| November 13, 2009 | - Attorney General Eric Holder announced that Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and four other accused September 11 plotters would be tried in federal court in lower Manhattan. “It is fitting that 9/11 suspects face justice near the World Trade Center site,” said New York mayor Michael Bloomberg, adding that the city had sufficient resources to safely hold the trials. “I'm concerned,” said former mayor Rudy Giuliani, “that we no longer believe we're at war with Islamic
terrorists.” Five other detainees will be tried before military commissions.
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New York Times
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New York Times
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| October 12, 2009 | - As the United States marked the eighth anniversary of its war in Afghanistan, General Stanley McChrystal asked President Barack Obama to send 40,000 more troops there. Senator John McCain was in favor of the surge, while Vice President Joe Biden argued for unmanned drones. Within days of Pakistan's announcing a new anti-Taliban offensive in Waziristan, the tribal area that borders Afghanistan, a suicide bomber dressed as a paramilitary officer blew himself up inside a U.N. aid agency in Islamabad, two car bombs killed dozens in markets in Peshawar, and ten gunmen disguised in army fatigues attacked the country's military headquarters, holding 45 hostages until a commando raid freed 42 of them; the remaining hostages and nine of the militants were killed.
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AP via Yahoo News
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foxnews.com
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AP via Yahoo News
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AP via Yahoo News
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| August 13, 2009 | - A Muslim woman was banned from a French swimming pool for wearing a full-body “burkini”;
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Times of London
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| July 6, 2009 | - At least 140 people were killed in Urumqi, in the Xinjiang region of China, when predominantly Muslim, Turkic-speaking Uighurs protesting discrimination clashed with Han Chinese and security forces.
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NYT
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WSJ
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| June 5, 2009 | -
President Barack Obama visited Cairo and addressed the Muslim world in a 55-minute speech that the White House arranged to be televised, text-messaged in four languages, and posted to Myspace, Facebook, and Twitter. Obama quoted from the Koran, spoke in Arabic, recognized Palestine, and said that “the United States does not accept the legitimacy of continued Israeli settlements.” He visited the Sphinx and pyramids, then spent a night at the desert stallion farm of Saudi Arabian King Abdullah, who presented him with the King Abdul Aziz Order of Merit, a thick gold chain with a very large medallion. “Goodness gracious,” said Obama of the necklace. “That's something there.” He went on to Europe, where he visited Buchenwald with Elie Wiesel, commemorated D-Day in Normandy, and declined a dinner invitation from French President Nicolas Sarkozy in order to eat alone with First Lady Michelle Obama.
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Washington Post
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Chicago Tribune
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CNN
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Times
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| April 16, 2009 | - Three hundred women in Kabul protested a new law making it illegal for a woman to refuse her husband's sexual advances for more than four days in a row unless she is ill or menstruating. “Get out of here, you whores!” yelled counterdemonstrators. “Death to the enemies of Islam!”
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The Irish Times
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New York Times
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| December 28, 2008 | - Somalian President Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed, whose government controls only a few city blocks in a country nearly the size of Texas, resigned and was expected to return to the northern stronghold of his clan, leaving the country to be run by insurgents. Islamist militant group Ahlu-Sunna Wal-Jama killed ten members of rival Islamist militant group the Shabab and called for its own members to “prepare themselves for jihad against these heretic groups” in order to “restore stability and harmony in Somalia.”
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New York Times
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| November 15, 2008 | - Muhammad Sven Kalisch, Germany's first professor of Islamic theology, declared that the Prophet Muhammad likely never existed, and also expressed doubts about the origin of the Koran. “God,” explained Kalisch, “doesn't write books.”
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WSJ
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| November 8, 2008 | -
Israel's Supreme Court ruled in favor of the destruction of parts of an ancient Muslim cemetery, where some of Saladin's warriors are buried, to make way for a new Frank Gehry-designed $250 million Museum of Tolerance.
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BBC
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| September 20, 2008 | - The Marriott Hotel in Islamabad,
Pakistan, was destroyed by a huge truck bomb, killing at least 53 people and wounding at least 266.
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The Washington Post
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The Christian Science Monitor
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BBC
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AP via Yahoo
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The New York Times
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| August 31, 2008 | -
Nigerian religious leader Mohammadu Bello Abubakar, who is 84, accepted an Islamic decree that would force him to divorce 82, or 95 percent, of his 86 wives.
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BBC
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| August 22, 2008 | - In Kashmir, protests that began two months ago, when 100 acres were granted to a Hindu shrine to build toilets for pilgrims, continued as hundreds of thousands of Muslims rallied against India and demanded independence.
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BBC News
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| July 27, 2008 | - In Ahmadabad, India, shortly after television stations received an email that read, “In the name of Allah, the Indian Mujahidin strike again! Do whatever you can, within five minutes from now, feel the terror of death!” 16 bombs exploded across the city, killing 45 people.
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MWC
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| July 24, 2008 | - Radovan Karadzic was arrested in Belgrade and awaits imminent extradition to The Hague, where he will face charges of genocide for his role in the Srebrenica massacres and the siege of Sarajevo. The former Bosnian Serb president, a psychiatrist and poet who in 1991 pledged to drive Bosnian Muslims down “the highway of hell and suffering,” had been living in the Serbian capital as a New Age guru, promoting alternative medicine and “Human Quantum Energy” under the name “Dragan David Dabic.” Serbia hoped the arrest would hasten its campaign to join the European Union, and it was reported that Ratko Mladic, the general who led Bosnian Serb forces during the war and is believed to be in hiding in Serbia, is protected by two bodyguards under orders to kill him in the event of his arrest.
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Telegraph
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New York Times
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Reuters
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Telegraph
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| July 10, 2008 | - Mak Erot, an Indonesian woman who used herbs, Islamic prayer, and supernatural powers to enlarge penises, died at 130.
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Breitbart
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| June 30, 2008 | - A federal appeals court ruled that evidence against Hozaifa Parhat, a Chinese
Muslim held at Guantanamo Bay for six years, consisted of nothing more than the reassertion of his guilt in three top-secret documents. “Lewis Carroll notwithstanding,” wrote one judge, quoting “The Hunting of the Snark,” “the fact the government has 'said it thrice' does not make the allegation true.”
