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13 March 2012 The Arab World Institute (Institut du Monde Arabe) in Paris, which has just turned 25, has completely re ...

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13 March 2012 Britain's National Theatre is showing Can We Talk About This? , a verbatim dance work from the physical theatre ...

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CAIRO - The slaughter of scores of Syrian civilians, including children, has sparked a storm of outrage from Muslims worldwide, amid calls for an urgent action to stop ongoing bloodshed in the pivotal Arab country.“Those c ...

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WUHAN, China - Plans to force Badminton women players to wear skirts have been shelved by the game's world body following a fierce opposition that threatened to overshadow the Olympics. We have shelved the ban (on women we ...

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KLANG, Malaysia — Earning their title as the world's most persecuted minority, Myanmar's ethnic Rohingya Muslims are risking troublesome seas and lands to flee oppression at their homeland for a meager dream of a better life. ...

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CAIRO - Muslim Brotherhood's candidate Mohamed Mursi is facing off against Ahmed Shafiq, a former premier of deposed president Hosni Mubarak, in next month's runoff to elect Egypt's new president.Mursi, the leader of the B ...

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NAJAF - Long praised as a cradle of civilization that boasts scores of historical sites, a decade of war and lack of investments have taken its toll at Iraq's heritage that was left to fears of eventual demise due to neglect ...

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CAIRO - Though the Muslim Brotherhood's well-oiled campaign machine managed in three weeks to bring its presidential candidate to the second round, its success stumbled a setback as the group's support fell by almost half com ...

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LONDON - Conservative backbencher Greg Knight has sparked a controversy in Britain by calling for banning halal slaughter, pitting religious sensitivities against the conviction of animal welfare campaigners. If it said th ...

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12 May 2012 Work on Australia's first Islamic Museum, to be built in Melbourne, will begin in August after a $1.5 million grant ...

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26 April 2012 The New Statesman revealed today, in an interview by Jemima Khan, that the new MP for Bradford West, Geo ...

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11 April 2012 An organization in Germany has launched an unprecedented nationwide campaign to distribute 25 million copies of t ...

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CAIRO - The results of Egypt's election to choose a replacement to Hosni Mubarak are leaving the United States with hard choices of supporting an Islamist candidate or a close aide to the deposed president.“We have to get ...

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Cairo: A 60-year-old engineer who is also a candidate for Egypt’s presidency from the Muslim Brotherhood, Mohamed Mursi, has come first in opening round of the presidential polling in the country. By Farhan Iqbal

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ISTANBUL - Yearning for the flourishing days of the Ottoman Empire, thousands of Turkish Muslims prayed outside Aya Sofya Mosque on Saturday, May 26, in protest at a law that bars religious services at the historic monument. ...

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DAMASCUS - The cold-blooded slaughter of 90 civilians, including scores of children, in the Syrian town of Houla by Bashar Al-Assad's security forces has invited a storm of condemnations worldwide. This appalling and bruta ...

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BERLIN - A German Muslim computer scientist has developed a new smartphone application to help millions of pilgrims to find their way in the holy city of Makkah for hajj and `Umrah.“I thought it would be interesting if I c ...

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KARACHI - Muslim charities have launched a series of projects in several Pakistani jails ranging from conventional education to religious learning to turn thousands of prisoners into useful citizens.“We want to change this ...

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DAMASCUS - Appalling indiscriminate massacre for 90 Syrian civilians including 32 children by regime forces in the town of Houla has stirred fierce condemnations from world leaders as one of the bloodiest episodes since the u ...

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26 May 2012 New York City police did not violate New Jersey laws when they conducted surveillance of Muslim businesses, mosques ...