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If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!“Indian Muslims say they do not want the gunmen killed by the security forces during the attacks in Mumbai to be buried in Muslim graveyards.
Community leaders believe the militants cannot be called Muslims because they went against the [...]

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An Indian based in Saudi Arabia might have financed the attacks in Mumbai, India, NDTV reported Nov. 27. Some of the militants involved could have been British citizens of Pakistani origin, according to NDTV.

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“When faced with a volley of gunshots, while sipping coffee at the Oberoi Hotel on Wednesday night, Ali Arpaciouglu, a Turkish citizen on a business trip to Mumbai, chose to escape through the hotel kitchen and down a flight of stairs that opened onto the road outside.
This was probably one of the best decisions he [...]

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“An Islamic civil rights group in America has condemned the “senseless and inexcusable” terror attacks in Mumbai, while asking the Indian government to protect its citizens from possible retaliatory violence.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), an advocacy group for Muslims, said the “cowardly attacks” were “senseless and inexcusable acts of violence against innocent civilians”.
“American Muslims [...]

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“A new and highly controversial phrase has entered the sometimes cliche-riddled Indian press: “Hindu terrorism”.
As with the term “Islamic terrorism” and “Christian fundamentalism”, this latest addition to the media lexicon is highly emotive.
It was in the aftermath of the 29 September bomb blast in the predominantly Muslim town of Malegaon in the western [...]

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“CIA Director Michael Hayden said last week that al-Qaida was still the largest threat to the United States. He added, “If there is a major strike on this country, it will bear the fingerprints of al-Qaida.”
But some analysts say that the focus should not go entirely on al-Qaida, stressing that the capabilities of the Shiite [...]

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“Iran’s judiciary has sentenced a Sufi leader to five years in prison, flogging and exile on charges of spreading lies, the moderate Kargozaran newspaper reported Nov. 15. The report identified the man as Amir Ali Mohammad Labaf, of the Nematollahis or Gonabadi Dervishes order based in the northeastern province of Khorassan Razavi. Labaf was convicted [...]

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“In spite of continued crackdown on local human rights groups in Iran, their voices can still be heard… voices like the Center for the Defense of Human Rights. The head of that center is 2003-Iranian Nobel peace laureate Shirin Ebadi. She says the center’s most recent quarterly report in November shows more human rights violations [...]

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“Public anger at the recent stoning of a 13-year-old girl in Somalia shows the growing resentment towards radical Islamists who have gained control of much of the south and centre of the country.
Insurgents from the militant group al-Shabab are seen as authoritarian and unaccountable - unlike the Islamists who were in control of the [...]

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“An Iranian Sunni prayer leader has been gunned down in front of a mosque in the restive southeastern province of Sistan-Baluchestan, a newspaper reported. Molawi Sheikh Ali Dehvari, who was also the director of a local Sunni seminary, was killed by two bikers in the town of Saravan after finishing evening prayers on Monday, the [...]

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“The official said the 2003 plot, which was first reported in the Al-Watan newspaper, was one of 160 foiled terror plots the kingdom announced last month that it had managed to disrupt.
It was unclear why Saudi authorities never publicly revealed the alleged 2003 plot previously and why it first surfaced in the newspaper.
The [...]

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“A gallery showing inflammatory images of veiled Muslims, including a bare-breasted woman partially clad in a burqa, is under police surveillance after being attacked earlier this week.
Windows and doors at the SaLon Gallery in west London were smashed after a series of abusive, anonymous phone calls and angry protests about the images from Muslims. The [...]

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“Several members of the Christian community in northern Iraq are setting up ad hoc militias to secure their neighborhoods, rights advocates said Wednesday.
A campaign targeting the minority Christian community in Iraq erupted in September. The attacks corresponded roughly with the passing of a provincial elections law that set aside minority representation. Though the events may [...]

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“Egyptian Raouf Amin languishes in a Saudi jail and is punished with 70 lashes once a week. Cut off from his family in Egypt, the 52-year-old doctor was convicted for prescribing painkillers to a Saudi princess that led to her addiction.
An appeal court judge ruled that Amin will be beaten weekly until he has received [...]

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“Jack Shaheen, a sort of one-man anti-defamation league, is the author of the groundbreaking work “Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a People,” which is also the subject of a documentary film. A former CBS News consultant on Middle East Affairs, Shaheen is one of the world’s foremost authority on media images of Arabs and [...]

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