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Does Islam Scare You? If So, Here's Why
Does Islam scare you? Does it feel like an aggressive religion is trying to take over the world, subjugate women, persecute the LGBT community, and cut off your hand if you're caught stealing?
Why This 103-Year-Old Woman Was Banned From Her Church
Biggs said that the pastor she says helped kick her out, Rev. Tim Mattox, has only been at the parish for six years. She has disagreed with his style of preaching and conducting services, saying that it didn’t fit in with the church’s long-standing Baptist tradition.
She told The Huffington Post that Mattox is a “holy, sanctified minister.” Pastors from the Holiness movement within Christianity place an emphasis on living a holy and disciplined life free from worldly influences. Holiness churches can sometimes be influenced by Pentecostal faith practices, including the belief in divine healing and speaking in tongues.
Remembering Jewish Names in Lithuania
Ellen Cassedy
This week, in a land where Jewish culture once flowered, people are joining together to remember Jewish lives lost in the Holocaust.
The week of September 21, officially designated as the "Days of Remembrance of the Genocide of Lithuanian Jews," marks the 72nd anniversary of the liquidation of the Vilna ghetto.
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Schools in Irving, Texas, Feared Islam Well Before They Thought Ahmed Mohamed's Clock Was a ...
After all, a 2010 resolution from the Texas State Board of Education already took care of unwanted Islamic influence in public-school textbooks.
Asked About 14-Year-Old Arrested For Making A Clock, GOP Candidates Rail Against 'Radical Islam' -ThinkProgress
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Thompson: Muslim leaders say 9/11 not about Islam
But the gruesome killings, kidnappings and destruction by ISIS makes the debate overIslam and terrorism even more complicated. Six years ago ...
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Muslim group hopes billboards dispel myths about Islam faith
Islamic Circle of North America's national billboard campaign recently added San Diego, stating the city was an important part of the campaign inviting ...
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Refugee, Hungary, And Islam — A Volatile Mix?
To further inflame this type of rhetoric, Saudi Arabia recently offered to build 200 mosques in Germany to help the European Union handle the Islamic ...
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The Fantasy Islam of Ingrid Mattson
Fantasy Islam: A game in which an audience of non-Muslims wish with all their hearts that Islam were a “Religion of Peace,” and a Muslim strives to ...
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Czech opponents of Islam shortly block border with Austria
Dolni Dvoriste - A hundred of Czech opponents of Islam blocked the traffic at the Dolni Dvoriste crossing at the border with Austria for almost 30 ...
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Forcing Islam in Public Schools September 16, 2015
In Tennessee, public middle school students are being taught to write, "Allah is the only God." Their assignments actually explain how to convert to ...
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From Bangladesh to Brooklyn: Tanwi Nadini Islam's 'Bright Lines'
Writer Tanwi Nadini Islam visits the fragrance store on Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn, that served as the inspiration for the fictional store run by Anwar ...
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Get Annuar Musa for claiming racism OK in Islam, Jakim told
Tan Sri Annuar Musa was accused of saying Islam allowed racism as long as it did not oppress other groups. — File picPETALING JAYA, Sept 17 ...
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Bangladeshi PM Warns Radical Islam Spreading From West To East
The Prime Minister of Bangladesh has warned David Cameron that he needs to do more to tackle domestic Islamic extremism, as British Bangladeshis ...
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Outcry after Muslim teen is detained over homemade clock
IRVING, Texas — A 14-year-old Muslim boy became a sensation on social media Wednesday and got an invitation to the White House after word ...
Muslim boy, 14, won't face charges after high school teacher mistakes homemade clock for bomb - Fox News
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Some Muslim Migrants Find More Than Refuge in Europe's Churches
Once a month, Mr. Kutzner gives a crash course in a neon-lit room adjacent to the church to prepare Muslims wishing to be baptized as Christians.
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Thompson: Muslim leaders say 9/11 not about Islam
Local Muslim leaders say the rising number of groups, such as ISIS, ISIL or the Islamic State, citing texts from the Muslim holy book, the Quran, ...
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Columbia Heights students, faculty walk out to protest anti-Muslim comment
The comment posted using Nichols' Facebook identity said that Muslims are unsanitary and do not clean up after themselves. He was not present at ...
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Trump doesn't challenge anti-Muslim questioner at event
Washington (CNN) Donald Trump came under fire Thursday night for his handling of a question at a town hall over when the U.S. can "get rid" of ...
