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CAIRO - The appointment of an American Muslim known for his support for police surveillance on the sizable minority in the US commission on religious freedoms is inviting Muslim ire.“It would have been better to appoint so ...

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CAIRO - A new survey has found that more than half of Canadians distrust Muslims, the lowest level of trustworthiness of religious groups in the country, The Washington Post reported.Nearly 52 percent of Canadians ...

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CAIRO - Speculations about plans by the Muslim Brotherhood to field a candidate in Egypt's first democratic election since the ouster of president Hosni Mubarak are causing internal divisions in the powerful group.“It's an ...

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LAGOS - Anger is building on in Nigeria's largest city of Lagos over the demolition of six mosques as part of efforts to uproot the militant Boko Haram group, a move denounced by Muslims as affront on their faith. Even in ...

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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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12 March 2012 A senior research fellow at the Brookings Institution has called into question recent claims by Germany's Interio ...

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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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19 March 2012 An increase in hate-induced violence against Muslims and Jews during the past year in the province of Manitoba an ...

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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 - Thousands of Christian and Muslim mourners gathered in Cairo Tuesday, March 20, to say a final farewell to Pope Shenouda III, the spiritual leader of Egypt's Coptic minority. I can't tell you how much sorrow I have ...

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CAIRO - Plans to establish a new Islamic school in Mernda, a suburb in Australia's south-eastern state of Victoria, have received a knockout for reasons seen as resulting from the growing anti-Islam sentiments in the society. ...

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GUJARAT - The hacking and burning to death of Muslims in the western Indian state of Gujarat have galvanized Muslim women to raise up their voices against injustice. It's all about securing justice by raising my voice,” Ni ...

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RABAT - Seeking to reinvigorate economy and become a regional hub of Islamic banking, Morocco is planning its first fully-fledged Islamic bank.“The current plan is to allow a gradual introduction of Islamic banks to preser ...

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PARIS - France has come under fierce criticism from an international body of Muslim scholars over denying prominent scholar Sheikh Yusuf Al-Qaradawi entry into the southern European country to attend a major Islamic conferenc ...

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CAIRO - Depicting a decade of negative portrayal of American Muslims in the post-9/11 era, a new play will go on stage on Friday, March 30, to draw real-life Muslim experiences.“After 9/11, when I got together with Sikhs o ...

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Welsh soldiers have paid a visit to a mosque to prepare them for their forthcoming tour to Afghanistan. Troops from 1st Battalion, The Royal Welsh went along to the Zakaria Mosque, in Bolton, one of the largest in the north west.

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CAIRO - The school employing an American teacher killed by Al-Qaeda militants in Yemen has denied accusations he was proselytizing Christianity, saying he “highly respected” the Islamic faith.“Joel S. was a very profession ...

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SANAA - Despite political and security unrest, Yemen is becoming a favorite destination for foreign students seeking to study Islam.“I feel home here,” Abdel-Rahman, an Indonesian student who studies at the School of Thoug ...

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PESHAWAR - The killing of Osama bin Laden in a US raid following a fake vaccination campaign to track Al-Qaeda leader is casting its shadow over campaigns to vaccinate Pakistanis against polio. They (tribesmen) consider us ...