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CNN.com
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| May 22, 2008 | - In Afghanistan, at Chaghcharan Airfield in Ghor, two civilians and a Lithuanian soldier were killed in protests over the shooting of a Koran in Iraq,.
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CNN.com
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| April 27, 2008 | - In Basra, Iraq, a 17-year-old girl, Rand Abdel-Qader, was stomped, suffocated, and stabbed to death by her father, who accused her of having an affair with a British soldier. Local police arrested the father but released him without charge after two hours. “Not much can be done when we have an honor-killing case,” said police sergeant Ali Jabbar. “You are in a Muslim society and women should live under religious laws.” Rand's mother divorced the killer and went into hiding.
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Guardian
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| March 31, 2008 | - The Vatican's newspaper reported that Islam had overtaken Roman Catholicism as the world's largest “single religious denomination.” “While Muslim families, as is well known, continue to make a lot of children,” said Monsignor Vittorio Formenti, “Christian ones on the contrary tend to have fewer and fewer.”
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Times Online
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| January 27, 2008 | - Seif al-Islam Qaddafi, the 36-year-old son of Libyan dictator Colonel Muammar Qaddafi was linked to attacks that killed 38 Iraqis, wounded 225, and destroyed 50 buildings in a Mosul slum. The London School of Economics graduate, known in Libya as “the Engineer” for his reputation as a reformer and an advocate of human rights, allegedly funds the Seifaddin Regiment, which is allied with Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia.
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AP
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| January 26, 2008 | - Stanching rumors circulating in a widely forwarded email that he is a radical Muslim, Senator Barack Obama repeatedly professed his faith in an “awesome” Christian God and defeated former President Bill Clinton's wife in the South Carolina Democratic primary.
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Boston Globe
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New York Times
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| November 30, 2007 | - In Khartoum, thousands of Sudanese protesters armed with clubs and knives called for the execution of Gillian Gibbons, a British teacher convicted of insulting Islam after she permitted her students to name their class teddy bear “Muhammad”; Gibbons, pardoned by the president of Sudan, was released from jail and fled to England.
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Thousands in Sudan Call for British Teddy Bear Teacher's Execution
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| September 26, 2007 | - A February 2003 transcript of a meeting between Bush and Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar surfaced showing that Bush had knowledge that Saddam Hussein was prepared to go into exile. In the transcript, Bush complained about former French President Jacques Chirac, who “thinks he's Mr. Arab,” and the European attitude toward Hussein. “Maybe it's because he's dark-skinned, far away and Muslim,” said the President, “lots of Europeans think everything's okay with him.”
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Reuters via Yahoo! News
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| September 22, 2007 | - A University of Florida student was Tasered after his question for Senator John Kerry went on too long. An Ocala, Florida, man accused police of Tasering him after he refused to drop his Koran; police in Tustin, California, Tasered a 15-year-old autistic boy; and a Taser dart fired at a Vancouver, Washington, man ignited the cigarette lighter in his pocket, setting his pants on fire. Sales at Taser International were expected to reach $90 million this year.
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The Boston Globe
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WRAL.com
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OC Register
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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Times Online
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| September 6, 2007 | -
Muslim students in northeastern India were studying in the local graveyard to improve their test scores.
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Sify.com
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| August 10, 2007 | - Seif al-Islam Qaddafi, son of Muammar Qaddafi, affirmed that recently released Bulgarian and Palestinian medical workers accused of spreading HIV to Libyan babies were tortured while in custody. “Yes,” he said, “they were tortured by electricity, and they were threatened that their family members would be targeted.”
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Chicago Tribune
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| August 6, 2007 | - South of Baghdad, a handsome Sunni insurgent nicknamed George Clooney was shot by members of his own tribe and turned over to U.S. forces.
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Los Angeles Times
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| August 3, 2007 | - Colorado Republican
Congressman Tom Tancredo said that, if elected president, he would respond to terrorism on U.S. soil by bombing the Muslim holy cities of Mecca and Medina.
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Slate
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| June 7, 2007 | - In Iraq, the Sunni-dominated Islamic
Army announced that it would no longer threaten the “project of Jihad” by continuing to fight Al Qaeda.
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Washington Post
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| May 20, 2007 | - Troops in northern Lebanon were fighting against Fatah Islam, a splinter group from a Syrian-backed
Palestinian splinter group.
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BBC News
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| May 7, 2007 | - Twenty thousand Pakistanis rallied in Islamabad to protest the suspension of Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhry by President Gen. Pervez Musharraf. “The dictatorial system of government and the concept of concentration of power is now ended,” Chaudhry said. “All these are bitter lessons of history.”
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AP via SignonSanDiego.com
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| March 23, 2007 | - In her denial of an application for divorce filed by a battered Muslim woman, a female judge in Frankfurt, Germany, quoted a verse of the Koran that suggests husbands may beat unchaste wives. “It's a religious thing,” she explained.
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The Sun
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| February 26, 2007 | - Jurists in The Hague ruled that a genocide occurred when Bosnian Serbs massacred Bosnian Muslims at Srebrinca in 1995. Serbia, said the court, was responsible for not preventing the genocide—but not directly responsible for the genocide itself—and is thus absolved of any obligation to pay reparations.
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New York Times
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| February 26, 2007 | - Outgoing Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan advised blacks to stay out of the military.
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New York Times
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| February 23, 2007 | -
Scientists said “quasicrystalline” designs in medieval Iranian architecture indicated that Islamic scholars had made a mathematical breakthrough that Western scholars achieved only decades ago and concluded that ancient Iranian culture was very, very smart.
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Chicago Tribune
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| February 7, 2007 | -
French Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy publicly advocated “an excess of caricatures” depicting the Islamic prophet Muhammad.
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Reuters
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| February 7, 2007 | - A British
Muslim high school was under criticism for using textbooks that depicted Jews as apes and Christians as pigs and predicted that all non-believers would be condemned to hellfire.
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This London
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| January 29, 2007 | - U.S. and Iraqi forces in the Shiite holy city of Najaf killed at least 200 members of an apocalyptic cult.
