Archive for the ‘Islam’ Category
Sunday, September 5th, 2010
Published September 05, 2010 | Sunday Times
KABUL -- At least five Iranian companies in Afghanistan's capital are using their offices covertly to finance Taliban militants in provinces near Kabul, according to a Sunday Times investigation.
Afghan intelligence and Taliban sources have told the newspaper that the firms, set up ...
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Friday, September 3rd, 2010
Sep. 2, 2010, 4:01 AM New York Post
By PATRICK DUNLEAVY
Reporting on the terrorism trial now under way in federal district court in Manhattan is focusing on defense attorneys' "entrapment" claim. But to me, the more interesting question is how the four accused were radicalized to the point where they'd ...
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Thursday, September 2nd, 2010
Here is a news report from France about the growing power of Islam there.
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Monday, August 30th, 2010
By YOAV GONEN Education Reporter
Last Updated: 5:07 AM, August 24, 2010
Posted: 2:33 AM, August 24, 2010
State testmakers played favorites when quizzing high-schoolers on world religions -- giving Islam and Buddhism the kid-gloves treatment while socking it to Christianity, critics say.
Teachers complain that the reading selections from the Regents exam in ...
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Tuesday, August 24th, 2010
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/244349/which-islam-will-prevail-america-andrew-c-mccarthy
Andrew C. McCarthy
That is the real question at hand in the Ground Zero mosque debate.
The real battle for religious freedom lurks beneath the Ground Zero mosque controversy. It is sadly ironic that our public debate presents the mosque proponents as the partisans of liberty: That includes everyone from imam Feisal ...
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Friday, August 20th, 2010
The Ground Zero mosque imam earns wide congratulations while true reformers go ignored.
• By BRET STEPHENS
Items of interest in the news media's coverage of "moderate Muslims":
• The New York Times, Oct. 19, 2001: "Imam Anwar Al-Awlaki, spiritual leader at the Dar al-Hijra mosque in Virginia, one of the nation's largest. ...
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Thursday, August 19th, 2010
BY ALIYAH SHAHID
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Originally Published:Wednesday, August 18th 2010, 9:37 AM
Updated: Wednesday, August 18th 2010, 2:39 PM
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2010/08/18/2010-08-18_nancy_pelosi_house_speaker_wants_investigation_into_ground_zero_mosque_
oppositio.html
Ceneta/AP
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says New Yorkers should make their own development decisions on the controversial Ground Zero mosque.
Nancy Pelosi wants some answers.
The house speaker is ...
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Monday, August 16th, 2010
16 August 2010 Last updated at 13:11 ET
South Asia
Taliban 'kill adulterous Afghan couple'
A man and a woman who allegedly had an adulterous affair have been stoned and killed in the northern Afghan province of Kunduz.
This month the Taliban also reportedly flogged and killed a pregnant widow in western Baghdis ...
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