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Published: 14 October 2006

BA suspends a Christian for wearing a cross - but lets Muslims wear hijabs

Christian BA employee to take legal action over suspension for wearing cross

Source Daily Mail 

By JANE MERRICK

Nadia Eweida: BA said she had failed to comply with their 'uniform regulations' 

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Published: 14 October 2006

Morocco moves to drop headscarf

Source BBC 

By Richard Hamilton

BBC News, Rabat

Morocco is making major changes to religious education, in particular regarding whether young girls should wear headscarves.

A picture of a mother and her daughter wearing headscarves is being removed from the latest editions of a text book.

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Published: 13 October 2006

Mostafa Bakry Egyptian editor of El-Osboea sentenced to 6 months imprisonment
12/10/2006 14:04  - (SA)    Cairo -

An Egyptian editor known for inflammatory comment has been sentenced to six months imprisonment for libeling a journalist, says a court official. 

From News 24hrs

From Al-Jazeera (Arabic)

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Published: 13 October 2006

A Muslim woman has been suspended by a school in West Yorkshire after she insisted on wearing a veil in lessons.  

Bilingual support worker Aishah Azmi, 24, was asked to remove the veil after pupils found it hard to understand her during English language lessons.  

Headfield Church of England Junior School, in Dewsbury, said she could wear the veil outside the classroom.  

Read more: A Muslim teacher was suspended for wearing the veil in UK

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Published: 11 October 2006

 بيان بشأن الشبان المعتقلون

مركز الكلمة لحقوق الإنسان القاهرة

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Published: 11 October 2006

United Copts of Great Britain

URL: www.unitedcopts.org 

Press Release

For immediate release

11th October 2006 

The United Copts of Great Britain condemns the persecution and discrimination practiced by Muslim fundamentalist gangs which is being conducted under the nose of the Egyptian police with either the Egyptian police tacit approval or complacency. 

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Published: 09 October 2006

Race clashes hit Windsor

Souce Evening Standard 

Extra police are being drafted into the Windsor area today after three nights of violent clashes between white and Asian youths.

Gangs have fought battles in the streets using baseball bats and pitchforks. A Muslim-run dairy which wants to build a mosque was petrol bombed.

Dozens of officers have been deployed to stop and search youths and mounted police are being brought in.

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Published: 09 October 2006

Gallery scraps art, fearing Muslim rage -curator

PARIS (Reuters)

A London gallery has decided not to show some works of art because it fears they would upset Muslims, a curator said on Friday, a week after a German opera house canned a Mozart production for the same reason.

The director of the Whitechapel Art Gallery decided to remove works by surrealist artist Hans Bellmer from an exhibition the day before it was due to open, one of the museum's curators, Agnes de la Beaumelle, told Reuters

Read more: Gallery scraps art, fearing Muslim rage -curator in East London