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Reuters
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| January 22, 2007 | -
Hillary Rodham Clinton announced that she will run for President in 2008, and Barack Hussein Obama released a video on the Internet announcing that he has formed a presidential exploratory committee. It was reported that Obama had concealed that he was raised as a Muslim and had attended a madrassah as a child.
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BBC
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Washington Post
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| January 10, 2007 | - Shahwar Matin Siraj, a 24-year-old clerk at an Islamic bookstore in Brooklyn, was sentenced to 30 years in jail for discussing phony plans to bomb a subway station with a police informant; Siraj’s father, mother, and sister, all asylum-seekers, were arrested for deportation to their native Pakistan.
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WNBC
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| January 10, 2007 | - In Illinois, Derrick Shareef, a 22-year-old Muslim convert who was arrested last month after trading two stereo speakers to a federal agent for a pistol and four nonfunctioning grenades that he planned to set off at a local mall, pleaded not guilty to attempting to use weapons of mass destruction.
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Saulkvalley.com
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| January 9, 2007 | -
Muslim villagers in Bihar, India, were changing their sons’ names to “Saddam Hussein,.”
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BBC
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| January 4, 2007 | - The 110th Congress convened on Capitol Hill, and Representative Nancy Pelosi of California kicked off her tenure as America's first female speaker of the House with four days of parties dubbed “Pelosi-Palooza.” The festivities included a performance by singer Tony Bennett and an honorary street-naming in Pelosi's hometown of Baltimore. Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia disrupted the Congress's opening prayer with shouts of “Yes, Lord!” and “Mmmhmmm!” and Senator Ted Kennedy of Massachusetts mimed tipping a bottle to his mouth. Congress's first Muslim member took his oath on a Koran once owned by Thomas Jefferson, and a Buddhist representative swore in on no book at all.
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Washington Post
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CBS News
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AZ Central
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| December 7, 2006 | - A bomb exploded in Karma, killing three Iraqi soldiers, including Staff Sergeant Saddam Hussein. “He loved his country, man. He loved it,” said an American soldier who knew Hussein. “According to his religion, he's probably with a million virgins right now. And he's probably making them virgins do dismounted patrols.”
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New York Times
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| December 1, 2006 | -
Technical Mujahid, a magazine designed to “break the siege placed upon [Muslims] by the media of the Crusaders and their followers,” released its first issue.
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Memri
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| November 26, 2006 | - Two hundred fifteen people were killed in a massive bombing and mortar attack on a Shiite neighborhood in Baghdad, marking Iraq's largest single-day death toll since the U.S. invasion. The killings prompted Shiite militiamen to seize and burn alive as many as twenty-four Sunnis; other Shiite residents of the capital stoned Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. “It's all your fault!” one man shouted.
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AP via MSNBC
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Reuters
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| November 24, 2006 | - A conference of Muslim scholars in Cairo denounced female circumcision.
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BBC
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| November 8, 2006 | - In Iraq the parliament extended the nationwide state of emergency by 30 days, and eight soccer players and fans were killed by mortar rounds. “We are the Shiite nation,” yelled a man from his hospital bed.
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MSNBC
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| November 8, 2006 | - The civil war in Iraq was breaking up marriages. “I love my husband, but my family has forced me to divorce him,” said Hiba Sami, a Shiite woman who was married to a Sunni man for 18 years. “We have four children and every day they cry because they miss their father.”
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Reuters Alertnet
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| October 26, 2006 | - Sheik Taj Aldin al-Hilali, mufti of Sydney, Australia's largest mosque, compared unveiled women to “uncovered meat.” “If you take out uncovered meat and place it outside,” said the mufti, “and the cats come to eat it . . . whose fault is it, the cats' or the uncovered meat's? The uncovered meat is the problem. If she was in her room, in her home, in her hijab, no problem would have occurred.”
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Guardian
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| September 28, 2006 | -
Muslim
scientists were called to jihad.
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AP via Yahoo! News
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| September 26, 2006 | - The Bush Administration declassified an intelligence report that called the war a “cause celebre” for Muslim extremists.
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AP via Yahoo! News
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| September 25, 2006 | - The pope met with Muslim diplomats at his summer palace near Rome.
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AP via Yahoo! News
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| September 25, 2006 | - A Mitsubishi dealership in Columbus, Ohio, withdrew a radio ad proclaiming “jihad” on the U.S. auto market.
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Reuters via Yahoo! News
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| September 20, 2006 | -
British Home Secretary John Reid declared that England's “fight is not with Muslims generally.”
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BBC News
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| September 18, 2006 | - Anousheh Ansari, a communications entrepreneur from Texas, became the world's first female Muslim
space tourist.
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BBC News
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| September 16, 2006 | -
Pope Benedict XVI apologized for the reactions to a speech that quoted Byzantine Emperor Manuel II Paleologus's description of Islam as “evil and inhuman.”
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The Telegraph
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| September 12, 2006 | - Interfaith dating had become increasingly difficult in Baghdad. “There is no hope in this country anymore for Sunnis and Shiites to fall in love,” said Husham al-Gizzy, holding his face in his hands.
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The Washington Post
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| September 5, 2006 | -
Britain's Royal Preston Hospital unveiled the “Inter-Faith Gown,” a hospital garment modeled on the Muslim burka.
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Breitbart.com via the Drudge Report
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| August 31, 2006 | - Miss England, an Uzbek-born Muslim, declared that stereotyping leads to terror.
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Daily Mail
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| August 26, 2006 | -
Israel said it would gladly welcome peacekeepers from Muslim nations.
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New York Times
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| August 23, 2006 | - The Holy Jihad Brigades, a Palestinian militant group, justified the kidnapping of two Fox News journalists by saying that "the powers of evil are united in waging wars against Islam and their people.”
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New York Times
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| August 20, 2006 | - Snipers killed 20 pilgrims at a Shiite festival in Baghdad; a government employee noted that it was an improvement over last year, when nearly a thousand died in stampedes.
