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Opinion New Cause for Muslim Leaders: ‘Defamation’
Something serious happened at the United Nations this September, and it should be getting a lot more attention than it’s gotten. A string of Muslim heads of state rose before the General Assembly at its annual summit and demanded that America and the West substantially abridge their notions of freedom and human dignity. What they’re…
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Fast Forward German Gov’t Drafts Bill Allowing Circumcision
BERLIN—Germany’s Ministry of Justice has presented a draft law to permit circumcisions by doctors and mohels in response to uncertainty about the procedure fueled by a Cologne court’s ban on the procedure. The Cologne court’s June ruling, which angered many among the country’s 4 million Muslims and 100,000 Jews, held that circumcision deprives a child…
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Fast Forward Germany Plans Law Allowing Circumcision
Germany’s Justice Ministry proposed to amend a law on the circumcison of male children to safeguard the rights of Jews and Muslims to perform the ritual. The amendment, which aims to cement religious rights while responding to critics of the practice, would allow ritual circumcision only with parental consent and performed by a practitioner according…
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Fast Forward Madonna Calls Obama Muslim Remark ‘Ironic’
Pop star Madonna said on Tuesday she was being deliberately “ironic on stage” when she erroneously referred to President Barack Obama during her concert in the nation’s capital as a “black Muslim.” A video clip posted on YouTube by audience members at the Verizon Center in downtown Washington captured the 54-year-old singer delivering a rousing,…
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Fast Forward Muslim Activist Proud of Defacing Subway Ad
A prominent Egyptian-born Muslim activist was unapologetic for defacing a controversial subway ad that brand enemies of Israel as ‘savage.’ Mona El-Tahawy, a well-known figure who has appeared on CNN and MSNBC, Tweeted that she was proud of her actions after being arrested and spent a night in jail. “I am proud that I spray…
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Fast Forward France’s Le Pen Backs Ban on Kippahs
French right-wing politician Marine Le Pen said she supports a ban on wearing kipahs in public in addition to a ban on Muslim headscarves. “Obviously, if the veil is banned, the kipah [should be] banned in public as well,” the French daily Le Monde quoted Le Pen, leader of the National Front, as saying in…
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Fast Forward Danish Cartoonist Says Don’t Bow to Censorship
The Danish cartoonist who outraged Muslims with a drawing of the Prophet Mohammad seven years ago has said the West cannot let itself be muzzled by fear of offending Islamic sensibilities. Kurt Westergaard, whose lampoon of Mohammad in the Jyllands-Posten paper nearly got him killed by an axe-wielding assassin in 2010, told Austrian magazine News…
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Fast Forward Maker of Anti-Islam Film Quizzed by Police
A California man linked to an anti-Islam film on YouTube that triggered violent Muslim protests was taken on Saturday to be questioned about possible probation violations. Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, 55, was not allowed to access the Internet without approval of a probation officer as a condition of his release from prison in a 2010 bank…
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