![]() Capital New York | Bloomberg at the Brooklyn Public Library. Dana Rubinstein Capital New York By Dana Rubinstein Responding this morning to a question about the NYPD's reported surveillance of Muslim student groups, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said, "I don't know why keeping the country safe is antithetical to the values of Yale. |
![]() Al-Arabiya | Rana Khoury: A tale of two prisoners, Khader Adnan and Bobby Sands Al-Arabiya Khader Adnan Moosa was born in 1978 to a Muslim family from Arraba, in the occupied West Bank. Robert Gerard “Bobby” Sands was born to a Catholic family from Abbots Cross, Northern Ireland in 1954. Both men were born in March, both were married and had ... |
![]() Salon | Welcome to the first annual celebrity religion swap Salon Predictably, the Muslims drafted free agent Liam Neeson, who recently said, “There are 4000 mosques in [Istanbul]. Some are just stunning and it really makes me think about becoming a Muslim.” The Irish actor is experiencing a pop cultural rebirth as ... |
![]() Irish Times | Rough ride for vice-president during Turkish visit Irish Times Mr Xi is tipped to replace Hu Jintao as Chinese leader later this year and has been on a tour of the US and Ireland that is being closely watched to see what kind of leadership he will provide in China. He is getting a rougher ride in Turkey than in ... |
![]() Los Angeles Times | Muslim Student: I Met Alleged NYPD Undercover on Trip WNYC (blog) By WNYC Newsroom Muslim rights groups at Foley Square on February 3, 2011 protesting NYPD surveillance of Muslims in the city. (Stephen Nessen/WNYC) “ “It just brought everything home when he told me, 'Your name is here and it says that the undercover ... Mayor Bloomberg Unapologetic For Scope Of NYPD Surveillance Of Muslim College ... |
Why We Need To Leave Afghanistan And Stay Out Of The Middle East Lez Get Real The whole process repeats over and over until the last Muslim army crosses the Pyrenees and is stopped in France, retreating into the Iberian peninsula. Then, the might of Arabia is overpowered by the might of the Turkish Ottomans, and then by the ... |
Shades of 'Otherness' in Europe: Indians and Muslims in the Milieu Huffington Post (blog) Traveling through Europe as a non-Muslim Indian, secular really, I find myself caught up curiously in this vortex of pre-assigned hierarchy. Allow me to elucidate using this non-secular experience with some history. Following the end of World War II, ... |
![]() EurActiv | Marine Le Pen: What she means for Europe EurActiv Marine Le Pen herself has frequently courted controversy with inflammatory language regarding Muslim French citizens and immigrants. In December 2010 she compared Muslims' praying in the streets to the Nazi occupation of France saying, "For those who ... France Elections: Marine Le Pen, Far-Right Presidential Candidate, Slams ... |
Schools' Catholic ethos open to challenge Irish Examiner In a research paper to be discussed at a conference on Islam in Ireland at University College Cork today, Ms Hogan says the Catholic monopoly of schools should not be allowed to continue. About 96% of the country's 3200 primary schools are in ... |
![]() Fox News | Colorado student quits high school choir over Islamic song praising 'Allah' Fox News A Colorado high school student says he quit the school choir after an Islamic song containing the lyric "there is no truth except Allah" made it into the repertoire. James Harper, a senior at Grand Junction High School in Grand Junction, ... 'There Is No Truth Except Allah': Colorado Student Quits High School Choir ... Allah Song Sparks Colorado Controversy |