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BISHKEK - Noticing an increasing demand for healthier halal products, Kyrgyzstan plans to issue uniform standards and to form a National Halal Association to boost Muslims trust in their products and get a wider share of the ...

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WASHINGTON - A group of North America Evangelical Christians has released a DVD series aiming at proselytizing American Muslims disaffected by the cultural differences and suffering rising hate after Boston marathon bombing. ...

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CAIRO - A new analysis of UK 2011 census has found a sharp decline in Christian affiliation among the British-born population, with many experts expecting that people identifying themselves as Christians could become a minori ...

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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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Cecilia Mahmuda Cannolly of Australia looked for questions to answers pertaining to her religion, which she didn’t get forcing her ultimately to find answers in other faiths and which she did get in Islam. She n ...

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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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The tribes of Gog and Magog are referred to in a couple of places in the Qur’an. In one place, God makes it clear that these tribes existed during the time of Dhul-Qarnain: “The ...

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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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CAIRO - Plans to build a Muslim-friendly surgery center to allow women patients to be diagnosed without being worried about being seen by male doctors are sparking controversy in the US city of Chicago.“I should not have t ...

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UNITED NATIONS - Hundreds of thousands of Somalis have lost their lives to famine that hit the Horn of Africa country in the past two years, half of them children under the age of five, the United Nations revealed Thursday, M ...

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CAIRO - A bill banning the recognition of Islamic Shari`ah in state courts is set for a final vote in North Carolina on Thursday, May 16, a move seen as only aiming to make political gains at the expense of Muslims. The mo ...

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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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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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GAZA CITY - Prominent Muslim scholar Sheikh Yusuf Al-Qaradawi arrived in Gaza late Wednesday, May 8, in a major blow to a crippling Israeli blockade on the strip. Our whole ambition is to die on the path to Allah, and for ...

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OCCUPIED JERUSALEM - Thousands of Palestinians in the occupied lands commemorated Wednesday, May 15, the Nakba Day, which marks the creation of Israel on the rubble of Palestine. Sixty-five years after the Nakba, we affirm ...

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CAIRO - A British councilor has resigned his seat after sharing offensive materials about Muslims and their religion on the Facebook. It is with sadness that I am announcing my resignation as a councilor,” Eric Kitson, a m ...

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OCCUPIED JERUSALEM - Israeli occupation forces detained the Grand Mufti of Al-Quds on Wednesday, May 8, after storming into his house, drawing condemnations from Palestinian officials. At 8.10 a.m. two vehicles from Israel ...

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WASHINGTON - Large majorities of Muslims around the world want the application of Shari`ah as the official law in their countries, but differ on the degree of implementation, a new global survey has found. Muslims are not ...

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CAIRO - Sectarian tension between Sunnis and Shiites in Britain is alarming the main umbrella Muslim group in the country following marches and attacks by a number of Salafists against Shiite Muslims.“The Muslim Council of ...

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07 April 2012 Some of the world's most recognized and renowned authorites in Islamic Law and Islamic Legal Theory are meeting i ...