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Iran Says US Must Act Against Anti-Muslim Filmmakers

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ran’s ambassador to the United Nations has called on the United States to take “serious proceedings” against the makers of the controversial film, “Innocence of Muslims.” The Iranian state news agency IRNA reports that Mohammad Khazai, speaking at the UN, described the production of the film as an “inhumane” act that has led to “religious, [...]

Saudi Arabia: Grand Mufti Denounces Violence Against Embassies

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Saudi Arabia’s Grand Mufti, Sheikh Abdul Aziz Al-Asheikh, yesterday denounced attacks on diplomats and embassies as un-Islamic after deadly protests against a US-made anti-Islam film swept the Middle East. At the same time, he called on the international community to take steps to criminalize any act of abusing great prophets and messengers such as Abraham, [...]

There Is No End In Sight To Culture Of Hatred – OpEd

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By Abdul Rahman Al-Rashed IN 1988, Ayatollah Khomeini provoked religious confrontation when he issued a fatwa (religious edict) to kill a British novelist of Indian origin whom nobody had previously heard of. Up until then, Salman Rushdie’s novel entitled “The Satanic Verses” was virtually unknown. Immediately after the fatwa was issued, the novel became a [...]

The Wind And The Sun, And Netanyahu – OpEd

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By William A. Cook Aesop tells the story of the North Wind and the Sun: who is the stronger? They chose a traveler to test their strength; which of the two could force him to remove his cloak. The North Wind went first, whirling furiously down on the traveler, whipping his cloak to wrest it [...]

Is It Just To Offend Muslims? – OpEd

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By Hale Yavuz On the anniversary of September 11, after the release of an anti-Islamic movie on YouTube, ‘another Muslim assault’ took place in Libya resulting the death of US ambassador to Libya and three other embassy officials. The timing of the movie, the geographical importance of the attack, the uncertainty of the movie director [...]

Tunisia: Death Toll From US Embassy Attack Rises To Four

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The death toll from the Sept 14 attack on the U.S. embassy in Tunisia, provoked by a film that mocks the Prophet Mohammed, rose to four, with 46 people injured, a hospital official said, according to Reuters. Police fought hundreds of protesters who smashed windows, hurled petrol bombs and stones at police from inside and [...]

Turkey Gold Exports To Iran Surging

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By Dorian Jones In the past few months, there has been a surge in Turkey’s gold exports to Iran. Questions are increasing over whether the gold purchases are the latest attempt by Tehran to circumvent increasingly tough international sanctions. Throughout 2012, Turkish-Iranian trade has experienced record monthly increases. Most is due to gold exports to [...]

Cyberwar And The Threat To Civilization – OpEd

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The American Interest published an essay, Hacking the Next War, which explores the juxtaposition between the traditional internet and the myriad benefits it’s offered to modern society, with the unplumbed destructive capacity of cyberwarfare.  The founding principles of the internet were openness and trust.  Issues like security and anticipation of abuse were after-thoughts, since the [...]

Canada Closing Its Doors To The Roma – OpEd

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By John Robles The situation for the Roma in Europe is not improving. Trapped in a cycle of discrimination and poverty where they are not allowed a decent education and therefore cannot obtain decent jobs and in many cases segregated, not allowed proper health care and under constant attacks by ever increasing nationalist groups all [...]

Call For United Kingdom To Halt Deportation Flight To Sri Lanka

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The United Kingdom should immediately suspend deportations to Sri Lanka of ethnic Tamils with real or imputed links to the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) or who have engaged in activities the Sri Lankan authorities might view as anti-government, Human Rights Watch said today. The next scheduled deportation of Tamils from the United Kingdom [...]

Libya: Doomed From Day One – OpEd

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By Jen Alic People often ask me why the West doesn’t attempt a Libya-style intervention in Syria. After all, things are going so well in Libya. Oil production is up. But oil production is merely a mirage, as is security in Libya, which was doomed from the day one PG (post-Gaddafi) because of the way [...]

Busted By FBI: Would-Be Jihadist Chicago Teenager Tries To Blow Up Bar

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In a dramatic FBI sting, US agents arrested an 18-year-old American who attempted to detonate a fake car bomb outside a popular Chicago bar on Friday night. The teen was arrested immediately after he pushed the button on the dummy explosives. Suspect Adel Daoud planned the attack for months, telling undercover agents he was interested [...]

Iranian Foundation Ups Bounty On Rushdie To $3.3 Million

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Iran’s religious 15 Khordad Foundation has raised its reward for the killing of British writer Salman Rushdie by $500,000 to $3.3 million, the ISNA news agency reported on Sunday. Rushdie, an Indian-born British writer, was condemned to death in 1989 by Iran’s late religious leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, over his novel “The Satanic Verses.” The [...]

Burma: Persecution Continues For Former Political Prisoners

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The government of Burma should immediately release all remaining political prisoners and lift travel and other restrictions on those freed, Human Rights Watch said today. Independent international monitors should be permitted unhindered access to Burma’s prisons to provide a public accounting of all remaining political prisoners. Burmese President Thein Sein has issued three amnesties to [...]

Tajikistan: President To Head East As Battle For Badakhshan Control Continues

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By David Trilling Tajikistan’s President Imomali Rahmon has promised he will soon visit Gorno-Badakhshan, the mountainous eastern region where government security forces carried out a secretive military operation this summer. If the trip goes off as planned, Rahmon will confront one the most stubborn political challenges of his tenure, trying to win over regional residents [...]

Tunisia: Government Condemn US Embassy Attack

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By Monia Ghanmi Tunisia’s interior ministry on Saturday (September 15th) vowed to apprehend those involved in the Friday attack on the US embassy in Tunis. “Anyone closely or marginally involved in the events outside the American embassy in Tunis will be punished,” national security spokesman Mohammed Ali Aroui said in an interview with Mosaique FM. [...]

Bosnia: Showdown With Organised Crime

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By Bedrana Kaletovic Bosnia and Herzegovina’s state investigation and protection agency (SIPA) initiated an operation Wednesday (September 12th) that they said is the biggest undertaking against organised crime in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) and the region. Hundreds of police participated in arresting 25 people suspected of being involved in at least six unsolved murders and [...]

Turkey – Saudi Arabia Defense Ties Explored

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Vice Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques Prince Salman yesterday received a written message from Turkish President Abdullah Gul. It was handed to the prince by Arshad Harmozlo, senior adviser to the president, during a meeting at the Ministry of Defense. The meeting was attended by Prince Muhammad bin Salman, special adviser, Gen. Hussein Al-Qubail, [...]

Is A Truce Between Religions Possible? – OpEd

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By Abdul Rahman Al-Rashed Ideas on how acts of inciting religious hatred and abuse of religious creeds could be reined in are plenty. These ideas are circulated with the objective of getting rid of any clash between followers of different religions. It has also been observed that proposals for a ban on statements and acts [...]

Anti-Islam Film An Exception To Free Speech Protection – OpEd

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The anti-Muslim film produced by Christian extremists may have sparked the violence that spread across the Middle East and South Asia this week. But the core issues in the following days of protests were unemployment, politicizing religion and the deep resentment against the United States for its wars that cost thousands of innocent lives in [...]
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