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• Sheriff clashes with US lawmakers over Muslim group (AFP)
• Pope's new book: Violence never in God's name (AP)
• Alcoholic drinks market booming in Muslim Gulf (Reuters)
• 'Radicalization' hearings reignite US Muslim debate (AFP)
• Exhibit introduces Hindu holy art to US audiences (AP)

Sheriff clashes with US lawmakers over Muslim group (AFP) Posted: 10 Mar 2011 04:35 PM PST AFP - A high-profile sheriff who testified Thursday about the radicalization of US Muslims rebuked a congressman who called Muslim group CAIR a "terrorist organization" and challenged authorities to charge it with a crime.

Pope's new book: Violence never in God's name (AP) Posted: 10 Mar 2011 10:44 AM PST AP - Pope Benedict XVI rejects the idea of Jesus as a political revolutionary and insists that violent revolution must never be carried out in God's name in a new book that was released Thursday amid great fanfare at the start of Lent.

Alcoholic drinks market booming in Muslim Gulf (Reuters) Posted: 10 Mar 2011 02:03 AM PST Reuters - The duty-free shop at Dubai's glitzy international airport brims with travelers choosing from row upon row of carefully stacked wine, champagne and whisky.

'Radicalization' hearings reignite US Muslim debate (AFP) Posted: 10 Mar 2011 12:55 AM PST AFP - A US lawmaker on Thursday was to hold provocative hearings on the alleged radicalization of US Muslims, in a move critics say fans anti-Islam sentiment nearly a decade after the 9/11 attacks.

Exhibit introduces Hindu holy art to US audiences (AP) Posted: 09 Mar 2011 06:00 PM PST AP - Hinduism is the world's third largest religion and its oldest continuously practiced one, so it's somewhat surprising there has never been a major museum exhibition on Vishnu, one of its most important deities.

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