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The New York Times
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| August 10, 2006 | - Under pressure from U.S. officials, authorities in the United Kingdom announced the discovery of a terrorist plot to blow up as many as ten passenger planes in the air, possibly by using explosive liquids hidden inside sports-drink bottles. Twenty-one suspects were arrested. Britain raised its threat level to “critical”; the United States raised its threat level “for all commercial flights flying from the United Kingdom to the United States” to “red.” Carry-on luggage was banned on flights in and out of Heathrow airport, and classical and traditional musicians, who normally keep their fragile instruments with them while traveling, were forced to check them as baggage and risk damage. “These restrictions,” said a cellist, “are a disaster for me.” Bagpipers planning to attend the World Pipe Band Championships were particularly worried about the effects of the ban. Prime Minister Tony Blair, on vacation in the Caribbean, thanked U.K. security services for their “hard work,” and President George W. Bush, who had been monitoring the progress of the investigation while on vacation in Crawford, Texas (where he was reading The Stranger, by Albert Camus), flew to Wisconsin and called the arrests “a stark reminder that this nation is at war with Islamic fascists.”
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BBC News
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| August 4, 2006 | - In Baghdad, 100,000 Shiites attended a “million-man” march in support of Hezbollah.
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The Australian
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| August 4, 2006 | - hotel owners in Italy made plans to open women-only Muslim beaches.
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Breitbart.com
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| August 2, 2006 | -
England's Alton Towers theme park canceled “National Muslim Fun Day.”
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Reuters
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| July 30, 2006 | - In Cairo, Muslims took to the street carrying posters of Hassan Nasrallah, chanting "O Sunni! O Shiite! Let's fight the Jews.”
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NY Times
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| July 27, 2006 | - Radical Sunni groups usually hostile to Shiites urged support for Hezbollah.
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Ynetnews
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| July 27, 2006 | -
Saddam Hussein demanded that he be shot—not hanged—if he is found guilty of murdering Shiites in Dujail in 1982. “This case,” said Hussein, “is not worth the urine of an Iraqi child.”
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Scotsman.com
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| July 21, 2006 | - Violence was forcing Shiite-owned
bakeries in Baghdad's Sunni neighborhoods to close their doors.
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NY Times
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| July 16, 2006 | -
Bill Clinton called on Sudan to accept foreign peacekeepers from Muslim countries.
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Reuters Alertnet
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| July 10, 2006 | - The Iraqi civil war continued to escalate as Shiite militiamen invaded a Sunni neighborhood in Baghdad and executed at least 36 young men, apparently in response to the bombing of a Shiite mosque; later that day, two car bombs exploded next to another Shiite mosque, killing 19 and wounding 59.
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Los Angeles Times
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| July 7, 2006 | - A sheikh in Mogadishu said that Muslims who do not pray five times a day should be put to death.
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Reuters
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| June 19, 2006 | - In Iraq an Islamic militant group claimed that it had kidnapped two U.S. soldiers, 23-year-old Kristian Menchaca and 25-year-old Thomas L. Tucker. The Army sent 8,000 Iraqi and U.S. troops, supported by fighter jets and drones, to search for the missing soldiers.
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The New York Times
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| June 8, 2006 | - A new Gallup poll found that Muslim women are generally happy with their lot and think that Western values lead to moral decay, pornography, and promiscuity.
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Washington Times
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| June 6, 2006 | - Javier Solana, Europe's foreign-policy director, formally offered Iran a package of incentives designed to persuade the Islamic state to give up its nuclear ambitions; that same day, according to the International Atomic Energy Agency, Iran restarted its uranium-enrichment program.
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New York Times
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New York Times
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| June 3, 2006 | - In Baquba the heads of 8 Sunni men were found in Dole banana boxes.
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Indian Express
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Reuters
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| May 13, 2006 | - In Kenya pilgrims were traveling to Mombasa to see a miraculous tuna with a Koranic verse inscribed into its scales. "God," reads the tuna, "is the greatest of all providers."
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AFP via Yahoo! News
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| May 10, 2006 | - A fight broke out in the lobby of Iraq's parliament building after a cell phone played a Shiite ringtone.
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Reuters
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| April 13, 2006 | - Some Iraqis were changing their names to avoid being identified as either Sunni or Shiite. “[I] don't want my children to die,” said the Shiite father of Ali, Hassan, and Fatima, “just because of their names.”
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Reuters via Yahoo! News
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| April 13, 2006 | - Close to 65,000 Iraqis had fled their homes to avoid sectarian violence.
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BBC News
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| April 7, 2006 | - A car bomb killed 10 people at a Shiite shrine in Najaf, Iraq, and a suicide bombing killed 85 people at a Shiite mosque in Baghdad.
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BBC News
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| March 30, 2006 | - U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice visited England but cancelled a visit to a mosque there in order to avoid protesters. Rice and British foreign minister Jack Straw then visited Iraq, where they told the Iraqi leadership that it must form a unified government immediately.
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BBC News
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The New York Times
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| March 28, 2006 | -
Iraq's ruling parties accused the United States of killing 37 unarmed civilians at a mosque. "There's been huge misinformation," said U.S. Lieutenant General Peter Chiarelli.
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News.com.au
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| March 27, 2006 | -
American and Iraqi forces said they had killed 17 Shiite militiamen at a mosque in Baghdad; Iraqi television showed corpses in a prayer room.
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The New York Times
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| March 26, 2006 | - Thirty beheaded corpses were found in Baquba, Iraq, and 10 more bodies were found in Baghdad, where the homicide rate had reached 33 per day. Shiites were abducting Sunnis in bright daylight on crowded streets. "If the Americans leave," said one Sunni man (whose brother had recently been executed after being tortured with power tools), "we are finished. We may be finished already."
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The New York Times
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The New York Times
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| March 16, 2006 | - In the Netherlands organizers were planning to encourage tolerance by holding a soccer game matching homosexuals against Muslims. Gay Muslims, said organizers, will be able to choose which team they will join.
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Seattle PI
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| March 13, 2006 | - A bombing at a Shiite market in Sadr City, Iraq, killed at least 50 people; Shiite vigilantes responded by abducting four men, beating and executing them, and hanging them from lampposts.
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The New York Times
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| March 9, 2006 | - It was reported that Iraq's
Shiite party had ordered the Health Ministry to stop recording deaths that resulted from execution-style shootings.
