Islamic World News
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2023-06-03
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Catering to the needs of its Muslim students, Georgetown University has become the first US college to open a mosque with ablution stations.
The Yarrow Mamout Masjid, named after one of the first Muslims in America, first opened its doors ...
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2023-06-03
43 Views
Emotional violence is a form of abuse to control, isolate or frighten individuals. A common misbelief is that physical violence causes more serious and long-term harm than emotional violence. In fact, the imprints of emotional abuse are similarly rea...
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2023-06-03
46 Views
Two mosques in Minneapolis were targeted by an arsonist who set them on fire one after another, raising concerns among the Muslim community who condemned the hate crimes.
Minnesota governor Tim Walz condemned the attacks, voicing support to the Musl...
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2023-06-02
60 Views
College Park’s Fazlul Kabir has made history for being elected as the first Muslim mayor in Maryland.
Kabir will be the next mayor of the City of College Park following a landslide victory in a special election held over the past month. He is ...
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2023-06-02
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Michigan lawmakers are introducing a set of bills to mark Muslim, Hindu, Sikh, and Asian holidays as official state-recognized holidays in Michigan’s official calendar.
The new holidays would be Diwali, Vaisakhi, `Eid Al-Fitr, `Eid Al-Adha and...
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2023-06-01
38 Views
Leaders of the Muslim community from across Quebec have criticized Education Minister Bernard Drainville’s move to ban public schools from setting up prayer rooms on their premises.
Drainville, the father of the Parti Québécois (...
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2023-04-01
67 Views
The Shia Student Association at Arizona State University was founded with the intention of teaching Islamic values to students and creating a safe space and educating the University community.
This faith-based association, which is called “Al-...
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2023-03-03
65 Views
A local mosque in Halifax has welcomed hundreds of visitors to mark interfaith harmony week after three-year hiatus due to COVID-19.
About 1,000 people attended the Interfaith and Multicultural Festival hosted by the Ummah Masjid and Community Cente...
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2023-03-02
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Six years after Quebec mosque deadly shooting, Muslims have launched the fifth annual Muslim Awareness Week in Montreal, inviting Quebecers to learn more about their Muslim neighbors through various cultural events.
“This week is about sharing...
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2023-03-01
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The American famous Metropolitan Museum of Art has published on its official website, an art painting, dating back to the Ottoman era, which lists what it described the first historical stages leading to the Battle of Karbala.
In its description of ...
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2023-02-11
105 Views
A Liverpool cycling group aimed at promoting cycling among Muslim mothers, asylum seekers, and people from across the wider community is the subject of a new BBC documentary set to be aired.
The Toxteth Cycle Club documentary is about the Toxteth ba...
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2023-02-10
89 Views
The ‘Los Angeles Times’ published a detailed article on Muslims in the United States of America, in which it indicated that Muslim immigrants suffer from abuse in the media, in addition to their suffering from marginalization in the media...
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2023-01-30
78 Views
British Airways has unveiled its first uniform change in two decades for its crew members featuring a tunic and hijab options for Muslim women.
“Our uniform is an iconic representation of our brand, something that will carry us into our future...
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2023-01-30
76 Views
Dearborn, home to a large Muslim and Arab community, responded to more than 1,000 mental health-related emergencies in 2022.
In Dearborn, home to one of the largest Muslim communities in the US and also known as the capital of Arab America, mental h...
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2023-01-29
58 Views
A Calgary Muslim group hosted an event to educate the community and make a change.
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2023-01-28
65 Views
Reclaiming and defending women’s rights based on Islam
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2023-01-10
54 Views
Media sources announced that the officials and local authorities of two states "Minnesota" and "Connecticut" agreed with the official closing of "Eid Fitr" in the schools of these two states.
Following the approval of this order, Muslim students and...
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2023-01-03
45 Views
Brazil is often seen as a cordial country unless you’re a hijab-wearing Muslim woman in working-class!
A recently published study on islamophobia in Brazil showed that islamophobia is common among Muslim women in the South American nation. The...
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2023-01-02
39 Views
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2023-01-02
53 Views
Mosques in the UK have been holding open days for their local communities for decades.
At the national initiative, #VisitMyMosque was first conceived in February 2015 with about 20 mosques taking part.
Held under the auspices of Muslim Council of B...
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2022-12-14
66 Views
Muslim students from several Islamic schools in Windsor-Essex, Canada have donated more than 100 coats and winter gear to the UHC- Hub of Opportunities, formerly Unemployed Help Centre of Windsor Inc.
The free coat drive was led by students from Al-...
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2022-12-11
63 Views
Students at Queen Mary University, London, have voted to disaffiliate from the National Union of Students (NUS), and have accused the student body of “anti-Palestinian racism,” after its Muslim president Shaima Dallali was fired last mont...
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2022-12-05
54 Views
Tourists visit mosques and curious about the culture.
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2022-11-28
82 Views
Being on the frontlines of the pandemic, Minnesota health care workers Yasmin Samatar and Faraoli Adam have struggled to find personal protective equipment for Muslim women like them.
Samatar and Adam, both 29, met at St. Catherine’s Universit...
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2022-11-27
84 Views
Night of Museums, or the Long Night of Museum, is a cultural event across Europe since 2005
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2022-11-27
68 Views
Muslims have made history in the midterm elections in US.
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2022-11-26
59 Views
Winners Show Taste of Creativity
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2022-11-20
72 Views
Yusuf Shah achieved a higher IQ score than two of the world’s most famous geniuses.
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2022-11-10
64 Views
In a fresh provocation to Australian Muslim community, a Melbourne school has been accused of forcing a Muslim student to watch an offensive cartoon of Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him).
The video was one of a series of examples on “hybridi...
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2022-11-09
74 Views
Marine El Himer, a former French model and reality TV star, has converted to Islam, sharing a video with her fans, showing her taking the shahada or declaration of faith at a mosque. Two days after the announcement, Himer shared her photos in hijab n...
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2022-11-08
88 Views
The Latest Report by the Muslim Council of Britain (MCB)
The 22nd of September saw the release of the latest report by the Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) in collaboration with Everyday Muslim Archive and Heritage Initiative (an archive which docume...
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2022-11-07
131 Views
British police said evidence showed an extreme right-wing terrorist ideology had motivated a petrol bomb attack on an immigration center in the southern English port town of Dover on Oct. 30.
Far right terrorist, Andrew Leak, from High Wycombe in Bu...
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2022-11-02
96 Views
The Muslim Student Association of CSUF emerged victorious on Oct. 23 at a basketball tournament to promote unity and fundraise for Muslim youth.
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2022-10-31
83 Views
Hijrah exhibition at Ithra follows Prophet Mohammed’s migration from Makkah to Madinah
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2022-10-26
74 Views
Nabeela Ixtabalan, a Canadian Muslim woman received the country’s Most Powerful Women Top 100 award, in recognition of her efforts in the society.
Nabeela oversees the operations and performance of Walmart Canada's 400-plus stores. She is one ...
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2022-10-22
79 Views
As Canada celebrates October as Islamic Heritage month, Cambridge city hall hosted an event this month to spread knowledge about Islamic civilization and foster more understanding inside the community.
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2022-10-22
68 Views
Amid expectations of harsh winter months due to rising prices, a British Islamic charity is donating hundreds of food packs to students in the UK, as they plan to feed more students across the October half-term, and Christmas holidays.
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2022-10-21
95 Views
OIC information ministers adopted a declaration, highlighting the need to develop mechanisms by member states to confront disinformation and Islamophobia.
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2022-10-19
86 Views
The Ismaili Special Collections Unit (ISCU) has launched an online catalogue of special collections housed at the IIS. Featuring information on thousands of items. The catalogue will enable a wide range of audiences, including researchers, to explore...
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2022-10-17
94 Views
Christiane Zahra Guillaume is a French documentary maker who got acquainted with Islam at the age of 32 and became a Muslim.
As a participant of the 7th General Assembly of the AhlulBayt (a.s.) World Assembly in Islamic Republic of Iran, in an inte...
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2022-10-17
79 Views
As the world’s attention shifts to present-day Qatar for the World Cup in late November,2022, the country’s pre-eminent museum is hoping to direct interest to the region’s past..
“MIA is the main museum of Islamic art outside...
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2022-10-17
105 Views
According to Shia News, the third season of the "Ramy" series, which was released on the Hulu network, will last for two weeks. A series starring, directed and written by Ramy Youssef, an American-Egyptian artist who won the Golden Globe Award and wa...
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2022-08-17
112 Views
Faculty of Islamic Studies, University Islam Internasional Indonesia (UIII) successfully held the 1st Colloquium on Islamic Studies & Islamic Studies Review (ISR) Grand Launching with the theme Decentering Islamic Studies: Towards New Approaches ...
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2022-08-14
92 Views
Jews are the religious group most targeted by hate crimes, according to a Statistics Canada report on police-reported crime statistics, released Aug. 2, 2022.
The analysis of police-reported crimes in 2021 showed that hate crimes in Canada increased...
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2022-08-12
79 Views
A survey led by the University of Birmingham says people from middle and upper-class occupational groups are more likely to hold prejudiced views of Islam than people from working class occupational groups.
The survey, which was carried out in conju...
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2022-08-11
82 Views
Cineworld's announcement came after Qari Asim, an imam and lawyer in Leeds, posted on Facebook Monday that the film had "caused much pain and hurt to Muslims".
The UK government on Saturday dismissed a Muslim cleric from his role as an official adv...
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2022-08-10
94 Views
In July 2022 the report “Discrimination, Prejudice and Cohesion – Intergroup relations among Black, Muslim and White People in Britain in the Context of Covid-19 and Beyond” was published as part of the Beyond Us and Them project, &...
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2022-08-09
83 Views
The University of Notre Dame, in partnership with Catholic universities in Italy and Lebanon, has established a consortium for the study of Muslim-Christian relations. Notre Dame joins the Pontifical Institute for Arabic and Islamic Studies in Rome, ...
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2022-07-11
87 Views
Complaint to Queensland Human Rights Commission accuses platform of not taking action against posts that ‘vilify’ Muslims
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2022-07-11
102 Views
A UN special rapporteur has criticized the UK's Prevent Strategy for targeting Muslim communities, highlighting that its implementation is "inconsistent" with the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.
Fionnuala Ni Aolain, the UN special rapporte...
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2022-07-10
147 Views
The rise of an Islamic arts industry is celebrated by its screen, music and comedy stars, but the view rarely strays beyond a western perspective
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2022-07-10
98 Views
The Al-Mahdi Institute held its first-ever Graduate Islamic Studies Conference between the 28th – 29th of May. The conference was aimed exclusively at masters students studying any aspect of Islam or Muslim societies at any university, the firs...
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2022-06-12
93 Views
DASI seeks to gather all known pre-Islamic Arabian epigraphic material into a comprehensive online database, with the aim to make available to specialists and to the broader public a wide array of documents often underestimated because of their diffi...
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2022-06-11
99 Views
A new film has been pulled from cinemas after being accused of “blasphemy”.
The Lady of Heaven, directed by Eli King, tells the story of Fatima, the daughter of the prophet Muhammad. It’s billed as the first ever film to do so. Cin...
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2022-06-11
89 Views
Muslim Network is the only channel through which America can discover its Muslim neighbors. By bringing a variety of Muslim voices to the fore, this channel will fill in a gap in the national media landscape.
There are about six million Muslims in A...
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2022-06-10
113 Views
The film — about the daughter of the Prophet Muhammad — sparked headlines in the U.K. after it was pulled from cinemas following several protests by Muslim groups.
An under-the-radar historical feature became headline news in the U.K. t...
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2022-06-01
116 Views
The Savanta ComRes poll of 4,000 adults defined “practising” as someone who attended church at least monthly, but prayed and read the Bible at least weekly. It found that one quarter of those who were practicing Christians were from black...
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2022-05-29
126 Views
In the current issue, the editorial staff of Islamochristiana has proposed an ambitious theme: an overview of ‘how’ Islamic universities and Islamic institutions of higher education teach about the other religions. The interesting contrib...
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2022-05-28
118 Views
We are really pleased to announce that Shaista Gohir OBE of the Muslim Women’s Network UK (MWNUK) has been appointed to the House of Lords as a non-party-political peer. She was selected by the House of Lords Appointments Commission following a...
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2022-05-19
125 Views
The Women’s Mosque of America was founded in 2015 by two South Asian American Muslim women – comedy writer M. Hasna Maznavi and attorney Sana Muttalib. It was conceived as a space to empower Muslim women to take on active roles in their i...
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2022-05-18
115 Views
The Religious Freedom Institute (RFI) is pleased to announce the nationwide expansion of the Center for Religious Freedom Education (CRFE), which RFI marked on May 5th with a major event titled, "Source of Fracture or a Foundation? The Role of Educat...
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2022-04-30
108 Views
A convergence of major religious holidays led the way to a day of interfaith fellowship and education.
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2022-04-30
124 Views
The Emerald Project, a non-profit aimed at combatting the misrepresentation of Islam, held its first-ever Muslim youth conference this week. It was held in the Union Ballroom on the campus of the University of Utah.
The conference is intended to hel...
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2022-04-30
136 Views
The College of Islamic Studies at Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU) presented an international conference “Entrepreneurship, Sustainable Development and the Halal Economy: Concepts, Framework and Practice” on March 27-28. The conference...
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2022-04-30
133 Views
Muslim and Jewish organizations are expressing concern about billionaire Elon Musk’s impending ownership of Twitter, warning that the aerospace tycoon could roll back moderation policies and unleash a new wave of harassment against religious mi...
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2022-04-30
101 Views
Britain's prisons have failed to recognize the dangers of Islamist "gang-type activity" and the impact of Islamist groups has been underestimated for too long by authorities, an independent report into the prison service said.
The landmark review on...
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2022-04-28
116 Views
The author of the study, Toronto professor Sarah Shah, says her report shows what biases and socio-economic pressures women face and will be the basis for a new “data hub” about Canadian Muslims.
A new study entitled “Voices That M...
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2022-04-27
122 Views
The Secretary-General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), H.E. Hissein Brahim Taha, condemns the provocative actions of burning copies of the Holy Qur'an during anti-Muslim demonstrations, which have been taking place in Linköping,...
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2022-04-17
105 Views
The University of Kentucky Muslim Student Association (MSA) held its 50th Anniversary Celebration Banquet and fast-a-thon on April 16 in the Gatton Student Center Grand Ballroom ABC. This academic year marks five decades of Muslim Wildcats impacting ...
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2022-04-12
98 Views
Voices of faith communities, especially Muslims, are relatively silent in the global discourse on stem cell ethics, experts in the field of stem cell research say as they call for the inclusion of Muslim perspectives on the issue so that the guidelin...
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2022-04-11
104 Views
The UK’s fourth-largest supermarket chain has withdrawn a Ramadan calendar from its stores that list the Al-Aqsa Mosque as located in Israel.
The calendar, which lists world-famous mosques, was being sold on Morrisons’ website ahead of R...
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2022-04-10
101 Views
A letter signed by more than 80 Muslim organizations has been sent to the U.S. Department of Justice urging it to launch an investigation into an anti-Muslim group that was allegedly spying on Muslim groups in America.
The signatories have urged the...
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2022-03-24
116 Views
Christians, Jews and Muslims encounter workplace discrimination, but they experience it differently, according to a new report by Rice University’s Religion and Public Life Program.
While Muslims and Jews say they’ve felt targeted by ant...
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2022-03-23
122 Views
The U.N. General Assembly approved a resolution Tuesday setting March 15 as the International Day to Combat Islamophobia.
The resolution, adopted by consensus by the 193-member world body and cosponsored by 55 mainly Muslim countries, emphasizes the...
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2022-03-22
127 Views
A CAIR report on Muslim bullying details that nearly 50% of Muslims in California schools are being bullied by students, teachers, and other school personnel, and more than 55% of Muslim students feel unsafe as at school. The unfortunate reality is t...
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2022-02-28
108 Views
What would you do with $105,865,763? That’s how much money was poured into 26 Islamophobia Network groups between 2017-2019 to spread misinformation and conspiracy theories about Muslims and Islam. Unfortunately, Islamophobia is still an accept...
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2022-02-18
121 Views
United Nations (UN) human rights experts have told the UK government that its use of citizenship-stripping powers is likely discriminatory and unlawful because of its disproportionate impact on Muslim and migrant communities.
In a letter to Foreign ...
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2022-02-18
126 Views
Ridgefield educators will learn about Muslim students' faith in a training session Friday covering topics including religious holidays, misconceptions about Islam and the meaning of commonly used terms.
The online training is set to take place four ...
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2022-02-13
136 Views
Its impact on politics and self-identity looms large, experts say
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2022-01-23
197 Views
Muslims are the second “least-liked” group in the UK, according to a new study that reveals the shocking extent of Islamophobia in the country.
The study, by researchers at the University of Birmingham, found that roughly one in four Bri...
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2022-01-19
136 Views
From the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan to failing to stop law enforcement from targeting Muslims, Robert McCaw and Ismail Allison, from the Council on American-Islamic Relations, say President Biden’s first year in office has been a mixed ba...
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2021-12-21
170 Views
A headscarf-wearing Muslim teacher in the French-speaking Canadian province of Quebec was removed from her position over her religious garment, citing a controversial provincial law.
Fatemeh Anvari, a grade three teacher at the Chelsea Elementary Sc...
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2021-12-20
114 Views
The recently confirmed United States ambassador-at-large for international religious freedom has received congratulations and a promise of prayer from the acting head of a Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) entity.
The U.S. Senate voted 85-5 in a Dec...
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2021-12-19
149 Views
The secularizing shifts evident in American society so far in the 21st century show no signs of slowing. The latest Pew Research Center survey of the religious composition of the United States finds the religiously unaffiliated share of the public is...
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2021-11-16
137 Views
East London-born Rifat Malik was recently appointed as the editor in chief of a new American publication centering the work of Muslim women journalists.
“Muslim women are often vilified, obsessed over, become the target of speculation or are ...
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2021-11-16
132 Views
Muslim Americans gave more to charity in 2020 than non-Muslims, we found in a new study. They are also more likely to volunteer, we learned. Only 1.1% of all Americans are Muslim, and their average income is lower than non-Muslims’. But as we e...
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2021-11-15
124 Views
Sulha Solutions continues to lead in the Global Muslim Online Dispute Resolution sector. Sulha Solutions is the world's first Global Muslim Online Dispute Resolution (ODR) non-profit organization established in Canada focused on spreading peace and c...
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2021-11-15
111 Views
Muslim organizations are working towards tackling Islamophobia and victims of the offences. Muslims have been the target of almost half of recorded religious hate crimes, according to a Census 2021 report from Home Office.
Muslim Council of Britain ...
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2021-11-14
114 Views
In response to the recent rise of hate crimes against the Muslim community, Ontario announced it will be investing $300,000 into educational programs aimed toward addressing issues of Islamophobia. Stephen Lecce, the Ontario Minister of Education, wi...
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2021-11-14
128 Views
The Council of Europe said some campaign posters - such as this one - were taken down. Europe's top human rights organization has pulled posters from a campaign that promoted respect for Muslim women who choose to wear headscarves after provoking opp...
