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STOCKHOLM - Coming to Fittja Grand Mosque from early hours, Swedish Muslim worshippers gathered on Friday, April 26, to witness the recitation of the first ever Adhan in their country before the Friday prayer. This is a hi ...

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20 March 2013 Sheikh Salman al-Oadah's “Open Letter to the Saudi People”, published in Engl ...

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28 March 2012 Islamic bonds (sukuk) have staged a massive comeback since 2011, after several gloomy years in which even Muslim ...

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22 July 2012 The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) is working toward its goal of an Educational Exchange Program that s ...

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09 July 2012 More than 100 young Jewish and Muslim leaders are meeting for the third annual Muslim Jewish Conference (MJC) in B ...

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18 June 2012 The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), in a bid to enhance cooperation and integration with Islamic countr ...

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14 August 2012 Authorities in Hamburg have become the first in Germany to officially recognize Islamic holidays so Muslim emplo ...

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06 July 2012 A new, modern-style, green-domed mosque opened today in the paris suburb of Cergy. At 2,000 square me ...

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July 2, 2012 After protests by Jewish and Muslim groups, the Dutch Parliament's Upper House (the Senate, pictured) has voted no ...

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27 June 2012 Mario Scialoja (pictured), a retired Italian diplomat and the first president of the Italian office of the World M ...

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11 June 2012 Australia has gone from the second most hated country among Indonesians to the second most loved, according to ann ...

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08 April 2012 The world's first air travel prayer time calculator has been launched to help Muslims know their prayer times alo ...

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26 February 2012 The Islamic Fashion Festival (IFF), a Southest Asian fashion event established in Malaysia in 2006, was hosted ...

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18 February 2012 Chinese authorities in the troubled northwestern region of Xinjiang have launched an ideological campaign amid ...

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CAIRO - In a protest against topless feminist activists staged in front of mosques across Europe, a group of Muslim women has launched an online campaign to celebrate their hijab and object to the way they are depicted in the ...

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CAIRO - Revealing horrifying facts about indiscriminate killings in Syria, an international human rights group has accused the Syrian Air Force of repeatedly carrying out deliberate strikes against civilians in a serious viol ...

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CAIRO - A new anti-terror law passed earlier this week by Canada's parliament giving security agencies “exceptional” powers to probe terror plots has been widely criticized by opposition and civil liberty groups as trampling ...

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CAIRO - Facing repeated closures of Islamic Qur'an schools, Uganda Muslims have complained about arbitrary decisions by the government, accusing it of targeting the religious minority under the pretext of fighting terrorism. ...

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In the early days of Islam, Omar, who would later become a caliph, was in a frenzied rage and set out to assassinate Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him). As he passed the house of his sister, he heard her recite pass ...

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CAIRO - The distribution of anti-Islam leaflets from a far-right activist asking Lancashire councilors to support a campaign blaming Muslims for the ‘heroin trade' is inviting huge criticism for spreading hatred against the r ...