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St. Petersburg, Fla., has been the rather unlikely setting for a summit of secular Muslims.(Brief article)

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St. Petersburg, Fla., has been the rather unlikely setting for a summit of secular Muslims. Nothing like it has ever taken place anywhere in the world. Fourteen men and women signed a final statement of their aims. And not an anonymous 14 either, but people in the public eye, with access to the media and not afraid to express their opinion, even though this has drawn fatwas and death sentences down on most of them: Amir Taheri, once editor of Tehran's leading newspaper; Afshin Ellian, another Iranian and a professor of law; Ayaan Hirsi Ali, rejected from the Dutch parliament; Nonie ...

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