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2021-11-09
90 Views
A city in Michigan is apparently the first in the nation to elect an all-Muslim city council, reflecting a more racially diverse landscape in local governance.
Three candidates — Khalil Refai, Amanda Jaczkowski and Adam Albarmaki — won e...
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2021-10-19
130 Views
Fadwa Hammoud’s appearance at the Supreme Court is one of several important firsts for Muslims in the American legal system in recent months.
Fadwa Hammoud made history this week when she became the first Muslim Arab American woman to argue a ...
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2021-10-18
139 Views
The University of Bristol, which recently sacked the pro-Palestine Professor David Miller, has now exonerated another lecturer accused of Islamophobia. In a ruling that has angered the university’s Islamic society (BRICSOC), the University of B...
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2021-10-18
132 Views
The historic English-language Quran has never traveled outside the United States. A copy of the Quran once owned by former U.S. President Thomas Jefferson will be displayed in the Unites States’ pavilion at the Dubai Expo 2020, the world’...
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2021-10-17
159 Views
Global religious leaders and leading scientists issued a joint statement on 4 October calling on the international community to raise their ambition and step up their climate action ahead of COP26.
Almost 40 faith leaders signed the joint appeal, wh...
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2021-09-29
124 Views
Application Deadline: November 15, 2021
The Ernst Herzfeld-Gesellschaft für Islamische Kunst und Archäologie (Ernst Herzfeld Society for Studies in Islamic Art and Archaeology) is pleased to announce the second edition of the Ernst Herzfel...
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2021-09-27
124 Views
Nahdlatul Ulama is the world’s biggest Islamic organization, initiating a reform movement, which it is calling ‘Humanitarian Islam.’
Nahdlatul Ulama, or NU, was founded in 1926 in reaction to the Saudi conquest of Mecca and Medina ...
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2021-09-26
97 Views
As Germans go to polls to vote in parliamentary elections and elect a successor of chancellor Angela Merkel, Cansel Kiziltepe will defend her Berlin seat as a candidate for the Social Democratic Party (SDP)…Though Germany has the second larges...
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2021-09-19
136 Views
The Graduate Certificate in Muslim Studies is offered by the Pardee School and its Institute on Culture, Religion, & World Affairs (CURA). It can be earned by post-baccalaureate students in any Boston University graduate or professional program w...
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2021-09-17
163 Views
The French authorities say they will close the Muslim publishing house “Nawa Editions” because it has distributed several books legitimising jihad.
The right-wing Interior Minsiter Gerald Darmanin announced the decision in a tweet, sayin...
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2021-09-15
127 Views
Two academics have accused UK newspapers of scaremongering about Muslims during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Elizabeth Poole, Professor of Media and Communications at Keele University, and Milly Williamson, a Senior Lecturer at Goldsmiths, University of L...
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2021-09-02
143 Views
Date: September 14, 2021 and October 12, 2021
As we approach the new academic year of 2021/22, we are glad to announce the beginning of a new initiative, the Oxford Interfaith Forum, which CMCS is helping to support. This is an academically oriented...
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2021-09-01
100 Views
The Muslim Jewish Forum of Greater Manchester is holding an event on Sunday 3 October, which will be an opportunity to belatedly mark its 15th anniversary. The celebration will include an afternoon tea and an array of speakers including local m...
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2021-08-31
138 Views
An unprecedented amount of public attention focused on Muslim Americans in the wake of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. The U.S. Muslim population has grown in the two decades since, but it is still the case that many Americans know little ab...
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2021-08-25
128 Views
The president of a French mosque which was threatened with closure by the authorities has warned that every French mosque should be worried about its future. Mohamed Benali, of Gennevilliers Mosque near Paris, was speaking after the Minister of the I...
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2021-08-24
134 Views
The White House announced Friday (July 30) a slate of nominations and appointments for top religious affairs roles, including the first Muslim American nominated to be the U.S. ambassador-at-large for International Religious Freedom.
President Biden...
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2021-08-23
116 Views
Women continue to be less involved than men in mosque life in the United States, but the pattern appears to be changing, according to a recent survey of American houses of worship. The share of mosques in which adult women account for more than a qua...
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2021-08-23
119 Views
U.S. Muslims are two times more likely to have attempted suicide compared with other religious groups, according to a study published last month in JAMA Psychiatry. Nearly 8% of Muslims in the survey reported a suicide attempt in their lifetime compa...
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2021-08-23
105 Views
The government is planning to impose new rules on mosques and madrassahs which would subject them to inspections and would oblige them to report suspected terrorist activities.
The plans, which would see counter-terror officers involved in the runni...
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2021-07-20
124 Views
Muslim and Jewish Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives have joined to call on the Biden administration to create an Islamaphobia monitor position. The proposal in a letter sent Tuesday to Secretary of State Antony Blinken was shaped by Rep....
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2021-07-20
116 Views
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has released a mid-year report documenting the state of anti-Muslim hate incidents in 2021.
The national Muslim civil rights and advocacy group says that since the start of the year, it has received h...
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2021-07-14
116 Views
The European Union’s top court ruled Thursday that employers may forbid the wearing of visible symbols of religious or political belief, such as headscarves.
But the Luxembourg-based tribunal said in its ruling that courts in the bloc’s ...
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2021-07-13
102 Views
The head of Germany's foreign intelligence agency, the BND, has given a rare interview specifically to warn that, despite appearances, Islamist terrorism remains a real threat to world order, even 20 years after 9/11.
Speaking to the Süddeutsch...
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2021-06-30
114 Views
On June 28-29, 2021, the inaugural Notre Dame Religious Liberty Summit was held on the campus of the University of Notre Dame. The purpose of the event was to bring together top religious freedom advocates, scholars, and other thought leaders to disc...
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2021-06-29
124 Views
Four-fifths of Muslims in Scotland have directly experienced Islamophobia, according to a new report.
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2021-06-29
118 Views
July 1st marks in Germany the Day against Anti-Muslim Racism. It dates back to the same day in 2009 when during a court trial in Dresden Marwa El-Sherbini was stabbed to death by a man whom she was accusing of an anti-Muslim hate crime against her.&n...
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2021-06-14
110 Views
A collaboration between Hartford Seminary’s Black Ministries Program (BMP) and My People Community Services is among the first grantees in the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving’s Faith Community Grant program.
The foundation announce...
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2021-06-14
106 Views
Germany has launched a state-backed training center for imams to help reduce the number of Islamic leaders coming in from abroad, but the initiative has been shunned by leading Turkish groups.
Around 40 aspiring religious leaders attended their firs...
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2021-06-11
90 Views
Muslims are very rarely depicted in movies, and when they are, it's usually as a stereotypical terrorist, what Oscar nominated actor Riz Ahmed calls a "dangerous trope." Having spoken out about this issue for several years, he's been looking for hard...
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2021-06-11
123 Views
The United States has appointed its first Muslim American federal judge. Zahid Quraishi, a historic confirmation that is eliciting mixed emotions from the Muslim community. The Rutgers law school graduate was nominated by Joe Biden and confirmed by t...
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2021-06-08
114 Views
A new study done in conjunction with the Faith Communities Today project, a research partnership working with the Hartford Institute of Religion Research, found that the U.S. saw a 31 percent increase in mosques between 2010 and 2020.
“Undoubt...
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2021-05-31
127 Views
Muslim Youth Austria (MJO) is filing a lawsuit against the country's controversial "Map of Political Islam," the group announced on Saturday.
The map, showing the names and location of over 600 mosques and associations in Austria and their possible ...
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2021-05-25
132 Views
Prime Minister Boris Johnson helped create an impression that his Conservative Party is “insensitive” to Muslims with a newspaper column comparing veil-wearing women to “letter boxes,” a report into prejudice in Britain’...
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2021-05-19
217 Views
The Virtues Project explores ways that classical traditions of virtue, rooted in the transcendent, might serve as a potent antidote to the plummeting consensus in America on what it means to pursue the common good. Without ignoring or trivializing th...
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2021-05-19
144 Views
The function of imam is often considered the most effective entry point to organize Muslim communities, as Prof. Welmoet Boender, from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, points out in a recent article in the journal Religions. In Europe, imams are oft...
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2021-05-16
174 Views
A number of prominent Democrats and Muslim American groups pushed back against the timing and fanfare of the event, as fighting between Israelis and Palestinians continues to rock the Holy Land.
A White House event meant to mark a Muslim holiday att...
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2021-05-11
202 Views
Leaders at the Islamic Center of Fullerton, a growing congregation in Orange County, feared they would go a second year without gathering in person for Eid-al-Fitr prayers that mark the end of Ramadan.
Normally, they’d host Eid prayers at a gy...
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2021-04-23
136 Views
Muslim groups across the country are calling on President Joe Biden’s administration to name a special envoy to monitor and combat Islamophobia, which a U.N. expert says has escalated to “epidemic proportions.”
In the letter, the U...
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2021-04-22
131 Views
More than 40 interreligious advisors from the World Council of Churches (WCC) gathered for a webinar on 20 April to explore the increasingly important role of interreligious relations in the WCC’s work in international affairs.
They explored t...
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2021-04-22
151 Views
An international colloquium on the theme “Who is my Neighbour?” brought together speakers and participants from around the world to reflect on the World Council of Churches (WCC)-Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue (PCID) joint...
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2021-04-21
155 Views
Facebook is currently testing a new prayer post feature.
The idea for prayer posts grew out of the myriad ways users have connected over Facebook while distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the spokesperson.
The function will allow...
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2021-04-15
136 Views
The Council for Christian Colleges & Universities and Interfaith Youth Core have launched a partnership in hopes of building new bridges across religious divides.
Religious and cultural divides dominate our national headlines. Images of violent...
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2021-04-14
190 Views
Standing in the face of hate and islamophobia in Quebec, a group of McGill Alumni is raising funds to support and encourage students advocating for a more inclusive and harmonic society.
On January 29, 2017, at the Centre Culturel Islamique de Qu&ea...
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2021-04-13
181 Views
Conversations about faith and religion are often avoided. In the midst of polarized times such topics can be especially daunting. However, as shared by Rev. Brian E. Konkol, dean of Hendricks Chapel, a key to understanding others lies in having these...
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2021-04-13
189 Views
The project offers over 500 manuscripts and 827 paintings that are “mostly unresearched.”
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2021-03-31
224 Views
A dizzying array of anti-Muslim policies is now becoming a regular feature of French politics. The French parliament is set to ban Muslim women from attending their children's school trips while wearing the hijab, a symbol it sees as a threat to all ...
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2021-03-31
257 Views
First academic journal on Islamic ethics globally now included in prestigious academic database.
The Journal of Islamic Ethics, established by the Research Center for Islamic Legislation and Ethics (CILE) at the College of Islamic Studies (CIS), par...
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2021-03-28
230 Views
British Muslim leaders will warn UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson that the country “could become like France” amid controversy over a school teacher sharing a picture of Prophet Muhammad with students.
The incident took place in Batley Gr...
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2021-03-15
288 Views
• France 24:
A landmark interfaith meeting in the holy city of Najaf
The head of the Catholic church visited the home of Iraq's most senior Shiite cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, with a message of peace.
Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani "a...
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2021-03-05
213 Views
In response to security threats due to horrific acts purportedly carried out in the name of Islam, some states have responded by adopting measures that disproportionately target Muslims, the leading UN expert on freedom of religion said Thursday.
Ah...
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2021-03-05
293 Views
The anti-Muslim climate in France is normalizing a general crackdown on the countries 6 million-strong Muslim community. France’s right-wing Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin in a statement expressed his displeasure at not being able to close d...
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2021-02-23
268 Views
French Muslim organizations on Tuesday strongly condemned vandalism of an under-construction mosque in Strasbourg with Islamophobic graffiti.
The words, “No to Islam, go back to your village” were sprayed across the fence on the site of ...
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2021-02-15
271 Views
Three religions. One building. The concept could be profoundly simple or particularly complex. For Berlin’s “House of One,” it’s turning out to be a bit of both. Dubbed “the world’s first churmosqagogue” by o...
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2021-02-10
316 Views
To what extent do Christianity, Judaism, and Islam have a shared way of determining truth, and a shared vision of virtue and the common good? Does that shared vision have the potential to help heal society's deep divisions and restore faith in the Am...
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2021-02-07
295 Views
This year’s Golden Globe nominations, in which for the first time three Muslim actors got nods, were a reminder that in the last few years, the television industry has allowed Muslims to go beyond “representing” on the small screen ...
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2021-02-07
290 Views
On March 7, Switzerland will hold a referendum to decide whether to ban full facial coverings such as burqas and niqabs. Polls show that more than 60 percent of Swiss voters favor the burqa ban. Although the Swiss cantons of St. Gallen and Ticino alr...
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2021-02-05
269 Views
The Harvard Law Review has named a Los Angeles-born Egyptian-American as, what it believes, is its first Muslim president in its 134-year history, elevating him to the top of one of the most prestigious US law journals.
Harvard Law School student Ha...
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2021-02-04
263 Views
Islamophobia is one form of discrimination in Canada that contributes to Muslim women’s and girls’ experiences of safety in public and online spaces. However, there is very little education available on how to respond and effectively coun...
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2021-02-04
233 Views
The Centre for Media Monitoring, which is housed at the Muslim Council for Britain, recently published a report which looks at the media reporting of terrorism.
The researchers compared the reporting of terrorist attacks committed by Muslims and th...
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2021-02-04
272 Views
The Muslim Council of Britain has elected it new Secretary General on Sunday 31 January. Zara Mohamed gained the majority of votes from its affiliates and was elected as Secretary General for a two-year term. She is the first female leader of the MCB...
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2021-02-03
276 Views
The Islamophobia Is video series was conceptualized by legal academic and journalist Azeezah Kanji and social worker and educator Khadijah Kanji of Noor Cultural Centre, in collaboration with award-winning documentary producer, Aeyliya Husain.
The s...
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2021-01-29
290 Views
The UK’s largest Muslim charity has been exonerated of institutional antisemitism in an independent report after its reputation was badly damaged and government funding suspended over the social media posts of two trustees and a senior member o...
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2021-01-18
329 Views
The Church of Greece has been forced to issue a clarification a day after comments on Islam by the outspoken Greek Orthodox archbishop of Athens and All Greece sparked a religious and political firestorm.
"Islam is not a religion; it is a political ...
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2021-01-02
310 Views
Spain announced its will to restore the various Muslim antiquities and sites at Granada, the total of the fund reached 20.4 million Euros, according to Russia Today.
The main aim of this step is to encourage more visitors to those tourist and archae...
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2021-01-01
322 Views
The French Government announced the dissolution of its largest anti-Islamophobia NGO, ordered raids on dozens of mosques, declared a ban on all homeschooling and shut its only Muslim school – all in the space of a fortnight. The draconian measu...
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2020-12-31
312 Views
President Emmanuel Macron recently relaunched a long-contentious debate about the role of Islam in French society, and two deadly attacks in October brought Islamist extremism once more into the limelight. But many of the issues highlighted in 2020 h...
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2020-12-15
344 Views
Professor of Immunology at University of Mainz, Germany Ugur Sahin offered his COVID-19 vaccine for free access under the auspices of the United Nations.
Speaking in an exclusive interview with IRNA, Sahin stressed compliance with commitments to the...
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2020-12-11
329 Views
An 800-page inquiry into the March 2019 Christchurch mosque attack, which claimed the lives of 51 Muslim worshippers, sheds light on the murky online world of far-right extremists.
Analyzing the report’s findings, experts on online radical mov...
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2020-12-05
315 Views
Secondary school pupils are sharing their thoughts about what it means to be a Muslim in Britain, thanks to free teaching and learning resources developed at Cardiff University.
Discovering Muslims in Britain is a program of nine lessons based on cu...
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2020-12-03
340 Views
In a record-breaking pledge, the Muslim community announced $5 million to support the redevelopment of Mississauga Hospital, one of three sites that together comprise Trillium Health Partners (THP), as part of THP’s larger redevelopment plan. I...
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2020-12-02
332 Views
At difficult times of COVID-19 pandemic, success stories provide a source of inspiration spreading hopes for a better future. Now more than ever, the success stories of Muslim women around the world are very important in a bid to shatter damaging ste...
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2020-12-01
324 Views
Five times a day, tens of millions of phones buzz with notifications from an app called Muslim Pro, reminding users it’s time to pray. While Muslims in Los Angeles woke Thursday to a dawn notification that read, “Fajr at 5:17 AM,” u...
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2020-11-30
324 Views
France’s Interior Minister has announced plans to dissolve the country’s largest anti-Islamophobia organization, the Collective against Islamophobia in France (CCIF). After the killing last month of French schoolteacher Samuel Paty, who s...
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2020-11-30
360 Views
The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has decided to designate March 15 as the "International Day to Combat Islamophobia" each year. The OIC Council of Foreign Ministers (CFM) has passed a resolution in this respect in their meeting in Niamey...
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2020-11-19
390 Views
Workmen discovered one of the oldest Islamic burial sites in Spain. Archaeologists expect the majority of more than 400 graves dating from the eighth century, which were only discovered in recent weeks, to be exhumed by the end of the year. Workers c...
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2020-11-15
362 Views
Facing protests in the Muslim world over his response to terror attacks in France, President Emmanuel Macron phoned a New York Times media columnist to rail against “bias” in the English-language media and accuse some newspapers of &ldquo...
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2020-11-14
362 Views
How We Get Along, a two-year study of diversity by the Woolf Institute, is due to conclude that most people are tolerant of those from different ethnic or national backgrounds, but many have negative attitudes based on religion.
Religion is a &ldquo...
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2020-11-13
385 Views
The mosque that took more than a century to open, surviving legal, political and financial challenges, has closed in less than a week, a temporary victim of the coronavirus pandemic.
Athens, the Greek capital, had not had a dedicated, purpose-built ...
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2020-11-13
342 Views
A coalition of senior faith leaders in England have challenged the government’s ban on communal worship, arguing that it has no scientific basis. A joint letter from the leaders of the country’s Muslim, Christian, Hindu, Jewish, and Sikh ...
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2020-11-13
339 Views
Terror attacks in France and Austria have put Europe’s 25 million Muslims back in the spotlight. The unwanted attention is familiar. Discussing Muslims as a security risk invariably reaches fever pitch after an Islamist-inspired terrorist act. ...
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2020-11-12
380 Views
New guidance has been issued for journalists reporting on Muslims and Islam.
The Independent Press Standards Organisation has produced the guidance, which outlines key questions for journalists to consider and includes relevant case studies.
The pu...
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2020-11-11
356 Views
European Council President Charles Michel on Monday called for the creation of a European institute to train imams as a way to curb hate speech and prevent terrorism. Speaking in Vienna, where he paid tribute to the victims of last week’s terro...
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2020-11-01
362 Views
The potential for Zakat financing to fill funding gaps for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) was the opening subject of a three-part webinar series co-organized by the College of Islamic Studies (CIS) at Hamad Bin Khalifa University ...
