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1. Muslims and Jews: continuing the conversation
Asian News, Wednesday 6 August 2008JERUSALEM - Perched on a bar stool in Jerusalem, I looked around at the many Israeli men in the room, relaxing, drinking beer and playing pool. I felt serene, but the tired faces of the soldiers told a different story. For them, this was an escape from their enemies who lay intimately bound to them beyond the hills of Jerusalem.
2. Fertility tourism rife in India
Asian News, Wednesday 30 July 2008The ads are brazen: 'healthy young women - superovulated exclusively for you!'. The fees are half those of UK clinics ('flights and hotel included!'). And the industry is unregulated, leaving doctors free of legal and ethical constraints. No wonder more and more Europeans are going to India for fertility treatment. Raekha Prasad from The Guardian reports
3. Are British Muslims 'attention seekers?'
Asian News, Tuesday 15 July 2008A report issued this month has found eye-opening evidences that Muslims living in Britain suffer disproportionately more from discrimination, racial abuse and racial attacks than any other faith group - and the more openly devout they are, the more likely they are to experience harassment and abuse.
4. Mecca set for £6bn makeover
Asian News, Friday 30 May 2008THE holiest city in Islam is to get a £6bn facelift, it was announced yesterday, with homes and hills being flattened to make way for hotels, apartments, shopping malls and transport facilities for pilgrims.
5. Indian tribesmen bring Delhi to standstill
Asian News, Friday 30 May 2008A BLOCKADE by thousands of protesters from India's Gujjar tribe brought Delhi to a standstill today, paralysing trains by squatting on tracks and setting up a ring of burning tyres around the perimeter of the city.
6. Can Muslims take a joke?
Asian News, Monday 21 April 2008BORAT approached a passer-by in a New York street and said in the style of his Kazakh alter ego: "I like your clothings. Are nice! Please may I buying? I want have sex with it." But the target of his joke didn’t see the funny side and punched Cohen repeatedly in the face.of the Islamic civilisation in catering for all peoples and nations.
7. New Pakistani prime minister frees judges
Asian News, Tuesday 25 March 2008PAKISTAN'S new prime minister ordered the release from house arrest of the country's former chief justice within minutes of coming to power yesterday, driving home how rapidly President Pervez Musharraf's authority is ebbing.
8. Dutch MP’s anti- Quran film: Is this the road to integration?
Asian News, Tuesday 18 March 2008IT was on September 30, 2005, when the Danish daily newspaper Jyllands-Posten’s, published cartoons depicting the Prophet of Islam in an attempt to "test the level of tolerance of Muslims" living in Danish Society.
9. No help at hand
Asian News, Wednesday 23 January 2008Refuges are supposed to offer protection and support to victims of domestic violence. So why are some women being turned away? Alexandra Topping from The Guardian investigates
10. The positive face of Islam
Asian News, Wednesday 30 January 2008WATCHING the daily news stories of never-ending troubles, hardship, misery and violence across the Arab world and central Asia, it is not surprising that many in the west view the culture of these countries as backward, and their religion as at best conservative and often as violent and extremist.