Tempering his rhetoric, Peter King steers “clear of his most controversial statements from the past, when he said more than 80 percent of American mosques were tainted by radicalism”:
- Peter King at Odds with Democrats on Muslims at Congressional Hearing (Washington Post)
“At this time in our history, with billions of dollars being spent on wars against terror, our nation should follow President Obama’s example and serve as instruments of goodwill to Muslims throughout the world”:
- Lee Baca Testimony at Peter King’s Muslim Hearings (Washington Post)
“The media have plenty to say about Muslim women. But what makes the headlines isn’t the experience of the vast majority of Muslim women. And what rarely emerge are the voices of Muslim women themselves”:
- Muslim Women in America Speak Out (Christian Science Monitor)
Copts, are “fed up with promises, ….want action” …
- Sectarian Clashes in Egypt Challenge Revolutionary Idealism (Washington Post)
… and have formed a political party that “will be conducted in the framework of citizenship. ‘We are Egyptians and our aims are to serve the nation’â€:
- Copts to Form a Secular Muslim-led Political Party (Al-Masry zal-Yawm)
“How will we beat him? With faith, this is the only way….”We don’t have guns, we don’t have much tools or anything, but we have faith”” — anti-Gaddafi rebel:
The “years-old dispute over the government’s ban on the use of the word “Allah” as a translation for God in Malay-language Bibles and religious texts”:
- Christians Slam Malaysia Gov’t for Bible Seizure (AP / Seattle Times)
“The enforcement of a compulsory Islamic dress code on women in Chechnya violates their rights to private life, personal autonomy, freedom of expression, and freedom of religion, thought, and conscience,”
- You Dress According to Their Rules (Human Rights Watch)
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