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2020-10-31
424 Views
Mauree Turner, a 27-year-old member of Oklahoma City’s Muslim community, became Muslim after learning about the faith from her father, who converted while incarcerated. Black and nonbinary, Turner is also a community organizer who’s long ...
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2020-10-31
323 Views
The pressure rises with each gruesome attack. After three in five weeks, France’s Muslims are feeling squeezed.
A spotlight of suspicion was trained on them again even before the latest acts of extremist violence, including two beheadings. Pre...
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2020-10-31
342 Views
The College of Islamic Studies (CIS) at Hamad Bin Khalifa University’s (HBKU) ability to frame contemporary debates on Islam in a global context has been boosted by the findings of a recent peer-reviewed journal article. Published by the Pacifi...
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2020-10-30
389 Views
While there have been prominent Black Muslim figures such as Malcolm X and Muhammad Ali, Black Muslims as a whole are rarely featured. In a way that’s not surprising: according to a Muslim Council of Britain study, the vast majority of British ...
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2020-10-29
395 Views
After a man killed three people Thursday (Oct. 29) at the Catholic cathedral in Nice, France, Pope Francis expressed his closeness to the French Catholic community, offering prayers for the victims as well as wishes that “the beloved French peo...
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2020-10-28
402 Views
Rage is growing across the Muslim world at the French president and his perceived attacks on Islam and the prophet Muhammad, leading to calls for boycotts of the French products and security warnings for France’s citizens in majority-Muslim sta...
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2020-10-27
384 Views
Signing a celebratory certificate commemorating 25 years of fruitful dialogue, leaders from the World Council of Churches (WCC) and the Center for Interreligious and Intercultural Dialogue of the Islamic Culture and Relations Organization in Tehran m...
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2020-10-25
384 Views
The World Council of Churches (WCC) has announced an essay competition for youth who want to reflect on the theme “The Future of Interreligious Dialogue.” The contest marks the 50th anniversary of the WCC’s Office of Interreligious ...
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2020-10-23
393 Views
The Department of Theology and Religion at the University of Birmingham is delighted to announce a new Master of Public Administration (MPA) in Faith Based Leadership, hosted by the Department’s Edward Cadbury Centre for the Public Understandin...
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2020-10-07
367 Views
Walter Benjamin argued that in an age of mass technology the increased reproducibility of art objects would degrade their ‘authenticity’ and ‘aura’. In the Shia community of Sydney, photographs and moving images proliferate al...
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2020-10-06
353 Views
Following the murder of a caretaker at a Toronto mosque earlier this week, the head of a Muslim organization called for the government to do more to “eradicate this scourge” of white supremacism in Canada.
Mohamed-Aslim Zafis was stabbed...
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2020-10-05
363 Views
A new poll suggests that nearly half of all members of the ruling Conservative Party in the United Kingdom believe Islam is incompatible with British life.
The poll, conducted by YouGov on behalf of Hope Not Hate, surveyed 1,213 members of the Conse...
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2020-09-26
446 Views
The community-based research project, Muslim Women’s Mental Health, asked Muslim women in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area (GTHA) to describe their first-hand experiences of mental health and mental health services.
In Canada, Muslims are...
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2020-09-25
413 Views
Following a break from the Inter-Religious Symposia meetings due to Covid-19, IRS reconvened virtually on Thursday 10th September, welcoming both current members and new ones. The meeting continued with the theme of revelation, focusing on the nature...
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2020-09-25
437 Views
On August 12, as part of the forum MuslimDebate by the Alhambra Gesellschaft Mathias Rohe, Law Professor an Islamic Scientist at the FAU as well as founding rector of the EZIRE, participated in a discussion under the guiding question What is a &ldquo...
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2020-09-25
404 Views
A B.C. theologian who has worked to build bridges between Christians and Muslims and a former Conservative MP who has long championed religious freedom have been appointed to the advisory council of the Religious Freedom Institute at the Ontario-base...
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2020-09-25
409 Views
A new University of Toronto literary magazine is empowering students to share their stories of what it means to be Muslim in Toronto – everything from takes on casual streetwear and evening shifts at local coffee houses to Islam among the...
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2020-09-24
414 Views
According to a press release from September 1, Federal Minister of Interior Affairs, Horst Seehofer, has appointed 12 members for the newly-established Independent Body of Experts for Islamophobia. Among them Mathias Rohe, Law Professor and Islamic S...
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2020-09-23
414 Views
Over the last two decades, a number of surveys have been conducted to capture the views and opinions of Muslims in the West, including North America, Europe and Australia. They have examined religious identity, beliefs, views on social and political ...
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2020-09-22
428 Views
A conversation with Jon Armajani, Ph.D.
Moderated by: Jason Schlude, Ph.D.
Sponsored and Organized by: Jay Phillips Center for Interfaith Learning at Saint John's University
The recently published book Shia Islam and Politics: Iran, Iraq, and Leb...
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2020-09-21
424 Views
In the global Islamic economy, Australia is best known as a halal food exporter. Last year, it sold $1.45 billion worth of meats to countries of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, on top of $1.72 billion in cereals, live animals, and dairy. At ...
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2020-09-14
453 Views
The Spanish region of Catalonia decided to teach the Islamic religion in public schools in the region with the start of the new academic year, starting from the current academic year 2020/2021, provided that education takes place from a perspective t...
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2020-09-12
425 Views
Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg has defended the right of people to desecrate the Quran in the name of freedom of speech. Solberg was speaking after an anti-Islam rally took place this weekend near parliament in Oslo where pages were torn out o...
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2020-09-11
427 Views
New Digital Resources for Teaching Islamic Art and Architecture
“Khamseen: Islamic Art History Online” is an emerging platform of digital resources to aid the teaching of the history of Islamic art and architecture. In its initial stage,...
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2020-09-10
436 Views
www.imamconnect.com, the world's first online platform for Muslim services, launches today. ImamConnect features a global provider community covering a full range of life services, from marriages to education, wills, and life coaching. Users will be ...
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2020-09-08
401 Views
Germany’s Federal Labor Court has ruled that it is unconstitutional to impose a ban on teachers wearing headscarves in schools in the capital, Berlin.
The German federal court’s decision is the latest in a long legal battle involving a M...
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2020-08-29
487 Views
Islam and Muslims on UK University Campuses: perceptions and challenges
The report from the AHRC funded ‘Re/presenting Narratives of Islam on Campus’ research has been released.
This was a collaboration between Professor Alison Scott-Ba...
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2020-08-27
484 Views
Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) has been agreed between the University of Tehran College of Farabi and the Islamic University of Italy. "The MoU meeting was hold in a virtual platform on Tuesday, July 28 and the MoU document was signed by the presi...
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2020-08-22
431 Views
The College of Islamic Studies (CIS) at Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU) has recently collaborated with Belgium's Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KU Leuven). This collaboration was reflected in joint academic activities between the Centre for Isla...
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2020-08-12
487 Views
Before the pandemic struck, fewer than 60 of Italy’s 7,903 municipalities had a dedicated Islamic cemetery, in a country that is home to more than 2 million Muslims. The limited number of burial spots has to do with the peculiar relationship be...
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2020-08-07
467 Views
Few regular worshippers say their congregations are operating normally, and most support the precautions being taken.
A new Pew Research Center survey finds that U.S. adults overwhelmingly say houses of worship should be required to follow the same ...
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2020-07-19
448 Views
While much of the far-right targets Islam as a foreign and undesirable religion, Muslims and ex-Muslims are “increasingly prominent” in the West European far right groups, bringing a new spirituality to this often secular movement, writes...
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2020-07-16
500 Views
In France, a hip female rabbi has improbably developed a large interfaith online audience to her Facebook videos, in which she morally engages issues related to the pandemic.
In India, a Catholic priest draws on his skills as a former chef to mix co...
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2020-07-10
507 Views
The mats sold were labelled as "frilled Greek carpets" and had pictures of the Kabaa on them. The Kabaa is a building in the center of Mecca, considered the most sacred place by Muslims around the world.
Shein was also accused of cultural appropriat...
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2020-07-09
477 Views
Christian, Jewish and Muslim representatives have criticized the European Union's decision to drop its special envoy for religious freedom. A leading Jewish figure called it "the wrong signal for Europe."
Leading figures from Europe's Christian, Jew...
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2020-07-07
506 Views
More than two dozen religious, political and community leaders gathered Friday morning, before noon prayer at the American Moslem Society mosque in Dearborn, to call attention to a legal fight with nearby Woodmere Cemetery. At issue, the mosque...
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2020-06-29
533 Views
The Supreme Court made it easier for religious schools to obtain public funds, upholding a Montana scholarship program that allows state tax credits for private schooling. The court’s 5-4 ruling, with conservatives in the majority, came in a di...
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2020-06-26
573 Views
A woman in Britain who has become the first judge in the western world to wear a hijab hopes to be an inspiration to young Muslims. Raffia Arshad, 40, who grew up in Yorkshire, north England, has wanted to work in law since she was 11. Ms Arshad, a b...
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2020-06-25
802 Views
Growing Islamophobia is not just a phenomenon in Western Europe, in the Balkans where the continents largest number of Muslims are, it’s also a problem.
A European Union-funded report from a Turkish thinktank, has shone a light on how anti-Mus...
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2020-06-25
604 Views
French President Emmanuel Macron announced in February that France would crack down on “Islamist separatism” and end a system in which foreign countries send imams to preach in French mosques.
Al Arabiya’s Rola al-Khatib spoke to e...
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2020-06-20
540 Views
Amid calls to take down statues of leaders with a history of racism ringing out across the US, Jews and Muslims in St. Louis have launched a petition to take down a monument to their city’s namesake, and even hope to rename the city.
St. Louis...
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2020-06-14
727 Views
Emgage Action, a national advocacy organization for Muslim Americans, says it is disheartened by Islamophobic comments made by Retired Army Brig. Gen. Anthony Tata, the White House’s nominee for a top position as Pentagon policy chief. The orga...
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2020-06-14
678 Views
In the wake of George Floyd’s death in police custody, dozens of American Muslim organizations have come together to call for reform to policing practices, and to support black-led organizations.
“The victimization of unarmed Black Musli...
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2020-06-14
582 Views
During the coronavirus pandemic, houses of worship across the country have shut their doors along with other public places. Some states have begun to ease restrictions and allow in-person worship to resume amid public and presidential pressure, but m...
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2020-06-04
691 Views
Italy’s first Islamic cemetery may soon be built on a green space in Tragliatella, a few kilometers north of Rome. The burial place — to be built on a 400 hectare area near the border between Fiumicino, close to the international airport,...
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2020-06-03
601 Views
Business United for Scottsdale Schools (BUSS) is a workforce-development and education initiative that benefits Scottsdale Community College and Scottsdale Unified School District. A local Islamic group filed a lawsuit Tuesday in U.S. District Court ...
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2020-06-03
579 Views
The Muslim Council of Britain said it stands in solidarity with anti-racism and police brutality protesters in the US, UK and beyond, pledging to address anti-Black racism within Muslim communities.
The UK's largest umbrella body of mosques and Musl...
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2020-06-01
609 Views
With the outbreak of COVID-19, pilgrims and devotees of sacred places, governmental institutions and their health sectors, and also religious leaders and clerics are challenged. Each is endeavoring to be reasonable and resolve several key issues of t...
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2020-05-26
550 Views
The University of Hamburg’s Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures and Islamic Painted Page are happy to announce the launch of a new online facility, specifically to assist Qur’an manuscript scholars and researchers.
The database a...
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2020-05-23
521 Views
A church in Berlin has opened its doors to Muslim worshippers unable to fit into their mosque under new social distancing rules.
Germany allowed religious services to resume on 4 May but worshippers must maintain a distance of 1.5m (5ft). As a resul...
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2020-05-22
527 Views
Germany’s president has assured the country’s Muslim citizens that growing racist hatred and violence by right-wing extremists will not be tolerated by the state and democratic majority in the country.
In a message marking Eid al-Fitr, t...
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2020-05-20
533 Views
Muslim youth have made a huge impact in their community during the month of Ramadan, helping an Edmonton mosque keep its doors open. Sahaba Mosque, also known as the Downtown Islamic Association, ran into funding troubles when mass gathering restrict...
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2020-05-19
582 Views
It’s become almost a foregone conclusion that young adults are leaving organized religion in high numbers. Newly published findings from the National Study of Youth and Religion don’t challenge that conclusion — not exactly. But the...
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2020-05-14
536 Views
Muslim communities in Italy have been praised for their generosity during the coronavirus crisis after donating more than €500000 in cash and food aid since the outbreak began more than two months ago.
Italy’s death toll so far is approac...
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2020-05-01
608 Views
French Muslims are experiencing the coronavirus crisis amid fear, dreading the loss of family members. Mosques and other places of worship have closed.
In France, the Grand Great Mosque of Paris and its new rector, Chems Eddine Hafiz, did not wait t...
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2020-04-30
575 Views
State and local restrictions on religious gatherings, introduced as measures to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, have emerged as a top religious freedom issue and prompted a flurry of new lawsuits charging that such measures violate the First A...
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2020-04-30
597 Views
The leaders of the three Abrahamic religions – Christians, Jews and Muslims – prayed together in Jerusalem on Thursday amid the global Coronavirus Covid-19 pandemic.
The initiative, taken by the Mayor of the Holy City, took place at 12.3...
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2020-04-29
575 Views
Muslims hear Azaan through loud speakers for the first time in the history of Canada. Due to coronavirus lockdown, Muslims are not able to pray in the mosques; hence they have got the permission to say Azaan in loud speakers in some mosques.
As of n...
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2020-04-27
553 Views
British Muslims condemned appointment of public figure, accused of Islamophobia, to inquiry into high minority death rates. Appointment of Trevor Phillips -- who is considered highly controversial in the British Muslim community -- to take part in a ...
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2020-04-27
553 Views
Over 3.2% of Canada’s population belong to the Islamic faith, which means that over 1 million have already immigrated to Canada to join its Muslim expat community. As Muslim people enter the first week of Ramadan, many will be facing challenges...
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2020-04-26
522 Views
Switzerland documented a record 352 cases of discrimination in 2019, reflecting an increase in racist acts in public places and attacks spurred by far-right ideologies. Xenophobia was the main driver for racist behavior. Black and Muslim people are t...
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2020-04-25
584 Views
A member of the UK Parliament, Sir Edward Jonathan Davey, on Saturday fasted and took part in an online Iftar, or breaking of the fast, with Muslims to show support for the country's community of three million observing the month of Ramadan under a s...
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2020-04-12
647 Views
The U.S. Constitution does not mention the Bible, God, Jesus or Christianity, and the First Amendment clarifies that “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion.” Still, some scholars have argued that the Bible hea...
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2020-04-10
559 Views
Americans began donning face masks this week after federal and local officials changed their position on whether face coverings protect against coronavirus. This is new terrain for many, who find themselves unable to recognize neighbors and are unsur...
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2020-04-10
595 Views
Due to COVID-19 emergency some publishers are now offering free access to their content. These publishers offer significant amount on content for the study of Islam and the Middle East.
“Cambridge University Press is making higher education te...
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2020-04-08
596 Views
Families of coronavirus victims in France are foregoing traditional death and mourning rituals to stem the spread of Covid-19 infections. But for observant Muslims and Jews, the absence of these rites are an additional emotional burden at a difficult...
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2020-04-08
857 Views
Brill has entered into a partnership with The Aga Khan University Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations (London, UK) and the Aga Khan Museum (Toronto, Canada) to publish the new peer-reviewed, academic Journal of Material Cultures in the Mu...
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2020-04-06
600 Views
Campaign engages the world’s religious communities through Religions for Peace’s global, regional and national networks in a collective, multi-religious response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Religions for Peace (RfP) and the United Nations ...
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2020-04-04
605 Views
Nearly 100 mosques in Germany and the Netherlands on Friday rang out with the sound of the call to prayer, as a gesture of support for Muslims amid the coronavirus pandemic. The call to prayer (adhan) was chanted from mosques belonging to the T...
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2020-04-02
571 Views
The majority of British Muslims are concerned about Islamist extremism and support police along with the principles of the controversial Prevent program, a survey has suggested.
Crest Advisory, an independent crime consultancy, commissioned represe...
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2020-04-01
564 Views
Hundreds of Indian Americans of different faiths rallied outside Indian consulates in major American cities on Friday evening to protest against the recent violence in Delhi that has killed at least 42 people, and injured hundreds.
Violence erupted ...
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2020-04-01
551 Views
The United Kingdom is paying tribute to the first doctors on the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic who have died after contracting COVID-19.
All four men - Alfa Sa'adu; Amged el-Hawrani; Adil El Tayar and Habib Zaidi - were Muslim and had ance...
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2020-02-29
619 Views
Rabbis representing Britain’s main Orthodox communities have told the government that their schools cannot discuss LGBT-related issues with pupils.
According to the Jewish Chronicle, the rabbinate of Chinuch UK have made it clear that its 35 o...
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2020-02-29
588 Views
Calls are growing for Mayor Mike Bloomberg to apologize for his role in the New York Police Department’s long-running warrantless surveillance of area Muslims, which has seen renewed scrutiny since Bloomberg announced his candidacy for Democrat...
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2020-02-29
619 Views
The adhan is the call to announce that it is time for a particular obligatory Salah (ritual prayer). Muslims in Paterson, New Jersey, will be allowed to recite the Adhan publicly thanks to a new ordinance.
Under the new ordinance, currently being di...
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2020-02-29
679 Views
Since 2016, documentary filmmaker Assia Boundaoui has been waiting for answers from the FBI to one question: Which parts of her Arab American community in Bridgeview were surveilled after 9/11? After a court hearing last week, she learned she will ha...
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2020-02-19
645 Views
A Syrian family arrived in Milan, Italy, on Tuesday. They are the first group of refugees that is sponsored by the Union of Italian Jewish Communities (UCEI) and the Jewish Community of Milan, as part of the humanitarian corridors project.
The human...
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2020-01-17
873 Views
The Abrahamic Faiths Initiative group united 25 religious leaders representing millions of Christian, Muslim and Jewish faithful to discuss practical ways of promoting peace and fraternity at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome Jan. 14-16.
A...
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2020-01-16
608 Views
There isn’t a single country in Europe where Islamophobic attacks are not on the rise. France saw a 52% increase from 2017 to 2018; in Austria it was 74%. And in the same year, seven pig’s heads were left threateningly around Dutch mosque...
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2020-01-15
720 Views
Malaysia has the 13th most powerful passport in the world making it the premier Muslim passport, according to a new list by The Henley Passport Index. Each year the organization ranks all the world’s passports according to the number of destina...
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2020-01-15
617 Views
Religious identity development: A review of the research
One of the primary concerns of Muslim parents in the West is the religious identity of their children. Many parents wonder what the secret is to raising a child with imān (faith) in a society ...
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2020-01-09
558 Views
Second Lt. Saleha Jabeen was commissioned Dec. 18 at the Catholic Theological Union in Chicago by Air Force Chief of Chaplains Maj. Gen. Steven Schaick, the Air Force said in a release Friday.
The Islamic Society of North America endorsed Jabeen to ...
