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Crackdown in Bahrain Hints of End to Reforms
By THANASSIS CAMBANIS / NY Times Bahrain's rulers worry that tensions between the West and Iran could provoke instability here, partly because of the close ties between the Shiites and Iran, and partly because of the American naval base, though Bahrain has said it will not allow any attack on neighboring countries from its soil.

Categories: Sectarian Violence  Iran  Human Rights  Bahrain  

Added: August 30, 2010

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The Mirror Explodes
By Smruti Koppikar , Debarshi Dasgupta , Snigdha Hasan /outlookindia.com Hindu terror is a reality, yet India refuses to utter its name

Categories: Hindutva  Terror  Muslims in India  Discrimination  Sectarian Violence  

Added: July 15, 2010

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Influential Pakistani cleric issues fatwa against terrorism
By John Esposito Muhammad Tahir ul-Qadri declared that terrorists and suicide bombers were unbelievers and that "terrorism is terrorism, violence is violence and it has no place in Islamic teaching

Categories: Terrorism  Islam  Fatwa  Sectarian Violence  

Added: March 06, 2010

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Muslims Won't Play Together
By Efraim Karsh / NY Times For example, not only do Arabs consider themselves superior to all other Muslims, but inhabitants of Hijaz, the northwestern part of the Arabian Peninsula and Islam's birthplace, regard themselves the only true Arabs, and tend to be highly disparaging of all other Arabic-speaking communities. 

Categories: Discrimination  Arab World  Iran  Sectarian Violence  The Muslim World  Unity  

Added: March 01, 2010

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Killing Shias is not jihad - stop this carnage in Pakistan
By Khaled Ahmed / The Friday Times This is an old article - 'When the state kills' - authored by Pakistan's eminent intellectual Khaled Ahmed. It remains relevant for what is happening today. Many of us - who identify themselves as neither Sunni nor Shia (only Muslims) - strongly condemn the Karachi incidents and will continue to raise voice against extremism and sectarianism

Categories: Islam  Pakistan  Sectarianism  Shiite  Sunnis  Sectarian Violence  

Added: February 18, 2010

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