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  • Prager condemned by Holocaust Memorial

    The controversial talk-show host's words about Representative-elect Keith Ellison are condemned by the members of a board on which Prager himself serves.
  • West Bank beer fest

    A Christian-Palestinian microbrewery is defying the hardships of occupation -- and perhaps Hamas' vision for an alcohol-free Islamic state.
  • Still to blame

    Newly declassified files on detainee abuse include sworn statements by a Pentagon employee about a military interrogator who threw the Koran on the floor and "stepped on it" -- provoking detainees to riot.
  • Newsweek isn't the problem

    The Bush administration and its media allies are trying to use one inadequately sourced story to make the torture and abuse scandal go away. They can't get away with it -- can they?
  • Quote of the Day

    Dennis Prager, the conservative who attacked incoming Rep. Keith Ellison for wanting to take the oath of office on the Quran, speaks out.
  • More tortured logic

    Confirmation of Quran desecration at Gitmo prompts The Wall Street Journal's latest apologia on abuses in the war against terrorism.
  • How nervous is Newsweek?

    After being vilified for its anonymously -- and erroneously -- sourced story on Koran abuse, the magazine goes all out in identifying its sources.
  • Religious abuses at Gitmo

    More evidence as to why Newsweek's blunder doesn't debunk the greater mess of allegations about mistreatment of detainees -- religious coercion included -- at the U.S. military prison.
  • Newsweek tells its own story

    The magazine's blunder was a big one, and any argument in its own defense merits some skepticism. But it's spot on about the greater backdrop for the Islamic world's violent reaction.
  • The biggest cost of Newsweek's blunder

    It turns Gitmo into a circus-of-a-media story, rather than one about the long-term pattern of abuses inside the Bush administration's secretive system of military prisons used in the war against terrorism.
  • Newsweek retracts, but where are the facts?

    Did interrogators really flush the Quran? Did the magazine's article really spark riots?
  • The bigger story on Quran abuse at Gitmo

    Newsweek's blunder aside, numerous past stories revealed that the Quran was abused by interrogators at the U.S. military prison in Cuba.
  • Biblio-quiz: The Bible, the Quran or "Mein Kampf"?

    Test your knowledge of three of the world's most influential books. Don't miss the exciting bonus question!
  • Islam: Religion of the sword?

    Unlike Christianity or Judaism, Islam's religious history is inseparable from its conquests -- which is why the concept of holy war lives on today.
  • "Terminus"

    A harrowing poem about rape and murder in the Balkans.
  • Allah's pulpit thumper

    Louis Farrakhan makes a bid to unify Islam in America -- and to be its No. 1 evangelist.
  • Bawdy blasphemers arrested in Ramadan sex scandal

    At the turn of the millennium, Kuwaiti sex police are trying to staunch the flow of Western sex sins from corrupting their land.
  • Making bombs in Zanzibar

    An enigmatic encounter with a would-be African terrorist leaves an expatriate wondering about truth and faith.
  • Porn-hungry Emirates purchase satellite dirty dishes

    Citizens of the Arab republic have found a way to skirt strict censorship laws.
  • Letters to the Editor

    Make men deal with birth control; race, music and Macy Gray; Lycos should run "Jews for Jesus" ads.

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