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24 September 2001
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The Detroit Free Press has published a useful and easy to read guide to Arab Americans (Detroit contains a large Arab minority). It points out (among other things) that Iran is not Arab, that most Arab Americans are not Muslims and Bedouin are no more than 2% of the overall Arab population. America’s Public Broadcasting System (PBS) produced a miniseries about Islam with accompanying website (mostly about art, it seems) some time ago.
Thanks to Yahoo’s Picks of the Week for these links.
The BBC World Service has also produced a guide to Islam – one of its guides to the six main religions in the world today.

Filed under:Uncategorized at9:32 am

Here’s a little something to lighten the gloom from my archive of as-yet-un-blogged links – Tea and Coffee – stealth poisons? Dancing – the work of evil minds? All this and more, including a lot of out-dated relationship advice is provided by Miss Abigail’s Time Warp Advice.