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CAIRO, February8 , 2006 (IslamOnline.net) – Danish newspapers are twisting facts and putting the Muslim minority on the defensive by launching a charm offensive claiming falsely that Danish Muslims had used a photo mocking at Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) and made too much ado about nothing, a Danish Muslim leader said Wednesday, February8 ....

A funeral service was held Tuesday in Atlanta for Coretta Scott King, the widow of slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. Over the last several days more than 157,000 mourners came to pay respects to Mrs. King who died of ovarian cancer on January 30 at the age of 78....

By Pete Baumgartner The furor continues around the world over cartoons first published in Denmark depicting caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad, despite apologetic statements from Western politicians and media officials. Violence against Danish government buildings abroad and boycotts of Danish and European products are in force. Reaction from Central and South Asia has ranged from upset but understanding in Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan to complete outrage and calls for decisive action from I...

A week-long series of panels and workshops examining the institutionalized disparities magnified by Hurricane Katrina....

It is being alleged in some quarters that the controversy over the Danish caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad is somehow artificial or whipped up months later by the Saudis. This is not true. The controversy began in Denmark itself among the 180,000 Danish Muslims. It was taken up by the ambassadors of Muslim states in Copenhagen. Then the Egyptian foreign minister began making a big deal of it, as did Islamist parties in Turkey and Pakistan. The crisis has unfolded along precisely the sort o...

Syrian protesters who burnt and looted the Danish and Norwegian embassies in Damascus at the weekend were encouraged to organise by the Syrian authorities, and received text messages from Islamic study centres urging them to gather, according to participants in the riot....

Lebanese demonstrators have set the Danish embassy in Beirut on fire in protest at the publication of cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad....

Protesters vow to stop Calpine Energy Corporation's plans to destroy the Sacred Medicine Lake Highlands and other Native cultural and natural places...

On a chilly Saturday morning, dozens of concerned Muslims from throughout the Bay Area assembled at Defremery – aka Lil Bobby Hutton – Park in West Oakland, despite inevitable rainfall, to address the issue of Muslim-owned liquor stores in poor neighborhoods....

In many European countries, there are laws that will land in jail any person who has the chutzpah to deny not only the historicity of the Jewish holocaust, but also the method by which Jews were put to death by the Nazis. In some of these countries, this prohibition goes as far as prosecuting those who would claim or attempt to prove that less than 6 million jews were slaughtered by the Nazis. In none of these countries are there similar laws that threaten people with loss of freedom and weal...