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CAIRO - Negative media portrayals of Muslims and their faith have prompted a Canadian professor to study Islam and the Noble Qur'an, leading him to embrace the faith. When I came to Saudi Arabia I realized how wrongly the ...

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DOHA - Marriages between family members are sparking a heated debate in the Arab Gulf region, with some believe that the practice helps securing relationships, while others see it contradicting with modern lifestyles. We'r ...

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STRASBURG - The European Court of Human Rights on Thursday, April 12, upheld a German ban on incest, rejecting an appeal against the conviction of a German man over an incestuous relationship with his sister.“All the legal ...

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TASHKENT - Uzbekistan's government is reportedly running a secret program to sterilize women without their knowledge in an effort to control the growing population in the Muslim-majority country.“Every year we are presente ...

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CAIRO - The growing religiosity in Kosovo is raising a hot debate in Europe's youngest Muslim-majority country, a trend attributed by some Kosovars to the growing impact of Muslim charities in the country.“You see more wom ...

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CAIRO - Praising religious freedoms and respect of minority rights in the world's most populous Muslim country, British Prime Minister David Cameron said Wednesday, April 12, that Indonesia gives an example that Islam and dem ...

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SANAA - Feeling excluded and robbed from their most basic and inherent rights, a Yemeni activist has launched a campaign to promote a fairer treatment of women in Yemen as enshrined in the Noble Qur'an and Islamic teachings. ...

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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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27 March 2012 In order to further ensure peaceful co-existence among the two major religions in the country, Muslim women under ...

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CAIRO - In an effort to clear misconceptions about Islam, prominent Muslim scholars, senior government officials and dignitaries from around the world will gather in Dubai next week to spread the true peaceful teachings of th ...

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CAIRO - A campaign by a German Muslim group to distribute free copies of the Noble Qur'an as part of efforts to educate people about Islam is inviting anger from German politicians, The Local newspaper reported Wedne ...

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Moscow - A Russian Muslim activist has been found dead in Moscow with his throat slashed, a grisly killing that has sent shockwaves across the sizable Muslim minority in Russia.The murder is “brutal, barbaric and medieval, ...

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KARACHI - Providing guidance for new reverts, a Pakistani Islamic school has established a multi-purpose camp to teach new Muslims the basic principles of Islam and provide them with legal counseling and financial support. ...

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CAIRO - Amid rising sentiments against the sizable minority, fears of backlash are hunting Muslim women following a spate of killings by an Al-Qaeda-inspired gunman in southern France. It is terrible what he has done, Nai ...

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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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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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BEIJING - China has piled pressures on Japan to prevent a conference by an exiled group championing the rights of Uighur Muslims, who are the subject of repressive policies by Beijing. We believe this organization harms Ch ...

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ABUJA - Muslim lawyers are planning to sue the state government of Nigeria's largest state of Lagos to reverse a ban on the wearing of hijab at schools.“The decision to go to court is a culmination of several events that a ...

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CAIRO - In a new blow to Egypt's rocky transition after the downfall of president Hosni Mubarak, a Cairo court suspended Tuesday, April 10, the formation of a panel tasked with writing the country's new constitution. This ...

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CAIRO - In a major religious shift in the south Asian Muslim country, a new trend of conservatism is appearing among wealthy and educated Muslim women in Pakistan.“Recently there are a lot of young women coming to a very t ...