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The Washington Post
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| March 1, 2006 | - In the Baghdad area, Sunni militants were evicting Shiites from their homes. "We want you out of here by 8 p.m. tomorrow," one man was told. "If we find you here, we will kill you."
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The Washington Post
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| February 27, 2006 | - In France far-right groups were criticized for serving pork soup to the poor with the intent of discriminating against observant Muslims and Jews. "We are all pig eaters!" chanted a crowd of soup activists. "We are all pig eaters!"
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The New York Times
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| February 24, 2006 | - At least 140 people were killed in Iraq during fighting that broke out after the Al Askari mosque, a Shiite
shrine in Samarra, was bombed. Sunni leaders said that 184 mosques had been attacked in the fighting, and a daytime curfew was in effect in Baghdad. "If there is a civil war in this country," said Iraqi Defense Minister Saadoun al-Dulaimi, "it will never end."
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Democracy Now!
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Reuters
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| February 19, 2006 | - Riots over cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad continued around the world. In Nigeria 16 people were killed in rioting and 11 churches were burned; in Libya at least 10 people were killed; and in Pakistan at least 5 people were killed. In Volgograd, Russia, officials closed the city newspaper after it published a cartoon that showed Muhammad, Jesus, Moses, and Buddha watching TV together. Fifteen thousand people protested the cartoons in London. “We have to speak up,” said a Muslim demonstrator, “to prevent something like the Holocaust from happening.”
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CNN.com
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The New York Times
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| February 6, 2006 | - In Iraq, the United States was negotiating with Sunni
insurgents.
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Newsweek via MSNBC
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| January 26, 2006 | - The Islamic group Hamas won 76 of 132 parliamentary seats in Palestine's parliamentary elections, unseating the Fatah party. U.S. President George W. Bush, whose administration supported open democratic elections in Palestine, said that the United States would not negotiate with Hamas until the organization renounced its chartered goal of destroying
Israel.
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BBC News
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| January 8, 2006 | - The Hajj began.
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CNN.com
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| January 2, 2006 | - It was revealed that Pentagon contractors had hired Iraqi
Sunni clerics to help them develop propaganda campaigns.
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The New York Times
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| December 30, 2005 | - A judge ruled that it was illegal for the Bush Administration to continue to imprison several Chinese
Muslims at Guantánamo Bay. Nine months ago a tribunal determined that the prisoners in question were not actually enemy combatants, but U.S. law will not allow them to be sent to China because China persecutes Muslims, and no other country wants the prisoners. The judge also noted that he had no power to enforce his own ruling.
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Boston.com
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| December 22, 2005 | - It was reported that the United States had, without warrants or court orders, been monitoring radiation levels at over 100 Muslim mosques, homes, businesses, and other sites in the Washington, D.C., area.
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U.S. News and World Report
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| November 16, 2005 | - 173 malnourished Sunni Arab prisoners, many of whom had been severely tortured, were found in the basement of an Iraqi Interior Ministry compound. “You know what happens in prison,” explained the Interior Ministry's undersecretary for security. “Their skins,” said one witness, “got stuck to the floor.”
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Democracy Now!
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Common Dreams
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| July 22, 2005 | - A Muslim cleric in London said that bomb attacks would continue.
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Washington Post
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| July 18, 2005 | - U.S. Congressman Tom Tancredo (R.-Colo.) said he did not advocate bombing Mecca, but did not want to rule out the possibility.
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Al-Jazeera
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| July 11, 2005 | - In Iraq, a suicide bombing killed twenty-one people, eight members of the same Shiite family were shot and killed, and suicide car bombs killed seven people near the Syrian border.
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Washington Post
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| June 28, 2005 | - A fourth American soldier in Iraq converted to Islam.
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Watching America
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| June 21, 2005 | - Judges in North Carolina were preparing to deliberate over whether the Koran can be used instead of the Bible to administer oaths.
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JournalNow
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| May 30, 2005 | -
Amnesty International released a report calling the prison camp at Guantánamo Bay “the gulag of our time.” General Richard Myers, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said the prison camp was “a model facility” and pointed out that 1,300 Korans had been handed out at the prison in the last four years.
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| May 27, 2005 | - Brigadier General Jay Hood, Guantánamo Bay's commander, said that an investigation at Guantánamo Bay had uncovered five incidents of Koran abuse, but none involved toilets; protesters rallied against Koran abuse in Egypt, Pakistan, Jordan, Malaysia, and in Lebanon, where they chanted “America is the biggest Satan.”
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| May 22, 2005 | - Laura Bush went to Jerusalem, where she wore a black pantsuit and black shawl to the Dome of the Rock and the women's section of the Western Wall. “We commit ourselves,” she said, “to reject hatred and to teach tolerance and live in peace.” She was heckled by both Muslims and Jews.
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New York Times
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| May 13, 2005 | - The United States was investigating claims that someone flushed a copy of the Koran down a Guantánamo Bay toilet. In Afghanistan, news of the flushing led to riots, where hundreds chanted “death to America” and at least fifteen people died.
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| May 8, 2005 | - Ave Maria University, a Catholic college founded by the retired CEO of Domino's Pizza, graduated its first class and gave an honorary degree to L. Paul Bremer, who told the assembled graduates that Muslim extremists were against the separation of church and state.
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Netscape News
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| April 29, 2005 | -
Egypt was planning to cut down on noise pollution in Cairo by stopping individual calls to prayer from the city's four thousand mosques; instead, the call to prayer will be centralized.
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BBC News
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| April 21, 2005 | - In Tehran, around 400 Iranians signed up to become suicide bombers. “As a Muslim, it is my duty,” said a mother of two, “to sacrifice my life for oppressed Palestinian
children.”
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Reuters
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| April 4, 2005 | - In Mecca, a man stabbed his father to death after the father threatened to tattle on the man for not praying.
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Arab News
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| January 29, 2005 | - and a special dinner was organized to promote dialogue between the U.S. and Iran; the idea backfired when Senator Joseph Biden, the American representative, showed up an hour and a half late, and wine was served to the Muslim guests.
