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Why Is Hollywood So Upset About Brunei?
This Is the Modern Axis of Buddhist Hate
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Bully the Church, Topple Lenin, and Three Other Tactics on the Kiev Barricades
Kyrgyz Sex Video: You Can Leave Your Mufti Hat On
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Why Is Hollywood So Upset About Brunei?
Typically, the imposition of sharia law in a distant land doesn't make much of a splash in Hollywood. But in the case of Brunei, a tiny, oil-rich country whose overseas investments include California landmarks like the Beverly Hills Hotel and the...
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Thu, May 05 2014 4:20 PM
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This Is the Modern Axis of Buddhist Hate
The photo of the two monks above looks innocent enough. One of the men presents the other with a birthday present. It's difficult to make out, but it looks to be some sort of gold figurine on a red velvet base. In fact, the photo would be totally...
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Fri, Mar 03 2014 12:21 PM
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OK, Computer
Specialized dating sites are helping lovelorn Chinese Muslims find their match. Read More...
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Bully the Church, Topple Lenin, and Three Other Tactics on the Kiev Barricades
Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Having concluded their Christmas and New Year's celebrations, anti-government protesters in Ukraine have returned to Kiev's Independence Square. And though their numbers...
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Tue, Jan 01 2014 8:53 AM
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Kyrgyz Sex Video: You Can Leave Your Mufti Hat On
Here's a story you don't hear every day: the grand mufti of Kyrgyzstan -- the highest Islamic authority in the country -- resigned Tuesday over a sex-tape scandal. The mufti, Rakhmatulla-Hajji Egemberdiev, admitted that the man in a white tank...
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Fri, Jan 01 2014 12:48 PM
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‘Gender’ Is The New Enemy of the Polish Church
The Polish Catholic church is on a mission -- a mission to destroy its new enemy: "gender ideology." While Pope Francis has staked out a conciliatory stance toward divisive social issues that have plagued the church in recent years, Polish bishops...
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Fri, Jan 01 2014 8:20 AM
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Survey Says: Muslim Women, Cover Your Hair, Not Your Faces
A new report by the University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research has shed some light on how Muslim women should cover up. Looking at surveys from seven predominately Muslim countries the researchers found that most respondents thought women...
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Wed, Jan 01 2014 3:04 PM
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Can Science Fiction Survive in Saudi Arabia?
On Monday, Saudi authors Yasser Bahjatt and Ibraheem Abbas learned that their science fiction book, which shot to the top of the best-seller list in Saudi Arabia, had been banned from sale in Kuwait and Qatar. The episode was familiar: in late November...
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Tue, Dec 12 2013 11:30 AM
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Chinese Officials Ask Muslim Women to Unveil in the Name of Beauty
In the Chinese region of Xinjiang, home to a large population of the country's Muslim Uighur minority, government workers are encouraging women to cast off their headscarves in the name of good looks. Called "Project Beauty," the government...
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Tue, Nov 11 2013 2:28 PM
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What the Russian Cossacks Have Against Little Girls in Hijabs
In Russia, big scary men with mustaches and sabers are feeling threatened by little girls wearing religious headwear. Local Cossack leaders in the city of Rostov in southern Russia were not happy with a local "fashion week," where one of the...
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Mon, Nov 11 2013 9:16 AM
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What Convicted Smugglers Tell Us About Iran's Proxy Wars
Yemen has sentenced eight sailors for smuggling arms to local rebels. The crew of the Jihan sailors received sentences ranging from one to six years in prison; the alleged mastermind of the operation, tried in absentia, received ten. No one in the Jihan...
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Mon, Nov 11 2013 9:01 AM
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Meet the Newest Anti-Fracking Activist: Pope Francis
Pope Francis has already become a favorite of progressives with his fairly open-minded statements on homosexuality and birth control. But that adoration may go into overdrive, now that the Pope has adopted a new role as an environmental crusader, too...
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Wed, Nov 11 2013 9:32 AM
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When Saudi Women Get Behind the Wheel, Male Supporters are Jailed
Saudi authorities have found a novel way of punishing women who defy the country's driving ban: jailing the men who support them. Around 50 women got behind the wheel on Oct. 26, in an act of civil disobedience. While some of the women were stopped...
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Wed, Oct 10 2013 1:00 PM
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What Makes a Sex Shop Halal?
Responding to apparent pent-up demand for tacky bachelorette parties, the 38-year old Turkish entrepreneur Haluk Murat Demirel has opened the country's first halal (permissible in Islam) sex shop online. It's not the first such enterprise in the...
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Wed, Oct 10 2013 3:00 PM
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How Much Does it Cost for the Pope to Meet the Poor?
Today Pope Francis paid a visit to one of Brazil's notorious favelas, the slums that house more than 20 percent of Brazil's population. Walking amongst the shanty town -- an area so dangerous it's been dubbed R io's Gaza Strip , Francis...
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Thu, Jul 07 2013 2:14 PM
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