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WP: With Iran ascendant, U.S. seen at fault

published by ahmed_7 on 30 January, 2007 - 12:15

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[color=red][b]WP: With Iran ascendant, U.S. seen at fault [/b][/color]
[size=6]Arab allies in region feeling pressure
By Anthony Shadid
The Washington Post
Updated: 3:31 a.m. PT Jan 30, 2007[/size]

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - Kuwait rarely rebuffs its ally, the United States, partly out of gratitude for the 1991 Persian Gulf War. But in October it reneged on a pledge to send three military observers to an American-led naval exercise in the Gulf, according to U.S. officials and Kuwaiti analysts.

"We understood," a State Department official said. "The Kuwaitis were being careful not to antagonize the Iranians."

Jermaine Jackson wants Michael to convert to Islam

published by ahmed_7 on 29 January, 2007 - 22:49

[quote]Jermaine Jackson said on Monday he wants his brother Michael to convert to Islam; and he believes the reclusive superstar has given it serious thought.

"Michael, I feel, needs to become a Muslim because I think it's a great protection for him from all the things that he's been attacked with, which are false," said the former Jackson Five singer who now lives in Bahrain.

"There's a strength and protection there," Jackson told BBC Asian Newtwork after finishing runner-up to Bollywood star Shilpa Shetty in the "Celebrity Big Brother" TV reality show that was marred by accusations of

Hillary's team has questions about Obama's Muslim background

published by ahmed_7 on 24 January, 2007 - 03:09

[quote]January 22, 2007

Sen. Barack Obama approached the media after a meeting with President Bush at the White House on Jan. 5. (AFP/File/Mannie Garcia)

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Are the American people ready for an elected president who was educated in a Madrassa as a young boy and has not been forthcoming about his Muslim heritage?

This is the question Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s camp is asking about Sen. Barack Obama.

An investigation of Mr.

Dispatches: Women Only Jihad

published by ahmed_7 on 22 January, 2007 - 04:02

While surfing the net I have run into this documentray film that is called Dispatches: Women Only Jihad.

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this film just show how sexist and ignorant alot of british men are. At the time of prohet muhammed (pbuh) woman were allowed to pray in the mosque but after he had died it all changed.

There are around 1,600 mosques in Britain. Well over half do not allow women access to worship and hardly any allow women a say on how the mosques are managed and run. Journalist Tazeen Ahmad follows a group of young Muslim women from the Muslim Public Affairs Committee (MPACUK) who are waging a determined campaign to force these mosques to open up.

Danish TV shows cartoons mocking Prophet Mohammad

published by ahmed_7 on 7 October, 2006 - 02:41

[b][size=18]Danish TV shows cartoons mocking Prophet Mohammad[/size][/b]

[quote]Danish TV shows cartoons mocking Prophet Mohammad 2 hours, 28 minutes ago

Danish state TV on Friday aired amateur video footage showing young members of the anti-immigrant Danish Peoples' party engaged in a competition to draw humiliating cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad.

The video images have surfaced little more than a year after a Danish paper published cartoons of the Prophet that sparked violent protests worldwide.

The images, filmed by artist Martin Rosengaard Knudsen who posed as a membe

Burger King

published by ahmed_7 on 18 August, 2006 - 01:44

[quote][b][size=18]I'm Hatin' It[/size][/b]

[size=9]Posted on Monday, May 22, 2006. From a September interview with Rashad Akhtar, a twenty-seven-year-old British Muslim, who alleges that the graphic used on the lid of Burger King ice-cream cones resembles the Arabic spelling of “Allah.” The interview was conducted by Davina Patel, a reporter for the London newspaper Eastern Eye. Burger King apologized and said they would redesign the lid. Originally from Harper's Magazine, March 2006.[/size]

[b]The Enlightenment happened at half past 12 a.m. in Burger King, Park Royal.

Holocaust cartoon fair opens in Iran

published by ahmed_7 on 14 August, 2006 - 22:18

[quote][size=18][b]Holocaust cartoon fair opens in Iran [/b][/size]

[b]An international contest of cartoons on the Holocaust opened in Tehran in response to the publication in Western papers last September of caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed.

"We staged this fair to explore the limits of freedom Westerners believe in," Masoud Shojai, head of the country's "Iran Cartoon" association and the fair organizer, said.

"They can freely write anything they like about our prophet, but if one raises doubts about the Holocaust he is either fined or sent to prison," he added.

"Though we do n

Very Disturbing

published by ahmed_7 on 27 May, 2006 - 18:28

[quote][color=red][size=18][b]In Haditha, memories of a massacre [/b][/size][/color]
[b]Iraqis describe slaying of 24 civilians by Marines in Nov. 19 incident[/b]

By Ellen Knickmeyer
The Washington Post
Updated: 7:01 a.m. PT May 27, 2006

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Witnesses to the slaying of 24 Iraqi civilians by U.S.

Mosque plans bring controversy

published by ahmed_7 on 25 May, 2006 - 15:16

[b]MSN[/b][quote]Mosque plans bring controversy to Tuscan town
Mayor backs Islamic center's construction, but residents are 'very afraid'

By Jennifer Carlile
Reporter
MSNBC
Updated: 6:08 a.m. PT May 25, 2006

COLLE DI VAL D'ELSA, Italy — For hundreds of years, Colle di Val d’Elsa has been renowned for its crystal and as the birthplace of medieval sculptor and architect Arnolfo di Cambio. But, the picturesque Tuscan town, situated on the road between Florence and Siena, may soon be better known as home to one of Italy’s largest mosques. That is, if it’s ever built.

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