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CNN
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| December 17, 2004 | - Another poll showed that 44 percent of Americans believe that Muslims should have their civil liberties curtailed; 27 percent favor registration of Muslims, and 29 percent believe that law enforcement agencies should infiltrate Muslim civic and volunteer organizations.
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Cornell
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| November 11, 2004 | - The President spoke to Muslim leaders at an Iftar dinner to celebrate the end of Ramadan. “We will always protect the most basic human freedom,” he said, “the freedom to worship the almighty God without any fear.”
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| October 30, 2004 | - Mobs of machete-wielding Christians and Muslims were slaughtering one another in Liberia.
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Associated Press
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| October 23, 2004 | - President Saparmurat Niyazov of Turkmenistan inaugurated a large new mosque in Kipchak, his birthplace; the marble walls of the mosque, which covers 190,000 square feet and holds up to 10,000 worshippers, are engraved with sayings from the Koran and from the Rukhnama, Niyazov's spiritual autobiography.
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Agence France-Presse
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| October 15, 2004 | - President Bush sent Ramadan greetings to Muslims in America and around the globe.
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Washington Times
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| October 2, 2004 | - A Muslim schoolgirl in France shaved her head to protest the ban on Islamic head scarves.
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Reuters
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| October 2, 2004 | - A suicide bomber killed 23 people at a Shiite mosque in Sialkot, Pakistan.
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New York Times
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| August 9, 2004 | - A U.S. helicopter was shot down over Sadr City, Baghdad's Shiite slum.
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New York Times
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| August 7, 2004 | - Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, Iraq's preeminent Shiite cleric, was flown to London for treatment of a heart condition; there was talk of a power vacuum.
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Guardian
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| June 11, 2004 | - The Shiite militia loyal to Moktada al-Sadr, who reportedly plans to establish a political party, took over a police station in Najaf.
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New York Times
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| May 15, 2004 | - The Vatican warned Roman Catholic women not to marry Muslims.
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Telegraph
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| May 7, 2004 | - At least ten people died in a suicide bombing at a Shiite mosque in Karachi, Pakistan.
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Agence France-Presse
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| May 4, 2004 | - The Council on American-Islamic Relations reported that anti-Muslim bias incidents are up 70 percent.
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New York Times
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| April 27, 2004 | - A Cobra helicopter fired a missile at a mosque and knocked over its minaret.
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New York Times
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| April 15, 2004 | - The Spanish government said that the bombers in Madrid sold hash and ecstasy and drank holy water from Mecca.
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New York Times
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| April 15, 2004 | -
George Tenet, the director of central intelligence, told the 9/11 commission that he received a briefing in August 2001 entitled "Islamic
Extremist Learns to Fly" but failed to act on the information.
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New York Times
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| April 9, 2004 | -
Administration officials insisted that the widespread uprising in Iraq, which appeared to show a new alliance between Shiite and Sunni Muslims, was not in fact a widespread uprising but rather a few isolated pockets of "thugs, gangs, and terrorists."
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New York Times
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| April 8, 2004 | - American forces fired a missile into a mosque in Falluja.
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New York Times
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| April 5, 2004 | - A Shiite militia known as the Mahdi Army rose up across Iraq in response to a call by Moktada al-Sadr, a militant cleric, to "terrorize your enemy." Last week Sadr announced that he is "the beating arm for Hezbollah and Hamas here in Iraq."
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New York Times
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| March 26, 2004 | - A lamb was born in Hebron with "Allah" spelled out in Arabic on its flank; the lamb's owner said the animal was born on the day Hamas founder Sheikh Ahmed Yassin was assassinated. Some people claimed they could see the word "Muhammad" spelled out on the lamb's other side.
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BBC
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| March 22, 2004 | -
Israel assassinated Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, the founder and spiritual leader of Hamas; Sheikh Yassin, an elderly, partially blind quadriplegic, was hit in his wheelchair with a missile as he left a mosque in Gaza City.
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New York Times
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| March 21, 2004 | - The Pentagon dropped charges against Capt. James Yee, a former chaplain at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, who was accused of being a Muslim spy.
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Straights Times
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| March 8, 2004 | - The Iraqi Governing Council signed an interim constitution; Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani denounced the new constitution and again called for direct elections.
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Bloomberg
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| March 3, 2004 | -
French lawmakers passed a ban on Islamic headscarves.
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Associated Press
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| February 25, 2004 | - A mosque was set on fire in Houston.
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New York Times
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| January 22, 2004 | -
Saudi Arabia's highest-ranking cleric said that women's rights are anti-Islamic.
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New York Times
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| January 5, 2004 | -
Afghanistan's loya jirga approved a new constitution; the country will be known henceforth as the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan and no law will be made contrary to Islamic belief. "There is rain coming," said Sebaghatullah Mojadeddi, the council chairman, "and flowers are coming from my body."
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New York Times
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| January 4, 2004 | -
Osama bin Laden released a new audiotape calling for Muslims to "continue the jihad."
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Associated Press
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| December 18, 2003 | -
Michael Jackson, who remains at large, joined the Nation of Islam.
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New York Post
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| November 22, 2003 | -
Muslims across the Middle East celebrated Jerusalem Day by demonstrating and chanting, "Death to Bush! Death to Sharon!"
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Associated Press
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| October 24, 2003 | -
President Bush was reportedly astonished to discover, during his recent trip to Asia, that Muslims around the world believe that the United States is hostile to them.
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New York Times
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| October 17, 2003 | - Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld defended Lt. Gen. William Boykin, the deputy undersecretary of defense for intelligence and war-fighting support, who was videotaped making a number of impolite comments about Islam. Boykin was also videotaped propounding a new theory of American electoral politics: "Why is this man [George W. Bush] in the White House?" he asked in a speech. "The majority of Americans didn't vote for him. Why is he there? And I tell you this morning that he's in the White House because God put him there for a time such as this."
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New York Times
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| August 28, 2003 | - In Nigeria, the young mother who was sentenced to death by stoning for having a child out of wedlock begged for mercy as she nursed her baby in court; her lawyers argued that the child was conceived while the mother was married and that under Islamic Law a baby can gestate in its mother's womb for five years.
