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CAIRO - Seeking to overcome a severe shortage that affects their religious minorities, Muslims and Jews in the Australian eastern city of New South Wales have agreed to share burial spaces in a new cemetery for their communit ...

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SITTWE, Burma - Fleeing Burmese prosecution to monsoon danger, boats carrying at least 150 displaced Rohingya Muslims have capsized after being trapped by storm in the sea, leaving many people feared drowned.“The governmen ...

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CAIRO - Young British Muslims on university campuses have lashed out at claims made in a study by a self-styled campus watchdog accusing them of segregating and denigrating women, rejecting it as a witch hunt aiming at demoni ...

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CAIRO - Agreeing to bury their differences, Muslim and Jewish minorities in New South Wales have approved to share burial space in a new cemetery for both communities to overcome severe shortage threatening both groups.“Be ...

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TERRE HAUTE, Indiana - Holding negative views of Islam and Muslims for years, the beliefs of an American army veteran have changed thanks to a young Muslim teen who gave him a true image of his misunderstood faith. I would ...

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CAIRO - Muslim scholars from around the world will come together at an international meeting in Turkey this weekend to discuss Ijma (scholarly consensus) and unity among Muslims.“Ijma means issues on which the ummah [Musli ...

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CAIRO - Seeking to promote modern education among Muslims and reduce stampede for university places, Malawi is planning to open the country's first Islamic university for students interested in studying Islam.“We all have ...

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ISLAMABAD - Set to win absolute majority in Pakistan's parliamentary election, two-time premier Nawaz Sharif is inheriting daunting challenges ranging from simmering militancy, a battered economy, energy crisis to strained re ...

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LONDON - A growing number of Shiite Muslims in Britain are turning to Mut'ah (temporary) marriage as a way to balance religious beliefs and modern Western lifestyle, a practice rejected by Sunni scholars as covered prostituti ...

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CAIRO - A Muslim chaplain has been appointed to cater for the religious needs of students at the University of Melbourne, to the jubilance of staffers for helping fill in the missing role for Islamic guidance on campus.“Th ...

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LONDON, Ontario - Seeking to clear image of Islam following an aborted plot to attack trains and deadly bombings in the United States, the Muslim community in the east-central Canadian province of Ontario has opened their mos ...

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MUNICH - Helping their players to fulfil their religious duties, German football giants Bayern Munich have decided to build a mosque to help Muslim footballers to perform their prayers.The German football club agreed to a ...

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CAIRO - A Muslim chaplain has been appointed to help accommodate the religious needs of students at the University of Melbourne, welcomed by the university officials as filling in the missing role for Islamic guidance on camp ...

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20 March 2013 Sheikh Salman al-Oadah's “Open Letter to the Saudi People”, published in Engl ...

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09 July 2012 More than 100 young Jewish and Muslim leaders are meeting for the third annual Muslim Jewish Conference (MJC) in B ...

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18 June 2012 The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), in a bid to enhance cooperation and integration with Islamic countr ...

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22 July 2012 The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) is working toward its goal of an Educational Exchange Program that s ...

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06 July 2012 A new, modern-style, green-domed mosque opened today in the paris suburb of Cergy. At 2,000 square me ...

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July 2, 2012 After protests by Jewish and Muslim groups, the Dutch Parliament's Upper House (the Senate, pictured) has voted no ...

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14 August 2012 Authorities in Hamburg have become the first in Germany to officially recognize Islamic holidays so Muslim emplo ...