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 Gallup Asks
 What Muslims
 Really Think 

Most admire the West for technology and human rights

Christian Science Monitor Christian Science Monitor May 17, 08 7:19 PM CDT
(Newser) - What do the world’s Muslims really think? In an astonishing 6-year study, Gallup interviewed 1 billion of them to find out. The vast majority support democracy, political freedoms, and women’s rights, the Christian Science Monitor reports: Most said they admire the West for its technology, hard work, and respect for human rights. More »

More about:  Islam • September 11 • Muslim • Islamic extremism • interfaith dialogue

Host Blocks Anti-Koran Film's Website

US provider says flick may violate policy; filmmaker unfazed

Associated Press Associated Press Mar 24, 08 5:43 AM CDT
(Newser) - Amid public outrage, a right-wing Dutch lawmaker has run into a new problem in his relentless quest to market his anti-Koran film: His US-based network provider has suspended service, AP reports. Network Solutions pulled the plug on Geert Wilders, who insists his 15-minute film will expose Islam's holy book as "fascist," saying the site may violate its terms of service. More »

Harvard Begins Women-Only Gym Hours

Controversial move to make Muslim females more comfortable

Associated Press Associated Press Mar 5, 08 10:49 AM CST
(Newser) - Harvard is trying out women-only gym hours at one of its facilities to make exercising easier for Muslim women. Six of the 70 hours a week that the Quadrangle Recreational Athletic Center is open will be barred to men so that Muslim women feel free to dress appropriately for working out, reports the AP. But some students complain that the new policy is sexist or unfair. More »

More about:  Islam • exercise • athlete • Harvard • sexism • Muslim • Muslim women • gym • Muslim Americans

Hijacking Ends Peacefully
in Turkey

Pair protesting US surrender after passengers and pilots flee

BBC BBC Aug 18, 07 9:21 AM CDT
(Newser) - Two hijackers of a Turkish plane claiming to be protesting US foreign policy surrendered yesterday after nearly all 136 people on board fled from the tarmac unharmed and the rest were released, the BBC reports. The men, believed to be a Turkish national and a Palestinian, tried to force their way into the cockpit after the Atlas Jet took off from northern Cyprus to divert the craft to Iran. More »

More about:  al-Qaeda • terrorism • Turkey • Muslim • plane • Istanbul • Cyprus • hijack

Foes Gear to Fight New Bid By Ex-Islamist
to Lead Turkey

Critics fear extreme religious shift for nation

Times (UK) Times (UK) Aug 14, 07 2:22 AM CDT
(Newser) - Turkish secularists are bracing for another clash over the presidential candidacy of Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul, a devout Muslim and one-time Islamist party member who critics fear plans to enforce extreme religious principals in public life. The last time he was nominated as the ruling party's candidate, just three months ago, the army threatened a coup, and thousands took to the streets. More »

More about:  religion • Islam • Turkey • Muslim • Recep Tayyip Erdogan • secularism • Abdullah Gul • Turkish elections

Gay Nigerians Face Death by Stoning

Suspects accused of violating Islamic law; parliament mulls ban on gay groups

BBC BBC Aug 10, 07 6:41 PM CDT
(Newser) - Eighteen Nigerian men arrested on suspicion of sodomy face death by stoning under the nation’s Sharia law. Police found the men, reportedly dressed as women, in a hotel in the northern state of Bauchi, where they were allegedly celebrating a “gay wedding.” More »

More about:  gay rights • homosexuality • Muslim • Nigeria • Sharia law • stoning

Editor's Murder Shows Failure
of Tolerance

Hitchens hits cops for abetting criminality
in religious guise 

Slate Slate Aug 7, 07 2:47 PM CDT
(Newser) - The notoriously irreligious Christopher Hitchens decries the Oakland police's tolerance of Your Black Muslim Bakery, one of whose employees has been arrested for the murder of Oakland Post editor Chauncey Bailey. In an op-ed for Slate Hitchens writes that the bakery is in fact a front for jihadism and that Bay Area law enforcement is guilty of "official apathy— amounting to collusion." More »