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2020-01-08
587 Views
The following joint statement was issued by the Muslim Public Affairs Council, CAIR, Islamic Shura Council, Shia Muslim Council, ILM Foundation, Islamic Center of Southern California and Masjid Ahlul Beyt. A Live Press Event was held today at MPAC's ...
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2020-01-05
595 Views
The Islamic Foundation of Ireland is seeking to become the patron body of a new State-funded secondary school due to open in west Dublin next year.
While there are two Muslim national schools in the Dublin area, there is no State-funded Muslim secon...
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2020-01-04
568 Views
Some parts of London are now almost 50 per cent Islamic, according to analysis from the Office for National Statistics. If current trends continue the areas could become majority Muslim within ten years.
Official ONS figures for 2018/19 that were re...
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2019-12-19
583 Views
Quebec Islamic cultural centre president Boufeldja Benabdallah, left, and Quebec City mayor Regis Labeaume hold one of the six metal leafs representing one of the six victims of the 2017 Mosque shooting, Tuesday, January 29, 2019 in Quebec City. Queb...
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2019-12-19
716 Views
The National Council of Canadian Muslims (NCCM) announced Wednesday that it will seek to challenge Quebec’s controversial ban on religious symbols at the Supreme Court of Canada.
This comes six days after the Quebec Court of Appeal refused to ...
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2019-12-15
666 Views
British Muslims have started the process of leaving the UK over fears for their ‘personal safety’ now Boris Johnson is Prime Minister for five years, Metro.co.uk can reveal. It comes after the prime minister was accused of ‘Islamoph...
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2019-12-14
614 Views
Expo magazine exposes Swedish closed social media group conversations rife with racism, death threats.
Far-right groups in Sweden are spewing hatred online by asking people to set mosques on fire and slaughter Muslims, according to a report by Expo ...
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2019-12-12
605 Views
Muslims and Hindus have larger households than Christians and religious ‘nones,’ in patterns influenced by regional norms.
Our households – who lives with us, how we are related to them and what role we play in that shared space &n...
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2019-12-10
592 Views
A leading Islamic school in Sweden accused of appointing teachers who had recently returned from fighting for ISIS abroad has been shut down amid fears students were at risk of being radicalized.
Abdel Nasser El Nadi, former principal of Vetenskapss...
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2019-12-06
615 Views
For the first time, Muhammad is one of the top 10 most popular baby names for boys in the United States, according to data from the parenting website BabyCenter. Muhammad ranks at No. 10, up four spots from last year. The name has been climbing stead...
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2019-12-05
692 Views
The Piazza Grande Religion Journalism Award
Call for Applications
Submission Deadline: February 28, 2020
The International Association of Religion Journalists (IARJ) is a global network of journalists promoting excellence in the coverage of religi...
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2019-12-03
672 Views
At a time of growing hate crimes targeting Muslims, German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier paid a special visit to a mosque in the southern town of Penzberg on Monday, calling for more understanding and respect between religions, Anadolu Agency rep...
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2019-12-02
666 Views
More than 1,000 mosques across Germany opened their doors Thursday to welcome non-Muslims in an effort of dispelling stereotypes and promoting mutual understanding, Anadolu Agency reported. Cologne Central Mosque, Germany’s largest mosque in th...
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2019-12-01
660 Views
26 Muslims won in state and local elections races across the US, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) announced. Elections were held, in large part, on November 5.
81 Muslim candidates ran for elections held in Kentucky, Louisiana, and M...
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2019-11-09
687 Views
Shaykh Amir Mukhtar Faezi is the founder of Ahl Al-Bayt Islamic Seminary. The U.S.-based seminary is focused on the Shiite tradition. Faezi founded it in 2014, offering a five-year graduate program. Imam Mohammad Qazwini‘s deep understanding of...
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2019-11-06
641 Views
All imams who work in Germany will in future have to prove they can speak the German language, under a draft law for religious leaders introduced by the government.
The bill, which passed cabinet on Wednesday, means that foreign preachers will only ...
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2019-11-03
666 Views
Canberra's top intelligence officer said there was “no doubt” some right-wing extremists have been inspired by the Christchurch mosque attack, and that an attack in Australia by the extreme right is “plausible”.
Australian Se...
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2019-10-31
707 Views
The imam, who leads Masjid As-Sabur, the oldest mosque in the Las Vegas area, is quick to clarify: “Not casino lights — I’m talking about noor,” he said, using the Arabic word for light that Muslims often use to refer to God&r...
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2019-10-17
760 Views
Reddit’s Islam-focused message board has long been a place where Muslims, as well as those curious about the faith, go to debate theology, learn about Islamic history, share video of their favorite sheikhs’ lectures and make prayer reques...
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2019-10-17
847 Views
A fresh political row has erupted over the Muslim headscarf in France after the education minister said he wanted to avoid having mothers in hijab as volunteers on school outings. Jean-Michel Blanquer criticized the country’s largest parents as...
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2019-10-17
755 Views
Imams and rabbis from across Europe are attending a summit in Italy organized by the Muslim Jewish Leadership Council. Anti-Semitism, Islamophobia and right-wing populism are all topics they'd like to address better.
Jewish and Muslim religious lead...
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2019-10-16
755 Views
The Fifth Round of the BRAIS – De Gruyter Prize in the Study of Islam and the Muslim World is now open for submissions.
The British Association for Islamic Studies (BRAIS) and De Gruyter are delighted to announce the fifth round of the BRAIS &...
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2019-10-15
807 Views
Before the presidential election in 2000, George W. Bush was urged by an adviser to go after a category of voters who would love a business-friendly, socially-conservative message: Muslims. Mr Bush took the tip and it worked. In 2001, a survey of Ame...
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2019-10-14
649 Views
Remarks by Mr. Miguel Moratinos
The High Representative for the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations
at the Church Center Event
‘Uniting to Confront Violence Against Places of Worship’
19 September 2019
At the outset, let me ...
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2019-09-26
746 Views
The relationship between Christians and Jews has been fraught for almost 2,000 years since the death of Jesus. Today, with a president who levels accusations about Jews and who encourages his fans to mistrust the mainstream media, a growing number of...
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2019-09-26
745 Views
On August 25th, 2019, Muslim American Society of Chicago (MAS) called out for Chicagoans to come join them on the 5k walk to raise money for Yemen. MAS reached out to other local organizations, church groups, and public institutions in order to have them come out to the event.
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2019-09-25
739 Views
The Muslim community in Oakland city, Northern California, celebrated the outstanding contributions made by Muslim Americans to the United States. Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf presented a proclamation to the Muslim community at Masjidul Waritheen, a pr...
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2019-09-24
751 Views
Muslims are being detained at ports and airports for up to six hours by law enforcement using controversial counter-terrorism powers so disproportionately that the practice has become Islamophobic, according to human rights group Cage. The organizati...
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2019-09-24
844 Views
‘Bold script of wildness and beauty’ is Jan Just Witkam's evocative description of the calligraphy of a manuscript from Daghistan in the collection of Leiden University Library (Cod. Or. 11964), a characterization which seems supremely we...
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2019-09-04
737 Views
Most Americans are familiar with some of the basics of Christianity and the Bible, and even a few facts about Islam. But far fewer U.S. adults are able to correctly answer factual questions about Judaism, Buddhism and Hinduism, and most do not know w...
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2019-09-03
1881 Views
She had money, fame, influence and power. By the age of 23, she had millions of fans, sold more than 4 million albums and won numerous awards. Writing and performing numerous hit singles and records one after the other, by 2007, Mélanie Georgi...
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2019-09-02
738 Views
A group of Christian, Muslim and Jewish religious leaders has issued the statement below, opposing the Reproductive Health Care Reform Bill 2019 and the speed with which it is being pushed through NSW Parliament
This bill was only given to select pa...
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2019-09-02
816 Views
The BBC said it would remove the relevant voiceover from Dooley’s documentary before broadcast. The BBC has apologized and amended a Panorama documentary presented by Stacey Dooley after she inadvertently described a Muslim prayer sign as...
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2019-09-01
734 Views
Some 20 students from different European study programs and from a wide range of backgrounds, including Muslims, Jews and Christians, participated in the first summer school on “Jerusalem and the Three Religions” took place at the Protest...
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2019-09-01
762 Views
The BBC has launched a new pilot sketch show exploring life for Muslims in modern Britain. “Muzlamic is a brand new pilot sketch show exploring life from the perspective of two Muslim comedians, or rather, two comedians who happen to be Muslim,...
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2019-09-01
705 Views
A new social media platform based on Islamic morals and values called Labayk has launched globally. Labayk says it aims to be a platform that serves people’s needs through Islamic values and creating a respectful, truthful online environment. A...
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2019-09-01
1003 Views
This Event which was happened on July 15, 2019 at National Press Club was co-hosted by International Center for Law and Religion Studies, part of the J. Reuben Clark Law School at Brigham Young University and the Religious Freedom Institute
It was a...
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2019-08-31
740 Views
Muslim political leaders and academics are set to gather in Washington, DC, for what is being billed as the first national gathering of Muslims in politics in United States history. The historic moment comes as President Donald Trump and his supporte...
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2019-07-18
775 Views
The 1,200-year-old building is one of the oldest mosques ever discovered in Israel. The researchers also uncovered a farm and a small settlement near the mosque in the Negev Desert.
Archaeologists announced on Thursday that they had discovered a 1,2...
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2019-07-18
1759 Views
Algebra, alchemy, artichoke, alcohol, and apricot all derive from Arabic words which came to the West during the age of Crusades. Even more fundamental are the Indo-Arabic numerals (0-9), which replaced Roman numerals during the same period and revol...
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2019-07-17
903 Views
An art tradition sometimes dismissed as perpetuating lazy stereotypes about the east will soon – the British Museum hopes – be seen in a different light thanks to a major exhibition exploring how western artists have been inspired by the ...
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2019-07-17
750 Views
Restrictions on religion are on the rise, not just under authoritarian regimes but also in European democracies, according to the US Pew center. It found Christians are harassed in 143 countries, and Muslims in 140.
Over the decade from 2007 to 2017...
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2019-07-14
756 Views
The German domestic intelligence agency, the Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz – which roughly translates as Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution – has published a new report titled “Anti-Semitism in Islamism&rdq...
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2019-07-11
841 Views
The Dalai Lama has claimed Europe could become ‘African or Muslim’ if refugees do not return to their home countries. The 83-year-old, who has been living as a refugee from Tibet since 1959, said he thinks only a ‘limited number&rsq...
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2019-07-10
727 Views
The Race Discrimination Commissioner Chin Tan has met with members of the Muslim Community in the ACT about their experiences of discrimination, Islamophobia and hate speech and their right to safely practice their religion.
The gathering at the Can...
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2019-07-02
873 Views
An Islamophobic group in Norway insulted Muslims, said all Qurans must be destroyed and threw a copy of the Muslim holy book the Qur’an in an event near the capital Oslo on Saturday, according to a video the group posted on the Internet.
Durin...
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2019-07-01
734 Views
Four in 10 Tory members think there should be a reduction in the number of Muslims entering Britain, according to the YouGov survey.
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2019-06-30
833 Views
The Quebec government passed a bill late Sunday barring schoolteachers, police officers, judges and other public employees from wearing religious symbols in the workplace, prompting an outcry that civil liberties in the province were under attack.
F...
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2019-06-24
914 Views
Tell MAMA UK, a national project which records and measures anti-Muslim incidents in the United Kingdom., has said that over half of all reported hate crimes in the UK target visibly Muslim women. Religious hate crime has risen in the UK by 40% from ...
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2019-06-23
818 Views
Faith institutions must show strong moral leadership to heal people’s “collective trauma” and fill the void left by international political failure, according to the UN’s deputy head and the leader of one of the UK’s maj...
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2019-06-20
942 Views
Cambridge Mosque, “Europe’s first eco-mosque” has opened after much anticipation. Sustainability and eco-friendliness have been prioritized in the building of the mosque and its mission statement, which quotes Dr Tim Winter, chairma...
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2019-06-19
782 Views
It is with deep dismay that the Muslim-Jewish Leadership Council (MJLC) has heard of recent developments in Austria which could lead to the country’s withdrawal from the International Dialogue Centre (KAICIID).
The Board of Directors of the MJ...
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2019-06-18
811 Views
Britain's largest Muslim organization has condemned the Conservatives over "fundamental failures" in addressing Islamophobia within the party's ranks.
In alarming remarks, the spokesperson for the Muslim Council of Britain(MCB) said he had document...
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2019-06-13
776 Views
The German government is condemning an incident in which around 50 copies of the Quran were damaged at a mosque.
Police say that one or more people ripped up copies of the Islamic holy book at a mosque in the northwestern city of Bremen on Saturday....
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2019-06-11
839 Views
A recent attack on a Muslim cemetery in Greece shows the rise of Islamophobia and racism both there and throughout the continent, according to an expert on the region. A Muslim cemetery in the city of Alexandroupolis was found on Tuesday to have suff...
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2019-06-06
768 Views
Without minaret or dome, the beige, rectangular structure in a former industrial area has none of the ornate grace typical of Islamic places of worship. But for the Muslims of Athens, it is the result of a long-fought battle - and the city's first fo...
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2019-05-31
815 Views
Growing numbers of Danish Muslims say they have faced verbal abuse, exclusion and hate crimes since mainstream political parties began adopting anti-immigrant policies previously the preserve of the far right.
The ruling center-right Liberal Party a...
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2019-05-17
943 Views
The Austrian parliament has approved a law banning girls in primary schools from wearing the hijab. The bill which was passed on Wednesday is likely to be challenged as discriminatory in Austria’s Constitutional Court.
The law received support...
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2019-05-14
1184 Views
President Joel N. Lohr and Hartford Seminary are pleased to announce that, as of July 1, Dr. Hossein Kamaly will hold the Imam Ali Chair for Shi’i Studies and Dialogue among Islamic Legal Schools. He will also be Associate Professor of Islamic ...
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2019-05-13
1343 Views
The Institute for Social Policy and Understanding (ISPU) has released the “American Muslim Poll 2019”, its fourth annual poll in which different religious groups, and those that consider themselves non-affiliated, are surveyed in order to...
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2019-05-10
877 Views
Austrian theologian Mouhanad Khorchide, professor for Islamic religious pedagogy and director of the Centre for Islamic Theology at the University of Münster in Germany, has published the first part of a wide-ranging commentary of the Qur’...
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2019-05-10
977 Views
The co-founder of a Muslim interfaith group in Preston has invited the anti-Islam activist Tommy Robinson to a “peaceful and respectful” meeting.
Robinson – real name Stephen Yaxley-Lennon – is standing as an Independent MEP ...
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2019-05-09
1057 Views
The Donner Institute for Research in Religious and Cultural History hereby calls for nominations for its annual prize for outstanding research pertaining to the field of religion. The prize is awarded to a researcher in the field for a significant, r...
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2019-05-09
1376 Views
Here is a book project urgently crying out for US/UK English-language publisher. The book in question came out in French two weeks ago and swiftly made the bestseller lists over there. Amid a storm of media coverage, France's top weekly newsmagazine,...
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2019-05-07
923 Views
The goal of the project is to provide digital editions of more than 500 manuscripts and 827 paintings from the Islamicate world broadly construed. Together these holdings will represent in great breadth the flourishing intellectual and cultural herit...
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2019-05-05
862 Views
Christians are being encouraged to use Ramadan as a time to pray for Muslims.
Christian charity Interserve is calling on believers to pray for the protection of the Muslim community and that they would come to know Jesus.
In a statement, it said: ...
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2019-04-29
1276 Views
ICAS Press Latest Publication
The Annual International Conference on Shi‘i Studies is organized by the Research and Publications Department of The Islamic College, London. The conference aims to provide a broad platform for scholars working in...
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2019-04-27
1013 Views
The Marie Curie ITN proposal ‘Mediating Islam in the Digital Age’ (MIDA) has been launched end of March 2019.
The MIDA-project rests on the premise that digitization and technological innovation do have a tremendous impact on Islam, the ...
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2019-04-25
1165 Views
Recent studies document younger adults being less religious than older generations and the global religious profile changing as the population grows. Across 27 countries surveyed, more think religion plays a less important role than a more important ...
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2019-04-24
1093 Views
The Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA) held its 44th ICNA-MAS Annual Convention at a new location in Washington D.C. past weekend. More than 24,000 people attended the event at the massive Walter Washington Convention Center, making it the larges...
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2019-04-19
1760 Views
The park features 12 gardens, a Cave of Miracles, and a split lake symbolizing parting of the Red Sea in the time of Hazrat Musa (AS)
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2019-04-19
927 Views
Canada's first all-female mosque opened in Toronto, giving women a safe space to practice their faith. John Vennavally-Rao reports. The Women’s Mosque of Canada says it will be offering bi-weekly Friday prayers for women that are also led by wo...
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2019-04-19
931 Views
Internet-based hate crimes double in country over 2017-2018, says head of online hate speech monitoring group
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2019-04-16
962 Views
This Muslim photographer, Sana Ullah, has won 2019 Goldziher award for her photo series ‘Places You’ll Pray’ which highlights Muslim worshippers praying in public places. This was reported in GW Hatchet.
This alumna who graduated i...
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2019-04-11
895 Views
The UK’s so-called ‘counter-extremism’ Prevent strategy has always been a controversial policy. Not only have its negative consequences been felt and condemned in the United Kingdom, but its inherently flawed basis has been exported...
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2019-04-01
981 Views
A federal appeals court decided unanimously Thursday to revive much of a proposed class-action lawsuit brought by Southern California Muslims against the FBI that claims they were subjected to surveillance because of their religion.
The decision by ...
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2019-03-31
925 Views
Robert Biedron, the founder of a new progressive party in Poland, believes ties between the state and the Catholic Church in one of Europe’s most devout nations are “pathological” and need to be loosened.
After four years of rule b...
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2019-03-31
944 Views
YouGov was recently commissioned by the Muslim Council of Elders to conduct a multi-country study on attitudes to religion in the West and Middle East/North Africa region…The research included online surveys in France, Germany, Britain, the Un...
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2019-03-27
1010 Views
Muslim immigrants detained at a Florida jail made more than 20 requests — orally and in writing — for religious accommodation throughout last year. Their asks were simple: They wanted their meals to be religiously compliant, to be able to...
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2019-03-25
1367 Views
An Australian judge has called on the country’s Muslims to publicly disavow “violent verses of the Quran that have inspired acts of terrorism.”
Justice Desmond Fagan said hostile verses in the Quran that support “intolerance...
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2019-03-14
1050 Views
In first papal visit to Arabian peninsula, Francis calls for end to wars in Middle East
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2019-02-10
1039 Views
In January, the Fraser Institute released its annual report card on Ontario Elementary Schools for 2019.The report card ranks over 3,000 Ontario schools, including anglophone and francophone public and Catholic schools, along with a small number of p...
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2019-02-06
1047 Views
Even in the early 20th century, when Islam had little presence in most parts of the United States, the religion had a foothold in many black urban communities. Today, black people (not including those of Hispanic descent or mixed race) make up 20% of...
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2019-02-05
1558 Views
A former Dutch far-right politician who once said “Islam is a lie” and the “Quran is poison” has announced that he has become Muslim.
