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Omar Khayyam

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Name: Omar Khayyam

First reported 23 hours ago - Updated 17 hours ago - 1 reports

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Despite good record, Turkey favors Sunni groups, says US religious freedom report

The Constitution and other laws and policies generally protect religious freedom but the Turkish Government provides favorable and prejudicial treatment to Sunni Islamic groups, the U.S. State Department has said, in a wide-ranging annual report on religious ... [Published Turkish Daily - 23 hours ago]

Entities: Religion, Sunni Islam, Fazıl Say, Seminary, Turkey

First reported 18 hours ago - Updated 18 hours ago - 1 reports

Iranians honor two legendary poets

Many Iranians have honored two ancient Persian poets Ferdowsi and Khayyam during ceremonies held in several parts of the country, Press TV has reported.A number of scholars and literature lovers remembered and commemorated the two legendary Persian poets ... [Published Press tv - 18 hours ago]

Entities: Omar Khayyam, Iran, Edward Fitzgerald, Polymath

First reported May 19 2013 - Updated May 19 2013 - 1 reports

Remembering Iranian Poets

This week all across Iran ceremonies were held to remember some of Iran's renowned poets, some even from a thousand years ago.Poetry is an art form that according to some predates literacy, as it was used as a method in prehistoric times to simplify memorization ... [Published Press tv - May 19 2013]

Entities: Iran, Omar Khayyam, Edward Fitzgerald, Algebra, Mathematician

First reported May 19 2013 - Updated May 19 2013 - 1 reports

‘Blasphemy’ Jail Sentence Unsettles Turkish Twitterati

A court case found pianist Fazil Say guilty of writing 'blasphemous' tweets, but a retrial has been ordered. (Emel Akan, Epoch Times)‘After the trial, many Twitter users have become wary about what they say and write’Fazil Say, Turkish musicianMore in ... [Published Epoch Times - May 19 2013]

Entities: Fazıl Say, Omar Khayyam, Blasphemy

First reported May 18 2013 - Updated May 18 2013 - 1 reports

This Day in History (28-02-1392)

Today is Saturday; 28th of the Iranian month of Ordibehesht 1392 solar hijri, corresponding to 7th of the Islamic month of Rajab 1434 lunar hijri; and May 18, 2013, of the Christian Gregorian Calendar.1129 lunar years ago, on this day in 305 AH, the Muslim ... [Published IRIB World Service - May 18 2013]

Entities: Iran, India, Bertrand Russell, Omar Khayyam

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 1 reports

New Pakistan: Bring in Pukhtoonkhawa 'Avicenna, Averroes, Farabi, Kindi, and Marii,' instead of 'Takfiri Salfists.'

Break the yoke of ignorance. Change the syllabus of 'Madrassas' in Pukhtoonkhawa bring in Avicenna, Averroes, Farabi, Kindi, and Marii, and debauched reason of Ibn Tamiyyah The Arabs revived Greek philosophy and it was through Kindi, Farabi, Avicenna ... [Published Newsvine - May 16 2013]

Entities: Islam, Omar Khayyam, Naguib Mahfouz, Takfiri

First reported May 14 2013 - Updated May 14 2013 - 1 reports

Biking can be very good for your health

INVESTMENT$ advisors and stock brokers often use the phrase “climbing a wall of worry,” an image meant to encourage investors by noting that investing in the future can still be worthwhile, even when that future looks grim.It might further be worth noting ... [Published Terrace Standard - May 14 2013]

Entities: Food Security, Communities, Fossil Fuel

First reported May 11 2013 - Updated May 11 2013 - 1 reports

Mocktails of faith

Atheists are like the pesky kids in the neighbourhood who derive untold joy from pricking other people's balloons. Bursting the bubble of belief is what they relish doing with missionary zeal. Sharp logic is often their most preferred tool. And sometimes, ... [Published The Hindu - May 11 2013]

Entities: Religion, Discordianism, Atheism, Malaclypse the Younger

First reported May 10 2013 - Updated May 10 2013 - 1 reports

Turkey: the pianist Fazil Say sentenced to jail for his opinions

For having shared a verse of an Omar Khayyam poem on the social networks, the famous pianist, Fazil Say was charged and sentenced to ten months in prison for “insulting religious values”.In Turkey during the last thirty years, hundreds of thousands of ... [Published Fidh - May 10 2013]

Entities: Fazıl Say, Turkey, prison

First reported May 09 2013 - Updated May 09 2013 - 1 reports

Every word a poem, unbound

Korean poet Ko Un discusses his work, his life, and the importance of writing in his mother tongue.Ko Un: ‘I don’t know how I could have gone on living if I hadn’t met Buddhism’.Our CoverageKo Un is Korea’s world famous poet and certainly its most prolific ... [Published Mail & Guardian Online - May 09 2013]

Entities: Ko Un, Buddhism, North Korea

First reported Apr 23 2013 - Updated Apr 23 2013 - 1 reports

Turkey Convicts World-Renowned Pianist for ‘Defaming’ Islam

, convicted world-renowned pianist Fazil Say under Article 216(3) of the Turkish Penal Code. This article punishes “[a]nyone who openly denigrates the religious values of a part of the population” with imprisonment of six months to a year. Say’s case ... [Published Frontpagemag.com - Apr 23 2013]

