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'I started the Arab Spring. Now death is everywhere, and extremism blooming'
It is hardly surprising that when Faida Hamdy wonders whether she is responsible for everything that happened after her moment of fame she is overwhelmed. Mrs Hamdy was the council inspector who, five years ago today confiscated the vegetable stall of a street vendor in her dusty town in central Tunisia. In despair, that young man set himself on fire in a protest outside the council offices. Within weeks, he was dead, dozens of young Arab men...
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Schools in Virginia shut over anger at Islam homework - CNN.com
Augusta County, Virginia, schools shut on sheriff's concerns about angry calls and emails over a world religion homework assignment on Islam at Riverheads High.
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Which Cultures Are Most Comfortable Killing Civilians?
We’re often told about studies and polling that come out of Muslim countries in regard to how they view different subjects, such as terrorism and Sharia law. A new poll from Gallup has just come out that gets more specific in regard to actual policy positions. Cenk Uygur, host of the The Young Turks, breaks it down.
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"Mom said no," "Only if there's free pizza": Muslims hilariously respond to ISIL leader's call
"Sorry Guv. Colonoscopy booked."
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Isis in Syria: Mother publically executed by her jihadi son for abandoning Islam
A woman has been executed in Syria by her own son for abandoning Islam in the Isis-controlled Syrian city of Ruqqa, according to reports. Respected monitoring group Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently (RBSS) claimed 45-year-old Leena Al-Qasem was killed by her son Ali Saqr in a public execution for committing apostasy. The anti-Isis Syrian activist group also uploaded a photo of the man believed to be the son, and described him as a member of the Islamic State (Isis).
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450 of 452 suicide attacks in 2015 were by Muslim extremists, study shows
There were fewer suicide attacks worldwide in 2015 than 2014, “only” 452 as compared with 592, according to a new report by an Israeli research team. But drawing conclusions from a mere comparison of the overall figures is “not smart,” cautions Yoram Schweitzer, the head of the Program on Terrorism and Low Intensity Conflict at Tel Aviv University’s Institute for National Security Studies. For one thing, the 2014 figure was strikingly high (2013 saw a markedly lower 382 suicide attacks)...
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The middle-aged, white Scottish man who converted to Islam without ever meeting a Muslim
How does a middle-aged, white Scottish man living in the Scottish Highlands end up becoming a Muslim - especially when he hasn't properly met a Muslim in his life? For me, it all started when I heard the call to prayer from a local mosque while on a beach holiday in Turkey. It woke something up inside me, and inspired me to begin a spiritual quest.
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Should the U.S. Designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a Terrorist Group?
The U.S. government's definition of terrorism is not hard to find. It's posted on the FBI's website, and is pretty straight-forward: To be considered terrorism, the acts must involve human life that violate federal or state law, and they must appear to be aimed at intimidating the civilian population, influencing government policy through coercion, or affecting government conduct through mass destruction, assassination or kidnapping.
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Why ISIS is winning the online propaganda war
The U.S. government has been unable to fight the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) on the one battlefield it currently commands: the Internet. For proof, look no further than the U.S. State Department’s August 2014 “Welcome to ‘Islamic State’ Land” YouTube video, a counterterrorism blunder nearly as inexcusable as the flawed intelligence reports that led to the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
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Asad Shah death: Man admits killing shopkeeper because he 'disrespected' Islam
The man accused of murdering Glasgow shopkeeper Asad Shah has issued a statement saying he carried out the killing because he believed Mr Shah had "disrespected" Islam. Tanveer Ahmed, 32, from Bradford, is accused of killing Mr Shah outside his shop in Glasgow almost a fortnight ago. In the statement he denied the incident had anything to do with Christianity. Mr Ahmed claimed Asad Shah had "disrespected" Islam by claiming to be a prophet.
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An Indian spiritual guru tried to start peace talks with ISIS. This is how it responded.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, an Indian guru known best for his Art of Living foundation, which has a vast global community of followers, claims to have attempted to start peace talks with the militants of the Islamic State. But his efforts proved futile. "I tried to initiate peace talks with the ISIS recently but they sent me a photograph of a beheaded body of a man," he told Indian media, using another name for the extremist organization.
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Prince Says Saudi Arabia Not Yet Ready to Allow Women to Drive
Saudi Arabia isn’t ready to end the world’s only ban on women driving, Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman said, arguing it’s not just a matter of ending strictures imposed by the kingdom’s austere form of Islam. Allowing women to drive is “not a religious issue as much as it is an issue that relates to the community itself that either accepts it or refuses it,” said the 30-year-old prince, who has amassed unprecedented powers...
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'Sharia police' who patrolled German city of Wuppertal in orange vests to face trial
A German court has ruled that a group of Islamic extremists who patrolled the streets of Wuppertal in orange vests, bearing the words "Sharia police" can be tried. A Wuppertal district court had dismissed the case.
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Council: Pakistani men can beat wives 'lightly'
The leader of a Pakistani Islamic council has proposed a bill that allows husbands to "lightly beat" their wives as a form of discipline. In the 75-page proposal, Mohammad Khan Sheerani suggests a light beating is acceptable should the need arise to punish a woman. The proposal bans forceful beating, saying only a small stick is necessary to instill fear.
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Anjem Choudary was given platform 'by the media, not Muslims'
Government is accused of alienating the very Muslims who have barred extremists such as Choudary from their mosques
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Fear Unveiled: Why Banning the Burqa Makes No Sense
Calls in Germany to ban the burqa are misguided and the move would do little to liberate Muslim women. The fight for emancipation must come from inside the religion.
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Burkini pics ‘staged, Islamist propaganda’, French writer says
Provocative French writer Anne-Elisabeth Moutet has a different take on the burkini ban. Writing in The Sun, she argues if you’re upset by burkini cop image, you’ve been “sucked in by Islamist propaganda”. THEY are the pictures that whipped the world up into a righteous fury. One shows a woman wrapped in a DIY burkini on a beach in Nice, France, surrounded and visibly interrogated by no fewer than four armed policemen.
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Muslim school 'says UK culture is poisonous'
A Muslim religious school has been accused of teaching children that British customs are ‘poisonous’ and that Jews are trying to take over the world. The Islamic Tarbiyah Academy in Dewsbury, Yorkshire, was accused of promoting an extreme form of Islam that ‘divides’ communities. The privately-run madrasa, which teaches 140 primary age children in after-school classes and runs full-time programmes for over-16s, is now being investigated by the Government.
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The Burkini Ban, Women’s Rights, & Prophet Muhammad’s Way
After intense international pressure, France’s highest court overturned the “Burkini” ban on Friday, August 26, 2016. Before the move, over a dozen French cities had banned the burkini. Most recently, armed officers forced a Muslim woman to dress down under threat of pepper spray and arrest, essentially criminalizing modesty. That this act of forced uncovering occurred in the first place—it is not the first time France and the EU have legislated a woman’s attire—is indicative of a wider global problem, namely, the systemic mistreatment of women as second-class citizens.
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Poll: British public heavily in favour of burqa ban
Twice as many British people support a ban on women wearing a burqa than oppose one, with a majority also in favour of outlawing the burkini, according to a poll published Thursday (31 August). Some 57% of the 1,668 adults polled by YouGov said they supported “a law that bans people from wearing the burqa in the UK”, with 36% “strongly supporting” the ban compared with only 10% who were “strongly opposed”. The poll comes following a row in France about the banning of the burkini in around 30 coastal resorts in the Riviera.
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