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Saturday, October 27, 2012

NYT: A Village Rape Shatters a Family, and India's Traditional Silence

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2012/10/28/world/asia/a-village-rape-shatters-a-family-and-indias-traditional-silence.xml;jsessionid=7D66E77BB8A4C901615173F7A158FC87?f=110


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Friday, October 26, 2012

BBC News - Psy-ops: Tuning the Afghans into radio

http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-20096416


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Thursday, October 25, 2012

BBC News - Is the world ready to take on Mali's Islamists?

http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-20086980?ocid=socialflow_twitter_africa


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BBC News - Tunisia Jews: A tiny community hanging on - and cooking


Magdi Abdelhadi's documentary, Arab Jews: A Forgotten Exodus, was broadcast on BBC World Service. Listen to the programme via i-player radio or download a podcast.

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My Take: Muslims must engage politically, look outside themselves

My Take: Muslims must engage politically, look outside themselves

http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2012/10/25/my-take-muslims-must-engage-politically-look-outside-themselves/


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AP Mobile: Informant: NYPD paid me to 'bait' Muslims

A story from AP Mobile:

Informant: NYPD paid me to 'bait' Muslims

thumbnailNEW YORK (AP) - A paid informant for the New York Police Department's intelligence unit was under orders to "bait" Muslims into saying inflammatory things as he lived a double life, snapping pictures inside mosques and collecting the names of innocent people attending study groups on Islam, he told The Associated Press. Shamiur Rahman, a 19-year-old American of Bangladeshi descent who has now deno...

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Tuesday, October 23, 2012

From The Washington Post: U.S. developing new blueprint for hunting terrorists

A friend shared this article with you from The Washington Post:

THE PERMANENT WAR | Over past two years, Obama administration has been
secretly developing a new blueprint for pursuing terrorists, a
next-generation targeting list called the "disposition matrix.".

http://wapo.st/Rj67dV


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At Afghan shrine, ancient treatment for mental illness

At Afghan shrine, ancient treatment for mental illness

Mental health patients are chained to a cell for 40 days of living on
bread, water and black pepper..

http://wapo.st/XRD2Jo


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Sunday, October 21, 2012

Secular Egyptians protest Islamists’ role in drafting new constitution

http://m.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/secular-egyptians-protest-islamists-role-in-drafting-new-constitution/2012/10/19/2d1b5570-1a0d-11e2-aa6f-3b636fecb829_story.html


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Valentine's Day Across the Muslim World (2012)