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  • Syria - The Truth And Why You Should Care
    Let's just put the situation in the simplest context and explain why half of the world's account and story about Syria is wrong (you can guess which Staterun media I'm referring to). To put it simply, Syria is just on the verge of being another Iraq (with the new ploy and claims of chemical weapons usage) and likely almost entirely false charges against the legitimate government of Syria. The Syrian people, or at least the majority of them don't want the instability and su...
  • 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...
  • Uighurs and China's Xinjiang Region
    Uighurs and China's Xinjiang Region Author: Preeti Bhattacharji, Research Associate Updated: July 6, 2009 ...
  • China orders mosques closed amid ethnic unrest
    Mosques in the riot-hit capital of China's northwestern Xinjiang province have been ordered to stay closed for Friday prayers in the wake of recent ethnic violence, media reports quoted Chinese officials as saying. An official who identified herself as a government worker but refused to give her name was quoted as saying the decision to close mosques in Urumqi had been made for public safety and that "people should stay at home today and pray." Separately, officials ...
  • China ramps up propaganda to quell unrest
    China ramps up propaganda to quell unrest Last Updated: Thursday, July 9, 2009 | 4:16 PM ET Comments103...
  • UN headquarters in Gaza City hit by Israeli artillery
    UN headquarters in Gaza City hit by Israeli artillery Last Updated: Thursday, January 15, 2009 | 5:58 AM ET Comments189...
  • Time Magazine Explains the Israel & Palestine Situation - "The End: How It Got That Way"
    Monday, Jul. 01, 2002 The End: How It Got That Way By DAVID VAN BIEMA Calamity is the mother of end-of-the-world prophecy. This is true as millions of Americans, many rattled into an End Times frame of mind by Sept. 11, line up to buy the latest installment in the Left Behind series, The Remnant. It was true when the first prophecies of the End appeared in the Hebrew Bible in response to a great national catastrophe in 586...
  • Judge orders release of Uighurs into U.S.
    Judge orders release of Uighurs into U.S. Last Updated: Tuesday, October 7, 2008 | 1:45 PM ET Comments3...
  • An attack in a Muslim-majority province in far western China has left 16 police officers dead.
    Attackers kill 16 police in Chinese border province 04/08/2008 10:53:15 PM An attack in a Muslim-majority province in far western China has left 16 police officers dead....
  • Big mosque on the Prairie opens in Calgary
    Big mosque on the Prairie opens in Calgary Last Updated: Saturday, July 5, 2008 | 4:38 PM MT Comments243...
  • Israel's anti-Arab parties
    Israel's anti-Arab parties By Khalid Amayreh in the West Bank ...
  • Pakistani cleric announces big reward for killing Prophet cartoonist
    Pakistani cleric announces big reward for killing Prophet cartoonist 10:54:59 EST Feb 17, 2006 ...
  • Israel threatens to cut Gaza power
    Israel threatens to cut Gaza power by Thursday 22 December 2005 3:28 PM GMT Israeli troops killed three Palestinian fighters in Nablus Israel has threatened to cut power supplies to the Gaza Strip as more rockets were fired from the territory after troops killed three Palestinian fighters. Zeev Boim, the deputy defence minister, confirmed on Thursday that the idea of severing electricity supplies to Gaza has recently been discussed in th...
  • Row builds over Jerusalem voting
    Row builds over Jerusalem voting by Wednesday 21 December 2005 8:53 AM GMT Shaath said without voting in Jerusalem there would be no election The Palestinian Authority says will cancel 25 January parliamentary elections if Israel goes ahead with plans to bar Jerusalem Palestinians from voting. "If the Israelis insist on not allowing us to conduct the elections in Jerusalem, then there will be no elections at all," Nabil Shaath, the Pales...