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New York Times
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| August 22, 2003 | -
Islamic militants burned down a girls' school south of Kabul,
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Associated Press
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| July 27, 2003 | - The Malaysian government decreed that a man may divorce his wife via text message; under Islamic Sharia law men are allowed to divorce their wives by uttering the word "talaq" ("I divorce you") three times.
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BBC
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| April 29, 2003 | -
White House officials said they had underestimated the Shiites' level of organization and fervor and were unprepared to deal with growing enthusiasm for the installation of an anti-American, Islamic fundamentalist government.
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| April 8, 2003 | -
The Southern Baptist Convention said that it has about 800 missionaries ready to deliver relief aid and the word of Jesus to the people of Iraq, and Samaritan's Purse, a group run by the Rev. Franklin Graham, who believes that Islam is evil and inherently violent, was preparing relief efforts as well.
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| April 1, 2003 | -
Gerhard Schroeder called for a larger German military so that the country can “count on our own forces.” Japan launched a new spy satellite despite threats from North Korea that doing so would trigger “disastrous consequences.” Islamic militants cut the noses off six Hindus in Kashmir.
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| March 25, 2003 | -
Islamic militants disguised in Indian army uniforms executed 24 Hindus in Kashmir after ordering them to line up next to their homes.
The victims included two young girls aged four and two.
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| March 18, 2003 | -
The Islamic Cultural Center of Dublin, Ireland, announced that it will oversee the translation of the Koran into Gaelic.
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| March 11, 2003 | -
The Organization of the Islamic Conference met in Qatar; representatives from Kuwait and Iraq exchanged unpleasantries: “Shut up, you monkey,” said the Iraqi, to which the Kuwaiti replied, “Curse be upon your mustache, you traitor.” CBS admitted that it hired an actor to read the translation of Saddam Hussein's remarks to Dan Rather in a fake Iraqi accent.
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| January 14, 2003 | -
In Nigeria, an Islamic court ordered that a man who cut off his wife's leg because he believed she was cheating on him must have his own leg cut off without anesthesia.
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| January 7, 2003 | -
Three American Baptist missionaries were murdered by Islamic militants in Yemen.
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| December 10, 2002 | -
President Vladimir Putin of Russia asked Pakistan to please stop funding Islamic
terrorists.
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| December 3, 2002 | -
Umar Dangladima Magaji, the state commissioner of Nigeria's Zamfara state, issued a fatwa against Isioma Daniel, a fashion writer whose article in a newspaper set off the Miss World riots: “What we are saying is that the holy Koran has clearly stated that whoever insults the Prophet of Islam, Muhammad, should be killed.” Fighting continued in the Ivory Coast.
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| November 26, 2002 | -
More than 200 people were killed in rioting by Nigerian Muslims opposed to the Miss World pageant after a newspaper suggested that the Prophet Muhammad would have married one of the contestants if he were alive today.
Churches in Kaduna were burned and armed youths attacked people suspected of being Christian; the local governor threatened to shoot rioters on sight.
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| October 15, 2002 | -
“The death of that man is a religious duty,” he said, “but his case should not be tied to the Christian community.” Grand Ayatollah Muhammad Hussein Fadlallah disagreed and said that Muslims should not use physical violence against Falwell because Islam is “a religion of mercy and love.”
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| September 24, 2002 | -
The novelist Michael Houellebecq went on trial in France for saying that Islam is “the most stupid religion.”
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| July 30, 2002 | -
A Secret Service agent admitted writing, “Islam is evil, Christ is King,” on a Muslim prayer calendar while searching the home of a man accused of entering the country with counterfeit cashier's checks.
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| July 9, 2002 | -
Sheriff's deputies seized several computer hard drives from a library in Naples, Florida, because of a citizen's report that three Middle Eastern men were whispering to one another at a computer.
“The basis for the complaint was that they were believed to be reading Islamic newspapers,” a spokesman said.
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| June 11, 2002 | -
President Bush said it was time to start work on building a Palestinian state: “We've got to get started quickly, soon, so we can seize the moment.” Alarmed that India might be willing to go to war with Pakistan over terrorist attacks on its citizens, President Bush called his friend Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan's military dictator, and used “very firm language” to demand that incursions over the Indian border by Islamic terrorists stop immediately.
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| January 1, 2002 | -
“I don't spend a lot of time looking in the mirror, except when I comb my hair.” A Pakistani newspaper reported that Osama bin Laden had died “a peaceful, natural death” near Tora Bora from a “serious lung complication.” An Afghan functionary said that bin Laden had escaped to Pakistan and was under the protection of the extremist Jamiat-e-Ulema-i-Islam party.
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| December 18, 2001 | -
China, which officially became a member of the World Trade Organization, was continuing its crackdown on Uighur Muslims, whom it was executing in large numbers.
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| December 11, 2001 | -
Saudi Arabia's King Faisal Specialist Hospital filed suit in the Grand Islamic court seeking $2.9 billion from tobacco companies to cover 25 years of treating smoking-related illnesses.
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| October 9, 2001 | -
Islamic radicals in Indonesia were roaming around looking for Americans to kill.
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| October 9, 2001 | -
Islamic rebels in the Philippines attacked the capital city of the island of Basilan.
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| October 2, 2001 | - Prime Minister Berlusconi of Italy defended his remarks that Western civilization is superior to Islam and that it “is bound to occidentalize and conquer new people.” He said that criticism of his views was “artificial” and “based on nothing.” Benito Mussolini was enjoying a renaissance in Italy; portraits of Il Duce were showing up on wine bottles in Rome, as were pictures of Hitler.
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| September 25, 2001 | -
President George W. Bush declared that all the nations of the earth must choose sides in the coming crusade against terrorism, and he promised to attack Afghanistan if its leaders refused to hand over Osama bin Laden, the famous terrorist, whom the President has described as “Wanted: Dead or Alive.” Secretary of Defense
Donald Rumsfeld told reporters that the preliminary brand-name of the American military campaign, Operation Infinite Justice, would probably be changed, because it was offensive to Muslims, for whom infinite justice is a divine attribute. Some Christians also found the name offensive.
