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KUALA LUMPUR - Prominent Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim was charged Tuesday, May 22, for his role in protests demanding electoral reforms, a move that is seen as aiming to strip the firebrand opponent from his righ ...

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CAIRO - Allaying fears of Islamist domination of Egypt's political landscape, Muslim Brotherhood's presidential candidate Mohamed Mursi has vowed full rights for Christians and women under his presidency. I am committed to ...

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CAIRO - Two months before the holy fasting month, expatriate Filipino Muslims in the United Arab Emirates are stocking up food to ship to poor families in the Philippines for Ramadan. During the holy month, they are focuse ...

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CAIRO - Amid opposition to building Muslim worship places, Muslims in the US city of DeKalb, Illinois, are struggling to get official permission to build a mosque to serve their community, assuring neighbors and officials on ...

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14 March 2012 A bitter dispute between siblings came before the ACT Supreme Court in Canberra last week, when a daughter of a d ...

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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 ...