Word: islam
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...that people want to silence her.' FRANCOIS-XAVIER KELIDJIAN, lawyer for Brigitte Bardot (right), the 73-year-old film icon who was fined 15,000 euros ($23,000) for provoking discrimination and racial hatred by writing that Muslims are destroying France--her fifth conviction for making controversial remarks about Islam...
...bombing outside the Danish embassy in Islamabad, which killed six people, has caused a bout of soul-searching in the land of Kierkegaard and Hamlet. More than ever, Danes are asking what price their country can afford to pay for its increasingly entrenched reputation as a forthright critic of Islam...
...Israel. But others aren't so sure that Denmark ought to be engaged in a battle this big. "We have moved from being a small insignificant and neutral country without any military importance to being considered an extremely active participant in a more militant western world," says Islam expert Jorgen Baek Simonsen of the University of Copenhagen...
Turkey's pro-Islam governing party was handed a devastating legal defeat Wednesday when the country's top court ruled that a constitutional amendment to allow women in headscarves on university campuses was anti-secularist and hence unlawful...
...Boutin's view is supported by controversial Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan, whose views on Islam's place in the West have often swept him into the media's glare. "People don't realize how damaging it can be to be reduced to a symbol, and have the elements of your life and humanity ignored in favor of stereotypes," says Ramadan. "I hope this woman quickly regains her right to tranquility, independence, and her own identity so she can just go back to living her own life...