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Egypt to Move Famous Ramses Statue in Cairo

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Written by Anna Johnson, The Associated Press
Wednesday, 26 July 2006
A giant statue of Pharaoh Ramses II will be moved next month from a congested square in downtown Cairo to a more serene home near the Great Pyramids in a bid to save it from corrosive pollution, Egypt's antiquities chief said Monday. Tags: ancient Egypt, Click to add your tags..., or Close
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Copts and Muslims deny church rift sours their ties

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Written by By Ramadan Al Sherbini, Gulf News
Wednesday, 26 July 2006
Cairo: Egyptian Christians and Muslims say a recent schism in the Coptic Orthodox Church, triggered by a rebel priest, will not strain their relations. Tags: Coptic Orthodox Church, Coptic Pope, Click to add your tags..., or Close
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Spinning Apart: Only Dividing Iraq Makes Sense

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Written by Joshua Trevino, The Brussels Journal
Wednesday, 26 July 2006
Pluralism never really had a chance in the Muslim world. There is diversity, to be sure, but it is an uneasy thing, and peace within it must be maintained by the stamp of the oppressor's boot, or the political supremacy of the non-Muslim. The former repels us, and the latter is far too tenuous to ever last. Egypt’s Copts exist at the sufferance of a suspicious and occasionally violent majority. The House of Sa’ud ruthlessly represses its eastern Shi’a. Syrian Alawites maintain power through plain brutality and fear. Iraqi Christians, having endured two genocides in the past century, and a subsquent Ba’athist cultural repression, live in quiet fear of their next ruling class. Tags: christian rights, Coptic, religious freedom, Saudi Arabia, Click to add your tags..., or Close
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Cleric sought to 'kill 1000'

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Written by Natasha Robinson , The Australian
Tuesday, 25 July 2006
MELBOURNE- Islamic cleric Abdul Nacer Benbrika allegedly wanted to kill 1000 Australians to "please Allah" and to force the Howard Government to withdraw troops from Iraq and Afghanistan. "If we kill, we kill here 1000," Mr Benbrika allegedly said in a conversation covertly taped by police. Tags: fundamentalism, terrorism, Click to add your tags..., or Close
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Citizen journalism

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Written by Ramzy Baroud, Al Ahram Weekly
Tuesday, 25 July 2006
When the mainstream media fails to tell the truth, ordinary people must step in, writes Ramzy Baroud. "Like myself, many others who have become disheartened with the lack of ethics in the world of journalism have taken things into their own hands, giving birth to 'citizen journalism'." Tags: Click to add your tags..., or Close
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