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NEWS ABOUT: Koran

Koran stories: 22 news summaries

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WACKY DICTATORS

Gadhafi Hires 200 Hot Italian Women, Tries to Convert Them

Leader also gives out copies of his book

Nov 16, 09 2:23 PM CST
(Newser) - Moammar Gadhafi hired a couple of hundred attractive Italian women for the night, headed to the Libyan ambassador's place in Rome, shepherded them into a room, and ... tried to convert them to Islam. The Libyan dictator offered $75 for the evening, causing most of the women to assume they’d... More »

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Islam • Italy • Libya • Rome • Moammar Gadhafi • Koran • conversion • Muslim convert

 Ahmadinejad Is Not Jewish 

Iranian president's family is about as Muslim as can be

Oct 5, 09 5:23 PM CDT
(Newser) - The bombshell claim that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's family is Jewish is false. The assertion was based on the fact that the family changed its last name from Sabourjian shortly before the Iranian leader's birth, and the "fact" that Sabourjian means "weaver of the sabour," which the Telegraph said... More »

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Iran • Mahmoud Ahmadinejad • Jews • Mohammed • Koran • Muhammad • Jewish • Daily Telegraph

 Pakistan Muslims 
 Torch Christian 
 Houses; 6 Dead 

Crowd avenges alleged Koran desecration

Aug 2, 09 9:36 AM CDT
(Newser) - Six people are dead after Muslim protesters torched houses in a Christian neighborhood of Pakistan’s Gojra City yesterday, CNN reports. The demonstrators, who were protesting an alleged desecration of the Koran at a Christian wedding last weekend, set fire to between 40 and 50 houses. A crowd burned 15... More »

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Islam • Pakistan • sectarian violence • Muslim • Koran • Christians

(Newser) - A former UN worker who faces possible lashing in Sudan for wearing pants blasted flogging as an "insult" to humans that has nothing to do with Islam and everything to do with "men mistreating women," she tells the Guardian. Lubna Ahmed Hussein and 12 other women were... More »

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Islam • crime • dress code • Sudan • Muslims • Islamic dress code • indecent exposure • court • Koran • flogging • Lubna Ahmed Hussein

Dubai Woman Rattles Arab World With Sex Advice Book

Book of frank erotic advice rooted in religion shocks Arab world

Jun 6, 09 10:27 AM CDT
(Newser) - A Dubai marriage counselor is making waves in the Arab world with a frank book on sexuality, the New York Times reports. Wedad Lootah, a former Islamic scholar, grounds her book of erotic advice in the teachings of the Koran. She discusses taboo subjects such as homosexuality and urges readers... More »

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Islam • sex education • sexuality • United Arab Emirates • Koran • Arab

Hard-Right Dutch Pol Barred From UK

He's turned back at Heathrow on trip to show anti-Koran film

Feb 13, 09 5:11 AM CST
(Newser) - Ultra-right Dutch politician Geert Wilders, whose short film attacking the Koran caused an uproar last year, was refused entry to Britain yesterday, reports the Guardian. The member of Parliament was flying to London to show his controversial film when the home secretary sent him a letter saying his presence in... More »

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Islam • United Kingdom • Koran • Jacqui Smith • Britain • Geert Wilders • Fitna • Islamophobia

 2 Afghans Face Death
 Over Koran Translation 

Clerics say book aims to replace holy text

Feb 6, 09 11:23 AM CST
(AP) - A pocket-size translation of the Koran has landed six men in prison in Afghanistan and left two of them begging judges to spare their lives. They're accused of modifying the Koran, and their fate could be decided Sunday in court. The trial illustrates what critics call the undue influence of... More »

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Afghanistan • death penalty • Islam • trial • Islamic Sharia law • Muslim • Koran • translation • cleric • Bill Maher Grid

 Sony Recalls Video 
 Game for 'Islam Insult' 

Koran quotes discovered in music track

Oct 20, 08 6:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - Sony has held up distribution of a top video game after the discovery that it contains quotations from the Koran in a background music track, reports the BBC. Copies of Playstation 3 game LittleBigPlanet have been recalled and Sony has apologized. A modified version will be released next month. The... More »

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Islam • religion • Sony • Playstation 3 • Muslim • Koran • video games

Koran More Feminist Than Bible: Scholar

Muslim text 'more modern' than Christian regarding women

Sep 2, 08 11:36 AM CDT
(Newser) - Certain passages in the Koran give women more freedoms than the Bible, a Dutch philosopher tells Radio Free Netherlands. On the site bibleandkoran.net, Marlies ter Borg compares texts on economic independence, marriage, and divorce from both books to dispel what she calls misconceptions about the Islamic faith. "In... More »

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Islam • women's rights • religion • Netherlands • debate • Koran • Bible • Muslim women

 Saudi Cops
 Target Flirty
 Dog Walkers

Riyadh officials confiscating pets in public

Aug 13, 08 3:12 PM CDT
(Newser) - Officials in a Saudi province have banned the sale of cats and dogs after complaints that flirtatious men are “using cats and dogs to make passes at women and pester families,” the Christian Science Monitor reports. Although owning a pet isn’t illegal, the religious police say they’... More »

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pets • Saudi Arabia • Koran • veterinarian • Muhammad • religious police

