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NEW YORK - The United Nations has joined a chorus of calls for the football's governing body to overturn a ban on the wearing of the Muslim headscarf (hijab) on pitch. It would give the opportunity for remarkable female at ...

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CAIRO - The Singaporean government is planning an endowment fund to promote Islamic education in the south-eastern Asian country, TheStraits Times newspaper reported.“I am confident that MUIS's move to c ...

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CAIRO - Seeking to avoid new desecrations of the Noble Qur'an, the US-led NATO troops in Afghanistan are being trained on how to respect the Muslim holy book. It's probably a little too simplistic to suggest that it's a si ...

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ISLAMABAD - Being used as meeting places for bigwigs and chieftains and for drug addiction, thousands of schools have been built in Pakistan for purposes other than education.“The numbers of these schools are in thousands ...

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TORONTO - Excitement is building among high-schoolers across Canada's largest city of Toronto for an annual Muslim interscholastic tournament. This weekend prepares to get Mistified! Farah Khan, spokesperson for MIST Toro ...

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25 January 2012 David Irvine (pictured), chief of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO), said during a rare ...

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05 February 2012 Canberra's Muslims have decided to continue pursuing the construction of an Islamic Museum, in spite of their ...

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27 January 2012 Adelaiede's mosques will open their doors to the public for the first time in two family-friendly open days thi ...

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12 February 2012 This week, Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd has invited Professor Ekmelledin Ihsanoglu, the Secretary General of th ...

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28 February 2012 Deputy Ruler of Dubai and UAE Minister of Finance Sheikh Hamdan bin Rashed Al Maktoum has launched the world's ...

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28 January 2012 A Saudi-based Muslim scholar tops a brand new list of the 100 most influential Arabs on Twitter, as Arabic twee ...

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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 January 2012 The First Conference of Muslim Women Parliamentarians was held at the Hotel Aryaduta Convention Center in Palem ...

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23 December 2011 The Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) hosted a conference Friday on Change in Muslim Societies and ...

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07 March 2012 Switzerland has just put an end to months of debate and administrative wrangling over the matter of face veils. ...

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20 February 2012 French far-right leader Marine Le Pen switched her presidential campaign strategy back to Muslim-bashing on Su ...

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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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15 January 2012 A fire has swept through the largest mosque in Kazakhstan's capitol on Sunday and at least one person is known ...

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21 February 2012 Yusuf Islam, formerly known as Cat Stevens, performed at a concert in Beirut Lebanon last Saturday as part of ...

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CAIRO - In a new outreach to show the true face of their religion, Muslim students are volunteering to help build homes for residents of the US state of West Virginia. They are one of the most delightful groups of students ...