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Protests Spike in Greece as Government Weighs Support of Attack on Libya

ATHENS, Greece -- Demonstrators took to the streets of the capital today to protest international air strikes against military assets of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi as Greece weighed its support of the allied offensive. Toting anti-war banners and shouting slogans against the bombing raids, hundreds of leftist...

Deadly Explosions Rock Sufi Shrine in Pakistan

(Oct. 7) -- Two explosions at a religious site in Karachi have killed at least eight people and injured dozens more. The blasts in Pakistan's largest city occurred Thursday night at the shrine of Abdullah Shah Ghazi, a Sufi Muslim saint. Thursday is typically the busiest time of the week at the shrine, the eve of Friday...

Mosque Fire Increases Israeli Settlement Tension

(Oct. 4) -- If there's one thing we've learned this year, it's that burning Islamic holy artifacts is not a good idea. Who didn't get the memo? Israeli settlers, who set fire to a mosque in Beit Fajjar, a Palestinian town in the occupied West Bank, on Monday before morning prayers, reports Al-Jazeera. The attack comes at...

Texas Board of Ed Votes to Correct 'Pro-Islam' Textbooks

(Sept. 24) -- The Texas State Board of Education approved a resolution today that requires publishers to correct a "pro-Islamic/anti-Christian bias" in future world history textbooks. The resolution, which narrowly passed 7-6, cites instances of an alleged emphasis on unfavorable events in Christian history as told in...

Meet the Imam in the Middle of the Quran Drama

(Sept. 9) -- For a few brief hours on Thursday, the peace-loving world thought it could breathe a sigh of relief: The proposed Sept. 11 Quran-burning stunt was seemingly called off by Dove World Outreach Center pastor Terry Jones. At a hastily called press conference outside his tiny church in Gainesville, Fla., Thursday...

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Islam (; ' ) is a monotheistic and Abrahamic religion articulated by the Qur'an, a text considered by its adherents to be the word of God ( ), and by the teachings and normative example (called the Sunnah and composed of Hadith) of Muhammad, considered by them to be the last prophet of God.

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