A US Republican politician, Ron Ramsey, who is supported by the controversial Tea Party, has come under fire for likening Islam to a “cult” and casting doubt about whether it is even a religion.
Continue reading ‘Likening Islam to a cult lands GOP politician in hot waters’
FBI Director Robert Mueller told Congress on Wednesday that the bureau’s domestic surveillance guidelines are being used properly and that agents are not employing them to target people for investigation based on race.
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Glad Tidings Church, located in Jacksonville, is set to host a “Jihad in Jacksonville” training conference on July 31. The event is being billed as an opportunity to “learn about the Muslim enemies already here and what you can do about it.”
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Sharmila Devi, Foreign Correspondent
Last Updated: July 27. 2010 4:43PM UAE / July 27. 2010 12:43PM GMT LOS ANGELES // Mohammed is still coming to terms with the fact that praying in a petrol station car park in the United States can lead to questioning by police officers and even a visit by agents from the US government’s top criminal investigative agency.
Mohammed did not want his real name disclosed out of concern that his brush with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) could jeopardise his career as an economics teacher and consultant. But he wants his story told.
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Responsible for Equality And Liberty (R.E.A.L.) supports our universal human rights of freedom of religion, freedom of conscience, and freedom of worship for ALL people — without exception. We reject protests against houses of worship, and the coast-to-coast protests and attacks on mosques around America.
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By ADAM SCHRECK | AP
Published: Jul 26, 2010 22:31 Updated: Jul 26, 2010 22:31
DUBAI: The United Arab Emirates has declared BlackBerry smart phones a potential threat to national security, saying the devices operate beyond the jurisdiction of national laws and are open to misuse.
Israeli authorities have demolished the homes of about 300 Bedouins in a village in the southern Negev desert.
The entire village of al-Arakib was bulldozed on Tuesday, with many of the former residents’ cattle, trees and belongings lost.
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By Jailan Zayan
CAIRO, Jul 25, 2010 (AFP) – The brief disappearance of a priest’s wife that sparked rumours of abduction and forced conversion to Islam has highlighted deep-rooted tensions between Christians and Muslims in Egypt, where a private dispute can quickly become a matter of national security.
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By ARAB NEWS
Published: Jul 25, 2010 22:51 Updated: Jul 25, 2010 22:51
JEDDAH: Saudi lawyers and Shariah experts have classed “tourist marriages” — the practice of some Saudi men to travel abroad and marry women for specific periods of time — as illegal.
The tourist marriage has been added to the long list of different types of marriages that Saudi men often undertake, at times to overcome the Ministry of Interior’s strict restrictions on marrying foreign women.
A typical tourist marriage usually lasts for fixed periods of time (sometimes ranging a few days) and is aimed at gaining sensual pleasures and not procreating. Marriage officials often carry out these marriages with two witnesses. The officials are, however, often unaware of the fixed time periods that the couples fix between them, a clause that would, according to the four schools of Islamic jurisprudence, render the marriage illegal.
