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• Prosecutor: Obama election church fire was racism (AP)
• France arrests Muslim women as full-face veil ban begins (AFP)
• Laws on Muslim veils and headscarves (AP)
• Serb nuns learn language of Albanian Muslims (AFP)

Prosecutor: Obama election church fire was racism (AP) Posted: 11 Apr 2011 01:04 PM PDT AP - A prosecutor says racism that had been brewing for years "reached its boiling point" when a white man and two friends burned a predominantly black Massachusetts church after President Barack Obama's election.

France arrests Muslim women as full-face veil ban begins (AFP) Posted: 11 Apr 2011 12:40 PM PDT AFP - Police in France, home to Europe's biggest Muslim population, arrested two protesters wearing niqab veils on Monday as a ban on full-face coverings went into effect.

Laws on Muslim veils and headscarves (AP) Posted: 11 Apr 2011 09:51 AM PDT AP - Here is a look at legislation and debate about face-covering Muslim veils and Muslim headscarves in various countries:

Serb nuns learn language of Albanian Muslims (AFP) Posted: 10 Apr 2011 11:35 PM PDT AFP - A Serb Orthodox monastery in religiously polarised Kosovo is breaking stereotypes by making its nuns learn Albanian so they can talk to Muslim villagers who come to pray at a statue of the Virgin Mary.

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