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2019-02-04
1022 Views
Religion in the United States is in a slump. Since 1990, the share of Americans who reject any religious affiliation has climbed sharply, from 8 percent to more than 22 percent. Among younger Americans, the trend is especially pronounced. According t...
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2019-02-02
1084 Views
Lewisham Mosque and the Muslim Association of Britain (MAB) have slammed media reporting after it was claimed that two Muslim scout leaders were suspended following an investigation into extremism.
Lewisham Mosque said it continued “to be appa...
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2019-02-02
1082 Views
Head of Geylani Foundation in Rotterdam urges Dutch government to take immediate action against attacks
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2019-01-31
925 Views
The Religious Freedom Institute (RFI) welcomes the U.S. Department of State’s recent announcement that it will host a second consecutive Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom July 16-18, 2019. This high-level event, according to the announce...
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2019-01-24
1218 Views
Catholic methods of examining scripture could help tackle radicalization in Islam, a leading Jesuit academic has said, after it was revealed an Irish citizen was captured having left Ireland to fight for the so-called Islamic State.
Originally from ...
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2019-01-21
1090 Views
The Louisville International Airport located in Kentucky, USA, has announced it will change its name to be Muhammad Ali International Airport, to honor the late sports legend, CNN reported. “We are so excited to announce that @FlyLouisville wil...
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2019-01-19
1014 Views
A group of leaders from across a broad spectrum of American religious life urged Senators to pledge their opposition to religious tests of any kind for nominees for public office. A letter, organized by the Religious Freedom Institute, was delivered ...
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2019-01-14
1072 Views
On Christmas Eve, churches all over the country will welcome into their midnight mass services people who rarely take part in acts of Christian worship but find candlelit carols irresistible. In the pews of St Alban’s in North Harrow there will...
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2019-01-12
1128 Views
Two Muslim organizations in France have launched projects to create "inclusive" mosques: spaces where women and men can pray together, and where female imams would be able to lead Friday prayers. There is some support for women imams in Britain and S...
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2019-01-11
938 Views
Nick Vallelonga, the Green Book writer and producer whose late father Tony is a central character in the film, has apologised for a 2015 social media post that triggered accusations of Islamophobia. Vallelonga has come under fire after the discovery ...
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2019-01-05
1238 Views
A ban on Muslim and Jewish methods of ritually slaughtering animals has come into force in Belgium.
The ban brings Belgium in line with European Union regulations that require animals to be stunned so they can’t feel pain before slaughter. How...
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2019-01-02
1063 Views
The new Congress is slightly more religiously diverse than its predecessor, but it remains overwhelmingly Christian, according to a new Pew Research Center analysis of congressional data collected by CQ Roll Call.
For the first day of the 116th Cong...
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2019-01-01
1062 Views
A recent development in a two-year-old corruption scandal -- involving the so-called "Islamic University of Europe" in the Netherlands -- has renewed public interest in the institution, involving tax fraud. Its rector, professor Nedim Bahçekap...
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2018-12-28
1227 Views
When Germans file their annual tax returns, religion matters a great deal. If you're Catholic, tax authorities will likely collect an income tax surcharge of about 10 percent on behalf of your local church. The same applies to most Protestants.
The ...
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2018-12-21
1090 Views
Christians, Jews, Hindus, Sikhs and Muslims were among the 200 people who gathered at the Ilford Muslim Community Centre on Thursday 13 December to celebrate the Mawlid, Christmas and Chanukah. Among the guests were members of the British Armed Force...
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2018-12-19
1110 Views
The Conference of European Churches (CEC) and Cumberland Lodge conducted a conference titled “Towards Peaceful co-existence in the Middle East: challenges and opportunities.” Co-hosted by Churches Together in Britain and Ireland, the gath...
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2018-12-11
3251 Views
5Pillars editor Roshan Muhammed Salih has compiled a subjective list of the most powerful countries in the Muslim world. He judged them on nine criteria – the strength of their economies, internal cohesion, their political systems, levels of co...
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2018-12-10
1050 Views
As long-simmering debates continue over how American society should commemorate the Christmas holiday, a new Pew Research Center survey finds that most U.S. adults believe the religious aspects of Christmas are emphasized less now than in the past &n...
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2018-12-10
1079 Views
in 1893, during the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago, thousands gathered over 17 days in September to witness a “World’s Parliament of Religions.” For many Americans, it was their first encounter with Hindus, Sikhs, Bud...
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2018-12-05
1349 Views
How can we align religious life with human rights? What role should spiritual leaders play in promoting human rights? And what can everyday people of faith do to defend human rights and encourage mutual respect between people of different religions?
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2018-12-04
1296 Views
Europeans generally are less religious than people in other parts of the world. But within Europe, there are sometimes sizable differences in levels of religious commitment, according to an analysis of recent Pew Research Center surveys in 34 countri...
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2018-12-03
1032 Views
Last week the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on British Muslims, published its report “Islamophobia Defined: A report into a working definition of Islamophobia and anti-Muslim hatred”.
That a parliamentary group has finally recogni...
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2018-12-02
1034 Views
Restrictions on religion rose around the globe in 2016, according to Pew Research Center’s annual study of global restrictions on religion. The share of countries with “high” or “very high” levels of government restricti...
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2018-11-30
1029 Views
The Canadian-Muslim Vote, a non-profit, non-partisan organization increasing democratic engagement within the Muslim community, held a very well-attended Visit My Mosque Day across Canada on Saturday, November 10, 2018. Several mosques across the cou...
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2018-11-30
982 Views
The National Council of Canadian Muslims (NCCM) sent an open letter to the federal government urging them to designate January 29 as a National Day of Action against Hate and Intolerance. The letter has been endorsed by over 100 Canadian Muslim organ...
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2018-11-16
1095 Views
A unique and amazing experience summed up what many of us felt at the end of the first Scottish Interfaith Youth Camp 2018 (SIYC), held in Aberfoyle, near Stirling. The idea of a SIYC developed from the Wings of Unity project, a collaborative initiat...
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2018-11-15
1228 Views
Islamic universities are beginning to spring up in countries around the world with new institutions opening in the US, Italy and in some European countries.
The aim is to provide higher education for immigrant Muslim communities and to tackle concer...
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2018-11-14
1225 Views
For years Hartford Seminary has provided quality online learning with knowledgeable faculty and an engaging, intellectual student body of diverse identities and faiths. Starting in Fall 2017, our Master of Arts in Religious Studies* program will be o...
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2018-11-14
1159 Views
The Social Science Institute of the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD) has published a new study titled “Islam and Muslims in Germany: The population’s view”. Just over 2000 respondents were questioned on the phone with respect to ...
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2018-11-14
1084 Views
Researchers have recreated the acoustic atmosphere of the ancient Mosque–Cathedral of Córdoba. The sounds in the prayer hall have changed over the centuries.
When a building is slated for an addition or a renovation, preservation-minded...
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2018-11-13
1169 Views
A Palestinian-American and a Somali ex-refugee become the first female Muslims in Congress
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2018-11-12
1004 Views
Many more U.S. Muslims identify with or lean toward the Democratic Party than the GOP (66% vs. 13%), but the share who are Republican has held steady over the last 10 years, including after the election of President Donald Trump, according to a new a...
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2018-11-11
972 Views
In a country where the debate over “who belongs?” has deeply divided Ms Merkel’s government, fueled massive demonstrations and propelled the rise of anti-immigrant populism, the 16 and 17-year-olds confront versions questions every ...
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2018-11-10
1067 Views
The famous Irish singer Sinead O’Connor has converted to Islam and taken the new name “Shuhada’ Davitt.” In a tweet which is thought to be from her account, O’Connor said she had ditched the Catholic Church for good in a...
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2018-11-10
1041 Views
The majority of Britons are tolerant of Islam and Muslims but a strong minority isn’t, a new poll has revealed.
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2018-11-03
1919 Views
According to the new national survey, at least half of teens say they are “religious nones” - those who do not identify with a religion or religious group. Digging deeper, we found a more complicated picture of faith and spirituality amon...
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2018-11-02
1040 Views
An invitation to a distinguished Muslim scholar to preach at a eucharist service in an Oxford church on Sunday has triggered complaints from traditionalists.
Monawar Hussain, who was awarded an MBE in the Queen’s birthday honors last year for ...
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2018-11-01
1036 Views
Six-month program aims to increase diversity and follows calls for greater involvement.
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2018-10-31
1299 Views
Although Germany's debate on Islam has a long history, it took on greater intensity in 2010 with the then German President Christian Wulff's momentous declaration that "Islam belongs to Germany". As if to counter Wulff's argument, Germany's Interior ...
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2018-10-24
1239 Views
The new University of Minnesota program will include an Islamic studies minor.
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2018-10-22
1088 Views
Many cite practical or personal reasons, rather than lack of belief, for staying home.
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2018-10-21
1153 Views
Jewish and Muslim communities in Europe are confronted with rising xenophobia, hate crimes, and policies that are curtailing their right to religious practices, leaders of these communities said at the first plenary meeting of the European Muslim Jew...
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2018-10-05
1245 Views
Muslim women in the West have been battling inaccurate stereotypes for ages. In the post-Sept. 11 era, Muslim women have come to be seen as one-dimensional figures in need of saving by the “West” and lacking dynamism or the ability to act...
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2018-10-04
1275 Views
Relegated to the basement, silenced by the imam and barred from the front door, some Muslim women have had enough of male domination at the mosque and are setting up their own. From Copenhagen to Los Angeles, a handful of female mosques now cater to ...
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2018-10-01
1118 Views
The Kawthar Learning Circle (KLC) held its Social Wilayah Summer Retreat from 3-6 August 2018 at the Cap-Saint-Jacques regional park in Montreal, Canada. The Social Wilayah Summer Retreat has become a yearly tradition among the KLC family, as an oppo...
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2018-09-27
1446 Views
In the wake of growing racism across Europe, a project to counter Islamophobia was launched in the European Parliament on Wednesday. Experts and academics from across Europe gathered at the parliament for the launch of the two-year Counter-Islamophob...
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2018-09-26
1423 Views
The famous Norwegian historian Kari Vogt, from Oslo University’s Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages, has estimated that as much as 3,000 Norwegians converted to Islam in the recent few years, Verdens Gang reported.
“The...
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2018-09-26
1293 Views
Religious liberty has become a particularly politicized topic in recent years, and recent months were no different. In a long-awaited June decision, the Supreme Court decided in favor of a Christian baker who refused to make a custom wedding cake for...
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2018-09-24
1118 Views
According to a 2011 report by the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding (ISPU), there are 235 full-time Islamic schools in the United States.
Shariq Siddiqui and Sabith Khan, co-authors of “Islamic Education in the United States and th...
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2018-09-21
1199 Views
Many Muslims still remember the killing of a pregnant Muslim woman in a German court based on anti-Muslim motivation. On July 1, 2009, Marwa was stabbed to death by the attacker, who openly revealed his anti-Muslim bias.
Five years later on July 1, ...
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2018-09-19
1474 Views
The Silk Road Institute, a non-profit Muslim organization dedicated to promoting cultural arts, is launching Canada’s first professional Muslim theater company this fall in Montreal, Broadway World reported on September 19.
The company’s...
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2018-09-16
1340 Views
A Danish law that took effect in August makes it illegal for Muslim women to wear face-covering veils – such as burqas or niqabs – in public. Austria, Belgium and France, as well as parts of Italy and Spain, have enacted similar laws in r...
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2018-09-11
1207 Views
Local Catholic and Muslim leaders in Edmonton, Canada, have organized a ‘Meet Greet’ event to create mutual understanding between the two religious communities for a “deeper way of tolerance and coexistence”.
“The most ...
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2018-09-02
1110 Views
BRAIS – De Gruyter International Prize in the Study of Islam and the Muslim World
Application Deadline: October 1, 2018
The British Association for Islamic Studies (BRAIS) and De Gruyter are delighted to announce the fourth round of the BRAIS...
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2018-08-31
1131 Views
A new way to categorize Americans by religion
Most U.S. adults identify with a particular religious denomination or group. They describe themselves as Catholic, Baptist, Methodist, Jewish, Mormon or Muslim– to name just a few of the hundreds o...
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2018-08-16
1925 Views
A Muslim woman will get 40,000 Swedish krona ($4,366) in damages from a company that discriminated against her faith-based choices during a job interview, a Swedish court ruled.
Farah Alhajeh’s job interview in Uppsala, eastern Sweden was canc...
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2018-08-07
1335 Views
New laws targeting Muslims are reminiscent of a time when innocent Jewish children were abducted by masked monks and imprisoned in monasteries to “save” them from the eternal fire of hell. In our blind mistrust of religious differences, w...
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2018-08-02
1215 Views
Amatul-Wadud is a mother of seven, a lawyer, a community activist and a Muslim, who rises before dawn, prays five times a day and fasts during Ramadan. Now aged 44, she faces the biggest hurdle of her life: asking a majority white constituency, where...
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2018-07-31
1224 Views
Religious identity may fuel perceptions of discrimination, Rice University research shows
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2018-07-24
1338 Views
Across Western Europe, people who say they personally know a Muslim are generally more likely than others to have positive opinions of Muslims and their religion, according to a recent Pew Research Center study in 15 countries. However, knowing somet...
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2018-07-18
1230 Views
A record number of Muslim Americans ran for statewide or national office this election cycle, the most since the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, made Islam a political target for many, according to Muslim political groups. The Muslim civil rights g...
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2018-07-17
1335 Views
Religious education in schools is outdated and should be replaced with a new subject: religion, belief and values, and the right of parents to withdraw their children from classes should be scrapped, according to the former Labor education secretary ...
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2018-07-02
1202 Views
Islamic primary schools contribute to the integration of Muslims in Dutch society and offer children a sense of belonging and prepare them for Dutch society. Marietje Beemsterboer states in her PhD dissertation that the prejudice that Islamic primary...
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2018-07-01
1700 Views
Archbishop Cesare Pasini, Prefect of the Vatican Library, announced on Wednesday the opening of the DigiVatLib, a shortening of digital Vatican Library. The Archbishop explained that over the last five years the Vatican Library has become involved in...
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2018-07-01
1307 Views
The UK’s first access course in Islamic Education has been launched by the Centre for Education Studies at the University of Warwick. The short course is designed to bridge the gap between traditional Islamic seminaries and modern higher educat...
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2018-07-01
1256 Views
The religious landscape of Western Europe is changing. The Christian population is declining, while the share of religiously unaffiliated adults is increasing. The Muslim population is growing as a result of immigration and higher fertility rates. Me...
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2018-06-22
1226 Views
Members of the Victoria Islamic Center know what it’s like to lose a place of worship. “We welcome you. This is your place,” Abe Ajrami, treasurer for the Islamic Center, said Sunday morning to a group of about 30 Unitarian Universa...
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2018-06-14
1353 Views
If being a young Muslim is hard, being a young Muslim woman is especially difficult. Muslim women who wear the hijab are on the front lines of deflecting attacks against Islam due to their visibility. So much of the Islamophobic narrative surrounding...
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2018-06-14
1265 Views
Muslim societies have sometimes faced criticism for failing to adequately educate women. Boko Haram’s kidnapping of schoolgirls in Nigeria and the Taliban’s attack on Pakistani education activist Malala Yousafzai have contributed to this ...
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2018-06-13
1576 Views
By several measures, young adults tend to be less religious than their elders; the opposite is rarely true.
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2018-06-12
1339 Views
More than 350 Muslim organizations and mosques have collectively written to the Conservative Party urging them to launch an internal inquiry following allegations of Islamophobia. The calls for an inquiry have supported those made by the Muslim Counc...
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2018-06-10
1427 Views
After a debate about whether it's promoting religion, the state House voted overwhelmingly Thursday to require North Carolina's public schools to display in a prominent place the words "In God We Trust."
Supporters of House Bill 965, which passed 94...
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2018-06-06
1211 Views
Italian scholar Silvio Ferrari has launched a massive project that will be of interest to NRM scholars and others researching religion.
The project aims at producing an online Atlas of the religious minorities’ rights in the Council of Europe ...
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2018-06-05
1295 Views
The Quran Mobile is a project of American Islamic Outreach Foundation (AIOF). It is designed to help the Muslim community to reach out and educate people about the nature of Islam.
AIOF serves to inform, educate, and dispel misconceptions about the ...
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2018-06-03
1381 Views
Most Christians in Western Europe today are non-practicing, but Christian identity still remains a meaningful religious, social and cultural marker, according to a new Pew Research Center survey of 15 countries in Western Europe. In addition to relig...
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2018-06-02
1140 Views
The following is part of an open session of a four-day conference organized by the Focolare Movement, entitled: ‘Together to give hope. Christians and Muslims on march with the charisma of unity.’
This session was attended by numerous le...
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2018-06-01
1670 Views
On 5th May 2018 the “Imam Mahdi” Islamic Centre of Rome officially began its religious and cultural activities. The Opening ceremony started in the early afternoon with a conference on the “Role and Responsibility of Islamic Centers...
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2018-05-28
1743 Views
The Museum "für Islamische Kunst" in Berlin now provides access to more than 11.000 objects online on its website.
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2018-05-20
1372 Views
Technology and artificial intelligence (AI) are fashioning how people interact with everything from food to healthcare — and so, too, for religion. From electronic scriptures to robot priests, different faiths have absorbed new ideas from the w...
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2018-05-20
1427 Views
The King of Jordan – founder of the World Interfaith Harmony Week initiative at the United Nations – attended the 2018 King Abdullah II World Interfaith Harmony Week prize ceremony at Al Husseiniya Palace and presented awards to the winne...
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2018-05-19
1202 Views
The United Arab Emirates hosted the start of a two-day forum on Tuesday for Islamic community leaders from countries around the world where Muslims are minorities. Several hundred people attended the forum in the UAE’s capital of Abu Dhabi to n...
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2018-05-18
1390 Views
The leader of Belgium’s “Islam” party said in a TV interview said that Belgium will have a Muslim majority soon. Earlier we’ve reported on how his Islam party wants to introduce Sharia law and create an Islamic State in Belgiu...
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2018-05-17
1303 Views
The California-based tech titan has unveiled new applications and products related to Ramadan intended to help practitioners of the Islamic faith during the most sacred month of the calendar. The company has recently rolled out an interactive calligr...
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2018-05-17
1657 Views
Deep Deen is the world's first video platform designed to elevate understanding, practice and love of Islam. It is an initiative developed by Cambridge Islamic College.
Under Shaykh Dr. Akram Nadwi’s leadership and profound scholarship, CIC ar...
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2018-05-16
1147 Views
Muslims will also account for 2.1 pct of US population by 2030, says new report on global Muslim diaspora
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2018-05-08
1264 Views
This year, advocacy days participants focused their lobbying efforts on issues such as the Trump administration’s “Muslim Ban,” “Digital Muslim Ban” and the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.
Hosted ...
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2018-05-04
1468 Views
Muslims, especially second generation Muslims, seem to be finding ways to reconcile British culture with religion. It's only natural that, when Islamic thought has adapted to the context in Malaysia, in Pakistan and in Egypt, it can do so in Britain ...
