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Malaysian legislators in the poor conservative Muslim northeastern state of Kelantan should marry single mothers to help care for their children, a state representative suggested.
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Sema Ergezen teaches biology to Turkish students interested in teaching science themselves, and she has long struggled with her students’ ignorance of, and...
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The Ft. Hood massacre is a national tragedy. Unfortunately, the United States is all too familiar with shoting rampages. Just yesterday, an unemployed man shot and...
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The annual pilgrimage to Mecca recently took place. Muslims are required - as part of the Five Pillars - to do the Hajj, as it is known, once in their life if health...
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“Renowned yoga guru Swami Ramdev Tuesday sought to promote his method of keeping fit and dispel misconceptions about it at the gathering of clerics and followers...
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Beyond its excellence in watch-making and financial services, Switzerland is still a retrograde nation in many ways. This neutral and very wealthy state did not give...
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NEW DELHI: Muslims will not be singing Vande Mataram as some verses violate the Islam’s faith in Allah is the fatwa released from the Jamiat -e-Ulema-e-Hind by their...
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C’Mon...Its just a song. I think one does not need to worship nation. If you say “Bharat Mata”, a country does not become your mother. Its a way of...
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Malaysian authorities have confiscated more than 15,000 Bibles in recent months because they referred to “God” as “Allah,” a translation that...
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Militants who control parts of Somalia’s capital city are beating women in broad daylight for violating their radical brand of Islamic law, according to local...
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[Author’s Note: This story was sparked by a prior one I wrote, so forgive me for the borrowing of the introduction].
Recent years have a renaissance in Islamic...
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The first Mosque was built by the first community of Muslims (umma) in Medina el-Nabi (City of the Prophet) near the western coast of the Arabian Peninsula.
Every...
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France is to adopt a series of measures to ‘reaffirm pride’ in the country and combat Islamic fundamentalism.
They include everybody receiving lessons in...
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In Malaysia’s current political climate, it is no longer possible to distinguish Islamic radicals from Islamic moderates. Despite official boasting about the...
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Almost all of 77 million people in Turkey are Muslim, but signs of Islamic faith are noticeably divorced from everyday life. But a growing number of Turks are joining...
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Muslims have been ordered to withdraw their children from Catholic-run schools in protest at the church’s Hijab ban.
Sheikh Mohammed Dor said the church’s...
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A recent article in The Economist on the state of education in the Arab world does not make for pleasant reading. The Arabs fall behind most of the rest of the world in...
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Freshman Florida Congressman Alan Grayson aspires to be the new famed Louisiana Governor Huey Long. And like his late idol, he is also big and stupid and seeks to...
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The Russia’s scientists and theologians are surprised with the spontaneous emergence of inscriptions on the body of a toddler of Dagestan.
According to European...
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More than a year after he was forced to disown his Chicago pastor, President Obama has begun to attend services led by a Christian chaplain who views Islam as a violent...
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Here’s an interesting game to play, If a Muslim.... Read some story in the press about this or that all-American committing some heinous act and then ask...
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Next month’s pilgrimage, the largest international gathering in the world, provides “perfect” conditions for the spread of the H1N1 pandemic flu virus, scientists...
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Muslims have been ordered to withdraw their children from Catholic-run schools in protest at the church’s Hijab ban.
Sheikh Mohammed Dor said the church’s...
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A new pan-Islamic survey by the Washington-based Pew Research Center (cited in this week’s The Economist) provides a image of the Muslim world that while not a...
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When she was 11, a Swedish-born girl was taken on vacation to her mother’s native Somalia. The mother wanted to “make her daughter clean” and paid a man to cut...
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There is much controversy surrounding Muslim women who wear a hijab. For those who don’t know, a hijab is the veiling of hair and body parts, allowing the woman...
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Iran is set to allow what is believed to be its first transsexual marriage after the would-be bride asked a court to override her father’s opposition to the...
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Police nab four out of 12 cow head protesters
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PETALING JAYA: Police on Tuesday nabbed four out of the 12 people allegedly involved in the cow head...
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I was invited by someone on FaceBook to join a group dedicated to stop calling Muslims terrorists.
I only have one problem with that. Since 9/11 eight years ago I have...
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The Malaysian government has reversed a ban on Muslims attending a concert by the , ban reversed in Kuala Lumpur.
Officials had imposed the ban because the show is...
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Potential Muslim internet users who might previously have avoided the internet for some of its less wholesome content, now have a safe option in the new search engine...
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The first ‘Halal Search Engine’ is launched in UK. This search engine is intended to provide a safe option to potential Muslim internet users who might previously...
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I’m gonna come right out and say it. I hate ramadan.
I hate how people drive like maniacs just because they’re fasting. I hate how I’m given weird...
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Dozens of Malaysian Muslims paraded yesterday with the head of a cow, a sacred animal in Hinduism, in a dramatic protest against the proposed construction of a Hindu...
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It’s official! Malaysia is really taking the war on drinking a little too far and playing the role of God himself.
The case of beer drinking model remains...
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Prior to his swearing in, then President-elect Barack Obama made it clear that he considered a more harmonious relationship between the United States and the Muslim...
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When a Danish publication printed offense and racist political cartoons of the Islamic Prophet Muhammad (saw), several Arab ambassadors to Denmark publicly called on...
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The main source of support for Israel among average Americans (not to say elite opinions) is not the Israel lobby but the Bible. The Israel lobby builds support in...
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A town in northern Italy has banned women from wearing the “burqini” favored by conservative Muslim women, Al Arabiya reports.
The anti-immigration mayor...
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Secular Martyrs of India
The Muslim names like “Ahmadulla” may be strange but are so sublime and solemn are resting in peace now but they neither knew any...
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Afsheen Shamsi of Princeton, N.J., community relations director for the Council on American-Islamic Relations, talks about her organization at their offices in South Plainfield, N.J., Friday, April 24, 2009. A coalition of Muslim organizations, including.