A Trump questioner called Obama a Muslim. Many (maybe even most) Trump backers agree. - Washington Post
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Muslim teen Ahmed Mohamed creates clock, shows teachers, gets arrested
(CNN) When Ahmed Mohamed went to his high school in Irving, Texas, Monday, he was so excited. A teenager with dreams of becoming an engineer, ...
The Latest on Muslim student with clock: Student says he's still suspended, plans transfer - Minneapolis Star Tribune
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Why some Muslims don't want Ahmed Mohamed's blackness to be ignored
The African nation of Sudan is predominantly Muslim and is comprised of some 600 ethnicities. Arabs and indigenous Africans have intermarried and ...
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Trump faces anti-Muslim questioner
In New Hampshire, Donald Trump was asked a question about Muslims in America by a man who was also convinced that President Obama is Muslim ...
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Finally, Trump and the GOP Start Muslim-Bashing
Donald Trump gave us a profile in cowardice on Thursday night, remaining silent as one of his supporters served up a big heaping of vile anti-Muslim ...
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Here's How Donald Trump Responded to a Person Saying President Obama is Muslim
“We have a problem in this country, it's called Muslims. Our current President is one. We know he's not even an American,” the audience member said.
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Trump doesn't correct rally attendee who says Obama is Muslimand 'not even an American'
Trump was also asked what he would do to get rid of Muslim "training camps" and responded: "We're going to be looking at a lot of different things.".
Man Asks Trump: 'When Can We Get Rid' Of All The Muslims In America? His Answer Was Horrifying. -ThinkProgress
Donald Trump silent on accusation that Barack Obama is Muslim at New Hampshire rally - New York Daily News
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Huckabee Says Kim Davis Should Be Able To Discriminate Because Muslim Inmates Can Grow ...
Republican presidential candidate, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, left, speaks as Marco Rubio looks on during the CNN Republican ...
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Anderson Cooper Trashes Trump: Didn't Have 'Guts' to Rebuke Anti-Muslim 'Loudmouth'
Anderson Cooper really went after Donald Trump tonight for deflecting a question about getting rid of the Muslims, one of whom is President Obama.
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Myanmar Leader Seeks to Capitalize on Anti-Muslim Sentiment
In Washington, State Department spokesman John Kirby said the U.S. was aware of reports that almost all Muslim candidates have been disqualified, ...
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Islam in schools: What parents should know
Educators and state education officials say it's a misconception that Islam is emphasized more than other religions in social studies classrooms.
Watch: Pastor Hears Islam Is Being Taught In Schools And Unloads EPIC Challenge To Students - Western Journalism
Pastor Rails Against School's Teaching of Islam With Controversial Suggestion for Parents and Kids - IJ Review
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Ahmed Mohamed's School District Once Worried Its Curriculum Was 'Pro-Islam'
"There are lessons indoctrinating children with Islam and verses of the Quran along with the United Nations Agenda," a woman named Ginger Russell ...
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Irving School District reviewed every mention of Islam
The Dallas Morning News reported at the time that a lengthy review of mentions ofIslam in CSCOPE, the K-12 curricula used by Irving ISD, was ...
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Mt. Juliet pastor's Islam video hacked
The video by a Mt. Juliet pastor who believes Wilson County students are being indoctrinated with Islam was deleted off his Facebook page while lewd ...
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Islamic terrorist shot dead after Berlin attack on policewoman
A known Islamic extremist has been shot dead by police in Berlin after he stabbed and seriously wounded a woman officer in an apparent terror attack.
German police kill convicted Islamic extremist after knife attack in Berlin street -Minneapolis Star Tribune
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Janet Jackson converts to Islam
Janet Jackson has become a Muslim following her marriage to Wissam Al Mana in 2012 and has even toned down her raunchy costumes and dance ...
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US Muslim group launched to reflect 'moderate' Islam
A new American Muslim group said Thursday that it wants to change Americans' perceptions of Islam and Muslims by "proactively engaging" to reflect ...
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Israel is Europe's last Bulwark against Islam
During the same period, Islamic State posted a video to rally efforts for its planned attack and capture of “Romia”, Rome, the historic Christian capital.
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Filmmaker Parvez Sharma on Islam, homosexuality and the new 'A Sinner in Mecca' (interview)
In the documentary A Sinner in Mecca, Sharma explores the effect of Wahhabism - a puritanical strain of Islam fostered in Saudi Arabia - on the ...
