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Boys beg, endure beatings
Associated PressIt hurts too much to lie on his back, so the 7-year-old has spent the past month stretched out on his stomach. His two grandmothers sit on the hospital bed beside him, fanning the pink flesh left exposed by his teacher's whip. It's progress that...Tags: Metal and Mineral, Government, Religious Education
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Israel targets West Bank charity sites
Chicago Tribune correspondentHEBRON, West Bank—For more than 40 years, the Islamic Charitable Society in Hebron has provided social services to residents of this volatile West Bank city, helping orphans and needy families. Its new school for girls was to open next month, a mall...Tags: Mahmoud Abbas, Defense, Charity, Social Services, Religious Education
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Taliban's cellphone terror
The Taliban made good on its outlandish threat to blow up Afghan cellphone towers it (correctly) believes are being used by Western intelligence to target insurgents. Its success Friday in blowing up a telecommunications tower in Kandahar province, the...Tags: Rebellions, Heads of State, Civil Unrest, Government, Hamid Karzai
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Obama: not a Manchurian candidate
The Great American Smear is back. In 2000, the victim was Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain, and the vector for transmission was telephone lines and leaflets left on windshields in church parking lots. This year, the victim is...Tags: Religious Texts, Interreligious Dialogue, National Government, Republican Party, Qur'an
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Redesigning two women's lives
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterTEHRAN — A wealthy, fashionable woman from north Tehran, Sudaveh had no idea how to act when the morality police would show up at her clothing factory in the first years of the Iranian revolution. Zarir, her young assistant from the pious slums...Tags: Police, Employees, Popular Music, Public Employees, Family
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History of schooling distorted
Chicago TribuneWhen Barack Obama was a boy here, he studied for three years at a religious school and prayed four times a day. It was a Roman Catholic school. There, Obama was registered as student No. 203. "Yes, he prayed, because all the students here had to pray...Tags: Religious Festivals, Roman Catholic, Schools, Political Candidates, Public Holidays
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Families prepare to say goodbye after tragedy
daniel.massey@newsday.comMamadou Soumare stood on the green carpet of the Islamic Cultural Center in the Bronx Saturday afternoon, his feet still wet from a ritual washing he had performed before entering the assembly hall. As an imam spoke, he fell to his knees and bowed his...Tags: East Harlem, Morrisania, Health Treatments, Culture, Religious Leaders
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A sorrow that binds strangers
michael.frazier@newsday.com; Matthew NestelFor a few hours yesterday in the Bronx, a city street seemed to transform into a grief-stricken African village with mourners dressed in traditional garb for the funerals of 10 people, including nine children, killed last week in a devastating house fire....Tags: Sex, Michael Bloomberg, Disasters, Council on American-Islamic Relations, Death and Dying
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Fighting to teach lesson of peace
Newsday Staff CorrespondentTanvir Muhammad is worried as he surveys the school he has half built amid the rubble of this earthquake-crushed city. While he struggles to re-establish his three schools for orphans and destitute children in Pakistan's Kashmir region, his former...Tags: Relief and Aid Organizations, Civil Unrest, Hinduism, Defense, Culture
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Padilla tape details his conversion
South Florida Sun-SentinelIt's a passing reference that could easily go unnoticed on the dozens of government wiretaps in the Miami trial of Jose Padilla. It has nothing to do with terrorism or militant Islam or any of the crimes prosecutors hope to prove in court.It has to do...Tags: Religious Texts, Trials, Lawyers, Juvenile Delinquency, Religious Education
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Ahmadinejad walks away with a win
One of the world's truly dangerous men, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, left New York a clear winner this week, and he can thank the arrogance of the American academy and most of the U.S. news media's studied indifference for his victory. If the...Tags: National Government, New York Times, Columbia University, New York, Benito Mussolini
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