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Islam Online "on-strike" [update]

Virtually Islamic - 1 hour 58 min ago

Comprehensive coverage of this from Eman AbdElRahman, Global Voices Online, Egypt: IslamOnline Employees Strike, 16 Mar 2010 "It is worth mentioning that this strike may be the first instance in ...

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Workshop announcement: “e-Arabic and Cyberspace: the Marginalized Voices”

Virtually Islamic - 3 hours 35 min ago

Sponsored by the British Academy and in association with the American University of Sharjah, UAE; Centre for the Advanced Study of the Arab World (CASAW); School of Modern Language and Cultures ...

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Skype in Persian Gulf

Virtually Islamic - 3 hours 53 min ago

LA Times, Babylon & Beyond, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES: Skype plans to open Persian Gulf office in effort to tackle ban, 15 Mar 2010 "At a recent media conference in Abu Dhabi, capital of the United ...

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'Enemies of the Internet' report

Virtually Islamic - 3 hours 54 min ago

LA Times, Babylon & Beyond, MIDDLE EAST: Iran and Arab countries "enemies of the Internet," says report, 15 Mar 2010 "As of last week, the advocacy organization Reporters Without Borders ...

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Skype ban rumours

Virtually Islamic - 4 hours 6 min ago

Joseph Mayton, bikyamasr.com, Banning Skype rumors in Egypt, 15 Mar 2010 "Egyptian bloggers have been musing over whether the international calling site Skype will be blocked in the country. ...

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Halal food dispute

Virtually Islamic - 4 hours 25 min ago

David Sapsted, The National, Halal dispute over Kentucky Fried Chicken "A trial involving the sale of halal poultry at dozens of outlets of a fast-food chain across Britain has left groups of ...

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Dede Med, "internet hummus queen"

Virtually Islamic - 4 hours 27 min ago

Wall Street Journal, Shawarma, Ready-to-Eat: Arab Cuisine Invades Camp Pendleton, 16 Mar 2010 "Before she opened her stand, Ms. Hazime, who is also a real-estate broker in Irvine, Calif., had ...

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TRA bans Facebook site

Virtually Islamic - 4 hours 45 min ago

Abdulla Rasheed, gulfnews.com, TRA bans offensive Facebook page in UAE, 16 Mar 2010 "The Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA) instructed all internet service providers in the UAE to block ...

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Jamie Paulin-Ramirez

Virtually Islamic - 4 hours 47 min ago

NYT, In Ireland, a Hearing on a Plot to Kill a Swedish Cartoonist, 16 Mar 2010 "Ms. Paulin-Ramirez’s mother, Christine Mott, 59, said in an interview last week in Colorado that her daughter ...

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Study Sorts through Obama-Muslim Myth

LoonWatch - Mon, 15/03/2010 - 8:50pm

"Obama is an evil Moooslim" We have been tracking the “Obama is a Mooslim” myth for quite some time now, so much so that those who conducted this study could have easily used ...

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The LSDP Top 100 Global thinkers of 2009

Virtually Islamic - Mon, 15/03/2010 - 5:35pm

Someone sent me this link today: the LSDP [Lo Spazio della Politica] Top 100 Global thinkers of 2009. I seem to have made it to No. 73 (!).

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France Plans Veil Ban for Spring

LoonWatch - Mon, 15/03/2010 - 4:26pm

Nicolas Sarkozy, better known as Nicoleon The discussion on the veil ban is now leading to practical implementation with plans for the veil ban to become effective in the spring. (via. ...

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Musical Interlude: Umm Kulthum

Virtually Islamic - Mon, 15/03/2010 - 12:59pm

Neda Ulaby, NPR, Umm Kulthum: 'The Lady' Of Cairo "At a moment when the Arab world was buffeted by modernity — the aftershocks of colonialism, corrupt leadership and the new Israeli state, ...

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Opinion piece: 'Jihad Jane and the Muhammad cartoons'

Virtually Islamic - Mon, 15/03/2010 - 12:51pm

Wajahat Ali, altmuslim, Jihad Jane and the Muhammad cartoons, 15 Mar 2010 "As an artist who relishes creative freedom, I resist calls that advocate artistic censorship or pander to political ...

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"Shaykhs Need Advice, Too"

Virtually Islamic - Mon, 15/03/2010 - 12:47pm

muslimmatters.org, Yahya Ibrahim: Shaykhs Need Advice, Too, 15 Mar 2010 "One of the problems with internet scholarship, convention groupies and seminar murids is the negative effect they inflict ...

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"Iran's cyber-police hack US spy sites"

Virtually Islamic - Mon, 15/03/2010 - 12:44pm

The Register, Iran's cyber-police hack US spy sites, 15 Mar 2010, "Iranian security forces have arrested 30 people accused of waging cyber-war against the country with the backing of the United ...

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Racist National Front Win Big In French Elections

Hotter Than a Pile of Curry - Mon, 15/03/2010 - 9:59am

Voter turnout in the French regional elections were poorer then expected, the abstention rate was put at some 52%, a record for a regional election. All the traditional parties took a battering, ...

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Anti-Semitism – Zionist myth vs truth and reality

Redress - Sun, 14/03/2010 - 11:52pm

Alan Hart views the myth and reality of anti-Semitism and argues that the myth, created and propagated by Israel and Zionism, is the single biggest potential threat to Jews the world over.

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Anti-Semitism: Zionism’s indispensable alibi

Redress - Sun, 14/03/2010 - 11:50pm

Maidhc Ó Cathail considers the symbiotic relationship between Zionism and anti-Semitism – real or imagined – and how Israel and other Zionists have at times faked instances of “anti-Semitism” in ...

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Anti-Semitism: silencing the messenger of truth with Canada’s “hate provisions”

Redress - Sun, 14/03/2010 - 11:46pm

William A. Cook recounts how Canadian Zionists, in the form of B’nai B’rith of Canada, cast aspersions on his personal and professional character because he had dared to highlight the genocidal ...

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