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20 February 2012 The majority of Nigerian Mulsims do not back the views of Boko Haram, a militant group that has carried out de ...

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15 January 2012 South African Muslims proested agains a softdrink ad that was disprespectful of Jesus and communicated to Chris ...

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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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CAIRO - Catering for the growing numbers of Muslim scouts in Britain, a new uniform has been launched to fit Muslim girls, The Guardian reported Friday, March 30. Scouting has something to offer everyone, no matte ...

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LONDON - Despite the boom of Islamic finance in recent years, the shortage of experienced scholars in applying Shari`ah principles is hindering the progress of the industry. The big problem is that there just aren't enough ...

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CAIRO - Al-Azhar, the highest seat of learning to the Sunni Muslim world, withdrew Thursday, March 29, from a panel tasked with writing Egypt's new constitution. Al-Azhar announces that it will not participate in the panel ...

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DAMASCUS - As opposition groups squabble over politics and world powers are unable to stop the bloodshed of civilians, Islamists are seeking to make religion the unifying basis of the uprising against the regime of Syrian Pre ...

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PARIS - The French government on Thursday, March 29, banned four Muslim scholars from entering the country to attend a major Islamic conference next week. These people's positions and statements calling for hatred and viol ...

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KARACHI - Samina Kamal, a lecturer at a local college, was attentively listening to a German psychologist while counseling working women on how to deal with daily stresses and save family life.“I have been attending these ...

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

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SANAA - The application of hudud (penalties) by Al-Qaeda militants in southern Yemeni provinces under their control is sparking a storm of condemnations from Muslim scholars.“Al-Qaeda has no legal, constitutional or Shari` ...

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OCCUPIED JERUSALEM - EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton's comparison of the killing of three Jewish children in a school shooting in France and the death of Palestinian children in Gaza has sparked fury in Israel, T ...

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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 ...