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With a Muslim insurgency threatening to destabilize Thailand’s south, armed soldiers have begun shadowing the area’s Buddhist monks as they make their daily rounds begging for alms. “With its barbed wire, sandbag bunker and armed guard, Wat Lak Muang in Thailand’s strife-torn deep south looks more like a military outpost than a typical Buddhist temple,”…

Pennsylvania school kids will sing about the Sooner state instead of Baghdad after complaints prompted school officials to cancel plans to put on “Kismet,” a musical about a Muslim poet. Instead, students at Richland High School in Johnstown, Pa., will sing and act in Rogers and Hammerstein’s “Oklahoma!” reports David Hurst in the Johnstown Tribune-Democrat newspaper.  Kismet is “a classic Tony Award-winning…

On the eve of 9/11, a Dutch Muslim politician has launched a campaign calling on Muslims around the world to stop blindly following decrees issued by a handful of extremists, and to start thinking for themselves, according to the British news agency Reuters. “Tofik Dibi, a member of parliament for the opposition GreenLeft Party, said…

The Netherlands appears about to join France and Belgium in banning the public wearing of full-body veils. Violators wearing the Muslim burqa or niqab will be fined U.S. $500 if proposed legislation is approved by the Dutch cabinet. The need for the ban has been questioned since fewer than 100 women are thought to wear the…
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