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UNESCO Director-General calls for an immediate halt to destruction of Sufi sites in Lib... - 0 views

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    The destruction of Sufi sites in Libya must immediately stop http://t.co/Fbi1bLJY
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Moroccan jailed for breaking Ramadan fast in public - Region - World - Ahram Online - 0 views

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    Morocco is unusual, although not unique, in punishing this
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How Muslims Really Think About Islam - By Marc Lynch | Marc Lynch - 1 views

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  • a really disturbing and widespread belief in most Arab countries that Shias are not real Muslims. Interestingly, in Iraq (82 percent) and Lebanon (77 percent), countries with Shia majorities but notably torn by sectarian strife, Sunnis are significantly more likely to say that Shias are Muslims than are Muslims in Arab countries with small Shia populations
  • This generational divide was the widest in the Middle East compared to any other region of the world.
  • Asked whether there was a single interpretation of Islam or multiple interpretations, more than 50 percent answered "single" in every African country surveyed, as did more than 69 percent of every Asian country. Seventy-eight percent of Egyptians and 76 percent of Jordanians said "single," but no other Arab country had more than 50 percent.
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Guardian Reader's Editor evades key questions in column on Joshua Treviño deb... - 0 views

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  • Of course a newspaper should offer a broad range of views and host vigorous debate among people who disagree. The point that neither Elliott nor Guardian editors have addressed is where to draw the line. We live at a moment when open hate speech – especially in the United States – primarily directed against Muslims, is becoming normalized as part of the ‘marketplace of ideas.’
  • If all things being equal, Treviño’s long history of bigotry had been directed against Jews instead of Muslims, Arabs and Palestine solidarity activists, would The Guardian have offered him a column in the first place? If it had been revealed that Treviño wrote speeches for candidates suggesting that “civilization” was at war with Jewish rather than Muslim “barbarism,” how many would defend Treviño or the initial decision to hire him?
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    Is Mr Abunimah correct that hate speech against Muslims is becoming normalized?
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Anger as Iran bans women from universities - Telegraph - 0 views

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  • Iran has highest ratio of female to male undergraduates in the world, according to UNESCO. Female students have become prominent in traditionally male-dominated courses like applied physics and some engineering disciplines.
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Egypt's new leader going to Iran; first presidential visit in decades - Chicago Sun-Times - 0 views

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  • “This really signals the first response to a popular demand and a way to increase the margin of maneuver for Egyptian foreign policy in the region,” said political scientist Mustafa Kamel el-Sayyed. “Morsi’s visits ... show that Egypt’s foreign policy is active again in the region.” “This is a way also to tell Gulf countries that Egypt is not going to simply abide by their wishes and accept an inferior position,”
  • Morsi will visit Tehran on Aug. 30 on his way back from China to attend the Non-Aligned Movement Summit, where Egypt will transfer the movement’s rotating leadership to Iran
  • In 2006, Mubarak angered Shiite leaders by saying Shiites across the Middle East were more loyal to Iran than to their own countries. His view was shared by other Arab leaders and officials, including Jordan’s King Abdullah II who warned of a Shiite crescent forming in the region.
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  • While nearly three decades of Mubarak rule left Egyptians inundated with state-spun scenarios of Iranian plots aiming to destabilize the country, many sympathize with Iran’s Islamic revolution and consider Tehran’s defiance of the United States a model to follow. Others seek a foreign policy at the very least more independent of Washington.
  • Aware of the Gulf states’ anxieties over the rise of political Islam in post-Mubarak Egypt, Morsi has focused on courting Saudi Arabia. He visited it twice, once just after he won the presidency, and a second time during the Islamic summit. In an attempt to assuage fears of the Arab uprisings by oil monarchs, he vowed that Egypt does not want to “export its revolution”. He has also asserted commitment to the security of Saudi Arabia and its Gulf Arab allies, a thinly veiled reference to the tension between them and Iran.
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  • Does God prefer an open market economy or a government controlled one? Is privatization in harmony with or against Islamic teaching?
  • Using religious text to justify his political moves is the first step toward a theocracy. Coupling faith with government policies is a risky move. Faith is designed to salvage our soul not to solve traffic congestion or stock market performance.
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French mother who won custody battle with Saudi prince falls to her death from Paris ho... - 0 views

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  • she was also accused of being a Muslim convert from Judaism – a crime punishable by death in Saudi Arabia
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      Needs citation! This sounds very odd. Conversion to Islam is no crime under shari'a, so why would this be an accusation. Perhaps she was accused of converting back to Judaism. Apostasy IS a crime under shari'a.
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Salafist Nour Party visits Sinai to combat 'religious extremism' - Politics - Egypt - A... - 1 views

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Egypt Salafists takfir radicals Islamists Sinai military

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  • The group will hold a series of meetings urging Sinai citizens to stand by the army in combating the “Takfiri” mentality, referring to supremacist Islamist groups in the region.
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