  • Elections may be cancelled if Israel bars Palestinian in Jerusalem from vote
    Elections may be cancelled if Israel bars Palestinian in Jerusalem from vote 06:52:14 EST Dec 21, 2005 AMY TEIBEL JERUSALEM (AP) - The Palestinian Authority will cancel Jan. 25 parliamentary elections if Israel goes ahead with its plan to bar Palestinians from voting in disputed Jerusalem, a senior Palestinian official said Wednesday. Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas has been under growing pressure from his Fatah Party to postpone the vote, amid concer...
  • 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...
  • Progressive Muslim MeetUps
    Progressive Muslim MeetUps CBC News Viewpoint | December 13, 2005 | More from Natasha Fatah Natasha Fatah Natasha Fatah is a producer for CBC Radio's Current Affairs Show "As It Happens." Prior to that, she was a television and radio reporter in Windsor, Ontario. She has degrees in Journalism from Ryerson University and in Political Science from the University of Toronto. She has lectured on anti-racism, politics and media studies at elementary and secondary schools around ...
  • Calls grow to free Iraq hostages
    Calls grow to free Iraq hostages by Tuesday 13 December 2005 11:03 AM GMT Palestinians are demanding that the hostages be freed Supporters and well-wishers from around the globe have appealed for the release of four Christian activists held hostage in Iraq, with Muslim groups and relatives reiterating that the four supported the Iraqi people. The previously unknown Swords of Righteousness Brigade, which kidnapped the four men from the Ch...
  • Muslim clerics demand release of captive Westerners
    Muslim clerics demand release of captive Westerners Last Updated Wed, 30 Nov 2005 17:21:58 EST CBC News A group of influential Sunni Muslim clerics in Iraq and Palestinian activists issued separate pleas Wednesday for the release of two Canadians and three other Westerners being held hostage in Iraq. Palestinian activists called for the release of Harmeet Singh Sooden, above, and other captives, saying they helped Palestinians in the West Bank. (CP Photo/Chris...
  • Religious turbulence hits Indonesia
    Religious turbulence hits Indonesia by Marianne Kearney in Jakarta, Indonesia Sunday 09 October 2005 9:25 AM GMT The attacks have been a blot on Indonesia's religious tolerance A spate of recent church closures and attacks on the compound of a sect has highlighted a debate raging within the Indonesian Muslim community over religious freedom and tolerance. On 21 September, hundreds of young men attacked the compound of a small sect, the A...
  • Israel fires missiles into Gaza
    Israel fires missiles into Gaza by Monday 24 October 2005 5:42 PM GMT Two resistance fighters were killed by Israeli troops on Sunday Israeli army helicopters have fired two rockets into the Gaza Strip in response to a series of attacks by Palestinian resistance fighters, witnesses and security sources say. One raid on Tuesday was against a building belonging to the Fatah movement of Palestinian Mahmoud Abbas in Bait Hanun in the north o...
  • Israel accused of skewing elections
    Israel accused of skewing elections by Khalid Amayreh in the West Bank Monday 03 October 2005 1:39 PM GMT The Israeli army is targeting Palestinian civil servants The Israeli army is cracking down on civil servants and community leaders, including elected local government officials, throughout the West Bank, in what some believe to be a bid to force Hamas out of upcoming Palestinian elections. Palestinian sources told Aljazeera.net that ...
  • Israel repeats threat to hamper polls
    Israel repeats threat to hamper polls by Wednesday 21 September 2005 9:46 AM GMT Minister Silvan Shalom addressed the UN General Assembly Israel has reiterated threats to hamper January's Palestinian election if the Islamic movement Hamas stands, despite being urged by the US to cooperate in organising the polls. "We will not allow Hamas to take part in the elections," Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom told public radio in an interview on W...
  • Israeli Arabs cannot be 'terror victims'
    Israeli Arabs cannot be 'terror victims' by Tuesday 30 August 2005 12:03 PM GMT The Israeli soldier was a member of the Kach terror group The Israeli soldier who killed four Israeli Arabs in a shooting rampage on a bus has been branded a Jewish terrorist, but the people who died cannot be recognised as terrorist victims, the defence ministry says. Under current Israeli law, an assailant must be a member of the "enemy forces" against Isra...