More about:  murder • racism • Muslim • jihad • Oakland • tolerance • Christopher Hitchens • Chauncey Bailey • Your Black Muslim Bakery

Muslim Creationists Damn Darwin

Turkish anti-evolution tract
distributed worldwide

Christian Science Monitor Christian Science Monitor Aug 2, 07 6:31 PM CDT
(Newser) - A Muslim group in Turkey is widely disseminating a 768-page tome that slams evolution and promotes Islam-inflected creationism, the Christian Science Monitor reports. The Council of Europe has issued warnings—particularly to schools—against the "Atlas of Creation," which has been published in 80 countries and 59 languages. More »

More about:  Islam • education • Turkey • evolution • Muslim • Charles Darwin • creationism • Council of Europe

Muslim Donut Franchisee Fights Pork

Owner told to serve breakfast sandwiches
or lose stores

Chicago Tribune Chicago Tribune Aug 1, 07 4:49 PM CDT
(Newser) - The owner of two Chicago-area Dunkin' Donuts is locked in a legal dispute with the company over conflicts between his religious beliefs and his breakfast menu, the Chicago Tribune reports. A franchisee since 1979, Walid Elkhatib has never served pork products; it wasn't until 2002 that Dunkin' Donuts insisted he toe the line or lose stores. More »

More about:  lawsuit • food • religion • Islam • discrimination • Muslim • Dunkin' Donuts • pork • franchise • Arabs • breakfast sandwiches • donut

Hitchens: Stop Fearing (and Coddling) Islam

'Threat of violence' behind Muslims' demand for religious respect

Slate Slate Jul 31, 07 10:38 AM CDT
(Newser) - Unflappable contrarian Christopher Hitchens asks why he's accused of "insulting 1.5 billion Muslims" whenever he challenges their faith in public. Arguing that no other group takes such umbrage when its empirical beliefs are questioned, the militant secularist concludes that the appeal to Muslims' feelings has an "unmistakable note of menace" behind it. More »

More about:  religion • Islam • violence • Muslim • Koran • Christopher Hitchens

Egypt Suffers From a Fatwa Free-for-All

Urine-drinking, breastfeeding edicts jeopardize religious authority

New York Times New York Times Jun 12, 07 3:08 PM CDT
(Newser) - The credibility of fatwas, the religious rulings that guide daily life for Muslims, is being strained in Egypt, the New York Times reports.  A flap ensued recently when one authority ruled in favor of  drinking the Prophet Mohammed’s urine and another approved co-ed workplaces if the women breast-fed male colleagues to make them "family." More »

More about:  Islam • Egypt • law • Muslim • Mohammed • fatwa

Face It: Court Approves Full Veil at Cairo U

Panel lifts ban imposed for security

BBC BBC Jun 12, 07 12:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - Women at the American University in Cairo cannot be barred from wearing the traditional Islamic veil covering the entire face, or niqab, a court has ruled after a lengthy battle, reports the BBC. While some hailed the ruling as a blow for religious freedom, others blasted it as a dangerous drift toward Islamic extremism.  More »

More about:  women • Islam • Muslim • Cairo • dress code • Islamic veil

Islamic Scholars Need U.S.

Freedom fosters faith and scholarship

Baltimore Sun Baltimore Sun Apr 6, 07 4:27 PM CDT
(Newser) - The Iraq war may be unforgiveable, but America has given Islam a priceless gift: a haven for Muslim scholarship, says a professor at the University of Deleware. "Muslim scholars have always maintained that true happiness comes from the pursuit and dissemination of knowledge," writes M. A. Muqtedar Khan. "I found this to be the case in America." More »

More about:  Iraq • Iraq war • Islam • education • school • America • Muslim • scholarship

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