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I recently wrote about how Westerns often overstated the importance of Egypt’s al-Azhar University - the most authoritative voice in Sunni Islam. al-Azhar, which is also the oldest university in the world, is significant and many of its rulings carry...
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Egypt’s Al-Azhar university said Thursday it would ban the niqab or face veil from female classrooms and dormitories, according to AFP.
“The Supreme...
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A Canadian Muslim group is calling on Ottawa to ban the wearing of the burka in public, saying the argument that the right to wear it is protected by the...
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Whatever one may say it is quite fitting that this would take place in Paris.
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The Muslim women veil issue in France is gradually taking an ugly shape across the world. The ‘extra’ liberal people possessed with Western...
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Palestinian Abdel Munam Sumarin holds a picture of his late grandfather Abdel Latif Sumarin in the cemetery of the West Bank village of Burqa, near Ramallah, Monday, Nov. 10, 2008. The transformation of one piece of West Bank land from a Palestinian...
