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'Mecca has been turned into Disneyland’

    ‘Mecca has been turned into Disneyland’ A new book about Mecca will outrage the hostage-beheading fanatics of ISIL, says Michael Kerr – who talks to the author By Michael Kerr 11:39AM BST 02 Oct 2014 After his fifth pilgrimage to Mecca, Ziauddin Sardar was congratulating himself on having done […]

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Religious Exemptions Shouldn't Keep Parents From Vaccinating Their Kids: American Medical Association

Huff Post: CHICAGO (AP) — The American Medical Association has adopted policies against nonmedical vaccine refusals and for transgender people in the military. The nation’s largest doctors’ group says parents should not be able to refuse to have their kids vaccinated for personal or religious reasons. That’s because of the […]

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Robert Fisk: Al-Nusra is pitching for US backing. But can there be a ‘moderate’ Islamist terror group? Al-Nusra’s PR campaign began on al-Jazeera, which just happens to be funded by Qatar

It’s an obvious pitch. Just when the Americans are frothing around for something sane to say about their non-existent policy in the Middle East, along comes the al-Nusra Front – al-Qaeda beheaders and sectarian killers – to suggest that they are just the “moderates” Washington wants to fight the Assad […]

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Florida USA: Ahmad Saleem – a paedophile – and the tarnished image of Islam

Tribune.com.pk Ahmad Saleem – a paedophile – and the tarnished image of Islam in the US – The Express Tribune Blog http://blogs.tribune.com.pk/wp-content/themes/tribune-v2/js/DD_belatedPNG.js try { DD_belatedPNG.fix(‘img, #header ‘); } catch(err){} ?cf_action=sync_comments&post_id=28035http://www.googletagservices.com/tag/js/gpt.js//www.google-analytics.com/analytics.jshttps://apis.google.com/_/scs/apps-static/_/js/k=oz.gapi.en_GB.sWLy6xkS8nE.O/m=auth/exm=plusone/rt=j/sv=1/d=1/ed=1/am=AQ/rs=AGLTcCPn8ZVXntX_N1_M-SMgpPURUtWw9g/t=zcms/cb=gapi.loaded_1https://apis.google.com/_/scs/apps-static/_/js/k=oz.gapi.en_GB.sWLy6xkS8nE.O/m=plusone/rt=j/sv=1/d=1/ed=1/am=AQ/rs=AGLTcCPn8ZVXntX_N1_M-SMgpPURUtWw9g/t=zcms/cb=gapi.loaded_0//platform.twitter.com/widgets.jshttps://d31qbv1cthcecs.cloudfront.net/atrk.jshttp://blogs.tribune.com.pk/application/wp-includes/js/jquery/jquery.js?ver=1.8.3http://blogs.tribune.com.pk/application/wp-includes/js/json2.min.js?ver=2011-02-23http://blogs.tribune.com.pk/wp-content/plugins/video-management/js/main.js?ver=1.2// http://partner.googleadservices.com/gampad/google_service.js// http://partner.googleadservices.com/gampad/google_ads.js// // // <img src=”https://d5nxst8fruw4z.cloudfront.net/atrk.gif?account=lfcok1a0CM00M/” style=”display:none” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/osd.js//tribunepkblogs.disqus.com/embed.js//tribunepkblogs.disqus.com/count.jshttp://tribunepkblogs.disqus.com/count-data.js?1=28035%20http%3A%2F%2Fblogs.tribune.com.pk%2F%3Fp%3D28035 Ahmad Saleem – a paedophile – and the tarnished image […]

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Ahmad: Is hatred taught by the Quran?

Over the last few weeks multiple news items made me wonder why hatred is mistakenly perceived to be linked with religion, whereas the realities are so different. In April I read about the anti-Islam advertisement that started running on 84 SEPTA buses in Philadelphia. The ad made a false allegation […]

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Terror Suspect Usaama Rahim Shot Dead in Boston

Boston Terror Suspect Planned to Behead Police Officer, Officials Say By DAVE PHILIPPS and JESS BIDGOODJUNE 3, 2015 NYTimes.com The man shot and killed by an F.B.I. agent and a Boston police officer Tuesday had been under surveillance by terrorism investigators because he was planning to behead a police officer, the authorities say. […]