 Bush Apologizes
 for Koran Target Practice 

But Iraq is calling for a trial for shoot-'em-up soldier

May 21, 08 4:30 AM CDT
(Newser) - President Bush yesterday called Iraqi prime minister Nouri al-Maliki to personally apologize for the use of a Koran in target practice by a US military sniper. Maliki told Bush the incident was humiliating for Muslims and indicated the apology may not be enough, Reuters reports. The soldier who shot up... More »

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Islam • Nouri al-Maliki • Koran • Dana Perino • George W. Bush • target practice

 Apology for Shooting Koran 
 Doesn't Close Case 


 

Used Muslim Holy text for target practice

May 19, 08 5:15 PM CDT
(Newser) - The US military's swift disciplining of an Army sniper who used a Koran for target practice reflects growing awareness of the need to forge bonds with the Sunni Arabs, whose cooperation is crucial to peace in Iraq, the LA Times reports. But apologies and discipline aren't enough for an influential... More »

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Iraq • Islam • Baghdad • Koran • al-Qaeda in Iraq • Radwaniya • Ayad Jabouri • Maj. Gen. Jeffery Hammond • Col. Ted Martin • Haidar Fakhrildeen

US Commander Apologizes for Koran Target Practice

Calls shooting 'criminal behavior'; soldier sent back to US

May 18, 08 8:10 AM CDT
(Newser) - A US commander has apologized to Iraqi tribal leaders after an American soldier used a Koran for target practice in Iraq, CNN reports. “The actions of one soldier were nothing more than criminal behavior,” said Maj. Gen. Jeffrey Hammond, head of US troops in Baghdad. "Please forgive... More »

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Iraq • US military • Koran • apology

Saudi Trashes Bible in Reply to Dutch Pol's Film

'Schism' echoes premise of Wilders' anti-Islam 'Fitna'

Apr 10, 08 12:40 PM CDT
(Newser) - A Saudi Arabian blogger has released his response to the anti-Islamic film Fitna, attacking the Bible in Schism much as the Dutch effort savaged the Koran, Der Spiegel reports. “Schism” places images of war alongside the Bible. “It is easy to take parts of any Holy (sic) book... More »

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Islam • YouTube • Netherlands • Koran • Bible • Geert Wilders • Fitna • Raed Al-Saeed • Schism


 Dutch Pol Posts
Anti-Islam Film Online 

Controversial movie slams Koran
as 'fascist text'

Mar 28, 08 5:30 AM CDT
(Newser) - A controversial anti-Islamic movie interweaving graphic images of 9/11, a beheading and protests by extremists has been posted on a maverick internet site by the leader of a far-right Dutch political party. Dutch television refused to broadcast the 17-minute movie, Fitna, which has been slammed as anti-Muslim propaganda. It ends... More »

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Islam • Madrid bombings • Netherlands • September 11 • stoning • Amsterdam • beheading • Koran • London bombings • Geert Wilders • Freedom Party • LiveLeak • Fitna • Theo van Gogh

Host Blocks Anti-Koran Film's Website

US provider says flick may violate policy; filmmaker unfazed

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... More »

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Islam • Muslims • Muslim • Koran • Islamist • Geert Wilders • Danish Mohammed cartoons • Network Solutions • Prophet Muhammad • network provider

Dutch Pol Makes Waves With Unseen Film

Western, Islamic officials fear violence over anti-Koran piece

Mar 20, 08 1:36 PM CDT
(Newser) - An unruly Dutch politician for months has had civil and religious leaders in a tizzy over a movie no one has seen—and which might not even exist, Der Spiegel reports. But by the end of March, provocateur Geert Wilders says he intends to release a movie exposing “the... More »

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Iran • Islam • Syria • European Union • Netherlands • Koran • Geert Wilders • Danish Mohammed cartoons

Iran Asks Dutch Gov't to Ban Anti-Islam Film

Right-wing pol's movie shows Koran as inspiration for murder

Feb 17, 08 2:35 PM CST
(Newser) - Upset by a right-wing Dutch politician's movie, which portrays the Koran as an inspiration for murder, Iran’s justice minister is asking the Dutch government to ban the film, the BBC reports. The minister called the film, by parliament member Geert Wilders, an unnecessary attack on Islam’s holiest object.... More »

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Iran • Islam • Netherlands • Koran • Theo Van Gogh • religious conflict • Geert Wilders

Afghan Student Faces Death for Blasphemy

Journalist condemned for reading document on women, Koran

Jan 31, 08 8:43 AM CST
(Newser) - Protesters in Afghanistan and abroad have taken up the cause of a journalism student sentenced to death for blasphemy after he downloaded and distributed a document on women and the Koran. Sayed Pervez Kambaksh, 23, was convicted in an Islamic court, and the country's Senate has upheld the ruling. He... More »

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Afghanistan • Taliban • Hamid Karzai • journalism • Koran • Muslim women • blasphemy • Sayed Pervez Kambaksh

Osama Tape 'Sophomoric' and Bizarre

'I expect more from a terrorist mastermind,' says National Review

Sep 9, 07 5:27 PM CDT
(Newser) - Osama’s latest tape is “a great disappointment,” as sophomoric as it is bizarre, says James Robbins in the National Review. The terrorist’s invitation for Americans to convert to Islam – which would force “warmongering corporations” to spend energy converting people back – is as odd... More »

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Islam • terrorism • Democrats • Republican • Marxism • terrorist • Osama bin Laden • Koran • Bible • Torah • videotape • al-Qaeda

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