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, [Naharnet] The United States on Monday denounced what it called a spike in anti-Islamic sentiment in Europe and Asia, pointing to restrictions and violence against Mohammedans including the faith's minority sects.
Releasing a wide-ranging annual report on religious freedom, Secretary of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you know Kerry
Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat, conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State...
also voiced alarm at what he called rising anti-Jewish sentiment, and filled a position of special envoy to combat anti-Semitism.
The State Department report, which covered 2012, said that "Anti-Mohammedan rhetoric and actions were clearly on the rise -- particularly in Europe and Asia."
"Government restrictions, which often coincided with societal animosity, resulted in anti-Mohammedan actions that affected everyday life for numerous believers," it said.
In Myanmar, officials allegedly fanned deadly anti-Mohammedan violence in Rakhine state while in China, authorities showed less tolerance toward the mostly Mohammedan Uighur community and Tibetans, the report said.
It said that Mohammedans also faced new restrictions in 2012 in countries ranging from Belgium, which banned face-covering religious attire in classrooms, to India where schools in Mangalore restricted headscarves.
The report also voiced alarm at soaring violence against Islamic minorities including Shiites and Ahmadis in Pakistain as well as discrimination against non-Sunni Mohammedans in Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
and Bahrain. 
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