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The Blonde Bombshell has muslim roots.
Posted by: muhammed ansari on: May 3, 2008
- In: Islam| London| Religion| borris johson
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The newly elected Mayor of London is of Turkish descent. His great-grandfather, Ali Kemal, a Turkish journalist, was briefly interior minister in the government of Ahmed Tevfik Pasha, Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire.
His grandfather Osman Ali settled in the UK in the 1920s and changed his name to Wilfred Johnson.
IN HIS OWN WORDS
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Ex-extremists call for ‘Western Islam’
Posted by: muhammed ansari on: April 22, 2008
- In: Islam| Religion
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The government is keen to find answers to extremism
Discussing hardline Islamist ideologies and violent extremism isn’t exactly the stuff of fashionable London parties.
But the British Museum is on Tuesday the surprising venue for theologians, thinkers and socialite Jemima Khan, all coming together to support the launch of a new think [...]
Muslim call to adopt Mecca time
Posted by: muhammed ansari on: April 21, 2008
- In: Muslim| Religion
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Muslim scientists and clerics have called for the adoption of Mecca time to replace GMT, arguing that the Saudi city is the true centre of the Earth.
Mecca is the direction all Muslims face when they perform their daily prayers.
The call was issued at a conference held in the Gulf state of Qatar under the title: [...]
Iran predicts Hezbollah will destroy Israel
Posted by: muhammed ansari on: April 9, 2008
Feb 18, 2008
TEHRAN (AFP) — Iran’s Revolutionary Guards on Monday predicted Hezbollah would destroy Israel, in a new verbal onslaught against the Jewish state after the murder of a top commander of Lebanon’s Shiite militant group.
“In the near future, we will witness the destruction of Israel, the aggressor, this cancerous microbe Israel, at the able [...]
Dutch Lawmaker to Edit Anti-Quran Film
Posted by: muhammed ansari on: March 31, 2008
- In: Geert Wilder| Islam| Religion
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AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) — A Dutch lawmaker whose anti-Quran film drew worldwide condemnations will edit out a cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad after complaints of copyright infringement, his office said Monday.
Geert Wilders used the cartoon by Danish artist Kurt Westergaard twice in the film “Fitna.” The drawing, which depicts Islam’s prophet wearing a bomb-shaped turban [...]
Cartoonist to sue over Islam film
Posted by: muhammed ansari on: March 28, 2008
Kurt Westergaard has been in hiding in Denmark since 2005
Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard, who depicted the Prophet Muhammad with a bomb in his turban, says he will sue the maker of an anti-Islam film.
Mr Westergaard says his cartoon, which sparked riots two years ago, was used in the film by Dutch politician Geert Wilders without [...]
Muslim nations condemn Dutch Koran film
Posted by: muhammed ansari on: March 28, 2008
AMSTERDAM, March 28 (Reuters) - Iran, Pakistan and Indonesia on Friday condemned a film by a Dutch lawmaker that accuses the Koran of inciting violence, as Dutch Muslim leaders urged restraint.
Islam critic Geert Wilders launched his short video on the Internet on Thursday evening. Titled “Fitna”, an Arabic term sometimes translated as “strife”, it intersperses [...]
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