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Letters: I am not against Islam, but Islamic extremism
Other people on Pankaj Mishra's list of influential anti-Islamic witch-hunters (Comment, 1 September) can speak for themselves, but please let me state clearly what I have several times stated ...
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The Turkish Germans to whom these racist comments mean little | Deniz Yücel
Thilo Sarrazin's chitchat has nothing to do with their lives. And that's why they feel neither disgusted or insultedWho is central bank executive Thilo Sarrazin talking about when he accuses ...
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My lost Bangladeshi identity | Momtaz Begum-Hossain
Losing my parents showed me culture is not something we teach ourselves. This Ramadan, I feel less Bangladeshi than everIt's now a year since I was orphaned. Not only did I lose my dad on 1 ...
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When will those brave critics of Islam decry this mob hate? | Pankaj Mishra
As anti-Muslim hysteria in the US reaches a peak, its intellectual accomplices should start to reconsider their actionsIn the New York Times last week, writing about the eruption of hatred for ...
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Sickening and shameful | Michael Tomasky
There's no other way to put it. What's happening in Murfreesboro, Tennessee is sickening and shameful. TPM:The Islamic Center of Murfreesboro reportedly received threats in the week before the ...
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Ten die and 27 injured in clashes in Mogadishu
Islamist group linked to al-Qaida mounts a mortar attack on the presidential palace in Somali capitalFour Ugandan peacekeepers were killed and eight wounded in Mogadishu today when Islamist rebels ...
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Pakistan floods: British Muslims should give money to UK causes, says charity
Mercy Mission UK says Zakat religious contributions should help poor within BritainAn Islamic charity says British Muslims should fulfil their religious obligation to help the poor by giving money ...
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Serving in Iraq killed my faith in God | Adnan Sarwar
The destruction I saw made me question everything I had previously thought about religionLuke Allsopp was a friend of mine. The last time we spoke for any length was in February 2003. Around three ...
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English Defence League rally in Bradford leads to 13 arrests
Police praise calmness of local people during weekend's far-right protest over 'militant Islam'Thirteen people were arrested after far-right activists threw missiles and smoke bombs during last ...
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Saudi solidarity and the 'Ground Zero mosque' | Ali al-Ahmed
Saudi Arabia could show its vaunted friendship with President Obama now by granting the religious freedoms US citizens enjoyAt a recent Iftar dinner in the White House two weeks ago, President ...
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Feisal Rauf: Ground Zero's lightning rod | Paul Harris
US State Department favourite he might be, but his plans to open a cultural centre for Muslims close to the site of the Twin Towers have seen him reviledFor the first time in a long while, Feisal ...
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The birth of halal holidays
More and more British Muslim women are packing their bikinis, thanks to the growth in holiday companies with Islamic valuesMy taxi driver was not impressed with my choice of hotel. "Do you like a ...
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School 'gassing' shows Afghanistan's theological chaos | Nushin Arbabzadah
The alleged Taliban attack on Totia high school reflects how the conflict is now about interpretations of Islam vying for powerThis week's Guardian article about an alleged poisoning incident at a ...
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Taxi driver: fear and loathing in New York | Jillian C York
Why is Michael Bloomberg the only senior politician to have condemned the unprovoked knife attack on a Muslim taxi driver?After all of the anti-Muslim rhetoric surrounding the debate about Park51, ...
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Ramadan observed around the world
Muslims are marking the third Friday in the holy month of Ramadan
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Islamophobia: the new antisemitism | Mya Guarnieri
When I was growing up in Gainesville, Florida, the Klan was still a force. Now a pastor wants to burn the Qur'an, what's changed?The New York Times is reporting that a pastor in my hometown of ...
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France's ban on the Islamic veil has little to do with female emancipation
A focus on women's rights is being used to justify intervention in religious and public life that would otherwise be unacceptableIf there were any doubt about the motivation for the ban on Islamic ...
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Eating less meat is more Islamic | Joseph Mayton
The Qu'ran reminds us animals and birds are 'communities like you'. So why do so many Muslims break their fast with meat?For most of the billion-plus Muslims who sit down each evening to break ...
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The New York stabbing | Michael Tomasky
Anyone surprised that a Muslim cab driver was stabbed in New York? If you are surprised, you've been sleepwalking the last two weeks.The man, Ahmed Sharif, will survive. But from reports it seems ...
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The mosque, Saudi Arabia and American values | Michael Tomasky
Have you noted the return to the public sphere of tea party movement honcho Mark Williams, the man who a few weeks ago wrote that twisted "letter to Abe Lincoln from the NAACP"? Well, his ...
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