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Tagged: french hijabi politician islamophobia elan
An anti-capitalist French political party has fielded a young female activist to run in the upcoming regional elections in Vaucluse. The decision has both right and left-wing politicians up in arms. The reason? The candidate, Ilham Moussaid, wears the hijab. Read More Read More

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Tagged: karachi muharram blasts local global politics pakistan
The mourners clearly understood that the real target was Muharram processions. The enemies wanted to confine these processions to indoors. They wanted to reduce them to a spiritless ritual, so that these gatherings that inspire the world with the message of truth and resistance against injustice of any kind would not be effective any more. Read More

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Tagged: prayerful obama barack obama president us islam online
CAIRO – Though his faith is largely absent from the public eye, religion is believed to be playing a major role in US President Barack Obama’s life.. Read More

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Tagged: violence nigeria inside islam chirstian muslim
In last week’s post about Muslim-Christian tensions in Egypt, I highlighted that I am troubled by the way that two connected faiths that call for tolerance are often manipulated for specific purposes. As a follow up to that post, I wanted to write about the violence last week between Christians and Muslims in Jos, which stands [...] Read More

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Tagged: dubai bailout elan abu dhabi uae
It’s been a long and winding road - the mixed messages, hurt feelings and absolute betrayal on both sides. And no, I’m not talking about Tiger Woods. The financial showdown between Abu Dhabi and Dubai, the mini-sheikdom neighbors of the UAE, finally subsided when Abu Dhabi finally opened up its enormous wallet and showed a little love to the cash-strapped Dubai in the form of a $10 billion bailout.Read More Read More

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Tagged: iraq meeting friendship love oil iran elan war
Things are heating up between Iraq and Iran as both nations publicly declared their infatuation for one another in a press conference to announce plans to redefine their borders. Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki stated that redefining the border was Iran’s way of declaring its, “friendship and love and peace” for Iraq. Read More Read More

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Tagged: colbert reports yemen fever elan
Last week, elan reported on the world’s recent discovery of the nation of Yemen (and as a major threat to national security no less). The reverberations of this huge discovery are still being felt this week. Did you know, for instance, that “Iraq is yesterday’s war” and that “Yemen will be tomorrow’s war”? I learned this from Joe Lieberman. He said it on Fox News, so it must be true. Read More Read More

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Tagged: france moves outlaw veil islamophobia-watch
The parliamentary leader of the ruling French party is to put forward a draft law within two weeks to ban the full-body veil from French streets and all other public places.The announcement by Jean-François Copé, cutting short an anguished six-month debate on the burka and its Arab equivalent, the niqab, will divide both right and left and is likely to anger President Nicolas Sarkozy.Mr Copé, in an interview with Le Figaro to be published tomorrow, said that he would bring forward a law which would impose fines of up to €750 (£675) on anyone appearing in public "with their face entirely masked".Independent, 8 January 2010See also the Daily Star which reports, under the headline "Women to be fined for wearing Burkas", that "Strict new laws are being considered in France to tackle Islamic extremism. And campaigners want the same tough penalties in the UK." Who exactly are these campaigners, you may ask. Well, the Star has found two.One is right-wing Christian extremist Stephen Green who tells the Star: "We ought to assert our Christian heritage as strongly as France does its secular heritage. There's no doubt the burka is culturally divisive. Measures like fines would send out a great signal. If we don’t take action against Islam now we are going to see terrible problems in this country in 30 years' time."Bizarrely, the Star informs its readers that "many leading Muslim groups believe the burka should be outlawed in Britain". Read More

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Tagged: muslim vote congress gawker crazy keith ellison
Well, at least there’s one Muslim that Washington insiders seem to like. Representative Keith Ellison, a Democratic Congressman from Minnesota and a Muslim, was voted the fourth most “admired” member of the House of Representatives by his fellow politicians. The survey, published by the National Journal, is an annual tradition on Capitol Hill, sort of like being voted prom king at the end of senior year. So what if Ellison actually tied for fourth (with fellow Democrats Barney Frank, John Lewis and Henry Waxman)? He’s still the Congressional prom king in my eyes. Read More Read More

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Tagged: ban minarets inside islam
On November 29th, a referendum was passed in Switzerland to ban the building of minarets. The referendum passed with a 57% majority vote and a 53% voter turnout. Many in the Swiss government have opposed the referendum but according to the Swiss system the referendum will be added to the Constitution.  There are a number of aspects of this recent [...] Read More