Salamworld, a social networking site with Islamic influences, is due to launch in July with the hope of challenging Facebook’s supremacy.

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In the year since Osama bin Laden’s death , it has been a comforting thought for Westerners to say that he failed. And that’s certainly true in terms of al-Qaeda, whose scorched-earth jihad tactics alienated Muslims along with everyone else. But in terms of bin Laden’s broader goal of moving the Islamic world away from Western influence, he has done better than we might like to think. Read full article > >

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How Osama bin Laden is winning, even in death

Despite the Islamic Republic Iran’s use of any and all available methods to quell dissent—including propaganda poems, novels and films—in a country that even the uneducated bricklayers recite poems by heart, the voice of the poets cannot be silenced. Like rain it will seep into every crevice and feed the seedlings. In Iran’s Green Movement we see signs of saplings that have broken through pavements and are growing fast in the streets and squares. Anthologies such as this empower these saplings. This power does not just come from their fellow Iranians, rather it comes from all human beings in every corner of the world; it comes from readers like you who allow in your lives the transformative power of literature.

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"The Forbidden" Poets of Iran, New Anthology

The passing of a bill in Turkey allowing parents to move their children into Islamic schools earlier prompts scuffles in parliament.

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PARIS — The young Islamic militant accused of killing seven people in a spree of point-blank assassinations has cut off communications with French anti-terrorism police who have encircled his apartment for nearly 30 hours and now “wants to die with his weapons in his hands,’ Interior Minister Claude Gueant said Thursday. Read full article > >

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President Obama urged Israel and its most ardent American supporters Sunday to refrain from bellicose rhetoric toward Iran and to allow time for stiff economic sanctions to work against the Islamic Republic’s nuclear ambitions. Read full article > >

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The NATO commander in Afghanistan issued a fervent apology on Tuesday for foreign troops having “improperly disposed” of Korans and Islamic materials.

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Saudi journalist Hamza Kashgari was detained in Malaysia on Wednesday night and is likely to be extradited soon to Saudi Arabia, where he will be tried for blaspheming religion. Kashgari, 23, had fled the kingdom Monday after he received thousands of death threats. His crime? He posted on Twitter a series of mock conversations between himself and the Islamic prophet Muhammad. Read full article > >

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TEHRAN — A fiery anti-Israel speech by Iranian leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, delivered shortly after a successful Iranian satellite launch, added to growing global tensions Friday, as Israel warned that it might mount a preemptive strike against the Islamic republic’s nuclear facilities despite U.S. objections. Read full article > >

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A group of four Islamic militants, all of them British citizens, admitted on Wednesday to a conspiracy to place a bomb in the toilets of the London Stock Exchange.

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TEHRAN — An Iranian scientist involved in purchasing equipment for the Islamic Republic’s main nuclear enrichment facility was assassinated Tuesday when a magnetic bomb attached to his car exploded in morning rush-hour traffic, Iranian media reported. Read full article > >

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Among the targets were an Islamic center and a Hindu temple in Queens.

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In Queens Firebombings, Sketch of Suspect Is Released

A number of Islamic leaders in New York City boycott Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s annual interfaith breakfast, in protest at reports of spying on Muslims.

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An Israeli air strike to the east of Gaza City killed the leader of an Islamic militant group, the Israeli military says.

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Militant Islamic sect Boko Haram wants to install sharia law.

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