Muslim Brotherhood candidate has slim lead.

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Egyptian Election Goes to Runoff

The Muslim Brotherhood’s Mohammed Mursi and old regime figure Ahmed Shafiq will contest June’s Egypt presidential run-off, state media confirm.

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Polarised Egypt result confirmed

Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood calls allies to back its presidential candidate in a likely run-off against Hosni Mubarak’s last PM to “save” the uprising.

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Key Egypt candidate seeks allies

CAIRO — The Muslim Brotherhood’s candidate appeared likely to face off against either a former prime minister who served under ousted president Hosni Mubarak or a leftist contender whose popularity surged at the end of the race, according to predictions Friday by political parties based on preliminary results in Egypt’s first free presidential election. Read full article > >

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The Islamist candidate of the Muslim Brotherhood, Mohamed Morsi, will face Ahmed Shafik, former President Hosni Mubarak’s last prime minister, in a runoff to become Egypt’s first freely elected president.

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Mohamed Morsi to Face Ahmed Shafik in Egypt’s Presidential Election Runoff

At least two people were killed in Beirut in heavy clashes early on Monday between rival Sunni Muslim gunmen, the latest violence fueled by tensions over the uprising in neighboring Syria.

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Two Killed in Heavy Clashes in Beirut

Syrian troops backed by armored vehicles on Sunday shot dead seven civilians when they overran a rebellious Sunni Muslim village west of the city of Hama, an activists’ organization said.

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7 Killed as Syrian Troops Seize Sunni Village

AMSTERDAM — Europe’s most controversial politician lives in a government safe house fitted with a panic room and guarded round the clock. A self-avowed foe of Islam who compared the Koran to Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf and called for a ban on Muslim immigrants, he travels by bulletproof car and rarely talks with journalists — choosing instead to funnel messages directly to supporters via Twitter and a personal blog. Read full article > >

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Geert Wilders of the Netherlands reveals a resurgent far right in Europe

Since 1988, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Mali, Pakistan, Kosovo, Kyrgyzstan, Senegal and Turkey have been led, at some point, by a Muslim woman president or prime minister. Juxtapose this to Hillary Clinton, who ran for President of the U.S. in 2008 and noted in her concession speech, “I am a woman and, like millions of women, I know there are still barriers and biases out there, often unconscious, and I want to build an America that respects and embraces the potential of every last one of us.”

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10 Muslim Women Every Person Should Know

This article appeared on The Muslim on April 20,2012

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The Norway Massacre by A Right Wing Christian Shows Terror Has No Color or Creed

Muslim Brotherhood calls for “second revolution.”

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Thousands Protest Egypt’s Military Rule

Anders Behring Breivik, who has admitted killing 77 people last year, said he acted to save Norway from Muslim colonization.

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Breivik Claims Self-Defense in Norway Killings

Egyptian election officials bar 10 candidates from the presidential poll, including ex-spy chief Omar Suleiman and the Muslim Brotherhood’s Khairat al-Shater.

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Egypt candidates barred from poll

Although I would rather the Muslim community had been a bit more cautious before rushing to judge the Alawadi case as a hate crime, the reason so many Muslims and non-Muslims hastily attributed the murder to Islamophobia is that we all recognize that anti-Islamic rhetoric in America today is vociferous enough to lead to this kind of tragedy. Alawaidy’s murder followed at the heels of the tragic death of Trayvon Martin, and we began to question whether racial and religious stereotyping had gone too far.

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On Shaima Alawadi, Family Violence, and Hate Crimes

“Iraqi Immigrants in California Town Fear a Hate Crime in a Woman’s Killing,” read a recent New York Times headline. The article reported that the murdered woman’s family had previously found a note with the words “This is my country. Go back to yours, terrorist,” taped to the door of their Orange County house. Although an ongoing police investigation has unearthed family tensions which may have led to the murder of Shaima Alawadi, the shame and the fear of violence directed at Arab and Muslim Americans is nevertheless very real. I know because I, too, am an Iraqi-American, born in Baghdad and raised here. First, some background. After graduating high school in Baghdad, my father received his medical degree from La Sorbonne in Paris. Returning to Baghdad, he founded a private hospital with an Iraqi partner also educated in Paris. My father was Jewish; his partner Shiite; their nurses Catholic nuns in the then multi-cultural, multi-ethnic Iraqi capital. Following Israel’s creation, anti-Semitism surged throughout the Arab world. My mother fled with me to Europe. Unable to get permission to legally emigrate, my father smuggled himself to Iran in a fishing boat. From there, he flew to Europe, rejoining us, and bringing us all to America. He got recertified here, and would treat thousands of patients in an office off Fifth Avenue.

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Reclaiming My Iraqi Identity