  • Settler-funding a billion dollar question
    Settler-funding a billion dollar question by Friday 12 August 2005 7:05 AM GMT Some believe $60 billion has been pumped into settlements Israel's illegal effort since the 1967 Arab-Israeli war to fill the West Bank and Gaza Strip with Jews has grown from the scattered actions of zealous squatters into a network of 142 settlements that house nearly 240,000 people. Now that Israel plans to spend $2 billion to dismantle just 25 of these enc...
  • Gaza evacuation begins; Israeli gunman kills 3 in West Bank
    Gaza evacuation begins; Israeli gunman kills 3 in West Bank Last Updated Wed, 17 Aug 2005 11:26:28 EDT CBC News Israeli security forces began the forcible removal of protesters in the Gaza Strip early Wednesday. Unarmed soldiers broke through burning barricades and marched door-to-door ordering people out of their homes in at least five settlements. * INDEPTH: FAQ on Israeli settlements Also today, An Israeli gunman opened fire on Pa...
  • Palestinian civilians die in Gaza battle
    Palestinian civilians die in Gaza battle by Friday 15 July 2005 8:32 AM GMT Fighting rages in the Zaitun neighbourhood of Gaza Two Palestinian bystanders have been killed and more than a dozen people wounded in gunbattles between Palestinian security forces and resistance factions, hospital sources said. The internal conflict erupted on Thursday night and resumed on Friday after fighters fired rockets into southern Israel, killing a youn...
  • Israeli military court convicts soldier in fatal shooting of British activist
    Israeli military court convicts soldier in fatal shooting of British activist 10:10 AM EDT Jun 27 CASTINA MILITARY BASE, Israel (AP) - A military court convicted an Israeli soldier of manslaughter Monday in the killing of a pro-Palestinian British activist in 2003. The defendant, Wahid Taysir, who no longer is in the army, was accused of shooting Tom Hurndall in the head during an army operation in the Gaza Strip in April 2003. Witnesses said H...
  • Russian envoy meets al-Sadr in Iraq
    Russian envoy meets al-Sadr in Iraq by Monday 13 June 2005 9:31 AM GMT Muqtada al-Sadr has taken on a higher public profile The Russian ambassador to Iraq has flown to Najaf and started talks with Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr. Ambassador Vlidimer Chamov was making the first visit by a Russian envoy to al-Sadr's office since the US-led war started in Iraq more than two years ago, Russian embassy protocol chief Ivan Zhurba said on Monday....
  • Outgoing chief warns extremist Jews could open fire during Gaza pullout
    Outgoing chief warns extremist Jews could open fire during Gaza pullout 12:22 PM EDT Jun 10 RAMIT PLUSHNICK-MASTI JERUSALEM (AP) - Jewish extremists could open fire on troops during this summer's withdrawal from the Gaza Strip, or even carry out a suicide attack to kill the prime minister, the outgoing chief of the Shin Bet security service warned in interviews published Friday. Avi Dichter, who last month ended a five-year term as head of the Shin Bet...
  • Afghan mosque bombed, killing at least 20 and wounding dozens
    KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) - A bomb from a suicide attacker tore through a mosque during Wednesday's funeral for a Muslim cleric opposed to the Taliban, killing at least 20 people, and the local governor said an al-Qaida-linked militant was responsible. At least 42 people were wounded. The attack - which came on the heels of a major upsurge in rebel violence in recent months including assassinations, near-daily clashes with rebels and the kidnapping of an Italian ai...