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| September 18, 2001 | - Lashkar-e-Jabar, a militant Islamic group in Kashmir who last month threw acid on two unveiled women in Srinagar, announced that henceforth unveiled Muslim women would be shot; Hindu and Sikh women should also wear their traditional garb, the group said, to distinguish themselves from Muslim women, to prevent mistakes.
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| September 13, 2001 | - Other Sikhs reported threats, firebombings, beatings, as did actual American Muslims.
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| August 14, 2001 | -
Singapore's highest Islamic authorities declared that Muslim men, who can divorce their wives by stating “I divorce you” three times in quick succession, may not do so via cell phone text messages.
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| August 14, 2001 | - In Nigeria, an Islamic court refused to allow a woman to divorce her husband because his penis was too large.
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| July 10, 2001 | - A mass grave was found in eastern Bosnia that was believed to contain over 200 victims of the Srebrenica massacre, where about 8,000 Bosnian Muslims were slaughtered by Serbs in 1995.
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| June 19, 2001 | -
Bauchi became the eleventh Nigerian state to adopt Islamic law.
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| April 17, 2001 | - Another Nigerian state decided to adopt Shariah, the Islamic code.
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| March 20, 2001 | -
Russia said it would again sell arms to Iran, causing some Russians to wonder whether the weapons would end up in the hands of Islamic
terrorists within their own borders.
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| March 6, 2001 | - Another Nigerian province said it would begin observing Islamic law.
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| February 20, 2001 | -
Islamic rebels in Algeria murdered three men, twelve women, and twelve children in their homes; a new book published in France claims that similar attacks have been carried out by soldiers disguised as rebels.
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| January 23, 2001 | - An Islamic court in Nigeria carried out the public flogging of a teenage girl who was forced to have sex with three men; after receiving her 100 lashes, Bariya Ibrahim Magazu, who gave birth to a daughter last month, thanked Allah for her punishment and walked home to her village.
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| January 16, 2001 | -
Afghanistan's chief mullah decreed that encouraging a Muslim to convert to Christianity was a capital crime; Mullah Muhammad Omar also let it be known that selling any kind of anti-Islamic literature would be punished by five years in prison.
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| January 16, 2001 | - An Iranian court sentenced several people, including a prominent journalist, to long prison terms for attending a conference in Germany that was deemed “un-Islamic” because a bare-armed woman danced there and a male protestor took off his clothes.
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| January 16, 2001 | -
Israel's chief rabbis declared that Jewish law prohibits giving up sovereignty over the Temple Mount; the Islamic mufti of Jerusalem said much the same thing: non-Muslims, he said, are forbidden to control even “its depths, no matter how far down, and the space above it, now matter how high up.”
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| 0, 2000 | - Jews fought with Muslims at the Temple Mount, and Lebanon announced it had bested Israel's record by creating a two-ton plate of hummus.
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| 0, 2000 | - A mob in the Indian state of Jharkhand beat five Muslim widows and forced them to eat excrement for their witchcraft.
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BBC News
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| 0, 2000 | - Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak said that Barack Obama's speech last June in Cairo “removed all doubts about the United States in the Muslim world.”
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NY Times
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| 0, 2000 | - A woman dressed as a rasher of bacon harassed Muslim food vendors in Manhattan. “Don't you like bacon?” she asked. “Bacon is so good. Do you ever put bacon on these hot dogs? 'Cause they'd taste really good wrapped up in delicious bacon. Maybe sprinkled with bacon. Or stuffed with bacon. Come on, don't you love bacon?”
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Vanishing New York via Grub Street
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| December 12, 2000 | - Ivoirian Muslims and Christians were killing one another again in the aftermath of a disputed election.
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| December 5, 2000 | - Another Nigerian state adopted the Islamic code.
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| November 21, 2000 | -
Geneticists found that Jews and Palestinians have a fairly recent common ancestry, which supports historical evidence that Palestinians are descended from Jews and Christians who converted after the Islamic conquest in the seventh century C.E.
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| October 31, 2000 | -
Islamic students demonstrated in front of the U.S. embassy in Jakarta, Indonesia, chanting “Kill All Jews.” Music by Richard Wagner was performed in concert in Israel for the first time; the “Siegfried Idyll” was protested briefly by a Holocaust survivor who stood up before the concert and made loud noises with a rattle.
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| October 31, 2000 | - Islam Karimov, president of Uzbekistan, was busy repressing Muslims; torture was said to be systematic.
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| October 31, 2000 | - Umar Husseinzoda, the leader of the Islamic Revival Party of Tajikistan, was telling his people that God had visited a drought upon them for their impiety.
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| October 31, 2000 | - The American Muslim Political Coordinating Committee endorsed Bush for the presidency.
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| October 17, 2000 | - Gangs of young men from the Islamic Defenders Front, wearing white outfits accessorized with green scarves and wooden rods, prowled the Jakarta, Indonesia, airport looking, unsuccessfully, for Israeli Jews to kill.
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| October 10, 2000 | -
Turkey's
parliament considered loosening restrictions on free speech as well as the summary dismissal of thousands of Islamic civil servants; General Huseyin Kivrikoglu, who fancies himself to be the guardian of the secular Turkish state, suggested the purge.
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| September 5, 2000 | -
Turkey banned Islamic head scarves from private schools.
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| September 5, 2000 | - Abu Sayyaf, a militant Islamic group in the Philippines, received a ransom, arranged by Libya, of $1 million each for six European hostages and reportedly will spend its new fortune on arms, ammunition, 10 motorcycles, and a speedboat; the group also kidnapped an American, whom they said they might behead, and demanded $18 million.
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| August 15, 2000 | - Eight pedestrians were killed in Moscow when a bomb exploded in an underground walkway; Russian authorities were quick to blame Chechen terrorists, saying the bombing had a “Chechen trace.” Russian soldiers were killed in Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan by Islamic rebels.
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| August 8, 2000 | -
Islamic law was adopted in yet another Nigerian province.
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| NULL 0, 2000 | - Sarah Palin announced that the co-author of her forthcoming memoir Going Rogue will be a fundamentalist Christian named Lynn Vincent. “Many Muslims are kind and gentle people,” Vincent co-wrote in an earlier book, “but about one in ten, according to scholars who study Jihad, have declared war on our way of life.”
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