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A Malay Muslim PM must protect Islam, convincingly
The red shirt breakout in Kuala Lumpur has also spilled all kinds of racism-charged and seemingly 'Islamic' colour to add to the justifications for an ...
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Trying to teach schools not to teach Islam
Some people in Johnson City are upset because the history of the Islam religion is being taught in Tennessee schools.
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Tennessee Textbook Commission Hears Complaint Over IslamCurriculum
The latest controversy over what Tennessee schoolchildren are taught about Islamreached the state's Textbook Commission Friday. In recent weeks ...
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Janet Jackson converts to Islam
Sep 19, 2015- Singer Janet Jackson has become a Muslim following her marriage to Wissam Al Mana in 2012 and has toned down her raunchy ...
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Tolerance, ethics attracting people to Islam
Shaikh Abdurrahman said people are attracted to the tolerance of Islam and the unique spirit of fraternity among Muslims here in the UAE.
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This Conservative Muslim Scholar Does Not Represent MyIslam
Muslim scholar Yasir Qadhi recently posted a video on LGBT issues in "modernIslam." He views the issue of same-sex relationships primarily through ...
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Reduce plastic bag use
... Syrians and then drawing a straight line from the war to the birth of ISIS and their atrocities, only shows the BDN's naivete about the history of Islam.
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WATCH: New Campaign Ad Compares Radical Islam to ... This Animal
No one has remade Ronald Reagan's Hollywood films, but Ted Cruz is paying homage to a Reagan campaign commercial in a new ad focused on the ...
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Liberalism must submit to Islam to co-exist, says Isma
Speaking in a forum on liberalism and faith, Isma president Abdullah Zaik Abd Rahman says Islam cannot be reformed or amended by any parties.
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Islam focus of Tennessee schools records request
The American Center for Law & Justice has made an open records request of all Tennessee school districts that pertain to Islam curriculum.
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Danish anti-Islam group to display "Muhammad cartoons'
A Danish anti-Islam group says it will display controversial cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad on Sep. 26 in central Copenhagen. “We will do this as ...
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Trump doesn't challenge anti-Muslim questioner at event
Washington (CNN) Donald Trump came under fire Friday morning for his handling of a question at a town hall about when the U.S. can "get rid" of ...
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Police Reviewing Response to Muslim Boy With Clock at School
Police in suburban Dallas will review their response to a 14-year-old Muslim boy who brought a homemade clock to school that was mistaken for a ...
Texas police reviewing response to Muslim boy arrested after bringing homemade clock to school - Fox News
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Trump doesn't correct man who calls Obama a Muslim
At a campaign rally, Republican frontrunner Donald Trump does not correct one of his supporters when he calls Obama a Muslim.
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Forget that Muslim thing: 1% of Americans think Barack Obama is Jewish
As Friday's news cycle has made abundantly clear, there are still a handful of Americans out there who think Barack Obama is a secret Muslim. But did ...
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Chuck Todd: So What if Obama Is Muslim, America Has Freedom of Religion
Todd echoed the words of former Secretary of State Colin Powell by saying, “So what if we have a president or elected leaders that are Muslim?
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WATCH: Trump supporter goes bonkers on CNN defending his response to Muslim hater
When talk turned to President Obama –and the Trump supporters who believe that he is a Muslim — Johnson took offense in a breathless rant, ...
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Muslim Ninth-Grader Arrested for Making A Clock Gets a White…
Earlier this week, Ahmed Mohamed, a 14-year-old ninth-grader at MacArthur High School in Irving, Texas, was suspended three days by Irving ...
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Muslim boy, 14, arrested for making clock mistaken for bomb
IRVING, Texas (AP) -- Police detained a 14-year-old Muslim boy in North Texas after a high school teacher decided that a homemade clock he ...
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No charges for Muslim student after clock mistaken for bomb
A 14-year-old Muslim student will face no criminal charges for taking a homemade clock to class that his suburban Dallas high school teachers ...
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Texas Police Won't Charge Muslim Boy With Clock Possession
As you've probably heard (Dallas Morning News, Washington Post, Prophet, everybody else who gets up earlier than I do, which is apparently ...
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School treats Muslim teen's homemade clock as potential bomb
School treats Muslim teen's homemade clock as potential bomb. Sep. 17, 2015 - 3:40 - Was arrest and suspension an overreaction? Fox Business ...
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Bobby Jindal masterfully turns question on Muslim discrimination into Christian discrimination!
Jake Tapper asked a question in the debate about the Muslim student who was arrested over a clock, asking Jindal how he would balance fighting ...
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