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Syrian Rebels Free 2 Journalists After Weeklong Ordeal With Islamic Extremists
New York Times
 Weeklong Ordeal With Islamic Extremists. By ROD NORDLAND. Published: July 27, 2012. CAIRO — Two foreign journalists captured by Islamic extremists in Syria and held for a week were rescued by Syrian opposition fighters, one of them said on Friday.
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Saudi Arabia’s Olympic Paradox: Insulting Women, Islam and “Prostitutes”
Huffington Post
In London, two Saudi women are set to participate in the Olympics today. But back in Saudi Arabia, millions of Saudi women and girls are effectively banned from practicing sports inside the Kingdom. Also, they aren’t allowed to drive, although there is no law 
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Analysis: Fight over Islam, money and power brings violence to Volga
Chicago Tribune
KAZAN, Russia (Reuters) – Not far from glitzy boulevards where an oil boom has sent up stadiums and high-rises overlooking the Volga River, women in headscarves wander through Islamic bookstores selling pamphlets on the institution of sharia in Russia.
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Muslim Olympians: to fast or refrain
Examiner.com
Fasting, which includes refraining from eating and drinking from dawn to sunset, is one of the five pillars of the Islamic faith. It can pose an issue for Muslim athletes planning on competing during the games. For athletes like 22 year-old Mazen Aziz of Egypt, 
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Islamic Art Galleries
PBS
DR. SHEILA CANBY (Curator, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Department of Islamic Art): Overall, the collection has twelve thousand objects; and we are showing twelve hundred. There are motifs that you find across a very wide geographic spread, and that 
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Saudi Arabian judo player hit by head scarf ban
Examiner.com
Olympics 2012 · Saudi Arabia · Islam · Muslim · Judo. Advertisement. International Judo Federation president Marius Vizer announced on Thursday that wearing a head scarf goes against the dress and safety concerns of the sport. This decision leaves Saudi 
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Conversions to Islam enflame Gaza Christians’ frustration and fears for 
Waterloo Record
Christians in overwhelmingly Muslim Gaza have long fretted in private about the survival of their tiny community. But their fears exploded publicly when two members of the flock recently converted toIslam. Christians staged a rare public protest, accusing 
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Christians Say Forced Conversions to Islam Happening in Gaza
Christian Post
Christians in the community of Gaza in Palestine are protesting this week over what they describe as kidnappings and forced conversations of some former believers to Islam. The historically turbulent community, where Christians are a minority among a 
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Christian Post
Fed judge extends Islamic Center additional time to finish mosque
The Daily News Journal
In fall 2010, Martin’s office filed a brief to Corlew insisting that Islam is a religion despite the arguments that local plaintiffs through their attorneys were making, and the chancellor agreed in his ruling. “It’s something you can’t argue,” said Martin, noting the 
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Live conversion of a Hindu man on Pakistan TV stirs anger
New York Daily News
A Pakistani Hindu’s conversion to Islam live on television during a prime-time Ramadan chat show has sparked criticism on behalf of religious minorities in the overwhelmingly Muslim country. In just five minutes, the 20-year-old introduced as Sunil officially 
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Blogs 2 new results for Islam
Russia’s fear of radical Islam drives its support for Assad — War in 
By News Sources
Amal Mudallali writes: It was no coincidence that Russia vetoed a Security Council resolution on Syria just hours after twin attacks killed a moderate Muslim official and injured the Mufti in the central Russian republic, Tartarstan, last week.
War in Context
Farrakhans Nation of Islam Invited by Rham Emanuel to Patrol 
By Ed Brown
Rham Emanuel has invited the Nation of Islam, who’s security division – the Fruit of Islam – is to come and police the city of Chicago!
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Web 3 new results for Islam
Muslim protests raise fears of radical Islam – Washington Times
Clashes between Islamic protesters and riot police over the weekend in Ethiopia have raised fears that Muslims are becoming increasingly radical in a 
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Hindu boy converts to Islam on TV in Pakistan – The Times of India
An imam led a Hindu boy through a live conversion to Islam carried out in TV studio, complete with audience joining in to suggest Muslim names for the new 
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Landmark Case: Government argues that Islam is political – Atlas 
If the Court rules against us, it will be ruling that Islam is political and that Sharia is  Hildebrand countered that while the ad may be anti-Islam, anti-Muslim, and 
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