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POLITICS-US: Right Seizes on Ft. Hood Killings as "Islamic Terror"
By Eli Clifton
WASHINGTON - Senior military and Barack Obama administration officials have been on a full-court press to preempt an anti-Muslim backlash since the shooting spree by a Muslim soldier at Fort Hood, Texas, but right-wing pundits have wasted no time in characterising Major Nidal Malik Hasan's actions as an act of terrorism by a radical Islamic extremist.
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SWAZILAND: Help Sex Workers - Senator
By Mantoe Phakathi
MBABANE - It is one of the world's oldest professions, dating so far back that it is even mentioned in the Bible. But in the deeply cultural and religious country of Swaziland, Senator Thuli Msane stirred a hornet's nest when she publicly challenged a new strict bill opposing prostitution.
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RIGHTS: Iraqi Minorities Dying Over Turf War
By Chryso D'Angelo
NEW YORK - Iraqi minority groups are caught up in a power struggle between the country's Arab-dominated central government and the Kurdish-controlled regional government over the oil-rich Nineveh province - and they are paying with their lives, according Human Rights Watch.
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Q&A: Geert Wilders Gets a Big Email Hug
Liza Jansen interviews IMAM FEISAL ABDUL RAUF of the Cordoba Initiative
UNITED NATIONS - Since the terror attacks of Sep. 11, 2001, persistent misconceptions about Islam have contributed to a dangerous climate of mistrust and disharmony between the Muslim world and the West.
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POLITICS-US: New Moons Rising
By Bill Berkowitz*
OAKLAND, California - Earlier this month, the Rev. Sun Myung Moon went to Washington to introduce "As a Peace-Loving Global Citizen", his autobiography that, according to the Moon-owned Washington Times, "recounts the joys and challenges, the teachable moments and the monumental experiences of his life - much of it spent as a spiritual leader."
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SWITZERLAND: Muslims Targeted in the Name of Minarets
By Ray Smith
BERN - Switzerland's Muslim community is witnessing a xenophobic campaign by the political right-wing ahead of a vote next month on the banning of Islamic minarets.
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DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: Protests Surround New Constitution
By Elizabeth Eames Roebling
SANTO DOMINGO - The Dominican Republic passed the 38th version of its constitution Thursday evening, amending more than 40 articles that drew public protests and opposition from civil society groups and many average Dominicans.
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Q&A: "Women Will Benefit From Secularism"
Cam McGrath interviews Egyptian feminist author NAWAL EL-SAADAWI
CAIRO - Controversy stalks dissident writer Nawal El-Saadawi, whose views on women and religion have put her at odds with Egyptian conservatives.
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PORTUGAL: Bible Is "A Catalogue of Cruelties," Says Saramago
By Mario de Queiroz
LISBON - After a nearly two-decade truce, Portuguese Nobel literature laureate José Saramago has returned to the charge against the Catholic Church. This time his target is the Bible itself, which he describes as "a manual of bad morals," and a "catalogue of cruelties and of the worst of human nature."
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RIGHTS-CHINA: Children Among "Missing" Xinjiang Detainees
By Chryso D'Angelo
UNITED NATIONS - "It was late in the evening, and we were just getting ready for bed. Three men in black police uniforms and another four in military camouflage came to our house. They said my sons have been involved in attacks against Chinese... they twisted their arms and led them away," said Kamalutdin K.
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RIGHTS-EGYPT: Invoking Religion Against Liberals
By Cam McGrath
CAIRO - Self-appointed guardians of public morality are invoking an ancient instrument of Islamic jurisprudence against those whose ideas they deem immoral or heretical - or simply to gain fame.
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CANADA: Harper Courts Religious Right, But Quietly
By Paul Weinberg
TORONTO - Stephen Harper's ruling Conservative government has managed to muddy the ideological right-wing aspects of his political agenda to stay in power in Canada without alienating his western and rural base of moral and social conservatives.
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ENVIRONMENT-US: Interfaith Leaders Back Climate Bill
By Zach Rosenberg
WASHINGTON - An interfaith group of religious leaders Thursday announced the launch of DaySix.org, an initiative aimed at influencing the passage of Senate legislation on climate change.
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