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Flavourful Muslim fare in Taiwan (The New Straits Times)

EXCEPT for his white skull-cap, 80-year-old Yusuf Ai looks as ordinary as the next man. The octogenarian is, however, the face for an official travel guidebook published by Taiwan Tourism Bureau titled Travelling in Taiwan For Muslims.

Lars Vilks: why some European artists are building panic rooms (The Christian Science Monitor via Yahoo! News)

Why did Lars Vilks, a mild-mannered Swede who calls himself âthe artist,â booby-trap his art with electrified barbed wire, keep an ax by his bedside, and build a panic room upstairs?

Raids nab seven over cartoonist death plot (The New Zealand Herald)

Seven people were arrested in the Republic of Ireland yesterday as part of an international investigation into a conspiracy to murder a Swedish cartoonist whose work has led to death threats from Muslim extremists.

Raids nab seven over cartoonist death plot (The New Zealand Herald)

Seven people were arrested in the Republic of Ireland yesterday as part of an international investigation into a conspiracy to murder a Swedish cartoonist whose work has led to death threats from Muslim extremists.Four men and...

Muslim museum offers forum for educators (The Clarion-Ledger)

When Chris Harth, director of global studies at St. Andrew's Episcopal School, attended a Chicago education conference three years ago, he met someone who told him about the International Museum of Muslim Cultures.

Comic's voice far-reaching (The Wichita Eagle)

Jeff Dunham is a ventriloquist but he's no dummy. Dunham never cared that the art of ventriloquism is about as hip as a polka or as antiquated as the television variety show.

Vail Film Festival offers sneak preview (Vail Daily)

The Vail Film Festival Thursday night will show a 90-minute program of award-winning shorts, including this year's live action Oscar winner, "The New Tenants," starring "Law & Order's" Vincent D'Onofrio. Admission to the films, which will be shown at Vail Mountain, is $10 at the door. Films include: * "Lessons From a Tailor," a portrait of a Holocaust survivor who learned the art of tailoring ...

The Rhetoric of Oppression* (Malaysia Today)

Art Harun Umberto Eco, in his article, "The Wolf and the Lamb - The Rhetoric of Oppression" (from which the title to this article is borrowed), posits that often enough, an oppressor - such as a dictator - would try to legitimise his oppression. He or she will even try " to obtain the consensus of those he is oppressing, or to find someone who will justify it " by using " rhetorical arguments to ...

Muslim women fight for rights (The Times of India)

Across India, educated Muslim women — artists, activists, teachers and doctors — are conducting awareness drives among poor women in Muslim slums in cities fashioning change in the subtlest of ways.

Swedish artist in prophet drawing has no regrets (AP via Yahoo! News)

A Swedish artist who angered Muslims by drawing the Prophet Muhammad with the body of a dog said Wednesday he has no regrets and believes the suspects in an alleged plot to kill him were not professionals.

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