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I know that I am walking a very fine line here but I will and I have to. Recently Fazil Say, the Turkish pianist, faced a sentence of up to one and a half years in prison for the crime of 'openly insulting the sacred values of a certain fraction of the general public'. By Sinem Tezyapar

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A Muslim from Kashmir, where millions of Muslims live in suffering and that has literally turned into an open-air prison for them, wrote this on his blog this week. By Didem Rahvanci

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Why is nobody convinced it was two young Chechens behind the Boston events? Because strange things are happening. And the world is now more aware of these strange goings-on! By Aylin Kocaman

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CAIRO - An Indian Muslim student has been denied his place in a Bangalore university after he refused to shave his beard, a move criticized as blatant anti-Muslim discrimination.“The actual problem started last year itself ...

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BERN - Leaders of the German Muslim community have urged the government to take stronger measures against far-right groups after several mosques have come under Islamophobic attacks over the past two weeks.“Attacks against ...

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CAIRO - Getting a break in the prime of his career, an American Muslim footballer have made a month-long journey across thirty different states during last Ramadan, capped with the life-time spi ...

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CAIRO - Frustrated of falling repeatedly under siege after acts of terrorism or violence done in their name, British Muslims rushed to social media to express their outrage and sorrow, in a spontaneous outpouring of grief at ...

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17 May 2013 London-based firm Cobalt has developed a sharia-compliant insurance platform that uses a syndication model to help ...

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This final article of the series mentions the very last of the Major Signs that will occur before the Day of Judgment. These signs include three landslides, the appearance of a smoke, the rising of the sun from the We ...

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FEARING Allah is a positive trait that once properly settled into the heart changes one's life considerably to be in conformity with divine injunctions. Therefore, as once said by one of the early pious predecessors, ...

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Shariffa Carlo, ex-Christian, USA, had joined a group in America that had a plan to “destroy Islam.” They had a plan, but Allah is the best planner, says Carlo, who with that sinister design came in contact with Islam ...

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AND Allah has made for you in your homes an abode…” (Al-Nahl 16:80) The home is a blessing. Here, Ibn Katheer (may Allah have mercy on him) commented: “Allah, may H ...

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Shamsuddin Mohammed, “Ibn Battuta”, the great Muslim adventurer of Morocco, was born on 17th of Rajab 703 AH (corresponding to Feb. 24, 1304) to an educated family in Tangier.

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PESHAWAR - The allotment of the education ministry in a militancy-hacked province in north-western Pakistan to a mainstream religious party is sparking a new face-off between Islamists and secularists in the Asian Muslim coun ...

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LAGOS - The highest umbrella Muslim body in Nigeria has named a new secretary general to pilot the affairs of the powerful entity, a selection hailed for satisfying a long-standing yearning for traditional Muslim scholars wit ...

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LAGOS - New government guidelines for takaful (Islamic insurance) are facing hurdles in Nigeria as most Muslims are not aware of its workings and concepts, dealing a blow to efforts to position the African country as a hub of ...

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CAIRO - Despite of Muslim condemnations, a machete killing in London has sparked a wave of revenge attacks against the Muslim community and their worship places in Britain, The Guardian reported Thursday, May 23. ...

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LONDON - Amid a Muslim outrage of the grisly murder, British officials distanced Thursday, May 23, Islam from the killing of an army cadet by two machete-wielding men in London. This was not just an attack on Britain and o ...

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22 May 2013 The Bradford Synagogue in northern England was facing a dwindling population and serious financial woes when the lo ...

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12 April 2013 The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Met) is currently holding an exhibit that goes beyond the art — ...