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1. 1. History of Asian Yorkshire revealed

   Asian News, Saturday 12 June 2010 An initiative that received £50,000 of lottery funding to investigate the experiences of South Asian migrants to the region is celebrating the end of the project with a special event on next Saturday.

2. 2. Fatwa undercuts extremist rhetoric regarding terrorism

   Asian News, Tuesday 04 May 2010 In recent years, the words and actions of extremists claiming to commit violence in the name of Islam, time and again through the media, has arguably caused great harm to Islam’s peaceful reputation.

3. 3. Media should get Islam right

   Asian News, Wednesday 28 April 2010 Given the amount of violence and instability in countries with Muslim majorities, such as Iraq and Afghanistan, some people mistakenly assume the violence stems from Islamic teachings, when in fact Islam does not condone such actions.

4. 4. Ibn Battuta on the big, big screen

   Asian News, Thursday 17 December 2009 For many Muslims worldwide, the name Ibn Battuta evokes a sense of great pride and conjures up a golden era of Islamic history.

5. 5. Afghan women fighting the Taliban

   Asian News, Monday 14 September 2009 Thirteen extraordinary women are quietly making history in the most conservative corner of Afghanistan.

6. 6. Who will 'make the world a better place' now?

   Asian News, Wednesday 01 July 2009 IN the hours following Michael Jackson’s death, people around the globe shared common pain, resuscitated old vinyl records stored in their basements and stayed up later than usual watching 1980s VHS or Youtube videos of Thriller and Billy Jean.

7. 7. A Jewish oasis in the Arab world

   Asian News, Wednesday 10 June 2009 The Moroccan idyll I shared with my fiancée Tatyana began with a Passover evening service at the ornate Neveh Shalom Synagogue in the heart of Casablanca's Jewish Quarter.

8. 8. US national security and the layers of its impact

   Asian News, Thursday 05 March 2009 ON 26 January, my office received a call from an immigration agent at Dulles International Airport, who said that my colleague Rashad Bukhari had been refused entry to the United States.

9. 9. Records of 18 million immigrants to UK since 1878 goes online

   Asian News, Tuesday 21 October 2008 Ancestry.co.uk has launched online the most comprehensive UK immigration collection in existence.

10. 10. Heeding the lessons of another war

    Asian News, Wednesday 08 October 2008 FORTY years ago, the United States began to mount raids into Cambodia and to undermine the government of King Sihanouk in order to cut Vietcong supply lines.

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