Aljazeera.Net - Asian powers in joint Internet project

BBC NEWS | World | Asia-Pacific | Falun Gong hacker 'died in jail'

BBC NEWS | World | Middle East | Israel jails settler radio bosses

BBC NEWS | World | Asia-Pacific | Malaysian PM sends Christmas joy: "Abdullah Badawi, who became prime minister almost two months ago, is a respected Muslim scholar and has long made a point of promoting good relations among the country's various religious groups."

BBC NEWS | Technology | Papal message goes mobile

MSNBC - Wondering about the 'Star of Wonder'

BBC NEWS | Technology | Is Google good for you?

albawaba.com: New Saddam photo in prison released by Iraqi newspaper

BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Arts | Google 'offering book excerpts'

News24.com, Cyber dissident arrested "A Paris-based rights group called on China on Wednesday to release a 23-year old religious dissident arrested for using the internet to support unauthorised Christian activities."

Aljazeera.Net - IT summit spells out plan "More than 170 countries have approved an ambitious call to extend the internet and the benefits of information technology to the poorest corners of the world." Rhetoric or reality?

BBC NEWS | World | Middle East | Arab wins Israeli reality TV show

BBC NEWS | Technology | Iran's president defends web control: "Speaking in Geneva, Iran's President Mohammad Khatami insisted that the country only blocks access to 240 'pornographic and immoral' websites." Presumably the other pornographic sites are accessible then???

Hürriyetim, İnternetten hatim, 28 Nov 03 just picked up this Turkish article, referring to 'Islam in the Digital Age'.

BBC NEWS | Technology | Africa urges more computer funds

Muslim WakeUp! MWU! Blog:Afghans "Understand" Why We Kill Their Children

Newhous, "Do All Religious Paths Lead to the Same God? Bush Remark Renews Old Debate"

Islam Online, "Palestinian Birthmarked With Martyr Uncle's Name" some more on this story, complete with a photo

The Bible's Lost Stories

Aljazeera.Net - Sharing a vision: Palestinian Christians

CBS News | A Clash Of Symbols In Mideast | December 2, 2003 09:50:34

AP/Azcentral, Saudis develop new technique using religion to elicit al-Qaida information, 1 Dec 03 "Forget the bread-and-water routine. Saudi Arabian interrogators often bring a Quran, the Muslim holy book, to their prison interviews, using a technique that has proved successful in eliciting information from al-Qaida captives and reorienting them to less violent religious beliefs."

Reuters, Palestinian Baby Born in Bethlehem Draws Crowds, 1 Dec 03 At first I thought this great headline was a few weeks too early: "The boy has gained attention for being born with a large birthmark across his cheek that roughly forms in Arabic letters the name of his uncle, Ala, a Hamas militant killed by Israeli troops after he was alleged to have planned a suicide bombing. "

The Register, MS scorns Israeli OpenOffice defection, 24 Nov 03 Important note about Arabic script in this Israel story: "In a little noticed decision recently, Israel's Antitrust Authority director general, Dror Strum, declared Microsoft a monopoly. Separate civil actions on behalf of open source and Apple advocates are pending; a motion by the former to State Prosecutor Tadmor recently brought to light unpublished decisions by the Antitrust Authority to abide by the US antitrust settlement. The latter followed an outcry by Israel's Macintosh community about Microsoft's failure to support right-to-left languages, such as Arabic, Urdu and Hebrew - in their Macintosh applications. Apple now fully supports right-to-left languages, but there's no sign of Microsoft enabling the feature at the application level. This affects Apple in the Hebrew and in the much larger Arab and Indian markets."