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Indonesian clerics want rules for Facebook

Technology / Internet

created May 21, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 2

(AP) -- Muslim clerics are seeking ways to regulate online behavior in Indonesia, saying the exploding popularity of social networking sites like Facebook could encourage illicit sex.





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Facebook unplugs "I Hate Muslims in Oz" group

Technology / Internet

created Jun 12, 2009 | popularity 2.3 / 5 (3) | comments 3

Facebook has done away with a Muslim-bashing group that had been set up at the popular social networking service.


Cardiac risk estimates differ for Christian and Muslim patients

Medicine & Health / Research

created Oct 23, 2008 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

In a study of medical students, more serious cardiac risk estimates were given to Christians and less serious estimates for Muslims despite the patients being otherwise identical in their characteristics and symptoms, according ...


Sun Dial uses mobile phones to alert Muslims to prayer

Sun Dial uses mobile phones to alert Muslims to prayer (w/Video)

Technology / Software

created Apr 06, 2009 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Religious technology may seem like an oxymoron, but as more people obtain mobile phones, iPhones and other devices to help them manage their lives, it's only natural that many of them will be using their gadgets ...


Jordan's Queen Rania, wife of King Abdullah II, greets Pope Benedict XVI (R) upon his arrival

Jordan queen all a-Twitter over papal visit

Technology / Internet

created May 08, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Jordan's Queen Rania "twittered" on the social online network about Pope Benedict XVI's first ever visit to an Arab country on Friday, as the pontiff kicked off his Holy Land tour.


Study: Israelis have abandoned belief of peacefully integrating into the Middle East

Other Sciences / Other

created Oct 29, 2008 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (13) | comments 1

For decades, Israelis have sought to teach Arabs and Muslims that the existence of a Jewish state was a permanent fact of life. Israelis have thought that once Arab and Muslim belief in the state's permanence could be established, ...


Israel displays coins from ancient Jewish revolt (AP)

Israel displays coins from ancient Jewish revolt

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Nov 11, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(AP) -- Israel displayed for the first time Wednesday a collection of rare coins charred and burned from the Roman destruction of the Jewish Temple nearly 2,000 years ago.


Surprising find: Medieval China was religious melting pot

Surprising find: Medieval China was religious melting pot

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Jan 15, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Though it has gained a reputation for being closed off to the outside world, new research shows China has a long history of multiculturalism that extends back to the dynastic era.


Collective religious rituals, not religious devotion, spur support for suicide attacks

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Feb 18, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 0

In a new study in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, psychologists Jeremy Ginges and Ian Hansen from the New School for Social Research along with psychologist Ara Norenzayan from t ...


Even radical Muslims rely on bearded stereotypes and BBC to understand Jihadists

Even radical Muslims rely on bearded stereotypes and BBC to understand Jihadists

Other Sciences / Other

created Sep 11, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0

New research by the University of Warwick and Royal Holloway finds that neither the general public nor even radical leaning Muslims have any real personal knowledge or understanding of real jihadists and both ...


Arab Americans continue to face both stigma and acceptance

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Sep 09, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Arab and Muslim Americans continue to face an unusual degree of both discrimination and acceptance, according to a University of Michigan researcher who headed an in-depth study of the nation's most visible Arab and Chaldean ...



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