The Daily Telegraph

Muslim men 'think they have God-given right to beat wives', claims female Muslim medic

Fatima Husain, a consultant in obstetrics and gynaecology, has told how she sees Muslim women coming for treatment with strangle marks around their necks and bruises on their pregnant bumps. She also claimed that problems develop because many followers of Islam are fearful of discussing sex, contraception and infertility.

Reuters

“New Synagogue” opens old wounds in Jerusalem

A synagogue newly reopened in Jerusalem's Old City has worried Arab neighbors and Palestinian leaders who accuse Israel of using its political power to push them out and shift the city's religious balance toward the Jews.

Israelis say the work in the Muslim Quarter merely restored a building wrecked during 19 years of Arab control before Israel captured the Old City in 1967. But Palestinians complain they live under an unequal rule, by which homes and mosques in areas taken by Israel in the war of 1948 remain out of Arabs' reach.

Smears against Obama energized Muslim voters

False rumors that Barack Obama was secretly a Muslim or had ties to Islamic extremism angered Muslim-Americans, who overwhelming supported him in Tuesday's presidential election, experts said on Thursday.

Unpublished polling data indicated that the Democratic President-elect got somewhere between 67 percent and 90 percent of the Muslim vote, probably nearer the higher end, Ahmed Younis of Gallup Center for Muslim Studies, said in a telephone briefing.

AP

Vatican: May God help Obama bring peace