13-Year-Old Hindu Girl Abducted in Pakistan and Forcibly Converted to Islam

Karachi, Pakistan (CHAKRA) —In the town of Lyari in Pakistan, a 13-year-old Dalit girl, Poonam, has been abducted and forcibly converted to Islam.

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Sikhs Continue to Fell Unsafe in Valley of Kashmir

Jammu, Kashmir (CHAKRA) —Sikhs are feeling continuously unsafe in the Valley of Kashmir. A Sikh-based organization said there was a common consensus of members of the Sikh faith feeling unsafe in the area.

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Child Bride Horrors Last a Lifetime

I. QUR'AN ON SEX WITH PREPUBESCENT GIRLS This article gives direct evidence from the Qur'an regarding the ability to marry and consummate a marriage with a girl who hasn't reached puberty. Great article as always.

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Adulterous Sexual Relations Sanctioned by Islam

The following short article was written by Dr. A. A. Ahmed and appears here with permission. ------------------ THERE ARE FIVE TYPES OF SEXUAL RELATION IN ISLAM ONLY ONE CAN BE CALLED MARRIAGE BUT THE OTHER FOUR ARE ADULTEROUS RELATIONS.

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Afghan women are commissioned into the army

The first female Afghan officers since the early 1990s have been commissioned into the army. Twenty-nine women passed out from a class of new recruits who hope to take the lead role in security from foreign forces by 2014.

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Scientific Acceptability of Rebirth

A well written piece that goes into detail about science (and it's past) and the acceptability of the rebirth phenomenon. It lists scientific studies as evidence and follows the scientific process. This piece was written by Dr. Granville Dharmawardena Ph.D Cambridge, M.I.

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Good Question, Good Answer

Common questions about Buddhism, answered by Ven S. Dhammika.

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Australia outlaws pro-euthanasia TV advert

Hmm :\ Not sure about this

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Is the Qu'ran really perfect?

A church in Florida was protesting the growing influence of Islam by offending 2 billion people. Specifically, they're staging a "Burn the Koran" Day.

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Out of House and Home

To see just how clearly a growing human population relies on and impacts its natural environment, one need look no farther than Easter Island, the South Pacific isle with the famous stone statues known as moai.

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India parliament passes civil nuclear power bill

India's lower house of parliament has approved a law that opens its nuclear power market to private investment. It enables foreign firms to build reactors to supply India's enormous atomic energy market, worth an estimated $150bn (£97bn).

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'Legendary' Gaza man and his ever-growing family

Driving along a dusty, potholed track in southern Gaza on the way to meet one of the territory's most prolific lovers, we were lost. We stopped to ask directions. "Do you know Abu Talal's house?" I shouted out of the car window to a young boy by the side of the road.

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Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood launches 'Islamic Facebook'

Egypt's opposition movement, the Muslim Brotherhood, has launched its own Facebook-style social networking site. A senior member of the banned Islamist group says the aim is to spread awareness of moderate Islamic values.

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Iran footballer returns after Ramadan fasting row

One of Iran's best-known footballers has been reinstated by his club after being fired for breaking the fast during the holy month of Ramadan.

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Brazilian government gives go-ahead for huge Amazon dam

Brazil's government has given the formal go-ahead for the building on a tributary of the Amazon of the world's third biggest hydroelectric dam.

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Top Ten Reasons Why Islam's "Sharia" Law Is Bad For All Societies

Traditional Muslims who understand the Quran and the hadith believe that sharia (Islamic law) expresses the highest and best goals for all societies.

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The Terrifying Brilliance of Islam

HAVE YOU EVER WONDERED why millions of Muslim men are dedicated to killing Americans? Or why so many are willing to blow themselves up to kill Israelis? Or why they are so committed to blowing up random people in Bali, London, Madrid, etc.?

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Nicolai Sennels: "The one thing Muslim immigrants fear is being deported."

Nearly monthly, new studies and books about the problems with the integration of Muslims in Germany and whole Europe are published. In France, Great Britain and the Netherlands the problems seem to be most obviously, but also in small Denmark.

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Danish Psychologist: "Integration of Muslims in Western Societies is not possible"

In February 2009, Nicolai Sennels, a Danish psychologist published a book entitled Among criminal Muslims. A psychologist's experience from Copenhagen.

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How to Fight Genetically Modified Food

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Baha'i Houses Demolished in Iran

Some 50 houses owned by members of Iran's Baha'i religious minority have been demolished in a village northeast of Tehran, RFE/RL's Radio Farda reports. The incident took place on June 26 in Ivel, not far from the city of Sari in Mazandaran Province.

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Iran's outrageous Baha'i trials thinly disguised religious cleansing

This week, the Iranian regime completed its ridiculous and unjust show trial of seven Baha'i leaders and sentenced them to 20 years in prison. -- all upstanding Iranian citizens whose only crime is that they belong to the Baha'i community.

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Attempt to block 'Ground Zero Mosque' failed

An attempt to stop a plan for a mosque near New York's Ground Zero has failed after the site was denied landmark status. The scheme for a 13-storey Islamic cultural centre and mosque several hundred feet away from the site of the Twin Towers has drawn criticism.

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What's the Point of Marriage, Gay or Straight?

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