  • The root of modern day trouble in the Muslim World created by Wahhabism/Salafism from Saudi Arabia
    This article is meant to educate and inform the readers about history and facts about Saudi Arabia's history and current events that affect both non-Muslims and Muslims around the world. Saudi Arabia is home to the world's holiest cites in Mecca and Medinah and should above all be held to the highest standard of Islam and for mankind, but has failed completely on all levels to follow the Qur'an and to be a peaceful and positive force in both the non-Muslim and Muslim world that we are e...
  • Xinjiang has 13 Ethnic Minorities, mainly Muslim/Islamic
    Ifound this information useful, they have different religions and ethnicities in Xinjiang, and most are Muslims. http://www.china.org.cn/english/MATERIAL/139389.htm It does not make sense that if China is attacking Muslims, why the other groups are not complaining. It seems that the Uighur's are as a majority have a separatist movement going on. It's unfortunate that so many are swayed into the idea of separatism when China has respected Islam throughout th...
  • Uighur/Uyghur Ethnic Muslims Protest in Urumqi, Xinjiang Comments about China, Islam and establishing the facts
    Ithink it's important to establish the facts here, many of which are in stark contrast to what is being reported in media. I also don't believe Uighurs or Tibetans in general want indepedence or condone any form of violent protests, this is a minority of people being influenced and controlled by outside forces. The Uighurs by the East Turkestan Independence movement (exhiled Uighurs linked to this listed terrorist group). Some of the facts that aren't bein...
  • My response to a viewpoint article from Tom Velk on CBC
    My response to a viewpoint article from Tom Velk on CBC http://www.cbc.ca/news/viewpoint/vp_velk/20050805.html I agree that countries should not allow hate-mongering and other illegal activities from any people but to point the finger at every immigrant and belittle Islam while ignoring other forms of terrorism and the true causes is irresponsible and anti-Islamic in nature. Throughout the world, whether it be the news or on-line forums, people are quick to ...
  • Allah is GOD in "Aramaic", the language Jesus spoke
    Allah is GOD in "Aramaic", the language Jesus spoke With Ramadan around the corner (generally accepted as tomorrow if the new moon is sighted) I felt like doing some research and it turns out what my friend said is true (god is "Allah" in Armaic") and hopefully the Christians that knock on my door every few months will come back soon (although they promised to visit soon last time we spoke). It is a historical fact that Jesus spoke the "Aramaic" language so n...

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  • Syria - The Truth And Why You Should Care
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  • The Stealth Crusade
    2009-07-17 16:57:56
  • Uighurs and China's Xinjiang Region
    2009-07-10 18:12:50
  • China orders mosques closed amid ethnic unrest
    2009-07-09 22:59:26
  • China ramps up propaganda to quell unrest
    2009-07-09 15:11:09
  • UN headquarters in Gaza City hit by Israeli artillery
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  • Time Magazine Explains the Israel & Palestine Situation - "The End: How It Got That Way"
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  • Judge orders release of Uighurs into U.S.
    2008-10-07 11:56:15
  • An attack in a Muslim-majority province in far western China has left 16 police officers dead.
    2008-08-04 22:56:33
  • Big mosque on the Prairie opens in Calgary
    2008-07-06 19:18:29
  • Israel's anti-Arab parties
    2006-03-29 20:27:45
  • Pakistani cleric announces big reward for killing Prophet cartoonist
    2006-02-17 18:04:42
  • Israel threatens to cut Gaza power
    2005-12-22 09:43:00
  • Row builds over Jerusalem voting
    2005-12-21 07:10:00
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  • Scholar: There is no clash of civilisations
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  • Calls grow to free Iraq hostages
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  • Muslim clerics demand release of captive Westerners
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  • Religious turbulence hits Indonesia
    2005-10-27 08:21:00
  • Israel fires missiles into Gaza
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  • Israel accused of skewing elections
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  • Israeli Arabs cannot be 'terror victims'
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  • Settler-funding a billion dollar question
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  • Gaza evacuation begins; Israeli gunman kills 3 in West Bank
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    2005-06-13 09:36:00
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