MK Taleb a-Sana (Ra'am Ta'al) expressed opposition Sunday to a planned speech from Professor Sam Solomon, a former Muslim scholar who converted to Christianity. Solomon, who now lectures on the dangers of radical Islam, plans to speak in the Knesset on Monday.
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May 3rd, 2009
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May 3rd, 2009
The morning-after pill is the contraceptive of choice for many young women, research suggests.
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May 2nd, 2009
The media may portray evangelicals, such as Ned Flanders, as losers, but US-style Christianity has gone global.
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May 2nd, 2009
An Australian doctor stopped at Heathrow Airport when he arrived to hold workshops on euthanasia has been granted leave to stay in UK.
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May 1st, 2009
A grandmother has become the oldest person ever to donate stem cells ? to save her younger brother?s life.
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May 1st, 2009
A grandmother has become the oldest person ever to donate stem cells ? to save her younger brother?s life.
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May 1st, 2009
Ireland will change a law that provides prison sentences for the crime of "blasphemous libel" but cannot abolish it altogether without a referendum to change the constitution, the justice minister said on Friday.
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May 1st, 2009
Successive governments have been advised to reform the law on blasphemy; the only alternative to legislation would be a referendum, writes Dermot Ahern.
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May 1st, 2009
The main churches were not consulted about the proposal to define the offence of blasphemous libel in the Defamation Act, The Irish Times has learned.
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May 1st, 2009
An eight-year old Saudi Arabian girl who was married off by her father to a man in his 50s has had the union annulled, it was reported yesterday. The case, which had generated local and international outrage, ended with an out-of-court settlement.