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How Barack Obama can calm Muslim anti-Americanism

Obama has to recognise the reality: 90 percent of the world's 2.3 billion Muslims nurse varying shades of anti-Americanism. It cannot be a comfortable feeling that two fifths of the world......

US man behind anti-Islam film jailed for a year

An American man -- who producedan anti-Islamic film thatoutraged the Muslim world and triggered fatal protests -- has been sentenced to a year in prison for violating his probation stemming from a......

Anti-Islam 'filmmaker' arrested in Los Angeles

The alleged filmmaker of the controversial video that sparked protests across the Muslim world has been arrested in Los Angeles, reported BBC.Nakoula Besseley Nakoula is in custody and is scheduled......

US to use TV ads to stem anti-Islam film protests

As anger in the Muslim world over anti-Islam film continued to smolder, the United States administration has turned to social media and television ads to try to stem global protest. The Obama......

US asks YouTube to review anti-Islam video

Hit by spiraling tide of anti-American protests in the Muslim world, the White House on Saturday asked Google-owned YouTube to review continued uploading of a controversial film deemed offensive to......

BSE launches broad-based Islamic index

Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) has launched an Islamic equity index based on the wide-measure S&P BSE 500 index, providing a new benchmark for Islamic investors in one of the world's largest stock......

Why Indo-Pak trade ties are delayed

The trade relations between Pakistan and India seems to be delayed, as Islamabad has not decided it yet to implement its decision of granting Most Favoured Nations status to India.Islamabad is......

COLUMN: Some light at the end of the 2012 tunnel?

Whichever way you look at it, from a global perspective 2012 has not been a good year, writes Claude Smadja. The euro zone has been sinking deeper in the last 12 months.The debt-to-GDP ratio......

Review: The Reluctant Fundamentalist is a powerful film

The Reluctant Fundamentalist has its cinematic moments but celebrates just black and white aspects of life instead of exploring grey areas, Vaihayasi Pande Daniel writes.Janissary: a member of an......

Why I don't like Argo

Argo seems all set to win the Best Picture Oscar award, but that will still not make Aseem Chhabra like the film. Here's why.Ben Affleck’s Argo begins on the right political note -- a......

Review: Kai Po Che is a very fine film

Kai Po Che works because of its earnest and very talented cast, writes Aseem Chhabra. We can blame Farhan Akhtar for it. Or maybe even thank him for starting the trend of male bonding in......

Emotional Kamal Haasan says Tamil Nadu does not want him

Upset over the hurdles caused by the ban on the release of mega budget Vishwaroopam, an emotional Kamal Haasan said Tamil Nadu does not want him to stay in the state and he might seek a 'secular'......

I was forced to reiterate my patriotism: Shah Rukh Khan

As India and Pakistan spar over the issue of security for Shah Rukh Khan, the Bollywood superstar said it was sad that an article written by him took an ‘unwarranted twist’ and he was......

Bahrain steps up arrests ahead of Sunday's F1 race

Bahrain has arrested several people accused of stealing and burning cars amid heightened security in the island kingdom before Sunday's Formula One race, which the opposition sees as a chance to......

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Q. When a dog sees a red colour, it neither thinks it is a red clour nor it knows it is a red colour because no one has tried to make the dog understand the red colour as red colour by calling the red colour as red colour. A child will also not understand or think the red colour as red colour until he/she is taught a red colour is red colour by calling a red colour a red colour by someone. Similarly, a dog can see the Chinese president but it will not be able think the Chinese president as Chinese president but a child can see as well as think it as the Chinese president because he/she was told s
Chanakya: A. more

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Q. According to human rights organisations, Pakistan is among the most brutal countries when it comes to the treatment of minorities. Year after year, the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan issues reports highlighting a wide range of crimes committed against non-Muslims by individuals and the state.houl not our country take up this issue in international forum?
SREENIVAS: A. yes. similarly, if we do not teach / tell our children that they are hindus or muslims or christians or any other religion and will only tell them...... more

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Q. How Did the Spread of Islam Affect the Development of Science?
Azam Khan: A. they r the worst country in the world .and we care for minorities that is why they dont go to pakistan more

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Q. What Attracts One to Hinduism?
Sudhakar Kuruvada: A. Islam instructs man to use his powers of intelligence and observation. Within a few years of the spread of Islam, great civilizations and...... more

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Q. FROM RAM MANDIR TO RAM SETHU TO GITA ALL HAVE BEEN DRAGGED INTO INDIAN COURTS, INDIA IS ONLY COUNTRY IN WORLD WHERE FAITH OF 100CR PEOPLE IS HUMILIATED.IT WOULD BE SILLY TO LOOK FOR PARALLEL WHERE IN A MUSLIM MAJORITY COUNTRY PROPHET/QURAN OR IN A CHRISTIAN MAJORITY COUNTRY BIBLE/CHRIST COULD BE DRAGEDI IN A COURT OF LAW.IN INDIA EVEN UPA GOVT. FILED AN AFFIDAVIT SUGGESTING THAT BHAGWAN RAM NEVER EXISTED IN INDIA CHRISTIAN MISSIONARIES OPENLY PREACH ABOUT HINDUS FALSE AND CHARACTERLESS GOD, AND SO ISLAMIC MISSIONARY ZAKIR NAIK BUT THE TAG OF HATE MONGERING TO HINDUS ONLY BY SECULAR LUMANANICS
Ramesh Agarwal: A. Hinduism and its saints can claim to have millions of NON-HINDU followers world-wide. Hindu spiritual societies like Art of Living, ISKCON,...... more

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Turkey passes bill restricting alcohol sales, ads

Turkey's parliament has passed legislation to ban all advertising of alcohol and tighten restrictions on sales in the mainly Muslim but secular... ...

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Obama drone speech interrupted repeatedly by anti-war activist

Washington: US President Barack Obama's speech outlining the future of his counter-terrorism polices was disrupted by a member of Code Pink, a... ...

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US Congress panel clears bill on looking into racial profiling of South Asians

Washington: A key US Congress panel has passed a legislative amendment that calls for investigations into racial and religious profiling of Sikhs,... ...

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Scotland Yard arrests two more

London: Scotland Yard today arrested two more people, including a woman, in connection with the murder of a soldier on a busy London street by two... ...

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10 STUNNING photographs from across the planet

We present some of the best photographs clicked in the recent past across the world. A man ascends by bungee cords from a large former well during... ...

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