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2018-04-30
1527 Views
The Shia Muslim Council, along with its partners, the Islamic Shura Council of Southern California, CAIR, MPAC and Bayan Claremont presented a unique symposium to discuss Sunni and Shia relations. Held at the University of California in Irvine, the s...
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2018-04-20
1416 Views
Deadline: 1 June 2018
NGOs interested in applying for ECOSOC consultative status should submit their application and required documents on or before the deadline of 1 June 2018.
The following link provides background information, the benefits of ...
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2018-04-13
1322 Views
Ireland’s capital city is home to quite possibly the finest collection of Islamic manuscripts in the western hemisphere, if not the entire world.
The Chester Beatty Library was first opened in a large building in a wealthy suburb of Dublin in ...
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2018-04-11
1244 Views
At an event, the Religious Freedom Institute (RFI) announced the launch of its Islam and Religious Freedom Action Team. Each of the Religious Freedom Institute’s five action teams advances religious freedom in a particular issue area or region ...
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2018-04-09
1343 Views
The Muslim population of the UK is set to triple in 30 years, according to projections from the Pew Research Centre. Under the model which assumes median migration levels, the number of Muslims in the country would rise from 4.1m in 2016 to 13m in 20...
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2018-04-06
1340 Views
International event aims to encourage mutual understanding between Muslims and non-Muslims.
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2018-03-01
1364 Views
Unity among religious leaders is growing and it is a powerful message of hope in the Arab region, Christian, Jewish and Muslim leaders have heard at a Vienna conference on peaceful coexistence and diversity, whilst advocating the necessity of even mo...
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2018-03-01
1718 Views
The World Federation’s Second Executive Council Meeting of the term 2017-2020 started on Friday 23 February 2018 with an opening and welcome ceremony followed by an evening of Real Talk with the community.
Dr Munir Datoo, t...
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2018-02-18
1398 Views
The Muslim Association of Britain (MAB) is pleased to report that the 4th consecutive Visit My Mosque day on Sunday was once again, a resounding success.
With over 200 mosques across the UK opening their doors to the public in an initiative launched...
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2018-02-13
1293 Views
A leading representative of French Muslims urged Emmanuel Macron not to meddle in the organization of France’s second-largest religion; days after the president told the Journal du Dimanche that he would try to redefine relations between Islam ...
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2018-02-08
1303 Views
Many Canadians pride themselves on being more multicultural and less suspicious of minorities than Americans, but new public opinion research being aired today in Montréal at a McGill Institute for the Study of Canada conference find...
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2018-02-07
1157 Views
Texas pastor Bob Roberts has traveled to Washington before for the National Prayer Breakfast, a Christian-organized networking event where evangelicals come to schmooze about topics including their shared goal of bringing people to Christ. That ...
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2018-02-06
1241 Views
A social media monitoring tool used by the Boston Police Department to identify potential threats swept up the posts of people using the hashtag #MuslimLivesMatter and a lawmaker’s Facebook update about racial inequality, according to a report ...
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2018-01-30
1350 Views
When German man Arthur Wagner announced on Facebook he had converted to Islam and was now called Ahmad, he was bombarded with abuse. “Someone wrote, I should leave Germany immediately before I started building bombs,” said Mr Wagner from ...
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2018-01-27
1440 Views
Muslims prayed following a protest to mark the one year anniversary of the Trump administration's executive order banning travel into the U.S. from several Muslim majority countries, in Washington Square Park, 26 January, 2018 in New York City.
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2018-01-26
1188 Views
Like Americans in many other religious groups, a substantial share of adults who were raised Muslim no longer identify as members of the faith. But, unlike some other faiths, Islam gains about as many converts as it loses.
About a quarter of adults ...
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2018-01-17
1346 Views
Dr. Fuad Sahin was named to the Order of Canada by Governor General Julie Payette on December 29, 2017. He had previously received the Order of Ontario in 2009. Originally from Turkey, Dr. Sahan immigrated to Canada in 1958 with his family and s...
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2018-01-09
1379 Views
In the United States, many Muslims are reluctant to seek out mental health professionals because of the stigma attached to mental illness or because they fear that a Western-trained therapist will not understand their culture or religion.
Instead, t...
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2018-01-06
1518 Views
Worcester Mosque has donated almost 200 dishes-worth of food, including desserts, to its neighbors St Paul’s Hostel for the homeless.
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2018-01-04
1425 Views
By the year 2040, Muslims will replace Jews as the second-largest religious group in the US after Christians, according to projections by a leading American think tank. Pew Research Center estimates there were some 3.45 million Muslims living in the ...
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2017-12-26
1465 Views
Illustration of the investiture of ʿAlī by the Prophet at Ghadīr Khumm from the earliest extant illustrated manuscript of al-Birūnī’s (d. 1048) The Chronology of Ancient Nations located at the Special Collections Department of Edinbur...
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2017-12-24
1650 Views
The first mainstream television advertisement by a Muslim charity will be aired over the festive period, a development many hope will help to challenge the misconception that Muslims are anti-Christmas. The 59-second advert for the West Yorkshire cha...
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2017-12-24
1690 Views
A special issue of the Journal of Muslims in Europe on ‘Mapping Shia Muslim Communities in Europe’ has been published by Brill.
Dr Yafa Shanneik provides the introduction to the special issue, writing on ‘L...
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2017-12-13
1402 Views
The Islamic Educational College was announced as the fourth Jordanian school being admitted to the PASCH network in Jordan, according to a German embassy statement. The PASCH initiative “Schools: Partners for the Future” was founded by th...
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2017-12-08
1361 Views
Nearly all of the former US ambassadors to Israel said they were opposed to US President Donald Trump’s decision to recognize the ultra-sensitive holy city of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital over concerns that the move would stoke an alread...
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2017-12-06
1256 Views
Thousands of people across the UK took part in the interfaith day encouraging good deeds. Muslims planning to open a new mosque in a traditionally Jewish north London community have joined people at their local synagogue to give blood ...
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2017-12-04
1337 Views
The recent surge in refugees from Syria and other Muslim-majority nations to Europe has prompted a backlash among segments of Europe’s population, including the rise of political parties that advocate a halt to immigration and groups&...
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2017-11-20
1280 Views
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, expressed support for students at a Virginia high school who were recently threatened with suspension for praying together bet...
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2017-11-19
1338 Views
France strictly regulates religious expression, and building new places of worship for the 5 million Muslims is a controversial issue for the secular country. After fighting between Muslim worshipers and French authorities in a Paris suburb, th...
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2017-11-15
1414 Views
The number of assaults against Muslims in the United States rose significantly between 2015 and 2016, easily surpassing the modern peak reached in 2001, the year of the September 11 terrorist attacks, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of&nb...
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2017-11-14
1372 Views
At the last census in 2011, there were 2.7 million Muslims in the UK, or 4.8% of the population. This has risen quite rapidly from only 105,000 in 1960. The previous census in 2001 showed a Muslim population of 1.6 million. Islam was theref...
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2017-11-13
1579 Views
The honor was bestowed on Shaikh Ahmad Muhammad Al-Tayyeb by the “Muslim 500”, an annual publication which ranks the most influential Muslims in the world. The Muslim 500 is compiled by the Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Centre...
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2017-11-13
1270 Views
Though no exact figures exist, the Muslim community in the Czech Republic is small, between 5,000 and 20,000, or less than 0.02 percent of the total population. Just a portion lives in Prague.
Yet Islam has become a hot-button topic in Cze...
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2017-11-12
1643 Views
American Herald Tribune
November 9 ,2017
An Estimated 20 Million Muslims Converge on the Iraqi City of Karbala for the Largest Anti-Terror Rally.
The marchers are said to come from over 60 countries, and most of them have marched all the way to ...
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2017-11-10
1424 Views
Atheist regimes dominated much of Central and Eastern Europe until the fall of the Iron Curtain and collapse of the Soviet Union between 1989 and 1991. Today, however, many of the governments in the region have an official state religion or an unoffi...
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2017-11-09
1262 Views
Dr Mohammad bin Abdul Karim Al-Issa, general secretary of the Muslim World League visited the World Council of Churches (WCC) in the Ecumenical Centre in Geneva, Switzerland on 9 November, where he discussed with WCC leaders both the meaning and impo...
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2017-11-09
1348 Views
Twice the size of the Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca, yet nowhere near as well known, the Arbaeen comes this year at a moment of victory for Shia Muslims over the extremist Sunnis of Isis. In the final part of his series, Patrick Cockburn re...
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2017-11-02
1255 Views
High teas, workshops and role-plays are used to help Muslim women identify and deal with legal issues. The Home Gatherings are unique legal advice and networking events, delivered by 20 women leaders who completed the Sir Zelman Cowen Centre’s&...
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2017-11-01
1408 Views
The Muslim population in the United States is younger than the U.S. population at large. In fact, while Millennials make up 32% of all U.S. adults, they account for roughly half of American Muslim adults (52%). Muslim Millennials were born from 1981 ...
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2017-11-01
1301 Views
While thousands of Muslims marched through London and different parts of Europe to protest against ISIS and terrorism and to commemorate the event of Karbala on the Day of Ashura, the Union of Islamic Student Associations in Europe participated the e...
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2017-10-28
1377 Views
The latest lifestyle trends for the U.K.’s Muslims came to center stage in northern Manchester city Saturday with an annual event that aims to attract around 15,000 visitors. Rauf Mirza, one of the organizers of Muslim Lifestyle Expo (MLE), sai...
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2017-10-23
1470 Views
The Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada (ELCIC) has sent a message of support and goodwill to Canadian Muslims. “At the convention, our assembly adopted a Statement to Muslims in Canada,” wrote the Rev. Susan C. Johnson, Natio...
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2017-10-22
1942 Views
Channel 4 prompts anger and mockery after 'blacking up' white woman to show Islamophobia
Channel 4 is facing mockery after airing a documentary which went to the lengths of getting a white woman to go undercover in ‘brownface’ ...
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2017-10-22
1284 Views
A Canadian Muslim women group has found a new resolve to fight discrimination in the community as Muslims celebrated its 35th anniversary a few days after the adoption of Quebec’s burqa ban. “We know that we are in a very special time and...
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2017-10-19
1403 Views
The new government study “Race Disparity Audit” is likely to stir social debates surrounding racial integration for some time. Bringing together important data about minority groups in Britain, the newly launched website clearly...
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2017-10-18
1426 Views
Prosecutors secured a relatively rare federal hate crime conviction punishable by a tough sentence on Thursday as a Florida man pleaded guilty to leaving a voicemail that threatened to shoot people at a mosque. Legal experts and Islamic advocates sai...
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2017-10-17
1540 Views
The U.S. has resettled more refugees than any other country – about 3 million since 1980. Generally, in years when more people around the globe are displaced by conflict, violence or persecution in their countries, the number of refug...
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2017-10-13
1425 Views
German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere has upset fellow members of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservative bloc by proposing that Germany introduce Muslim public holidays.
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2017-10-12
1281 Views
Rabbi Morris Allen celebrated the holiday of Sukkot last weekend at an unusual backyard gathering that hosted men wearing yarmulkes and Muslim women draped in headscarves. A few weeks earlier, a new organization of Muslim and Jewish women delivered f...
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2017-10-12
1422 Views
Schools in Britain will no longer be able to substantially segregate boys and girls, after the court of appeal ruled that a co-educational faith school in Birmingham had caused unlawful discrimination by separating the two sexes. The court ...
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2017-10-12
1339 Views
As hate crimes targeting Muslims and Jews rise across the United States, according to advocacy groups, the key to sparking change in Metro Detroit lies in forging ties and fighting back, activists said Tuesday. “You’ve got to speak up,&rd...
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2017-10-11
1454 Views
The sound of Muslim prayer drifts out from the old pub onto the street, as men and women inside kneel on rugs laid down carefully minutes earlier. This is no ordinary congregation, and no ordinary place of worship. Since May, this community of libera...
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2017-10-11
1431 Views
Mosques around Germany opened their doors to non-Muslims to dispel common myths and stereotypes about Islam. Nearly 900 mosques across Germany took part in "Open Mosque Day”, an annual event organized by Islamic associations in the country sinc...
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2017-10-10
1574 Views
Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdul Karim Al-Issa, Secretary-General of the Muslim World League, (a Saudi sponsored organization which is under hard European critics on supporting Wahhabism and Daesh), discussed with Italian Interior Minister Marco Minetti sev...
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2017-10-10
1458 Views
Within 40 years, given current demographic trends, the white population in France and the rest of old Europe will recede, creating a Muslim majority, a French researcher says.
Charles Gave, an economist, fund manager and political commenta...
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2017-09-29
1522 Views
Two-thirds of Muslims in the United States (67%) say the country needs to continue making changes to give blacks equal rights with whites, a higher percentage than the share of Americans in general who say this (57%).
Muslim Americans are also more ...
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2017-09-28
1428 Views
The Center for the Study of Religion and Society within the Department of Sociology at the University of Notre Dame is pleased to announce the launch of the Global Religion Research Initiative (GRRI), funded by the Templeton Religion Trust of Nassau,...
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2017-09-25
1612 Views
Education chiefs have been urged to allow Muslim girls “free choice” after it emerged that pupils at dozens of Islamic schools are being forced to wear hijabs.
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2017-09-25
1372 Views
Muslim campaigner values free media but says newspapers must drop 'inaccurate' stories.
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2017-09-18
1908 Views
Date: December 27-30, 2017
Venue: Rome, Italy
The High Training School in Sociology of Religion will take place in Rome from 27 to 30 December 2017, in collaboration with the International Center for the Sociology of Religion (ICSOR) and the Sectio...
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2017-09-17
1504 Views
Nearly all Muslim Americans (97%) say they take pride in being a member of the Islamic faith. But their devotion to core religious beliefs and practices is only part of a religious identity that also includes concerns about social justice and the env...
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2017-09-17
1388 Views
Christianity in Germany, and indeed in all of Europe, is dying. There are about 47 million Catholics and Protestants combined in Germany, representing roughly 60 percent of the German population, but that number is falling by 500,000 a year through d...
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2017-09-04
1649 Views
French President Emmanuel Macron has made the fight against "Islamic terrorism" in Syria and Iraq the top priority in his foreign policy agenda. Speaking Tuesday to French diplomats gathered at the Elysee Palace in Paris, Macron called the Islamic St...
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2017-09-03
1830 Views
Gathering at World Water Week in Stockholm, Sweden on 30 August, representatives from a range of faith communities and organizations engaged in water issues held a session exploring how faith communities can help achieve the sixth Sustainable Develop...
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2017-09-03
1942 Views
At a meeting at the Center for Interreligious Dialogue (CID) in Tehran, Iran on 20-23 August, delegations from the World Council of Churches (WCC) and the Iranian Shia community gathered, with a sense of warmth and a willingness for deep exchange, fo...
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2017-09-02
1369 Views
The integration of Germany’s more than 4 million Muslims is moving ahead, especially when it comes to employment and language skills, according to a study released Thursday.
The Bertelsmann Foundation said in its Religion Monitor 2017 study th...
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2017-09-01
1422 Views
Qari Asim, one of UK’s most prominent imams, says central religious authority will interpret Islam in line with British values.
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2017-09-01
1323 Views
The group was planning to hold 67 events across 36 states.
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2017-08-21
1478 Views
The Speakers Series of South Haven will conclude its 2017 season on Sept. 28, when Yvonne Caamal Canul, head of the Lansing School District and 2015 Superintendent of Year for Michigan, will address her perspective on what really works in educat...
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2017-08-17
1467 Views
Shaiq started her program to educate people about her faith and culture while addressing people’s misconceptions and stereotypes. For Shaiq, her program is about sharing a message of love, compassion and peace. Attendance at her talks spikes fo...
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2017-08-17
1500 Views
Most Americans are worried about Islamic extremism, and most Muslim Americans share these concerns. About eight-in-ten U.S. Muslims (82%) say they are either very (66%) or somewhat concerned (16%) about extremism committed in the name of Islam around...
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2017-08-12
1470 Views
Counter-terror inquiry into letters and suspicious packages sent from location near Sheffield over past 12 months.
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2017-08-12
2175 Views
The Third Round of the BRAIS – De Gruyter Prize in the Study of Islam and the Muslim World is now open for submissions.
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2017-08-07
1728 Views
While many Muslims express wariness and anxiety about aspects of their lives in the United States, Muslim women tend to be more pessimistic about their place in U.S. society than Muslim men. According to a new Pew Research Center survey, more Mu...
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2017-08-05
1541 Views
Quebec’s mayor announced that the city’s Muslim community will have their own cemetery, despite objections from right-wing groups and rising anti-Muslim sentiment. The city had promised a separate Muslim graveyard after a shooting attack ...
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2017-08-04
1523 Views
Religious discrimination and an increase in hate crimes has spurred more Muslims to run for office and adopt an active role in community organizing. More Muslims must seek public office as Donald Trump “fans the flames of Islamo...
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2017-08-01
1464 Views
Seyran Ateş, a Turkish-born lawyer and human rights campaigner, is visiting London to investigate potential sites for new venture.
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2017-08-01
1501 Views
American Muslims are growing more religiously and socially liberal, with the number who say society should accept homosexuality nearly doubling during the past decade, according to a major new survey. American Muslims are also more likely to identify...
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2017-07-31
1756 Views
GainPeace, a Chicago-based nonprofit organization, has launched a new campaign titled “Truthful Man” to educate Americans on the true manners of Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him), and countering a hate campaign that went up last month....
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2017-07-31
1684 Views
Findings from Pew Research Center’s 2017 survey of U.S. Muslims
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2017-07-27
2252 Views
MOSQUERS 2017
Date: September 09, 2017
Venue: Winspear Centre, Edmonton, AB T5J 4X8, Canada
Submissions Deadline: August 7, 2017
The Mosquers Film Festival is North America’s leading film competition with a focus on promoting awa...
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2017-07-25
1823 Views
Submissions Deadline: October 1, 2017
To encourage and support early-career scholars seeking to publish in leading academic journals, Brill is awarding an annual prize for an outstanding article in the field of Middle East and Islamic Studies. Brill...
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2017-07-22
1295 Views
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation's largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today released an update on anti-Muslim incidents in the second quarter (April-June) of 2017. CAIR’s quarterly report indicate...
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2017-07-21
1353 Views
With the establishment of the Toronto chapter of the Sisterhood of Salaam Shalom, thirty-four Muslim and Jewish women have come together to support each other against hostile acts directed toward both groups. One of the Sisterhood’s largest cha...
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2017-07-21
1209 Views
The first ever action plan specifically designed to enable religious leaders to prevent incitement to violence - the Plan of Action for Religious Leaders and Actors to Prevent Incitement to Violence that Could Lead to Atrocity Crimes - was launched o...
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2017-07-19
1662 Views
Boston has adopted a new method to combat Islamophobia. City authorities have begun a poster campaign encouraging bystanders to make a non-confrontational intervention in case they see harassment against Muslims. The campaign started on July 17 when ...
