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• Pilot diverts jet over teenager's in-flight prayer (AP)
• Ten Commandments monument in place at Okla. bank (AP)
• Orthodox Jew's headgear sparked plane bomb scare: source (AFP)
• French MPs to denounce Muslim veils, ban later (Reuters)
• Pope blesses lambs in annual ceremony (AP)
• More bias in US against Muslims than other faiths (AP)
• Hairdos now in Indonesia Muslim clerics' crosshairs (Reuters)

Pilot diverts jet over teenager's in-flight prayer (AP) Posted: 21 Jan 2010 05:07 PM PST AP - A Jewish teen trying to pray on a New York-to-Kentucky flight caused a scare when he pulled out a set of small boxes containing holy scrolls, leading the captain to divert the flight to Philadelphia, where the commuter plane was greeted by police, bomb-sniffing dogs and federal agents.

Ten Commandments monument in place at Okla. bank (AP) Posted: 21 Jan 2010 12:40 PM PST AP - A Ten Commandments monument that supporters want to put on the lawn of an Oklahoma county courthouse has been installed outside a bank for the time being.

Orthodox Jew's headgear sparked plane bomb scare: source (AFP) Posted: 21 Jan 2010 11:57 AM PST AFP - An Orthodox Jew's prayer rituals, including strapping a small sacred box to his head, triggered a bomb scare Thursday aboard a US passenger plane.

French MPs to denounce Muslim veils, ban later (Reuters) Posted: 21 Jan 2010 09:03 AM PST Reuters - France's parliament is likely to call in a resolution for a ban on Muslim face veils in public but take longer to turn that policy into law, deputies said on Thursday.

Pope blesses lambs in annual ceremony (AP) Posted: 21 Jan 2010 08:23 AM PST AP - Pope Benedict XVI has blessed two lambs whose wool will be shorn to make shawls for newly appointed archbishops to wear.

More bias in US against Muslims than other faiths (AP) Posted: 21 Jan 2010 05:27 AM PST AP - Americans are more than twice as likely to express prejudice against Muslims than they are against Christians, Jews or Buddhists, a new survey found. Nearly two-thirds of Americans say they have little or no knowledge of Islam. Still, a majority dislike the faith.

Hairdos now in Indonesia Muslim clerics' crosshairs (Reuters) Posted: 21 Jan 2010 01:04 AM PST Reuters - To straighten or not to straighten? Women's hair styles have become a hot topic for Indonesia's Muslims after calls from some Islamic clerics to have the procedure banned on the grounds it invites moral danger.

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