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06 May 2012 Hussein al-Kharsan, a 25-year-old Iraqi, aims to writie the longest copy of the Qur'an in the world. Kharsan says t ...

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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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11 March 2012 The World Day of Muslim Culture, Peace, Dialogue and Film was observed on 11 March in various countries around th ...

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13 February 2012 The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) is to hold a media workshop in Brussels on Feb 15 to 16 pertaini ...

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28 May 2012 Plans have been enacted to encourage mosques in London to join the quest to save dwindling bee populations after tw ...

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28 April 2012 Islamic associations and mosques in Belgium have ended a dispute over prayer timings in the country and have an a ...

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02 February 2012 The Muslim community in nepal has demanded that they be recognised as a separate minority group â€& ...

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

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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 ...