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2017-07-13
1653 Views
The U.S. House of Representatives on Friday rejected a controversial GOP proposal identifying “Islamic religious doctrines, concepts or schools of thought” that could be used by terrorist groups — something opponents say is unconsti...
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2017-07-13
1537 Views
U.K. politicians should consider regulation to tackle the tide of negative media coverage about British Muslims. This was the message from a Liverpool conference this week which examined damaging and biased news stories about Britain's Muslim communi...
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2017-07-13
1515 Views
The editors of two magazines targeting Britain’s 2.8m Muslims have spoken about why they felt the need to provide a different media perspective for the minority group. The Black Muslim Times UK is a website set up British Nigerian Halimat Shode...
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2017-07-13
1671 Views
A bus-load of imams are on a six-day tour of European cities hit by attacks in recent years to denounce terrorism, including Brussels, Nice, Toulouse and London. After leaving Paris on Saturday, they arrived on Sunday in Berlin. They are due to ...
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2017-07-09
1520 Views
A study commissioned by an Austrian government minister critical of Vienna’s Muslim-run kindergartens has ignited a political fight between the minister’s party and rivals seizing on allegations that his staff rewrote parts of the study t...
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2017-07-09
1304 Views
The new Modern Mediterranean Societies Seminar Series opened with Dr. Mikaela Rogozen-Soltar (Anthropology, University of Nevada) presenting at the first BUJS Forum of the fall semester. She led an engaging discussion on her paper “Converting S...
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2017-07-06
1614 Views
A Dutch court ruled on Tuesday that the government was partly liable for the deaths of about 350 Muslim men in 1995 in the Bosnian town of Srebrenica, the site of Europe’s worst mass murder since World War II.
The court largely upheld a l...
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2017-07-06
1411 Views
A Dallas imam and his organization are taking on the world’s largest search engine to stop it from spreading hate. Suleiman is president of the Yaqeen Institute for Islamic Research and a professor of Islamic studies at Southern Methodist Unive...
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2017-07-05
1475 Views
The opening of a new mosque this month in Berlin further strained already-tense relations between Germany and Turkey, and has caused outrage in various corners of the Muslim world -- even prompting religious authorities in Egypt to issue a decree con...
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2017-07-05
1420 Views
The U.K. has mistakenly subcontracted the management of its Muslim population to community brokers, Gilles Kepel tells Haaretz, rebutting rival scholar Olivier Roy. British law enforcement struggling to cope with a burgeoning wave of terrorism?...
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2017-07-04
1577 Views
Mosques in the UK should hire British-born imams on a living wage who are better equipped than foreign religious leaders to understand the challenges faced by British Muslims, a report has recommended.
The Missing Muslims: Unlocking British Muslim P...
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2017-07-04
1505 Views
Responding earlier this year to the fatal shooting of six Muslims at a Quebec City mosque, the Canadian Council of Imams stated, “Islamophobia has killed innocent Canadians.” The media is not a unified body, but all of its parts are ...
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2017-07-01
5454 Views
According to Pew Research Institute, a comprehensive demographic study of more than 200 countries finds that there are 1.6 billion Muslims of all ages living in the world today, representing 23% of an estimated 2009 world population of 6.8 billion.
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2017-06-23
1701 Views
During a fast-breaking meal, the President Emmanuel Macron called on Muslim leaders to do their bit in the fight against preachers of hate and extremism. Emmanuel Macron and the leaders of the French Council of the Muslim Faith (CFCM) arrive at a din...
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2017-06-22
1871 Views
This week's terrorist attack targeting people leaving a London mosque after Ramadan prayers is part of a wider phenomenon, in which Muslims are the most affected by terrorism around the world, researchers told ...
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2017-06-19
1733 Views
Inside the red-brick building that now houses the German capital’s newest and perhaps most unusual mosque, Seyran Ates is staging a feminist revolution of the Muslim faith. “Allahu akbar,” chanted a female voice, uttering the A...
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2017-06-17
1437 Views
Hundreds took part in a Muslim "peace march" against terrorism held in the German city of Cologne on Saturday, the DPA news agency reported. The rally under the motto of “Not With Us” brought Muslims together from across the country in a march for peace and against radical Islamist terrorism.
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2017-06-14
1442 Views
Austria's imams gather to deliver their message against extremism: 'These terrorists misuse our peaceful Islam religion to reach their political goals.'
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2017-06-13
1476 Views
As Muslims in Louisville and around the globe are celebrating the holy month of Ramadan, some young Muslims in the city are taking this time to educate their fellow citizens about Islam. Many in the group are students or recent graduates, and on this...
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2017-06-13
1277 Views
An estimated 3.7 percent of Italy's population is Muslim but Islam is the only major faith there that does not have official status. As a result, mosques are not eligible for state funding through a tax levy that funds other faiths.&n...
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2017-06-13
1690 Views
Global religious leaders contributed to an appeal launched Wednesday that calls on people to make friends with followers of different faiths in the hope that it will foster mutual understanding and ease tensions around the world.
Leaders from Christ...
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2017-06-12
1991 Views
According to experts, Shia sects such as Zaydis, Twelvers and Ismā’īlīs account for to half of the world’s Muslim population. Most of the world’s Shia population reside in in Iran, Pakistan, Iraq, Bahrain, Lebano...
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2017-06-09
1515 Views
Coordinated US rallies against Islamic law, known as Shariah, have the already rattled Muslim community on edge. The worshippers at the Eugene Islamic Center are worried about their security. A man recently appeared outside the mosque and threatened ...
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2017-06-08
1425 Views
A proposal by an Australian Islamic group to allow "safe spaces" for young Muslims to discuss "inflammatory" issues has sparked a row.
The Islamic Council of Victoria (ICV) said such forums enabled young people's opinions to be "respectfully and int...
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2017-06-08
1436 Views
A Christian advocacy group is claiming the U.S. Department of Education is “indoctrinating” students into believing Islamic beliefs. The Christian Action Network sent a letter demanding DOE “cease its Islamic education program for t...
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2017-06-06
1981 Views
Call for Papers
Submission Deadline: July 1, 2017
The Islamophobia Studies Yearbook is a bi-lingual periodical that started as a German language journal and has now been offering articles in German and English since 2010. The journal uses double bl...
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2017-06-02
1522 Views
A number of Italian bishops are offering praise for Islam and defending it as a religion with a role in salvation. Pope Francis' new appointment as president for the Italian bishops' conference, Cdl. Gualtiero Bassetti, archbishop of Perugia, immedia...
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2017-06-01
2637 Views
Thousands of curious visitors made the trip to a new mosque in Wil in northeast Switzerland, which was inaugurated last weekend. The place of worship was at the center of a controversy over the construction of minarets eight years ago. The modern bui...
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2017-05-31
1969 Views
When the Islamic Institute of America bought a Baptist church, the plan initially was to remove the pews — until the mosque’s leader objected, in part because he saw keeping the benches as a way of showing Islam’s compatibility with...
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2017-05-29
1527 Views
Salamislam group on the occasion of Holy Month of Ramazan invited all interested parties especially those who are interested or converted to Islam on sharing videos.
The group says:
“Ramadan has already come and we all have something to wait...
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2017-05-25
1417 Views
As President Donald Trump engages in his own, idiosyncratic kind of religious and cultural diplomacy in Saudi Arabia and Israel, back in the United States efforts by faith groups to understand each other better seem to be gathering pace. Some of the ...
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2017-05-24
1518 Views
In the wake of the terrorist attack at the Ariana Grande concert in Manchester this week, Muslims along with the rest of the diverse British city are mourning the dead and tending to the wounded. But for Muslims in particular, the suicide bombin...
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2017-05-23
1602 Views
Even before this week’s terrorist bombing at a pop concert in Manchester, England, people across Europe and in the U.S. and Canada had pervasive concerns about the threat of extremism in their countries. Across 12 countries surveyed f...
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2017-05-23
5256 Views
Muslims are the fastest-growing religious group in the world. The growth and regional migration of Muslims, combined with the ongoing impact of the Islamic State (also known as ISIS or ISIL) and other extremist groups that commit acts of violence in ...
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2017-05-20
2232 Views
Call for Abstracts
Submission Deadline: July 15, 2017
This is a Call for Abstracts to contribute to the Routledge International Handbook of Religion in Global Society (target publication: 2018). We are particularly in...
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2017-05-18
2564 Views
Academy Award-winning documentarian Thomas Lennon marshaled 40 teams of filmmakers from around the world to collaborate on his latest project, the thought-provoking “Sacred,” which explores the role of religion in everyday life. Divided i...
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2017-05-16
1621 Views
Broadcast regulator Ofcom has awarded community licenses to two Muslim radio stations in London. Radio Minhaj, which will be run by the Minhaj-ul-Quran International organization, will provide a community radio service for black, Asian and ...
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2017-05-12
1624 Views
Americans are more likely to view Muslims, who make up 1 percent of the U.S. population, as extremists if they do not know one personally, according to a February poll by the Pew Research Center. The same survey found that 60 percent of Americans who...
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2017-05-05
1706 Views
The largest mosque in Scandinavia has opened in Sweden, which is one of the least religious and most atheistic nations in the Western world, reports have said, costing the Qatari government $3.30 million to build.
Qatar's Ministry of Awqaf and Islam...
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2017-05-04
1698 Views
Jews and Muslims in Europe have a common cause in resisting attacks on minority religions and defending religious freedom, Europe’s top rabbi has said. Speaking on the eve of Passover, which begins on Monday, chief rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt war...
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2017-05-04
1639 Views
Swedish authorities have started an investigation into possible arson after a fire damaged the facade and roof of a mosque on the outskirts of Stockholm overnight, according to a police statement. Nobody was injured in Monday's fire in the ...
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2017-05-03
1573 Views
The German parliament has supported a draft law banning women working in the civil service, judiciary and military from wearing full-face Islamic veils.
Burqas and niqabs will be prohibited in selected professions as part of the legislation, which w...
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2017-05-03
1552 Views
The International Basketball Federation has agreed to allow athletes to wear head coverings after a growing number of calls from female Muslim basketball players around the world.
Muslim women basketball players have won their battle to wear hijab w...
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2017-05-02
1490 Views
The President of Austria has called for all women to wear headscarves in solidarity with Muslims to fight “rampant Islamophobia”.
Alexander Van der Bellen, the left-wing former Green Party leader who narrowly beat a far-right candidate t...
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2017-05-01
1475 Views
On Monday, April 24, the California Chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-CA) hosted the 6th Annual Muslim Day at the Capitol (MDAC) in Sacramento. Almost 800 participants, of which more than 700 were Muslims from across the stat...
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2017-04-30
1466 Views
The eighth annual study on global restrictions on religion, published by Pew Research Center April 10 reports an increase in countries with “high” or “very high” levels of government laws, policies and actions t...
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2017-04-11
7719 Views
Owing to labor migration in the 1960s and several waves of political refugees since the 1970s, Islam has become a visible religion in Germany. According to a national census conducted in 2011, 1.9% of Germany's population (around 1.5m people) de...
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2017-04-11
1663 Views
In several Western European countries, some politicians want to force imams to deliver sermons only in the official language: In Germany, imams should preach in German; in Italy, in Italian; in Britain, in English; in France, in French. To justify th...
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2017-04-09
1759 Views
A new poll on religious views in Canada shows that while acceptance of religious minorities has improved over the past four years, more work is still needed.
The poll, conducted by the Angus Reid Institute, found although some 68 percent of Can...
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2017-04-05
2025 Views
Pope Francis met four British imams at the Vatican, two weeks after the London extremist attack. The meeting was part of the Pope’s effort to encourage Muslim leaders who renounce using religion to justify violence.
The audience was scheduled ...
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2017-04-05
1710 Views
More babies were born to Christian mothers than to members of any other religion in recent years, reflecting Christianity’s continued status as the world’s largest religious group. But this is unlikely to be the case for much longer: Less...
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2017-04-03
1655 Views
Germany has no plans to introduce an 'Islam law' codifying the rights and obligations of Muslims, a government spokesman said on Monday, dismissing an idea floated by allies of Chancellor Angela Merkel ahead of federal elections in September. Merkel,...
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2017-04-02
1618 Views
Across Eastern Massachusetts Sunday, Muslims gathered, shoulder to shoulder, to begin afternoon prayers. But at the back of the room at the Islamic Society of Boston Cultural Center in Roxbury, a crowd of Christians, Jews, agnostics, and atheists had...
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2017-03-30
2011 Views
Hundreds of Muslims have taken to praying on the streets of a Paris suburb to protest the closure of the hall they had been using as a prayer room. Protesters gathered outside the town hall of the northern Paris suburb of Clichy on Friday. The Muslim...
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2017-03-30
1627 Views
Germany’s Deputy Finance Minister has called for the introduction of an “Islam law” which should enable more transparency in the Muslim community's affairs by setting up an official mosque registry and encouraging imams to conduct s...
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2017-03-28
1694 Views
France’s attempts to counter the radicalization of its young people are in turmoil, with a group home intended to turn them away from Islamic extremism empty, the head of a highly publicized nonprofit convicted of misuse of public funds, and pl...
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2017-03-27
1683 Views
Hundreds of people from different faith groups and ethnicities circled America’s oldest mosque in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, on Sunday, March 26, forming a human shield to show support to American Muslims against threats and hate mails sent to mosques...
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2017-03-22
1604 Views
Students’ right to pray in schools would be guaranteed under a bill barreling through the Florida Legislature. The bill specifies that students in public schools are permitted to engage in prayer and that school personnel are allowed to participate in student-led prayers. The bills also guarantee protection for students who wear religiously themed jewelry.
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2017-03-15
1608 Views
B.C. Dodge & R. Mordant Mahon talked to Jaime Mujahid Fletcher in this episode of “What a Relief!” In this episode, B.C. & Mordant continue their talk with Jaime Mujahid Fletcher from Islam in Spanish. He shar...
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2017-03-15
1542 Views
Employers in European Union countries can ban employees from wearing visible symbols of religion such as Islamic headscarves and Christian crosses, a top European court ruled Tuesday.
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) made the decision after two M...
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2017-03-10
1646 Views
Masjid Toronto opened its doors to the public so that Torontonians could learn about Muslims and the religion of Islam. On February 17, worshippers attending Friday prayer services at the mosque were greeted by protestors carrying banners and with lo...
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2017-03-09
1618 Views
Davidson United Methodist Church had invited American Islamic Outreach Foundation to talk to about Islam On Sunday 26th February 2017. The class was of the senior members of the congregation.
Zahir Shaikh and Dorene Alama the dir...
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2017-03-09
1721 Views
New Yorkers by the thousand, representing myriad backgrounds and faiths, converged on Times Square on Sunday, heeding a music mogul's calls to let Muslims know their fellow Americans stood by them. The demonstrators -- many of them hoisting placards ...
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2017-03-04
1440 Views
A growing number of Christians in Metro Vancouver want to stop controversial U.S. evangelist Franklin Graham from leading a major crusade next month in the city. Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson recently met with evangelical, Catholic ...
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2017-03-03
1694 Views
The Canadian Parliament is debating a motion urging the government to “condemn Islamophobia” and “quell the increasing public climate of hate and fear.” Motion 103, or M-103 as it is commonly called, was introduced i...
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2017-03-02
1539 Views
A 42-year-old man who burned a Quran and posted a video of it on Facebook has been charged with blasphemy in Denmark, a striking decision by prosecutors in a country that is largely secular but has grappled with the role of Islam in public life....
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2017-03-01
1433 Views
Some cities set up Christian and other free schools in Muslim-dominated areas, a media report said today. The so-called "integrated" schools could be run by organizations such as the Church of England and enroll pupils from Christian, Muslim and...
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2017-02-23
1750 Views
An Australian school has adopted a policy allowing male Muslim students to refuse to shake hands with women. Two principals at the Hurstville Boys Campus of Georges River College, in Sydney, told guests at its 2016 presentation day that some stu...
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2017-02-22
1746 Views
An anti-Islamophobia motion proposed by the Canadian government stalled Thursday in Parliament and now awaits a new proposal next week from the opposition Conservative party. The motion, M-103, was tabled in Parliament by MP Iqra Khalid, a Muslim. It...
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2017-02-20
1748 Views
After an election year that stirred up animosity across racial and religious lines, a new survey has found that Americans are actually feeling warmer toward people in nearly every religious group — including Muslims — than ...
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2017-02-16
2102 Views
President Donald Trump’s recent executive order temporarily freezing immigration from seven predominantly Islamic countries would affect only about 12% of the world’s Muslims, according to estimates from a 2015 Pew Research...
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2017-02-15
1542 Views
Berlin's Labor Court has ruled that the city violated a teacher's rights by denying her a job. The woman had been told that she could not wear her headscarf while working because of an ideological neutrality law. Berlin may not deny candidates for te...
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2017-02-13
1622 Views
More than 100 people attended the opening of the Light House, a new community center and incubator for faith-based social entrepreneurship in Raleigh, N.C. The Light House is dedicated in memory of the three Muslims killed in Chapel Hill, N.C., ...
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2017-02-13
1559 Views
Muslim leaders want governments to create plan to combat systemic racism, Islamophobia. Ihsaan Gardee, the executive director of the National Council of Canadian Muslims, called on lawmakers to address the problem of Islamophobia. A coalition of Cana...
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2017-02-09
1874 Views
The NFL Players Association expressed its support Thursday for Muslim players in the league amid the controversy generated by President Trump’s immigration order. NFLPA officials said the union reached out to the families of Muslim players in t...
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2017-02-08
1667 Views
Is a burqa ban against the Swiss constitution? How do you deal with a Muslim schoolboy who refuses to shake his female teacher’s hand? Do burkinis contravene swimming pool hygiene rules? As such questions are becoming more prevalent in Switzerl...
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2017-02-07
1886 Views
The Muslim Association of Britain (MAB) in co-ordination with The Federation of Student Islamic Societies (FOSIS) would like to announce the annual Believe and Do Good (BADG) campaign. A competition of compassion running throughout the month of ...
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2017-02-06
1563 Views
Gunman shot dead six worshippers at Quebec mosque last week. Non-Muslims act as ‘human shields’ in Toronto, Edmonton and St John’s. Hundreds across Canada gathered around mosques to form protective barriers – described by orga...
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2017-02-06
2573 Views
President Heidi Hadsell is pleased to announce that Dr. Seyfeddin Kara will occupy the Imam Ali Chair in Shi’i Studies and Dialogue among Islamic Legal Schools. The chair is the first dedicated to Shi’i Studies in North America. It provid...
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2017-02-04
1713 Views
The powerful Grand Mosque of Paris will pull out of a new, state-sponsored Muslim foundation, criticizing “interference” in how Islam is exercised, at a time of simmering tensions surrounding France’s second-largest faith, its spoke...
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2017-02-03
1638 Views
A Cincinnati area mosque announced it would join the burgeoning church sanctuary movement in the U.S., possibly becoming the first Islamic house of worship to do so. The announcement came on the eve of the inauguration of President Donald J. Trump, w...
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2017-02-02
1707 Views
Is it appropriate to read from the Koran during worship in a Christian church? This month, people close to America’s new head of state, and spiritual advisers to Britain’s long-standing one, have been forced to consider that question. It ...
