CAIRO – Bringing back bad memories of the Soviet repression, the Tajik parliament has passed a bill that would ban children and adolescents from attending mosques, drawing sharp criticism from Muslim leaders as a crackdown on religious freedom. "It's a black day for Muslims," prominent Muslim theologist Akbar Turadzhonzoda told Times of India on Saturday, June 18. “Even in …

  The Obama administration appears to have given a green light to an Israeli attack on an unarmed flotilla carrying peace and human rights activists — including a vessel with 50 Americans on board — bound for the besieged Gaza Strip. At a press conference on June 24, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton criticized the flotilla organized by the Free Gaza Campaign …

   When I first heard of the death of a Saudi infant at the hands of a Sri Lankan maid named Rizana Nafeek about four years ago, I looked at the word “child  abuse” and what it meant.   I found out that “child abuse” could come in any form and shape. A child could be abused by a maid, …

ATHENS, Greece (Ma'an) — The US Boat to Gaza left the Athens Port at 4:50 p.m. on Friday, expecting to be stopped by Greek authorities in the country's coastal waters on its way to meet a French ship that had already left port.  Shortly after it sailed the US boat was intercepted by Greek officials, at the same time organizers …

  India is being forced to confront disturbing evidence that increasingly suggests a secret Hindu terror network may have been responsible for a wave of deadly attacks previously blamed on radical Muslims. Information contained in a confession given in court by a Hindu holy man, suggests that he and several others linked to a right-wing Hindu organisation, planned and carried …

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