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  • The Stealth Crusade
    The Stealth Crusade By Barry Yeoman | Wed May 1, 2002 12:00 AM PST At 8 o'clock on a warm Monday morning in January, 20 students file into Rick Love's classroom at Columbia International University in South Carolina. Eyes glassy from writing papers all weekend, they clutch Styrofoam cups of Folgers a...
  • TIME Magazine: The Bible & The Apocalypse
    The biggest book of the summer is about the end of the world. It's also a sign of our troubled tim...
  • Local Muslim community holds open house
    Local Muslim community holds open house Feb, 22 2006 - 1:40 AM VANCOUVER/CKNW(AM980) - Every year, local Muslims gather for a special conference on the character of the holy prophet Muhammed. Tuesday evening, organizers opened it up to the public, in light of the worldwide de...
  • Comments on Klein's wife spark new controversy for Western Standard
    Comments on Klein's wife spark new controversy for Western Standard Last Updated Wed, 15 Feb 2006 19:57:00 EST CBC News A Calgary-based political magazine, already under fire for publishing cartoons offensive to Muslims, is now being accused of racism after publishing derogatory comments about the wife of the Alberta premier. The comments were part of ...
  • Australian TV shows what it says are new photos of Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse
    Australian TV shows what it says are new photos of Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse 11:07:03 EST Feb 15, 2006 MERAIAH FOLEY SYDNEY, Australia (AP) - An Australian television network broadcast photographs and video clips Wednesday that it said were previously unpublished images of the abuse of Iraqis held in U.S. military custody at Abu Ghraib prison in 2003. ...
  • Western Canadian magazine publishes Muhammad cartoons
    Western Canadian magazine publishes Muhammad cartoons Last Updated Mon, 13 Feb 2006 12:00:28 EST CBC News The publisher of an Alberta-based political magazine is defending his decision to publish controversial cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad, saying Western media have been cowed into fear. ...
  • Harper 'regrets' publication of Muslim caricatures; group warns of danger to troops
    Harper 'regrets' publication of Muslim caricatures; group warns of danger to troops Last Updated Tue, 14 Feb 2006 17:26:31 EST CBC News On the same day a Canadian Islamic group warned that reprinting cartoons of Muhammad could endanger Canadian troops overseas, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said he regretted their publication. "Free speech is a ri...
  • The power of the press: a double-edged sword
    If ever there was an instance where a small but hurtful act had worldwide implications, it was when a Danish newspaper hit the streets on Sept. 30, 2005. The paper featured caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad, one of them depicting him wearing a turban in the form of a time bomb. The 12 cartoons were commissioned by the conservative paper Jyllands-Posten. Since then, the caricatures have caused an uproar in the Muslim world and sparked a new battle over freedom of speech, religiou...
  • Scholar: There is no clash of civilisations
    Scholar: There is no clash of civilisations by Firas Al-Atraqchi in Cairo, Egypt Tuesday 20 December 2005 2:07 PM GMT Armstrong was in Cairo as a guest of the American University One of the foremost authorities on monotheistic religions and traditions, Karen Armstrong's writings on Islam have come into public focus following 9-11. Born in 1944, Armstrong began her journey to faith as a Roman Catholic nun but left her order in 1969 when s...
  • Rare Islamic texts to go online
    Rare Islamic texts to go online by Monday 12 December 2005 2:48 AM GMT Handwritten Islamic documents are about to go online A treasure trove of information about life in the early Islamic world is to go online, enabling Muslims, scholars and the merely curious to peer into a window on the faith's rich history. Numbering more than 10,000 texts, Princeton University's collection of handwritten Islamic documents, books and letters is the la...
  • Library removes Kazemi photos after complaint
    Library removes Kazemi photos after complaint Last Updated Tue, 07 Jun 2005 13:05:21 EDT CBC Arts An exhibition of work by slain Canadian photographer Zahra Kazemi has been shut down, following complaints it was too sympathetic to the Palestinian uprising. Last week, a collection of 23 black-and-white photos Kazemi took during her travels in countries like Israel, Iran and Afghanistan opened at a municipal library in the Montreal borough of Côte Saint-...
  • War crimes court asked to investigate 7 suspects in Srebrenica execution video
    http://www.cbc.ca/cp/world/050603/w060360.html War crimes court asked to investigate 7 suspects in Srebrenica execution video 02:40 PM EDT Jun 03 BELGRADE, Serbia-Montenegro (AP) - Prosecutors asked a war crimes court Friday to investigate seven men suspected of being the killers seen this week in video footage of the Srebrenica massacre of 1995. Ten suspects were arrested after the video was aired Wednesday on Serbian TV. Four remain in custod...
  • They’re already dead.
    Poetry By Nada (note to the reader, this is a copy righted item and can not be linked or copied without the consent from the author) copy righted 2005 Nada Mansuek Send my love to all those who died, to Americans, and Iraqi’s alike. There are too many to count, and write down. So I’m sorry if I missed your name. To anyone who lost one of your own Just remember that you’re still alive. Rest well uncle, Allah (God) has ...
  • Of Culture and Religion
    Of Culture and Religion By Areeb Yasir Vancouver The biggest challenge I faced when entering the Muslim religion, by my own accord; was the different cultures involved in the community. It would seem that Islam plays a back seat role to culture. In particular this is the most obvious in the Pakistani and Fijian communities. When I asked a question from one of the brothers pertaining to family life (in regards to if leaving them for 40 or more days for the sake of Jam...

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