The trial of Oriana Fallaci, renowned journalist and author of Italian origin, accused of defaming Islam in a book, was opened and adjourned on Monday (June 12) in an Italian court. Neither the complainant nor the defendant attended the hearing. The...
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A monaqqaba (women dressed in full niqab) broke into the Hassan Heshmat Museum in May 2006 and destroyed a number of statues including The Victory Leap, the artist's testament to the heroism of Egyptian troops in the 1973 War. Promptly arrested, the...
A Freedom House report in the United States of America said that textbooks used in Saudi Arabia's schools were promoting religious intolerance. Religions other than the Salafi branch of Islam are demonised, beginning in the first grade. 'Every religion...
The body of a 70-year-old Hindu woman, Radha, which was rotting in the mortuary of a government hospital in Lahore (Pakistan) for the last five days because of the absence of a shamshaan ghat (cremation ground) in the Punjab capital, has finally been...
Environmentalism often has little in common with India's film industry but recently two of its most popular Muslim film stars have been in the limelight for divergent views on the environment. Several months ago, Salman Khan was prosecuted for hunting...
In the name of containing radical Islam or curbing Islamist terrorists, the U.S.A is engaged in activities, proving counterproductive. During the Cold War, the United States was willing to align itself with any political group that was ideologically...
The screening of a controversial film Obsession: Radical Islam's War Against the West about Islamic extremists has sparked off controversy in Canada, as concerns have been raised by local Muslims.
Local Jewish groups have sponsored the film. Members of...
Mercurial Italian journalist Oriana Fallaci, who has been on a crusade against Islam for the last several years, has said in an interview published this week that the Western world is in danger of being engulfed by radical Islam, reports the Daily...
Three lawmakers from different parties and the spiritual leader of the Bulgarian Muslims have been agents of Communist secret services in Bulgaria, an erstwhile country in the Soviet block.
Yunal Lutfi from the predominantly ethnic Turksih Movement for...
Chinese Muslim activist Rebiya Kadeer, freed from prison and sent to the United States last year, said her three children have been arrested in China. Kadeer`s two sons and her daughter, all adults, were taken into custody on Monday.
The activist said...
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