Before the rise of Islam, the Middle East had a wide range of religions and cultures. So much so that it is difficult to imagine the world today without the ideas and beliefs that emerged from there.
In the News
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March 8th, 2010
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March 8th, 2010
A group of liberal Senators is asking the FDA to make some high-risk deposits in the nation's blood bank. In a debate that seems to resurface every few years, 17 Senators have issued a letter to the FDA demanding that the agency change its donor policy, which rejects blood from men who have had sex with other men because of the high probability of HIV infection.
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March 8th, 2010
London mayor Boris Johnson has urged shoppers to challenge newsagents who allow their windows to become advertising boards for prostitutes.
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March 7th, 2010
Vegans and atheists should have the same protection against discrimination as religious groups according to guidance on new equality laws proposed by Harriet Harman.
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March 7th, 2010
A Scottish law firm has become the first in the country to offer clients 'conventional' legal representation alongside advice on sharia law.
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March 7th, 2010
Catherine Davis is a woman with a message, and that message is getting harder to ignore. 'Black children are an endangered species.'
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March 6th, 2010
As clergymen are warned they could be sued if they refuse to carry out homosexual 'marriages' in church, what will the Equality Bill mean for religious doctrine?
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March 6th, 2010
A Labour peer has launched a fierce attack on a group of bishops in a growing row over whether homosexual 'marriages' should be permitted in church.
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March 6th, 2010
A Malaysian Muslim magazine has apologised after two of its journalists pretended to be Roman Catholics and took Holy Communion in a church.
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March 6th, 2010
New technology combined with ancient prejudices are producing communities in Asia with thousands more men than women, it has emerged.