If we give them a free market there will be conflicts," Din Syamsuddin, of the 25-million strong Muhammadiyan, told foreign journalists in Jakarta. Over 200 of Indonesia`s 230 million people are Muslim, cohabiting with millions of Christians, Hindus and Buddhists.
Though the country has long been c

It merits mentioning here that despite the leading British media organization BBC's continuous coverage of the Muhammad cartoons' row it (BBC) it has avoided showing the images of Prophet Muhammad neither on its website nor in the video reports.
The US secretary of State Condoleeza Rice alleged Ira

* Muslims cut off the heads of three teenaged girls on their way to school in Indonesia. A Christian school. No Muslim outrage.
* Muslims murder teachers trying to teach Muslim children in Iraq. No Muslim outrage.
* Muslims murder over 80 tourists with car bombs outside cafes and hotels

The situation ensuing publishing and republishing of the Prophet Muhammad's cartoons is spiraling out of control. Muslims across the globe have every right to voice their protest in a peaceful manner but the protest rallies that started peacefully turned violent and that is where Muslims started los

"The priest was shot dead at his church this afternoon but we have no more details at present. An investigation has begun," a police spokesman told Reuters.
Turkish media said police were looking for a young man aged about 17 years old seen fleeing from the church of Santa Maria.
The state Anatoli

The Muslim women were also used in attack who injured Christian women to picture this attack a minor scuffle among Christian-Muslim communities.
The village Kanwanlit is few miles from Daska Town and in vicinity of Daska Saddar Police Station.
The Muslims attacked Kawanlit Church at 10:00 AM and

ISLAMABAD (AFP) -President Pervez Musharraf has strongly condemned the publication of cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammed as hundreds of protesters torched Danish and French flags for a second day.
Senators in the upper house of the country`s parliament also passed a unanimous resolution denou

After transforming Jinnah's Pakistan into an Islamic Republic the Islamists should have done the people of this land another 'favour of banning liquor's brewing, its movement and sale across the country. The ban could have easily been executed by introducing another constitutional amendment, and it

It lies down a series of dusty lanes, near the grave of a 10th century scholar, Kaffel-Shashi.
The Mufti of Uzbekistan, the country`s highest religious leader, has his offices there, in the courtyard of an old madrassa.
Just across the road stands a non-descript mosque and the equally unremarkab

3 Dead Car Bombs Target at Least Four Churches in Baghdad and Kirkuk
BAGHDAD. Jan 29, 2006. Car bombs exploded in a synchronized spree of attacks outside at least four churches in Baghdad and the northern city of Kirkuk Sunday, killing at least three Iraqis and wounding nine, police said. The count

More than 5,000 police stood guard; their presence meant that protesters, who claimed that female participation was obscene, were unable to upset the race. "We`re so relieved it passed peacefully," said the coordinator, Masood Hasan. "You can`t reason with these people." Mixed-sex races are a flashp

POPE BENEDICT XVI yesterday praised the "ecstasy" of physical love between a man and a woman as a pathway leading to the divine love of God.
In an encyclical charged with the language of eros, or erotic love, the Pope cautioned against the "debasement" of sexual love as a "commodity to be bought a

". He told Leeds crown court that the religion was "a dragon, the terrible mortal enemy of all our fundamental values and something which, unchecked, will bring misery and disaster to this country".
But the 46-year-old Cambridge graduate denied that his views were an attack on Muslims or Asians. He

1. In the event of an ethnic clash between the Muslim and the Christian Minority of Sangla Hill, the Muslims, on the morning of 12th of November 2005, set ablaze two Churches and gutted down two Pastors' Houses as well as the school building of St. Anthony's along with the Convent. Consequently, a

He has spent nearly 25 years in Italian and Turkish jails but has never revealed why he tried to kill the Pope.
Prosecutors say Agca, 48, must now stay in prison until 18 January 2010, the Anatolia agency reports.
Turkish Justice Minister Cemil Cicek had appealed against his release earlier this