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DELHI - Amid public grief over the death of a gang-rape victim, a leading Muslim group has called on faith leaders to dedicate their religious sermons to fighting atrocities against women.“I urge the religious leaderships ...

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CAIRO - As Egyptians await the official results of a referendum on Egypt's constitution, the status of Al-Azhar, the highest seat of learning in the Sunni Muslim world, is sparking a new controversy between opponents and supp ...

Last Modified:  31 Dec 2012 01:18  GMT

CAIRO - Watching the horrifying news about the death of 20 school children in a shooting rampage, Huma Yasin, a Connecticut Muslim mother, decided to step in and invite religious leaders in her community to solace the victims ...

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11 June 2012 Australia has gone from the second most hated country among Indonesians to the second most loved, according to ann ...

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08 April 2012 The world's first air travel prayer time calculator has been launched to help Muslims know their prayer times alo ...

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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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18 February 2012 Chinese authorities in the troubled northwestern region of Xinjiang have launched an ideological campaign amid ...

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Jeddah: Saudi Arabian authorities have arrested a liberal writer on the charges of insulting the religion Islam last week as he posted some objectionable comments on his account of a popular social networking website, Twitter. By Farhan Iqbal

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MALE - A proposed bill requiring political parties in the Maldives to have a minimum number of registered members is drawing fire as an attempt to dissolve the country's only Islamic party.“This is a big political and lega ...

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TORONTO - Highlighting the Islamic teachings of giving and contribution, a leading Muslim intellectual has called on the Muslim community in Canada to play a positive role in promoting the welfare of their society.“The ver ...

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CAIRO - An Islamic center in North Texas is sponsoring a new campaign to encourage Muslims to foster kids and overcome difficulties children might face if they were raised in a non-Muslim house.“It's a service to humanity, ...

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CAIRO - An American woman has been charged with murder after pushing 46-year-old Indian immigrant to his death onto a subway train track in New York, thinking he was a Muslim.“The defendant is accused of committing what is ...

Last Modified:  30 Dec 2012 01:18  GMT

CAIRO - Prophecies of the doomsday on Friday, December 21, are meeting rejections from Muslim scholars as a “big lie”, criticizing the media for creating panic and terror among the public.“No one knew about the exact date ...

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CAIRO - A constitution commemorating a new era in Egypt's future was approved in a referendum after the second round of vote showed a greater support for the document among Egyptians, officials in rival camps announced prelim ...

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CAIRO - An American woman has been charged with murder as a hate crime for pushing 46-year-old Indian immigrant to his death onto a subway train track in New York, thinking he was a Muslim.“The defendant is accused of comm ...

Last Modified:  29 Dec 2012 05:18  GMT

CAIRO - A British anti-fascist research center has warned that the far-right surge could spark a new wave of political violence and lone-wolf acts of terror similar to Norwegian mass murderer Anders Breivik.“We have distur ...

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CAIRO - Indian Muslim youth are complaining of the government's failure to enroll them in its work schemes, criticizing 'scanty' socio-economic conditions of the religious minority. Most of the candidates cannot even affor ...

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CAIRO - Addressing the newly empowered senate, Egyptian president Mohamed Mursi appealed to Egyptians on Saturday, December 29, to work together to rebuild the country, insisted that a new constitution that fuelled protests g ...

Last Modified:  29 Dec 2012 01:18  GMT

CAIRO - A British anti-fascist research center has warned that the far-right surge could spark a new wave of political violence and lone-wolf acts of terror similar to Norwegian mass murderer Anders Breivik.“We have distur ...

Last Modified:  29 Dec 2012 01:18  GMT

LONDON - With a rising population of Muslims in the UK, the number of interfaith marriages deviating from the faith's traditional norms has surged in recent years, increasing concerns over an unlikely bonding between Islamic ...