Entities: Fazıl Say, Sevim Dağdelen, Turkey, Islam

First reported Apr 23 2013 - Updated Apr 23 2013 - 1 reports

Turkish pianist Fazil Say: Anatomy of a case

First, it was Salman Rushdie writing his highly controversial book “Satanic Verses” in England in 1988, insulting the Prophet, enraging the world’s Muslims. Then it was Taslima Nasreen in Bangladesh in 1993 causing riots and even liberal Muslim governments ... [Published Saudi Gazette - Apr 23 2013]

Entities: Fazıl Say, Religion, Müslüm Gürses, Anatomy

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Iranians honor two legendary poets [Published Press tv - 18 hours ago]
Despite good record, Turkey favors Sunni groups... [Published Turkish Daily - 23 hours ago]
Remembering Iranian Poets [Published Press tv - May 19 2013]
‘Blasphemy’ Jail Sentence Unsettles Turkish Twi... [Published Epoch Times - May 19 2013]
Naya Pakistan, how? [Published DAWN Group - May 19 2013]
‘There is a special pleasure in creating a good... [Published The Hindu - May 18 2013]
This Day in History (28-02-1392) [Published IRIB World Service - May 18 2013]
William McIlvanney: The father of tartan noir [Published The Scotsman - May 18 2013]
New Pakistan: Bring in Pukhtoonkhawa 'Avicenna,... [Published Newsvine - May 16 2013]
This Day in History (1392-02-25) [Published IRIB World Service - May 15 2013]
Biking can be very good for your health [Published Terrace Standard - May 14 2013]
Mocktails of faith [Published The Hindu - May 11 2013]
"The United States has become a tool of Muslim ... [Published Solsticewitch13's BOS - May 11 2013]
"The United States has become a tool of Muslim ... [Published Jihad Watch - May 10 2013]
Turkey: the pianist Fazil Say sentenced to jail... [Published Fidh - May 10 2013]
Housing estate in Yio Chu Kang has unusual lite... [Published InSing.com - May 10 2013]
Every word a poem, unbound [Published Mail & Guardian Online - May 09 2013]
The Strange Journey of the KLF [Published Daily Grail - May 07 2013]
Obama’s Big Brotherhood Bet [Published Frontpagemag.com - May 06 2013]
Treasures found in ‘lostness’ [Published The Hindu - May 04 2013]
Turkey, one piano and free speech [Published Al Ahram - May 02 2013]
Upper court orders re-trial for Fazıl Say over ... [Published Zaman - Apr 26 2013]
Turkey Convicts World-Renowned Pianist for ‘Def... [Published Frontpagemag.com - Apr 23 2013]
Turkish pianist Fazil Say: Anatomy of a case [Published Saudi Gazette - Apr 23 2013]
Sully And Hitch: When Fundamentalists Plant Bombs [Published Atlantic Monthly - Apr 22 2013]
Sully And Hitch: When Fundamentalists Plant Bombs [Published The Daily Dish \| By Andrew Sullivan - Apr 22 2013]
Fazıl Say should pay for his deeds, Turkish dep... [Published Turkish Daily - Apr 19 2013]
The Rubio of Omar Khayyam by Harvard Hollenberg [Published Newsvine - Apr 18 2013]
Liberal education and civic education need not ... [Published Inside Higher Ed - Apr 18 2013]
Making Noise: Spring brings visits from Brown B... [Published Portland Press Herald - Apr 18 2013]

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"The United States has become a tool of Muslim ... [Published Solsticewitch13's BOS - May 11 2013] from Robert Spencer over at JihadWatch "The United States has become a tool of Muslim Brotherhood expansionism" http://www.jihadwatch.org/2013/05/the-united-states-has-become-a-tool-of-muslim-brotherhood-expansionism.html This is one of the most ...
"The United States has become a tool of Muslim ... [Published Jihad Watch - May 10 2013] This is one of the most extraordinary analyses I have ever read. For years people have wondered why Obama acts in a manner so favorable to Sharia and Islamic supremacism. Speculation has centered on his own religious beliefs, but here, Daniel Greenfield ...
Sully And Hitch: When Fundamentalists Plant Bombs [Published The Daily Dish \| By Andrew Sullivan - Apr 22 2013] After last week, back to the late night conversation – and an eerily familiar discussion: H: The idea of spreading, deliberately, terrible violence, toxic… A: Why do you think this hasn’t happened? I mean, obviously it hasn’t happened because ...
Fazil Say convicted of blasphemy [Published Harry's Place - Apr 15 2013] The pianist and composer , a vocal opponent of Turkey’s Prime Minister Erdogan, has been given a suspended 10 month jail term for his ‘blasphemous’ comments on Twitter. In one message he retweeted a verse from a poem by Omar Khayyám in which the ...
blasphemy in Turkey [Published The Angry Arab News Service/وكالة أنباء العربي ... - Apr 15 2013] From Ali, Angry Arab's chief correspondent in Turkey: "Famous Turkish pianist got 10-month suspended jail term for blasphemy because of reading a famous poem of Omar Khayyam ": ...

Press Releases

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Luxury Hotels in Cairo Keep Guests Connected Wi... [Published Marketwire - Breaking News Releases - Jan 29 2013]