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Airline Apologizes For Booting 9 Muslims

Airline Apologizes For Booting 9 Muslims Group Plans Discrimination Complaint PHOTOS Previous Next Atif Irfan and his wife, Sobia Ijaz, were among nine passengers removed from a flight Thursday after commenting on the safest place to sit. (By Phelan M. Ebenhack For The Washington Post) Kashif Irfan with his sons Luqman, 4, Sinan, 2, and…
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Preaching Moderate Islam and Becoming a TV Star

Preaching Moderate Islam and Becoming a TV Star Bryan Denton for The New York Times Ahmad al-Shugairi, host of a TV show on religious themes, with students at his cafe in Jidda. function getSharePasskey() { return ‘ex=1388725200&en=88916c7b7e022b36&ei=5124’;} function getShareURL() { return encodeURIComponent(‘http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/03/world/middleeast/03preacher.html’); } function getShareHeadline() { return encodeURIComponent(‘Preaching Moderate Islam and Becoming a TV Star’);…
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Independent, Tajiks Revel in Their Faith

Carolyn Drake for The New York Times Tajiks gathered in Dushanbe last month to welcome pilgrims returning from Saudi Arabia. DUSHANBE, Tajikistan — The crowd in the airport parking lot was jubilant despite the cold, with squealing children, busy concession stands and a tangle of idling cars giving the impression of an eager audience before…
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More oddities in the U.S. “debate” over Israel/Gaza

(updated below – Update II – Update III) This Rasmussen Reports poll — the first to survey American public opinion specifically regarding the Israeli attack on Gaza — strongly bolsters the severe disconnect I documented the other day between (a) American public opinion on U.S. policy towards Israel and (b) the consensus views expressed by…
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Crowded hajj also an intense personal experience

Like most Muslims, I had been preparing my entire life to one day embark on the hajj, the pilgrimage to Mecca, that is one of the five Pillars of Islam. Yet when my wife and I set off to Saudi Arabia the first week of December, I could not have imagined what an intensely spiritual…
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Letter of support to the people of Palestine from Jewish Rabbis

The letter has been signed off by Rabbi Moshe Dov Beck, Rabbi Yisroel Dovid Weiss, Rabbi Meir Hirsh and Rabbi Ahron Cohen. Rabbi Yisroel Dovi WeissImage source: Frummer Than Thou Below are excerpts of the letter addressed to Dr. Mamoud Al-Zahar: “We speak to you as the voice and the messengers of true Jewry —…
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