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http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/dr-leon-moosavi/so-what-if-george-gallowa_b_1459738.html

It's been announced that George Galloway has converted to Islam. Galloway has responded by denying the alleged conversion ceremony took place, but not entirely ruling out the possibility that he has e...
http://www.goal.com/en-gb/news/2896/premier-league/2012/05/06/3084051/pardew-considering-building-prayer-rooms-at-newcastles

Newcastle United are planning to build a room dedicated to prayer for their three in-form attackers. Demba Ba, Hatem Ben Arfa and Papiss Cisse are all devout Muslims and have been arguably the cl...
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/yasmin-alibhai-brown/yasmin-alibhaibrown-discuss-these-horrors-openly-or-play-straight-into-racists-hands-7723400.html

When cases like this happen, as a Muslim Asian woman I am warned not to write on them because it encourages racism against us. Well, damn such injunctions. Keeping the lid on dreadful crimes committed...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/may/06/another-case-of-scapegoating-islam?CMP=twt_gu

London Metropolitan University said it may ban alcohol for reasons of cultural sensitivity, but it didn't even ask its Muslim students
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2012/05/201255112042394786.html?utm_content=automate

The rise of the counter-jihad movement threatens communal harmony as much as so-called 'militant Islam', says author.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-17940404

The BBC's Anna Holligan reports on how the Dutch coalition government's fall seems to have sidelined anti-Islam firebrand Geert Wilders.
http://www.economist.com/node/21554173

JOKES about sacred underpants have reached epidemic proportions, thanks to Mitt Romney’s presidential bid and the musical masterpiece by Matt Stone and Trey Parker, “The Book of Mormon”. But the...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-17908548

A Glasgow-based religious scholar launches a campaign against forced marriage in Scotland.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/02/mormonism-fastest-growing-religion_n_1469566.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000003

SALT LAKE CITY - APRIL 3: Mormon faithful line up outside the historic Salt Lake Temple before the second session at the 180th Annual General Conference of the church April 3, 2010 in Salt Lake City, ...
http://arabnews.com/variety/islam/article618598.ece

Umar Mita is the most outstanding name in the annals of Islam in Japan. He can rightly be called the pride of Japanese Muslims. Islam came to mainland China in the earlier centuries. Later it was intr...
http://www.alternet.org/story/155246/the_obama_team_just_doesn

There is almost no discussion about why so many people in the Muslim world object to U.S. policies so strongly that they are inclined to resist violently. ...
http://colonialfeminist.wordpress.com/2012/04/25/dearmona/

Dear Mona Eltahawy, We, the undersigned women of the Middle East, are writing to publicly thank you for your continuous pursuit of justice in our name and on our behalf. Though we may be weak of body ...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/foodanddrinknews/9235750/Lamb-curry-contains-no-lamb-trading-standards-warn.html

Incredibly, none of the 20 lamb kebabs sampled contained just lamb - instead they were all made up of lamb mixed together with either pork, beef or chicken. Of the 19 lamb curries tested, only...
http://muslimmatters.org/2012/05/08/response-to-muslim-matters-post-on-halal-mortgages/

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