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Call to prayer recited through minaret speakers in Sweden
After a municipality in the Swedish capital of Stockholm allowed the recitation of the adhan -- the Islamic call to prayer -- through minaret speakers, the inaugural adhan was heard on Friday, marking a first in Western Europe.
The Islamic Cultural Center of Botkyrka, a municipality in Stockholm mostly populated by immigrants, applied last year to municipal authorities seeking permission for the recitation of the adhan before Friday prayers through speakers in the minaret of the Fittja Mosque, located within the boundaries of Botkyrka.
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Mainstream media meltdown!
Newspapers will never be the same. But what happens to democracy if the Web business model can't fund journalism?
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Paranoia: Muslims Need Not Apply
The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) is being sued for religious discrimination. And for good reason. The government watchdog agency was created in 1998 to officially promote and protect religious freedom abroad, but it actually suppresses religious freedom, rather than supporting it. It should be shut down.
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The right to play
Pakistan is set to make its mark in anything but cricket in the years to come. Neither hockey and squash nor snooker! In distant lands, it’s all set to spot Pakistan on the map of international basketball, volleyball and even football. Women’s squad may perform even better!
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Modern Turkey’s Erdoğan decade!
With the abolition of the Ottoman Empire, a country was born whose best patent was its deep state, commonly referred to in Turkish as ‘derin devlet’.
Though its red flag survived the sea change the nation had to withstand, the republic defined its citizens as secular and Europeans, with any sign of centuries’ old Muslim-Arab heritage facing the axe.
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Treating Christmas with Respect
Christmas is an annual Christian religious holiday commemorating the birth of Prophet Jesus, peace be upon him. For many Muslims who even do not celebrate the birthday of the Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, it becomes an issue of what stand they should take.
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