Topic: Salman Rushdie
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The international news media has recently focused on Terry Jones, the leader of a small church in Gainesville, Fla., who has threatened to burn copies of Islam's holiest book, the Koran, on Sept. 11. The Koran is considered by Muslims to be ...
Hasan A. Yahya, Ph.Ds Linguistically, apostasy means: a defection or revolt, from former religion. It is a term generally employed to describe the formal abandonment or renunciation of one's religion, especially if the motive is deemed unworthy. In a technical sense, as ...
Hasan A. Yahya, Ph.Ds More than a millennium ago, a poet called Abul Alaa? al-Ma?arri described religious followers as follows: Hanifs are stumbling, Christians all astray, Jews wildering, Magins far in error?s way, We mortals are composed of two great schools? Enlightened ...
'Satanic Verses' author Salman Rushdie says fatwa issued 20 years ago remains an 'albatross'Nearly 20 years after being driven underground by a religious decree, he is now Sir Salman Rushdie, properly famous and free, yet still burdened by his status as a ...
Muslim scholars from around the world gathered in Mecca on Saturday for a conference aimed at giving guidance on fatwas, the crucial Islamic legal rulings that guide the lives of hundreds of millions of Muslims.The five-day Fatwa and its Regulation conference organised ...
Muslims burned the flag of St George and called for the Queen to 'Go to Hell' in a furious rally held in London over Salman Rushdie's knighthood. Organisers of a protest outside the mosque claimed several hundred demonstrators were denouncing the decision ...
But while addressing the renewed Muslim backlash over the author, whose 1988 book The Satanic Verses was interpreted as blasphemous by many Muslims, Mr Straw also took the opportunity to pass literary judgment. Mr Straw was answering a question from Paul Rowen, ...
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