West, some Muslims share radicalism blame: writers
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UBUD, Indonesia  - Western foreign policy and a tendency among some Muslims to impose their idea of truth have been key factors in the  rise of radical Islam, Muslim writers say.
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Most people believe divisions between the West and the Muslim world are worsening, a poll suggests.
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Muslims across Europe are confronting a rise in "Islamophobia" ranging from violent attacks to discrimination in job and housing markets, a wide-ranging European Union report indicated Monday.
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Comment is free: Seumas Milne: The renewed anti-Muslim media campaign is partly driven by a political agenda which seeks to justify war.
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A U.N. expert on racism on Friday branded the defamation of religions &#151; in particular critical portrayals of Islam in the West &#151; a threat to world peace.
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Attempts by the government to engage with the Muslim community since last year's bomb attacks in London have backfired and are not hampering the spread of extremism, a report has said.
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Islamic leaders in the Middle East yesterday denounced the slaughter of children in Russia as &#39;unIslamic&#39;, as commentators asked unusually soul-searching questions about the region and terrorism.
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PARIS: With concern growing about radical Islam in their midst, governments in western Europe are debating how to ensure that Muslim prayer leaders preach in the local language and spread messages of moderation rather than hate.
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Even when America is doing something for Muslims &#151; in this case, helping mostly Muslim Indonesia and other tsunami-battered nations &#151; it comes in for criticism in the Middle East, where resentment and suspicion color thinking about the United States.
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Islamic extremism in Britain has created communities that are "no-go areas" for non-Muslims, a Pakistani-born Church of England bishop said in The Sunday Telegraph. Michael Nazir-Ali, the bishop of Rochester, told the newspaper that Britain's policies of multiculturalism have created separate Muslim communities that fail to integrate into mainstream society. "There has been a worldwide resurgence of the ideology of Islamic extremism. One of the results of this has been to further alienate the young from the nation in which they were growing up and also to turn already separate communities into `no-go' areas where adherence to this ideology has become a mark of acceptability," said Nazir-Ali. Read more
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BELGRADE, Jan. 23 (IPS) - The sentencing of three young Muslims to a total of  40 years in prison has raised new concern over the spread of  militant Islam in the Balkans.
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Tala Ali, 25, has seen the good and the bad of being a Muslim in heartland America. People have leaned out car windows to scream at her: "Terrorist go home." But strangers curious about her headscarf have also approached her apologetically to ask about Islam.
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The twin topics of education and Islam attract the attention of several of today's European papers.
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BEIRUT -- The militant demand that a French ban on Islamic head scarves be overturned has fueled a backlash among religious and political leaders in the Middle East, who have often been silent about hostage slayings and other terrorism.
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They are considered a new breed of  Islamic fundamentalists. They study at top British and American  schools yet abhor Western values, advocate a pan-Islamic state  and favor the removal of Pakistan's pro-U.S. government.
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After the Sept. 11 suicide hijackings, distraught U.S. Muslim leaders feared the next casualty would be their religion.
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Asian Muslims began observing the holy month of Ramadan at the weekend with many still incensed about the pope's comments linking Islam with violence and those in conflict areas wishing for peace.