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"Religion of Peace" World News Round-up

It's a mad, mad, mad, mad Muslim world out there!

I ndia eyes Islamic militants for Hyderabad carnage

T hai Muslims radicalized by Indonesia universities

F lorida televangelist loses show after Muslims complain

G ood, clean fun very appropriate for Muslims

A kinder, gentler Taliban brings peace to Afghan region

A bduction of Koreans giving Muslims a bad name, says Korean
Islamic cleric

M uslim groups press India to expel Muslim author who has been
critical of Islam

H ardline cleric says Indonesians are 'living in sin' as long as
sharia law is not implemented across the country

S wedish artist's Mohammed sketch prompts another Muslim
uproar

T aj Mahal briefly closed after Muslims riot in Agra, India

Comic strip 'Opus' yanked from Washington Post for fear of
offending Muslims

N ation of Islam allowed to review PBS documentary on
moderate Muslims

M uslim women in New Zealand seek their own swimming pools

'N ew al Qaeda plot to blow up planes on September 11' foiled

M uslim ambassadors: 'Sweden needs to change its laws'

G ermany considers increased spying on Muslims

I raq unrest, Indonesia quake mar start of Ramadan

S wedish artist goes into hiding after al Qaeda death threat

M alaysia snoop squad targets Ramadan rule breakers

M uslim astronaut to blast off during Ramadan and possibly fast
in space

I n a divided Europe, ex-Muslims want to be heard

B in Laden tape addresses Pakistani Muslims

M alaysian Islamic body rules on how to pray, wash and die in
space

I slamists stage rally against Pakistan's Musharraf

P roblems of Muslims in orbit

S inks for Muslims at airport are up in the air

M ovie on gay Muslims to hit screens

P ope Benedict in 'freedom' blast at Islam

A t least 41 Pakistanis dead from bad bootleg during Ramadan

H indu-Muslim riots after India cricket victory over Pakistan

T ension between Sunnis, Shiites emerging in USA

S audi religious police attacked by girls with pepper spray

M uslims win exemption to smoking ban in Vancouver

H omosexual allegations fly between Fatah and Hamas in Gaza

C ambodian Muslims in dire need of copies of the Quran

O ppressed Saudi women turn to on-line eroticism

I llinois school district to replace Christmas with 'winter festival'
due to Muslim concerns

K ashmir: Muslim students demonstrate against Kaaba-shaped
bar in New York

G roup to protest 'Muslim Family Day' at Six Flags Over Texas

V iolence flares again in Amsterdam 'immigrant' area

M uslims to wear pink hijabs for breast cancer awareness

M uslim leaders call for accord with Christian leaders

P anel calls for closure of U.S. Islamic school over textbooks that
may encourage religious intolerance or violence

'All modern discoveries are by Muslim scientists'

'Lyrical terrorist' convict ed in Britain under new terror laws

L APD defends Muslim mapping effort

B ritish Muslim chief warns over Nazi Germany parallels

M uslim politician could be kingmaker in Danish elections

M uslim woman who has thrown Denmark into turmoil

U K hairdresser sued for refusing to hire Muslim with headscarf

M alaysian Muslim women want AirAsia crew to sport Islamic
attire

M uslim clerics ban Koranic ringtones

M uslim scholars decry 'fatwa chaos'

'Blasphemous' feminist writer hounded out of home in India by
violent Muslim protests

N ationalist leader says Danish identity under threat from Muslim
immigrants

M uslims' outrage kills LAPD mapping program

D anish Muslims convicted of bomb plot

A chievements of Islamic scientific heritage belong to all

E gypt jails Christian woman over her father's brief conversion to
Islam over 40 years ago

T eacher in Sudan faces 40 lashes for letting students name a
teddy bear Mohammed

'Teddy bear' teacher sentenced to short jail term; Islamic mobs
call for her execution

I ran wants world Islamic court for war crimes

T een girl in Canada in critical condition after alleged dispute
over hijab

F ighting the scourge of 'Islamophobia' main issue at Istanbul
conference

T op cleric in Iran says women without proper Muslim attire
should die

N igerian sultan: 'Islam has no link to terrorism'

'Muhammad boys' prove 'Islam will enter every house in Europe'

M uslim plan to broadcast call to prayer over loudspeaker in
Oxford meeting resistance from non-Muslims

P rison systems breeding radical Islam

'Teddy bear' teacher seeks job in China

G ay Muslims pack a dance floor of their own

G erman Muslims angry over TV incest plot

G iuliani volunteer resigns over Muslim remarks

"There must be violence against women," says Yemen Times
editorialist

I slamic practice of female circumcision surprisingly common in
Britain

I slamic extremism creating 'no-go' areas for non-Muslims in
Britain, says Bishop of Rochester

C onvicted Bali bombers prefer beheading to firing squad
because they say the latter violates Islamic law

M uslims ban Botox due to medicinal substances obtained from
pig extracts

H undreds of white Britons may have been recruited by al-Qaeda
to help wage terror war against the West

H amas says it has foiled Fatah plot to kill leader

S panish police smash suspected Islamist terror cell in Barcelona

P akistan arrests 15-year-old in Bhutto assassination plot

B in Laden's son wants to be a peace activist

O sama's son wants British visa to live with granny bride

H ezbollah leader Nasrallah says his group has Israeli soldiers'
body parts from 2006 war in Lebanon

N etherlands braced for Muslim anger as politician releases
'anti-Islam' film

F lorida teacher accused of slurring Muslims

T hree Little Pigs story 'too offensive for Muslims'

M uslims wary of terror law extension in Britain

S audi religious police get sensitivity training toward
non-Muslims

S ecurity tight as Muslim pilgrims flock to Bangladesh for second
biggest meet after the Haj

I ranian sisters face stoning for adultery

M alaysian airport customs seize bibles

M uslims can claim benefits for multiple wives, say British
ministers

S cotland Yard's anti-terror police bug Muslim Labour MP

D on't mention Islamic terrorists, says new British guide book

B arack Obama wants summit with Islamic nations if elected

T urks protest en masse against plans to lift Islamic headscarf
ban

R eligious police in Saudi Arabia arrest American
businesswoman for sitting with a man

A rchbishop of Canterbury in hot water after declaring that
Islamic Sharia law in Britain is 'unavoidable'

I ranians urge Dutch to ban offensive film about Koran

A yaan Hirsi Ali asks EU lawmakers for protection from Muslim
jihadists

S uspected Danish cartoon rioters torch cars in Copenhagen

S urvey finds most Muslims not supportive of bin Laden

B ritish bobbies to be taught sharia law and the Koran

W orldwide survey of Muslims suggests the majority want
democracy and freedoms

I n pursuit of Muslim humour

Y oung Muslims in UK finding radical Islam more coherent

S tudy: Aggressive policing turns Muslims to terrorism

A l-Jazeera apologizes over 'Barbarian Muslims' remark

P ope to host landmark Catholic-Muslim summit

D utch raise terror threat level after film critical of the Quran
stokes Muslim hostility

I raqi youth grow weary of religious extremism

P ope baptizes prominent Italian Muslim

B in Laden urges Palestine holy war

S on of late Nation of Islam leader alleges Rezko swindled him

T eachers targeted by insurgents in Thailand's southern Muslim
majority region

G allup poll show that Muslim women do not want to be like
Western women