On Friday 27 and Saturday 28 March 15

Muslim women are perfectly willing and able to lend their own voices to the issues that affect their lives.

Muslim women can speak!
Source : The Huffington Post
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The Georgia man who planted a bomb was willing to see innocents die so that people would blame Muslims. And he called himself a ‘patriot.’

It's patriotic in the US to frame a Muslim for terrorism.
Source : The Daily Beast
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Today, Ghar Wapsi programmes are being carried out in Jharkhand, Bihar and other states, allegedly by terrorising impoverished communities and by reportedly taking them back into the Hindu fold with threats.

How tolerant is India?

Source : The Hindu

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Islamic intellectual culture suffers from a philosophy deficit. While there are a few philosophical thinkers in the Muslim World today none of them enjoys the rock star status that many pedestrian preachers and YouTube stalwarts enjoy. What this tells us is that people are beginning to value knowledge but are unable to distinguish between preaching and thinking.

5 Muslim Philosophers.

Source : Turkey Agenda

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	TheBlaze.com Pat Robertson's Claims About Liberals, Radical Islam and 'Decapitating People' Stir Controversy TheBlaze.com Robertson went on to discuss violent behaviors associated with Shariah law under radical Islam, claiming that the left is seemingly embracing the ...
	Huffington Post The Urgency of Inventing a Democratic Islam Huffington Post The growth of Islamic terrorist groups and the ongoing carnage in many Islamic countries have attracted worldwide attention. Many view Islam as a ...
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	The News International Conspiracy to discredit Islam in Middle East cause of concern: Lodhi The News International NEW YORK: Permanent Representative of Pakistan to the United Nations Dr Maleeha Lodhi said on Saturday the conspiracy to discreditIslam in the ...

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	International Business Times Advocates Say Terrorist Recruitment Of Uighur Muslim University Students In China Is Overblown International Business Times Universities in China are on high alert after reports that terrorist recruiters are targeting the country's Uighur Muslim population for radicalization.
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	Bloomberg Beer Today, Gone Tomorrow:Muslim Indonesia Targets Sales of Ale Bloomberg (Bloomberg) -- Alcohol can be a hard sell in Indonesia, which has more Muslims than any other country. It's about to get a whole lot tougher.
	Voice of America Philippines, Muslim Rebels Try to Salvage Peace Pact Voice of America MANILA—. One year ago, the Philippine government reached an agreement with aMuslim rebel group that was meant to put an end to more than four ...

BLOGS

	Conservatives Refuse To Believe Germanwings Pilot Wasn't Muslim Terrorist With Laughable ... Addicting Info Crash investigators have released very little details about the Germanwings plane crash that claimed the lives of 150 people in the French Alps.
	The Evidence That the Germanwings Copilot WasMuslim Is Sketchy as Hell Antiviral - Gawker ... the pilot out of the cabin and intentionally crashed the plane. Was he mentally ill? Was he suicidal? Or was he, perhaps, a secret Muslim jihadist?!

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WEB

Heretic: Why Islam Needs a Reformation Now

The Strand

An impassioned plea for an Islamic Reformation by the award-winning author of Infidel explores how Islam can be reconciled with modernity to end ...

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	Muslim Youth Festival event Metropolitan Police The Muslim Youth Festival is the first event of its kind in the Capital that draws together young people, police, teachers, faith leaders and inspiring role ...

	New Albukhary Foundation Gallery of the IslamicWorld to open in 2018. British Museum New Albukhary Foundation Gallery of the Islamic World to open in 2018. 'Hajj: journey to the heart of Islam' is awarded the ISESCO-OCIS Prize for ... Flag as irrelevant
	Envisioning Islam Walter de Gruyter Penn, Michael Philip. Envisioning Islam. Syriac Christians and the Early Muslim World. Series:Divinations. UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS.