September 23, 2009 -

Woman wearing burka expelled from national court

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A witness called before the National Court in Spain has been expelled from the court after she refused to lift or remove her burka. The woman, the sister of an Islamic radical killed in a suicide bombing in 2005, was called as a witness in a case where nine alleged Islamists were in the dock,…

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CAIR and U.S. Muslim leaders to ask Iranian President for release of hikers

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Representatives of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), along with other national Muslim leaders, will meet Thursday with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to seek the release of three American hikers who were detained after apparently straying across Iran’s border. Shane Bauer, Joshua Fattal and Sarah Shourd were detained in July while hiking in northern Iraq’s…

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