Yet another variant of the scam, winning a lottery, this time claimed to be from Australia. 

Date:   Tue, 7 Aug 2007 01:16:14 +0200 (MEST)
From:  "australialoto08@terra.es" <australialoto08@terra.es>
Subject:   CONGRATULATIONS! ! ! YOUR E-MAIL WON AUSTRALIA JACK POT

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This is yet another variant of the winning a lottery scam. 

From:  "henry don" <inter_24q@hotmail.com>  Add to Address BookAdd to Address Book
Subject:   YOU HAVE WON $2,950,000.00
Date:   Mon, 6 Aug 2007 12:10:14 +0200
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While Tajikistan universities ban hijab for women, Azerbaijan police burns the beards of men growing them.

Sometimes, the focus on religious freedom issues of Muslims is on Western countries, where there are indeed issues, but let us not forget that despotic regimes in Muslim countries do the same too.

Another scam, about an alleged rich person dying, and wants to give money to charity. He has large sums of money abroad, and wants you to collect the money on his behalf.

In this case, it is a Bahrian citzen, dying from cancer.

From : tscabo <tscabo@netcabo.pt>
Date: Aug 7, 2007 2:38 PM
Subject: Hello,

I am khalid mahmoud, A Bahrain national I have been diagnosed with Oesophageal cancer.

It has defiled all forms of medical treatment, and right now I have only about a few months to live.

NowPublic, a citizen journalism web site, raised US $10.6 million in venture capital financing. NowPublic is also expanding its partneship with Associated Press.

Time magazine has put NowPublic on the top 50 websites for 2007.

Two recent cases of militants in Saudi Arabia and Egypt renouncing violence and urging others to do the same.

Ahmed Al-Shayea, Saudi Arabia

The first is Ahmed Al-Shayea أحمد الشايع who drove a truck bomb in Baghdad in Christmas of 2004. He now shows his amputated fingers and disfgured face on Saudi TV channels, deploring others not to take the path that left him with these scars.

We all know how sectarian violence between Shia and Sunnis was caused by the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime in Iraq following the US invasion in 2003. Old prejudices became magnified, external influences meddled, and the power vacuum made things much worse.

In a strange move, the presence of US presence is causing at least some Shia and some Sunnis to unite against the USA, ignoring all the sectarian violence in other parts of the country.

A Pew Global Attitudes survey for 2007 has observed a sharp decline in support for suicide bombing since 2002.

Dwindling Muslim Support for Terrorism

Even as many people around the world express more positive views of their lives and countries than they did five years ago, opinions about regional issues and concerns are a mix of good and bad news.

Zogby International and Game Show Network (GSN) conducted a poll on prejudice in America.

The results are startling:

New Zogby/GSN Survey Reveals That:
- A Racist Lives Next Door - Most Americans believe they don't make decisions based on race... but think their neighbors do
- A gay President is OK, but most Americans wouldn't sanction his or her marriage