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9/24/2009 | News | Paul Armstrong
Taliban suspected of stockpiling 'missing' Afghan opium
There is growing evidence, according to the U.N., that the Taliban are becoming increasingly involved in the industry and could use money from opium to finance their activities.
9/23/2009 | News | PAUL SCHEMM and HADEEL AL-SHALCHI,
Al-Qaida predicts Obama's fall by Muslim nation
Al-Qaida on Tuesday released a new video predicting President Barack Obama's downfall at the hands of the Muslim world. "America has come in a new, hypocritical face. Smiling at us, but stabbing us with the same dagger that Bush used," said Al-Qaida No. 2 Ayman al-Zawahri in the message.
9/7/2009 | News | AFP
Iran to Cleanse Universities of Western Thought
Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said that Western teachings make students question religion. School texts to be revised. "If we teach a copy of what Westerners have said and written to our young people, then we are conveying to them both doubt and disbelief in Islamic principles and in our values," he said.
9/7/2009 | News | El Deeb
Pants-Wearing Woman Gets $200 Fine in Sudan
Punishment by flogging waived for her but others not so lucky. Lubna Hussein was among 13 women arrested July 3 in a raid by the public order police in Khartoum. Ten of the women were fined and flogged two days later.
8/27/2009 | News | Steven Erlanger and Souad Mekhennet
Islamic Radicalism Slows Moroccan Reforms
Under pressure from Islamic radicalism, King Mohammed VI has slowed the pace of change.
8/24/2009 | News | Israel Today Staff
Iran Appoints Terrorist as Defense Minister
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Friday announced his intention to appoint a terrorist involved in the 1994 bombing of a Jewish community center in Argentina as Iran's next defense minister.
8/24/2009 | News | The Christian Science Monitor
Under Burqas, Afghan Women Voted in Protest
A relatively high female turnout in many areas showed a desire to keep the Taliban at bay and to gain more rights.
8/21/2009 | News | Joshua Rhett Miller
Court Expected to Send Runaway Teen Home
A 17-year-old girl who fled to Florida after converting from Islam to Christianity will almost certainly be forced to return home to Ohio, experts say, despite her fears that she will become the victim of an honor killing for abandoning her parents' faith.
8/20/2009 | News | Sara R. Johnson
Fate of born-again teen remains in hands of Fla. court
Her father, Mohamed Bary, had allegedly threatened to take her life in an "honor killing" because the teen had converted from Islam to Christianity.
8/18/2009 | News | AP
Last defendant sentenced in Calif. terrorist plot
A man who helped a prison-based Islamic militant group to plot against the U.S. government was sentenced Monday to 70 months in federal prison, prosecutors said.