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A Pew Research survey of 38,000 Muslims across 39 countries shows the majority favour the implementation of sharia law - though interpretations of the Islamic law vary widely.
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Thousands of Shias in Pakistan have held a sit-in in the city of Quetta, refusing to bury their dead for a second day, demanding that security forces protect them from armed Sunni extremists
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Cairo -
A court in Egypt has ordered the government to block access to YouTube for 30 days after a film deemed insulting to Islam was uploaded to the video-sharing site.The film, "Innocence of Muslims," sparked off riots across the Muslim world in September.
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The Middle East crisis continues as the Arab spring has given way to a Christian winter, Muslims demolish Church building in Egypt, and an Egyptian court sentences a Christian family to 15 years for converting from Islam.
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Raleigh -
The governor of North Carolina has signed full pardons of innocence for 10 political prisoners wrongfully convicted of arson and conspiracy more than 40 years ago.
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Cairo -
Alber Saber, an Egyptian blogger, was arrested back in September. Neighbours accused Saber of posting links to a trailer from the film Innocence of Muslims. An Egyptian court sentenced Saber to three years for blasphemy and contempt of religion.
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Belgium has heightened its terror alert level to three out of a possible four, ahead of the release of yet another highly controversial, Prophet Muhammed-related film.
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An Egyptian court has sentenced eight people to death in absentia, on charges related to their connection with the anti-Islam film "Innocence of Muslims." The man behind the film, Mark Basseley Youssef, was amongst those sentenced.
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The filmmaker behind the anti-Islam film "The Innocence of Muslims" has been sentenced to one year in a U.S. prison for breaching his terms of probation.
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Ottawa -
While the changes are not expected to affect many cases, the court found portions of the 2008 law infringed the presumption of innocence. But the Supreme Court upheld an important change that eliminated the "two-beer" defence.
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London -
In ongoing protests over the YouTube video, "Innocence of Muslims", thousands of Muslims protested outside Google's UK headquarters, saying they now live in an "age of mockery".
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Toronto -
Terry Jones, the famed pastor who threatened to burn the Koran in New York, is coming to Toronto on Thursday for a protest at Queen's Park outside the Ontario Legislature. The protest is described as a "freedom showdown" and memorial for Sgt. Chris Speer.
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London -
Britain First has called upon all British patriots, regardless of what organisation they may be associated with, to come down to Downing Street on Saturday, 6 October at 11am to demonstrate for “justice for victims of Muslim grooming”.
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Hundreds of offended Muslims in southeast Bangladesh burned about a hundred Buddhist homes and ransacked and torched 10 Buddhist temples Sunday.
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New York -
Individuals are increasingly empowered by information technology to govern their lives, finances, communications, and more. Instead of working with this change, governments lean increasingly toward totalitarian responses.
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Los Angeles -
Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, the man behind the anti-Islam film "Innocence of Muslims," was ordered by a judge to be held without bail in a California court Thursday. The judge chose to detain Nakoula because he is considered a flight risk.
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Prominent liberal Muslims in Austria have requested that Saudi Arabia build a church in the Kingdom to balance the country's funding of mosques in Christian countries.
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Los Angeles -
Breaking a strict Islamic taboo two ex-Muslim filmmakers are working on high-budget feature length biopics depicting the Prophet Mohammed.
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Obama's UN address Tuesday has been rightly described as a diplomatic balancing act in which he defended American values centered on freedom of speech, urged Muslim countries to embrace the same values, while trying to calm popular Muslim anger.
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Cairo -
Radical Egyptian Islamist Ahmed Mohammed Abdullah, owner of an Islamic television station which uses veiled women as presenters, is to face trial for burning a Bible during protests outside the U.S. embassy in Cairo over the film "Innocence of Muslims."
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