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DAMASCUS - Syria said that the year-long revolt to topple President Bashar Al-Assad's regime, that left thousands of people dead, is now over. The battle to topple the state is over, Syrian Foreign Ministry spokesman Jiha ...

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TORONTO - Muslims across North America commemorated the Earth Day with a major campaign that saw imams deliver religious sermons to raise awareness on the environmental challenges facing humanity. The ‘Think Green Khut ...

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CAIRO - Hundreds of thousands of Ethiopian Muslims have taken to the streets to protest the government's oppression on their community and interference in their religious affairs. This is the first time I see Ethiopian Mus ...

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SANAA - Yemenis are marrying off their daughters at a very early age, a practice seen by Muslim imams as rooted in tribal traditions, rather than in Islamic teachings. Much of child marriages are rooted in tribal tradition ...

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HOLLYWOOD - Cheering up their Muslim teammate, a Floridian high school football team decided to don hijab before their season finale game to show solidarity with their Muslim captain who has been taunted repeatedly over her r ...

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DOHA - As fury continued over the visit of Egypt's Mufti to Al-Quds (occupied Jerusalem), prominent scholar Sheikh Yusuf Al-Qaradawi denounced the visit as haram, unlawful, for normalizing ties with Israel and its military oc ...

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OSLO - As survivors and victims' relatives hugged and sobbed, notorious Norwegian anti-Islam murderer Anders Behring Breivik gave on Friday, April 20, a chilling account of his shooting massacre in Utoeya island last year, ex ...

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DETROIT - A Muslim civil liberties group filed a lawsuit on Friday, April 13, against the federal government, accusing it of violating the First Amendment rights of US Muslims who were repeatedly profiled, handcuffed and subj ...

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CAIRO - Pentagon officials are desperately attempting at dismaying controversial Qur'an-burning pastor Terry Jones from burning the holy Qur'an next week, saying his action could sour relations with Kabul and unleash huge pro ...

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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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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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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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28 January 2012 The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) today offered mosques and other Muslim institutions a model L ...

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SINGAPORE - Traveling for hours above the clouds, businessman Abdalhamid Evans could not perform most of his daily prayers on time while flying as he crosses various time zones at thousands of meters above sea level. I usu ...

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CAIRO - For the first time in months, Egypt Islamist and liberal forces reunited in Tahrir square on Friday, April 20, in a million march to demand their military rulers stick to a pledge to hand over power by mid-year. We ...