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Sixty percent of people arrested for Islamic terrorist activities between January 2009 and April 2011 were American citizens, according to a new report from Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy. The study of 104 people who were arrested
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Produced by an independent US government commission, the report into Pakistani textbooks and teaching practices also found that 80 percent of public school teachers viewed non-Muslims as "enemies of Islam" in one way or another.
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Now suddenly Tunisia's formerly outlawed Islamic Party Ennahda (it has dropped the designation "Islamist"), has won a plurality in the elections to the Constituent Assembly on October 23. It obtained 41.7 percent of the votes and 90 seats in the
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A Sri Lankan man spends the evening with his son at a Buddhist temple in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2011. Buddhism is the religion of some 70 percent of Sri Lanka's 20 million people, and the country's constitution guarantees the faith a
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Forty-six percent of respondents in a Public Religion Research Institute poll released Thursday indicated that churches have not provided enough leadership during the financial crises. Forty-five percent indicated the opposite.
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“This is a crime against Muslims during the holy day of Ashoura. We Muslims will never forget these attacks. It is the enemy of the Muslims who are carrying them out,” he said, declining to place specific blame. Shiites make up about 20 percent of
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In most Muslim countries there are Christian minorities, some as large as 15 percent, some much smaller, with publicly visible Christian expression almost nonexistent in Saudi Arabia, though even there evidence exists that Christianity is practiced
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In most of the countries a majority believe Islam to be a religion of intolerance, with agreement just below 50 percent only in Great Britain and the Netherlands. In almost all the countries more than half of respondents said that Muslims make
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Let me review, while Shia Islam makes up only 10-20 percent of the world's Muslim population, Iraq has a Shia majority (between 60-65 percent), but had a Sunni controlled government under Saddam Hussein and cronies from 1958-2003.
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Decade after decade, the Gallup Organization reported some of the most familiar numbers in American religion. More than 90 percent of Americans said, "yes" when asked if they believe in God — a number that has changed little since the 1940s.
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