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Poll: Christians rank their own religious freedom as most important than others
Americans place a higher priority on preserving the religious freedom of Christians than for other faith groups, ranking Muslims as the least deserving of protections.
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FSU faculty member resigns following anti-gay, anti-Muslim Facebook rant
A college professor has resigned following a Facebook rant where she called another user a “faggot” and referred to Muslims as “filthy rodents.”
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Transgender Malaysians victorious over religious law banning cross-dressing
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — Three Malaysian transgender Muslims on Friday won a landmark court ruling against a religious law banning them from cross-dressing in what activists called a victory for human rights in a conservative Southeast Asian nation.
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Gina Miller: Islamist gay plot is destroying America
BarbWire content editor Gina Miller is angry that James Foley’s family asked anti-Muslim activist Pamela Geller to pull advertisements in New York that featured images of Foley’s execution, writing that Foley’s family are “the ones who are blasting her ads as they slavishly bow to the tenets of Muslim Sharia law.”
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Indonesian province considers caning for gay sex
BANDA ACEH, Indonesia — Men and women caught having homosexual sex could be publicly caned in Indonesia’s conservative Aceh province if an Islam-inspired draft law is approved this week. Lawmaker Moharriadi Syafari said a majority of provincial lawmakers supported criminalizing gay sex…
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Accused killer says murders of four men were ‘vengeance’ against U.S.
A Seattle man accused in a nationwide murder spree that has claimed four victims, including two gay men in Seattle, has told investigators that he had launched his own “jihad” against Americans as an act of “vengeance” to retaliate for U.S. military action in the Middle East.
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Growing number of American Muslims challenging once-taboo causes
Omar Akersim prays regularly and observes the dawn-to-dusk Ramadan fast. He is also openly gay. Akersim, 26, is part of a small but growing number of American Muslims challenging the long-standing interpretations of Islam that defined their parents’ world. They believe that one can be gay and Muslim; that the sexes can pray shoulder-to-shoulder; that females…
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Brunei postpones new penal code that calls for ‘death by stoning’ for gay sex
Brunei has postponed its planned implementation of its new penal code that includes harsh Islamic punishments that call for the death penalty for numerous offenses, including same-sex sexual activity, and introduces stoning to death as the specific method of execution for crimes of a sexual nature.
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UN condemns Brunei law that calls for death by stoning for gay sex
The United Nations Human Rights office has condemned a revised penal code in Brunei which calls for the death penalty for numerous offenses, including same-sex sexual activity, and introduces stoning to death as the specific method of execution for crimes of a sexual nature.
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Transgender Muslim woman at center of Islamic religious debate
LONDON — A week after the a story of the first openly Muslim transgender woman was published, Lucy Vallender has been barred from her Mosque and shunned by her local community.