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Al Qaeda denies plot to target Muslim pilgrims (Reuters)

November 14th, 2010

Reuters - Yemen-based al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula denied on Sunday it would stage any action to coincide with the Muslim haj pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia after a Saudi…

Pope calls for religious freedom in Muslim states (Reuters)

November 11th, 2010

Reuters - Pope Benedict Thursday said all states must guarantee the freedom for everyone to practice their faith publicly, a clear criticism of some Muslim countries where religious rights are…

Iraq’s Christians Vow to Survive — With Muslim Help (Time.com)

November 10th, 2010

Time.com - After the horrific church invasion on Halloween, Baghdad’s Christians suffer another day of assaults. But they have also won the sympathy of their Muslim countrymen

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Obama seeks better ties with skeptical Muslim world (Reuters)

November 10th, 2010

Reuters - President Barack Obama held up his boyhood home of Indonesia as an example to the Muslim world in a speech on Wednesday in which he said America was…

Obama: more effort needed to improve Muslim ties (Reuters)

November 10th, 2010

Reuters - President Barack Obama said on Wednesday much more needs to be done to repair frayed U.S. relations with the Muslim world in an acknowledgement of the difficulties in…

Obama says U.S. earnest, reaching out to Muslim world (Reuters)

November 9th, 2010

Reuters - President Barack Obama said on Tuesday that Washington’s effort to reach out to the Muslim world was earnest and would help improve U.S. security, although he acknowledged that…

9/11 conspiracy theories rife in Muslim world (AP)

October 2nd, 2010

AP - About a week ago, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad declared to the United Nations that most people in the world believe the United States was behind the terrorist attacks…

Riz Khan - THE RISE OF THE MUSLIM MIDDLE CLASS

September 29th, 2010

The economic influence of the Muslim middle class is growing rapidly - but is it enough to transform the often rocky relationship between the Islamic world and the West? International…

French Senate passes ban on full Muslim veils (AP)

September 14th, 2010

France's Kenza Drider , wearing a niqab,  drives a car  in Avignon, southern France, Monday, Sept. 13, 2010.   A ban on the burqa-style veil, to be voted on Tuesday in the Senate, would affect only a tiny minority of Muslim women — estimated at less than 2,000 — making it far less controversial than France's 2004 ban on Muslim headscarves in classrooms, which proliferated in heavily immigrant neighborhoods. (AP Photo/Claude Paris)AP - The French Senate on Tuesday overwhelmingly passed a bill banning the burqa-style Islamic veil on public streets and other places, a measure that affects less than 2,000 women…

Quran burning plan stirs outrage in Muslim world (AP)

September 9th, 2010

Pakistani lawyers burn a U.S. flag while rallying in reaction to a small American church's plan to burn copies of the Quran in Multan, Pakistan on Thursday, Sept. 9, 2010. (AP Photo/Khalid Tanveer)AP - Hundreds of angry Afghans burned an American flag and chanted “Death to the Christians” on Thursday to protest plans by a small American church to torch copies of…