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LONDON - French football icon Eric Cantona has joined a storm of international outcry over the detention of Palestinian footballers in Israeli jails, calling for ending Israel's impunity over its human rights violations. I ...

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WASHINGTON - Failures of the no-fly List program in the United States have revealed a new level of incompetence, where known criminals are allowed to fly while innocent people are grounded.In  2003, when the FBI's Ter ...

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ABUJA - A wave of attacks on churches in Nigeria's northern Kaduna state on Sunday, July 17, prompted angry Christian youth to drag Muslims out of their cars and kill them in retaliation. There were bodies everywhere on th ...

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CAIRO - Egyptian voters cast their ballot in a second day of voting on Sunday, July 17, to elect a new president between a former general from the old regime or an Islamist from the long-suppressed Muslim Brotherhood. We h ...

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29 May 2012 A substantial collection of books that belonged to an Arab scholar who was a highly influential figure within Briti ...

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03 April 2012 Google has just announced a massive expansion of its Art Project, adding collections from a number of museums aro ...

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17 April 2012 The United Nations expressed alarm on Monday after reports saying that rebels had pillaged and looted the Ahmad B ...

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10 April 2012 To address some of the pressing issues in the country, a coalition of Muslims organizations in Nigeria is organiz ...

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WASHINGTON - A Muslim civil rights group has applauded President Barack Obama's decision to allow hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants to obtain work permits and be safe from deportation. Young people who have ...

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CAIRO - American Muslims are increasingly falling in love with basketball, in a relationship that transcends any particular player or team and embraces the sport itself a way to foster their relationship with the wider commun ...

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CAIRO - Facing real life problems, students at the University of Toronto have launched a new fundraising campaign to fund a year-long contract for the first-ever full-time Muslim chaplain on a Canadian campus.“Many Muslim ...

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CAIRO - Reaching the final stage of Egypt's path towards democracy, Egyptians began voting on Saturday, June 16, to choose their first president after the January 25 revolution in the runoff pitting an Islamist against a form ...

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DUBAI — While the global economic crisis has cut charity around the world, an annual zakat, alms, amount between US$200 billion and $1 trillion are spent to the poor across the Muslim world, the amount experts say is mismanag ...

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CAIRO - Muslims in North America will welcome the holy fasting month of Ramadan on July 20, according to astronomical calculations. [The] first day of Ramadan is Friday, July 20, insha'Allah, the Fiqh Council of North Ame ...

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CAIRO - Egypt's voters will head to the ballot boxes on Saturday to choose their first president after the January 25 revolution in the runoff held bet ...

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PARIS - French anti-Zionist Philosopher and ex-member of the Communist Party Roger Garaudy has passed away at the age of 99, it was announced on Friday, June 15.He died on Wednesday in the Paris suburb of Chennevieres, loc ...

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CAIRO - Fueling fear and frustration among Oregon Muslims, the tactics of US Federal Bureau of investigation (FBI), including deploying secret informants and putting imams on no-fly list, are aggravating the poor relationship ...

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NEW DELHI - Muslim civil rights activists in India have rallied in a protest against the unfair targeting of Muslims in the name of fighting terrorism. We are not saying do not arrest those involved in terror activities. B ...

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08 April 2012 Muslims in Australia were reinforcing their faith at a Twins of Faith conference. The Melbourne conf ...

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12 February 2012 This week, Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd has invited Professor Ekmelledin Ihsanoglu, the Secretary General of th ...