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07 April 2012 Some of the world's most recognized and renowned authorites in Islamic Law and Islamic Legal Theory are meeting i ...

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28 February 2012 Deputy Ruler of Dubai and UAE Minister of Finance Sheikh Hamdan bin Rashed Al Maktoum has launched the world's ...

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22 May 2013 The Bradford Synagogue in northern England was facing a dwindling population and serious financial woes when the lo ...

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GAZA CITY - Prominent Muslim scholar Sheikh Yusuf Al-Qaradawi arrived in Gaza late Wednesday, May 8, in a major blow to a crippling Israeli blockade on the strip. Our whole ambition is to die on the path to Allah, and for ...

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OCCUPIED JERUSALEM - Thousands of Palestinians in the occupied lands commemorated Wednesday, May 15, the Nakba Day, which marks the creation of Israel on the rubble of Palestine. Sixty-five years after the Nakba, we affirm ...

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WASHINGTON - Large majorities of Muslims around the world want the application of Shari`ah as the official law in their countries, but differ on the degree of implementation, a new global survey has found. Muslims are not ...

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CAIRO - Helping their fellow Muslims to keep their worship places safe in the wake of a machete killing of an army soldier in London, a US advocacy group has shared tips with British Muslims to protect their mosques against a ...

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OCCUPIED JERUSALEM - Israeli occupation forces detained the Grand Mufti of Al-Quds on Wednesday, May 8, after storming into his house, drawing condemnations from Palestinian officials. At 8.10 a.m. two vehicles from Israel ...

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NEW DELHI - Sent behind bars for minor offences, Muslims make up the majority of inmates in Indian prisons, a phenomenon blamed for the lack of education in the sizable minority.“We (Muslims) call us a minority community,” ...

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LASHIO - In the latest bout of anti-Muslim violence in Burma, Buddhist mobs burned down Muslim homes and mosques for the second day in the northern of Lashio on Wednesday, May 29. I don't know where the Muslims are. They a ...

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CAIRO - The Indonesian government is planning to ban mosques from using loudspeakers to broadcast religious sermons, following complaints of noise by residents living near worship places.“We're discussing the technical det ...

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10 August 2012 After years of threats, attacks and court action, the Islamic Center of Murfreesboro's new mosque opened its doo ...

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31 July 2012 The OIC-founded Islamic University in Uganda (IUIU) has granted admission to Christian students from Nigeria to st ...

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LAGOS - Worried of being caught in the fight between security forces and militants, fears are gripping Muslims in north-eastern Nigeria over an army swoop to hunt down Boko Haram members.“Everybody now lives in fear of bei ...

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CAIRO - The fatal shooting of the son of a Muslim leader at one of Scotland's biggest mosques is shocking the Muslim community in Scotland. My heart literally bled when I was informed about the loss,” Ahmed Yahya Berrada, ...

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BRUSSELS — A Belgian city has rescinded a six-year-old ban on the wearing of hijab, allowing civil servants to don the religious outfit, to the jubilance of the Muslim community. This is a historic turning point for ethnic ...

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STOCKHOLM - Recent riots in northern Stockholm following a fatal shooting of an old man are raising fears among Swedish Muslims that the violence would pour into the benefit of far-right, anti-immigrant parties to accelerate ...

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I know that I am walking a very fine line here but I will and I have to. Recently Fazil Say, the Turkish pianist, faced a sentence of up to one and a half years in prison for the crime of 'openly insulting the sacred values of a certain fraction of the general public'. By Sinem Tezyapar

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A Muslim from Kashmir, where millions of Muslims live in suffering and that has literally turned into an open-air prison for them, wrote this on his blog this week. By Didem Rahvanci

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Why is nobody convinced it was two young Chechens behind the Boston events? Because strange things are happening. And the world is now more aware of these strange goings-on! By Aylin Kocaman