Islam

...Nobel medal': colleague Iran has confiscated human right activist Shirin Ebadi's Nobel Peace Prize medal and frozen her bank accounts to pressure the critic of the Islamic regime, her colleagues told AFP on Friday. Iranian authorities...

In this article: Shirin Ebadi, Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Allegation, Islamic, and Tax

...TIMES A Potomac, Md., Islamic center maintains links to Iran despite its claims that it is independent of a foundation that is being sued by the U.S. government on charges of funneling money to the Islamic republic. Ali Mohammadi,...

In this article: Islamic, Iran, Maryland, The Washington Times, New York, and U.N.

...Nov. 25, 2009 TEHRAN, Iran Islamic religious authorities have begun tightening their grip on Iranian public schools, a report said Wednesday, as hard-liners expand an ideological "soft war" against Western influence. The moves appear...

In this article: Iran, Islamic, Mir Hossein Mousavi, Tehran, Basij, Etemad, Mark Twain, and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

...the only states where that abuse is guided by religious rule. Take Omar al-Bashir of Sudan or Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran, both leaders carrying out oppression in the name of Islam. If you read the Defamation of Religion Resolution proposed by...

In this article: Democracy, Christianity, Jihad, War on Terror, Zaid Shakir, U.N., Salman Rushdie, and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

...tourism travel to India showing a Baha'i temple of worship, media said. Iran's Shi'ite Muslim religious establishment considers Baha'i an heretical offshoot of Islam. Tehran Mayor Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf, a pragmatic conservative, is seen as...

In this article: Baha'i Faith, Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Hamshahri, Etemad, Tehran, Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf, Zoraster, and Moses

...A.D.) and the Sassanian (226-651) dynasties. The seventh century Arab conquest of Iran, which introduced Islam to the population, was followed by invasions by the Seljuk Turks and the Mongols. Iran experienced a political and cultural...

In this article: Iran, Reza Shah, United States, Supreme Leader, Mohammad Khatami, Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, International Atomic Energy Agency, and Department of State

...bank box, say officials CNN) -- Iran is denying Norway's claim that the Islamic republic confiscated the Nobel Peace Prize of human rights activist Shirin Ebadi, and indicated the issue involved tax evasion. "It is most surprising to...

In this article: Shirin Ebadi, Iran, Islamic Republic News Agency, Tax, Press TV, Nobel Prize, Jonas Gahr Store, and U.S.

'Iran backers funding US universities' An Islamic, Manhattan-based charity suspected of being an illegal front for Iran is funding professors at US universities, the New York Post reported Monday. Protesters yell at people passing through...

In this article: Columbia University, New York Post, Iran, Islamic, Rutgers University, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, US, and American Enterprise Institute

...us beware of her dangers and be careful," the commission warned. In April 2008, Iran's Ayatollah Ghorban Ali Dorri-Najafabadi called for a Barbie ban in the Islamic republic. Iran produces an alternative doll called Sara (and a Ken analogue...

In this article: Barbie, Save the Children, Mattel, Middle East, Consumerism, and Sotheby's