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FEATURE-Turkey presents Prophet's sayings for the 21st Century
ReutersBy Tom Heneghan, Religion Editor ANKARA, May 22 (Reuters) - Scholars around the Muslim world were alarmed five years ago by news reports that Turkey planned a new, possibly heretical compilation of the Prophet Mohammad's sayings that might scrap those it...Tags: Martin Luther, Christianity, Arts and Culture, Egypt, Roman Catholicism
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Egyptians gloomier as country struggles after revolt -poll
Reuters* Poll sheds light robin [pon political scene ahead of vote * Brotherhood still seen favourably, but support sliding CAIRO, May 16 (Reuters) - Egyptians are getting gloomier about their country's future more than two years after an uprising toppled...Tags: Politics, International Monetary Fund, Egypt, Mohamed Morsi, Hosni Mubarak
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North Caucasus to Boston: Rise and fall of the Tsarnaev brothers
Anzor Tsarnaev was tough, a championship boxer back home, and he wanted his oldest boy to be tough too. Rain or shine, like a scene from "Rocky," the wiry Chechen immigrant would ride his bicycle as his son Tamerlan jogged to a Boston-area boxing gym,...
Tags: Boston Marathon Bombing (2013), Rentals, Crime, Law and Justice, Martin Luther King Jr., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Pakistani judge grants bail to Christian girl charged with blasphemy
World NowA Pakistani judge ordered the release on bail of a young Christian girl jailed for allegedly desecrating the Koran, a decision that ends her three-week stay in jail and comes after the arrest of a Muslim cleric on charges of trying to fabricate the case... -
Pakistan president orders probe into Christian girl's blasphemy case
World NowPresident Asif Ali Zardari has ordered his Interior Ministry to check whether local authorities misused Pakistan's controversial blasphemy law in the recent arrest of a young Christian girl accused of desecrating pages from the Koran.... -
Afghan leader rips film tied to Libya attack, raising fears of violence
World NowPresident Hamid Karzai condemned an American-made film that crudely mocks Islam, galvanizing fears among Westerners that the Afghan leader's denunciation could be read as a go-ahead to stage violent protests.... -
Blasphemy case: Muslim cleric accused of framing Christian girl
World NowA Muslim cleric who had accused a young Christian girl of desecrating the Koran has been arrested on suspicion of fabricating the case against her, a development that her lawyer said could lead to the girl’s release.... -
Two Christian boys detained over accusations of defiling Koran
World NowTwo Christian boys have been arrested for allegedly urinating on the Koran, agitating tensions across Egypt amid rising accusations of blasphemy following the furor last month over a film made in California that ridiculed the prophet Muhammad.... -
Holiday horror stories abound as all of China goes on vacation
World NowThere’s no Mandarin word for “staycation,” but after this week’s holiday horror stories -– day-long traffic jams, heaps of trash and restaurateurs gouging customers -- the concept may take off soon in China.... -
Shadia: Let's not empower extremists
When I heard about the shooting of 14-year-old Pakistani Malala Yousafzai by a coward, who must think he's a real man to shoot a teenage girl while on a school bus simply because she wants an education, I felt sick. I might sound like a broken record...Tags: Ku Klux Klan, Abortion, Religion and Belief, Malala Yousafzai, Islam
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Shadia: The wine cork is still in the bottle
I'm a hypocrite. I'm a Muslim who drinks alcohol — except during the month of Ramadan, of course. There. I said it. I am a hypocrite. Alcohol is forbidden in Islam. There are those Muslims, however, including me, who argue that alcohol is not...Tags: Holidays, Religion and Belief, Religious Festivals, Islam, Physical Fitness and Exercise
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Osama bin Laden, born to privilege, dies a pariah
Osama bin Laden, a scion of one of Saudi Arabia's wealthiest families, became the grim apostle of a strain of Islamic radicalism that exalted violence against non-believers, and the leader of a terrorist network that launched repeated attacks in the West,...Tags: Finance, Saddam Hussein, Saudi Arabia, Belief and Faith, Firearms
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