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2017-02-01
1698 Views
UK media organizations have made string of corrections and retractions as result of one man’s campaign for fair coverage. British media organizations have been forced to make a string of corrections and retractions over recent months relating t...
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2017-01-25
1908 Views
Christianity is “in full decline” and Islam will soon become the main religion in Europe, an Italian archbishop warned. “In 10 years we will all be Muslims because of our stupidity,” Monsignor Carlo Liberati, Archbishop Emerit...
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2017-01-23
1775 Views
In 2008, a couple living in Basel, Switzerland, forbid their young daughters from attending school swim class. The Muslim parents didn't want their kids, 7 and 9, in the pool with boys. So the city ordered them to pay a fine of 1,400 Swiss ...
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2017-01-21
1632 Views
Interior ministry funding courses for preachers from Islam and other 'unofficial' religions. Muslim imams in Italy are being enrolled on courses aiming to “create a climate of tolerance” and fight radicalization by learning abou...
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2017-01-16
1722 Views
About 25 people gathered at the Muslim American Society Katy Center on Friday, Jan. 6, 2017 to show support for local Muslims in an event the group named "A Day of Solidarity." The group organized the event in response to the rise in hate crimes agai...
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2017-01-11
1742 Views
A man near the Republican National Convention in Cleveland in July holds a pack of chewing gum called “Islamophobin.” The packaging attempts to bring attention to the issue of anti-Muslim attitudes in the United States. (CNS photo/Justin ...
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2017-01-08
2263 Views
After a video emerged showing children learning how to pray in a mosque, angry parents are demanding a primary school in Holland to change its curriculum. The mosque in question, called the Ghulzar e Madina, is located in the Dutch city of Zwolle and...
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2017-01-08
1824 Views
Paris has tried almost all of them, the nonconformist critics of Islam: Oriana Fallaci, Michel Houellebecq, Charlie Hebdo, Ivan Rioufol, Éric Zemmour and now a great Jewish historian of the Arab world. Georges Bensoussan, 64, will ap...
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2017-01-04
2069 Views
ICAS Press are pleased to announce the latest publication ‘Desire of the Aspirant: On the Etiquette of the Teacher and the Student’ is now available for sale.
The classical Islamic scholarly tradition is characterized by an emp...
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2017-01-03
1881 Views
It was here, in this midsize college town in the dead center of Tennessee, that a right-wing effort to ban Islamic law found one of its first sponsors. Here, too, a congressman co-sponsored a plan to “defund Muslim ‘refugees’ &rdquo...
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2017-01-02
1925 Views
The launch meeting of the Leiden Islam Academy on 7 December in the Academy Building drew just the right audience: a diverse group of people who were all in some way engaged with Islam. This was just what the directors of the Academy, Maurits Berger ...
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2016-12-27
1967 Views
Hindus and Muslims who have migrated to the United States in recent years are especially well-educated, according to a new survey from the Pew Research Center. On average, Hindus in the U.S. have nearly 16 years of schooling, significantly more than ...
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2016-12-25
2709 Views
Like some hyped up reality TV contestant, Muslims are in-your-face 24/7, whether you like us or not. Admittedly, we most often appear on UK screens via news bulletins; dying in conflict, being attacked by far-right extremists or shoved into a police ...
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2016-12-24
1846 Views
A suburb north of Detroit faces a federal lawsuit after a religious organization's proposal for a 20,500-square-foot mosque in a residential neighborhood was denied in 2015, with prosecutors saying it was discrimination. The U.S. Attorney's office fi...
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2016-12-22
1833 Views
A group of British Muslim women distributed roses to the public on Wednesday, December 14, in the first Muslim response to Monday’s stabbings at a train station by an attacked who shouted death to Muslims.
“Making forest hill and the wor...
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2016-12-21
1979 Views
The 6th Executive Council Meeting of the term took place on Friday and Saturday, 2-3 December 2016 in Saint-Denis, Reunion. It was hosted by the Union des Associations Khodjas Shia Isna Ashri de la Reunion (UAKSIR). The first...
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2016-12-16
1887 Views
Norwich has the highest proportion of residents describing themselves as having no religion, while Berlin has been called the ‘atheist capital of Europe’. But what about the rest of the world? And is such an assessment meaningful? Discove...
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2016-12-14
1707 Views
MP Iqra Khalid and MP Frank Baylis hosted a reception yesterday at the Sir John A McDonald Building to celebrate the contributions of Canadian Muslims and to stand against discrimination in all its forms. The event was attended by Members f...
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2016-12-13
1556 Views
Germany's highest court ruled on Wednesday, December 7, that ultra-conservative Muslim girls must take part in mixed swimming classes at school…Germany is in the grip of a heated public debate about the role of Islam in society as it seeks to ...
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2016-12-12
1690 Views
About 218 million of the United States’ roughly 245 million adults say they believe in God. Such deeply personal views might seem abstract or distant when expressed as large numbers, but this is not the only way to look at religious belief in t...
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2016-12-10
1640 Views
Amazon has apologized after selling doormats with Allah's name on them. Outraged Muslims said they were offended by the product which allowed people to wipe their feet on Allah's name. The retail giant has now axed the doormat and dog mat products an...
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2016-12-08
1738 Views
Austria’s foreign minister Sebastian Kurz has called for an immediate ban on Islamic fundamentalists who distribute copies of the Koran, saying that the law needs to be changed to crack down on “Salafist campaigns – an expression of...
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2016-12-07
1643 Views
Islam is not an established religion in Italy and there is only one official mosque in the country, Rome’s Grand Mosque. Politicians from the ruling coalition cite radical imams, polygamy and failure to uphold women’s rights by Muslim imm...
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2016-12-06
1726 Views
Slovakia passed legislation on Wednesday to effectively block Islam from gaining official status as a religion in the near future in the latest sign of growing anti-Muslim sentiment across the European Union. The former communist state has fiercely r...
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2016-12-05
1694 Views
Student Islamists are mounting a coordinated campaign to expand Muslim religious services in the high schools of Canada’s sixth largest city. So far, authorities are proving sympathetic, suspending a new policy meant to regulate student sermons...
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2016-12-03
1587 Views
On Monday, November 28th, 2016 Muslims leaders across Southern California met with LAPD and the FBI at the Islamic Center of Southern California to discuss the recent threatening letters that were sent to various mosques across California. Dr. Sayed ...
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2016-12-02
1650 Views
“We will sue to block it,” the New York Mayor said at New York City’s Cooper Union Monday, according to the New York Daily News. “We will use all the tools at our disposal to stand up for our people,” added de Blasi...
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2016-12-01
1706 Views
A Toronto television journalist is believed to be Canada’s first anchor to don a Muslim head scarf at one of the city’s major news broadcasters. Ginella Massa was asked to fill in on the anchor desk for CityNews’ 11pmbroadcast last ...
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2016-11-24
1944 Views
Twenty six mosques and community centers in Luton (Bedfordshire, England) have written to the local council to express their opposition to the controversial Prevent counter-terrorism strategy. In the letter, Luton Council of Mosques and the Sunni Cou...
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2016-11-22
1855 Views
A public Isha prayer held by the Muslim student association in the University of Michigan has turned into a show of support and unity, after hundreds of non-Muslim students made a big circle of protection around praying students.
“Some individ...
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2016-11-21
2035 Views
The latest FBI annual hate crime report shows a sharp spike in the number of hate crimes nationwide, with attacks against Muslims increasing the most sharply.
In one year, anti-Muslim hate crimes in the United States rose 67%, from 154 inc...
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2016-11-20
1707 Views
The day after President-elect Donald Trump appointed a man accused of anti-Semitism and Islamophobia as his chief strategist, two of the nation’s largest Jewish and Muslim advocacy groups formed an unprecedented partnership to fight b...
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2016-11-20
1688 Views
With the grace of Allah, the Almighty, the Shura Council in its 10th term of the Federation of Islamic Organizations in Europe (FIOE) held its 7th assembly on 29th – 31st October, 2016 CE \ 26th – 29th&n...
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2016-11-18
3534 Views
Attainment of a four-year college degree in the United States, often regarded as a key asset for economic success, varies by race and gender. But the share of people completing a college education also differs by religion, with members of s...
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2016-11-17
1823 Views
Karen Krüger, journalist at culture desk of the conservative weekly Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung, has released a new book in which she embarks on a journey through what she terms an ‘Islamic Germany’, portraying divers...
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2016-11-15
1655 Views
French authorities have started shutting down some mosques and prayer halls they found to be preaching radical Islamic ideology since December 2015, French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said. Of the country’s 2,500 mosques and prayer hall...
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2016-11-08
1745 Views
A civil rights organization for American Muslims says the FBI questioned Muslims in at least eight states over the weekend seeking information about a possible threat from al-Qaeda to carry out pre-election terrorist attacks.
The individua...
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2016-11-07
1806 Views
The Prince of Wales, on a visit to the United Arab Emirates, has warned of the deliberate destruction of "mankind's cultural heritage". Prince Charles was presenting a digital replica of what could be oldest fragment of the Koran, discovered las...
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2016-11-06
1588 Views
Shah Malik ducks to enter a space that, from the street, looks like any other storefront in the central Omonia district. The neighborhood — with blocks of shops offering imported spices, halal meat or the milky tea popular in South Asia &m...
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2016-11-03
1903 Views
Defying stereotypes, a growing number of Muslim women are launching their own businesses in the UK and across the world, cashing in on the rapidly growing market for Muslim-focused consumer goods.
According to a report by Thomson Reuters, Muslim con...
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2016-11-02
2163 Views
Months after opening Scandinavia’s first female-led mosque in Copenhagen, many questions still surround the worshiping house, with some praising it as a pioneer movement and others criticizing it as unnecessary. “It was fantastic and very...
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2016-11-02
1834 Views
The Queen of Denmark has urged Muslims arriving in Europe to adopt Western values in an extraordinary intervention in the migration debate. Queen Margarethe II said it was “not a law of nature” that asylum seekers automatically integrated...
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2016-11-01
1957 Views
The Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) has said that from next year it will offer an alternative to the highly controversial Prevent counter-extremism program.
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2016-10-31
1933 Views
Syrians in Germany say many of the country's Arab mosques are more conservative than those at home. Over two months, a dozen Syrians in six places of worship in three cities told Reuters they were uncomfortable with very conservative messages in Arab...
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2016-10-26
1805 Views
First major exhibit on the Qur’an in the US, at the Smithsonian’s Sackler Gallery in Washington, displays manuscripts over a period of almost a millennium.
The Art of the Qur’an: Treasures from the Museum of Turkish and Islamic Ar...
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2016-10-24
2020 Views
The revelation of an alleged domestic terrorism plot to kill Somali immigrants in southwest Kansas serves as a glaring illustration of what experts say is a growing concern. Across the country, they say, anti-government extremists are shift...
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2016-10-23
1671 Views
Hundreds of Muslims have staged a mass prayer outside the Rome's Colosseum in protest against the closure of mosques in Italy. An estimated 1.6 million Muslims live in Italy, meaning it has the fourth largest Muslim population in Europe. Yet there are only eight official mosques in the country.
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2016-10-21
1764 Views
An FBI-led program to establish “shared responsibility committees” to intervene at an early stage to prevent or counteract radicalization was canceled. The committees would have included mental health workers, clergy and counselors in local communities.
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2016-10-19
1759 Views
An FBI strategy to counter terrorism - based on the UK Prevent program - is aimed directly at Muslim children in the United States.
The FBI's strategy for Preventing Violent Extremism in Schools aims to recruit teachers and school official...
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2016-10-16
1611 Views
France has a "problem with Islam" and there is "too much" unwanted immigration, François Hollande has acknowledged in an explosive new book in which the Socialist president controversially claims that "the veiled woman of today" will...
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2016-10-15
1721 Views
The ECRI suggested the British press should not report when terrorists are Muslims. A report from the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI) found there was an increase in hate speech and racist violence in the UK from 2009 to Marc...
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2016-10-12
2646 Views
BBC World Service commissioned a documentary to follow the Cambridge Muslim College 2015-16 Diploma students to Rome and the Vatican. Some of the brightest and best students of Islam in Britain round off their education at the Cambridge Muslim Colleg...
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2016-10-10
2065 Views
A recent study by Pew found that a record near-half of all refugees that entered the United States in FY2016 were Muslim, marking the highest number of Muslim refugees recorded since religious self-reporting data became available 14 years ago.
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2016-10-09
1754 Views
Faith-based organizations and religious leaders must be included in efforts to address the challenges of human trafficking and forced migration, representatives of the United Nations, international organizations, Member States and civil society have ...
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2016-10-06
1496 Views
Interreligious dialogue and cooperation provided the basis of talks on 30 September and 1 October 2016 addressing the theme “Towards an Integrated World,” a series of high-level discussions among the Muslim Council of Elders led by the Gr...
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2016-10-06
1733 Views
The chief cleric of Cairo’s prestigious mosque and university, H.E. Professor Dr Ahmad Al-Tayyeb, the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar al Sharif, has decried the present-day “civilizational crisis” of poverty and insecurity and called fo...
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2016-10-05
2152 Views
During Muharram and Safar the #HussainSavesLives campaign is encouraging Shias to give blood in the name of Imam Hussain (as). The story and sacrifice of Imam Hussain (as) and the message he taught is one we should continue to spread, not ...
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2016-10-04
1970 Views
The 30th interfaith meeting has been held in the Italian town of Assisi. Hundreds of religious leaders and scholars attended the event. They discussed various issues including inter-religious dialogue and the refugee crisis.
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2016-10-03
1792 Views
Leading religious scholars representing the major world religions have issued a declaration saying it is imperative that religions be a “positive resource for human rights”. The Declaration of Human Rights by the World’s Religions w...
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2016-10-03
2131 Views
At the Islamic Center of Passaic County, which draws about 2,000 people each Friday for communal prayers, the talk is about how this year is different. After the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks, people of other faiths in the surrounding community were...
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2016-10-01
1806 Views
Catholics in America seem to have an unfavorable opinion about Muslims, according to new research findings. A study conducted by the Bridge Initiative showed that only 14% of American Catholics have a favorable view of Muslims and over 50% of Catholic media tends to connect Islam to terrorism.
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2016-09-30
1717 Views
Students in Islamic private schools in Denmark are achieving better results than their counterparts in public schools, an analysis has revealed, breaking stereotypes about Muslims’ integration.
“Many have the idea that independent Muslim...
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2016-09-29
1766 Views
The School of Historical Studies has received a three-year, $500,000 grant from Carnegie Corporation of New York to explore and elevate the understanding of Shii studies. The grant will support two research positions in the School of Histor...
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2016-09-26
2427 Views
The fourth international “Ghadir Conference” was held in Gelsenkirchen by Islamic center of Imam Ali (AS) in collaboration with the Ahlul Bayt World Assembly. Ayatollah Reza Ramezani, the head of Islamic Center of Hamburg, and Hujjat...
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2016-09-25
2698 Views
Producer of the program is Neil McCarthy. In the first of two programs explaining the Sunni-Shia divide past and present, Tarek Osman tells the epic story of how Islam split after the death of the Prophet Mohammed.
Many of the conflicts raging in th...
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2016-09-23
2061 Views
Hate crimes against American Muslims have soared to their highest levels since the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, according to data compiled by researchers, an increase apparently fueled by terrorist attacks in the United States and abroad ...
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2016-09-22
2030 Views
A survey carried out by the French Institute of Public Opinion shows that one quarter of respondents adhere to a strict practice of Islam. In particular, they exalt Sharia Law above the cultural values of the French Republic. Nevertheless, the survey shows that the majority of French Muslims are adherent to French culture, history and ethics.
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2016-09-13
2348 Views
American Islamic Outreach Foundation are pleased to announce that the Quran stand Project is going full force. They have 26 Qurans Stands in and around Charlotte. Each stand is equipped with free information about Islam. Free Qurans in both Engl...
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2016-09-12
1939 Views
Following terrorist attacks in Paris and San Bernardino in 2015, Dr. Rushdi Abdul Cader cancelled his family's vacation to focus on his grassroots educational program called Anti-V.I.R.U.S.(Anti-Violent Ideology Recruitment in the U.S.) to help comba...
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2016-09-11
1764 Views
The U.S. Education Department announced it will begin collecting data this year about allegations of discrimination or bullying of students based on their religion, bringing new attention to what educators and advocates call a growing problem in publ...
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2016-09-10
1957 Views
An imam of a mosque in New York City and his associate shot dead while strolling following afternoon prayers. A presidential candidate calling for Muslims to be barred from entering the United States. Muslim women harassed and phy...
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2016-09-07
1816 Views
A little mosque in the Danish capital of Copenhagen joined a quiet revolution last week by hosting its first Friday prayer led by a woman. Traditionally, Friday prayers are limited to and led by men, and women are encouraged to pray at home. Some mos...
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2016-09-06
1841 Views
France's interior minister said Monday that the country is at war with an enemy trying to pit Muslims against non-Muslims, making it urgent to create a strong bond between the nation and citizens of the Islamic faith. Bernard Cazeneuve also said it w...
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2016-09-05
1738 Views
Muslims in the U.S. were worried that this year Eid al-Adha might fall on the 15th anniversary of the Twin Towers attack, i.e. Sept. 11. However, they are now relieved, as Eid al-Adha will be celebrated on Sept. 12.
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2016-09-04
1883 Views
The Newton County commissioners said Wednesday they plan to lift a moratorium that has prevented a controversial mosque and Muslim cemetery from being built in the area. In a joint statement with the Council on American-Islamic Relatio...
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2016-09-03
1879 Views
The director of the Islam Center of England, Dr Mohammad Ali Shomali, explains the background to Shi‘a Muslim relations with the World Council of Churches following his recent trip to Geneva.
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2016-09-01
2112 Views
Americans look for good sermons, warm welcome
About half of U.S. adults have looked for a new religious congregation at some point in their lives, most commonly because they have moved. And when they search for a new house of worship, a new Pew Rese...
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2016-08-31
6510 Views
In the short film Hijabi World, Rutgers University students—specifically, Muslim women who observe hijab—talk about the day-to-day challenges of wearing a headscarf. “Sometimes you itch in your own skin,” says one woman n...
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2016-08-30
2260 Views
Governments have imposed their own rules against religion throughout history.
Religion around the world is on the decline. For the first time ever, Norway now has more people who do not believe in God than do - with 39 per cent of a...
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2016-08-29
2064 Views
Hoping to boost recruiting of Muslim women, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police is allowing its officers to wear hijabs as part of their uniforms, the government said Tuesday. "The commissioner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police recently approved thi...
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2016-08-28
1859 Views
A campaign to block construction of a new mosque near the Leaning Tower of Pisa imperils Italy’s commitment to religious freedom, warn those who defend Muslims’ right to build it. The proposed mosque, a few hundred yards fr...
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2016-08-27
2079 Views
At an emotional funeral service for a New York City imam and his assistant who were gunned down on a Queens street, one friend of the victims took the microphone and demanded that the city install security cameras outside mosques citywide to help pro...
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2016-08-27
1843 Views
A proposal to build a mosque and Muslim cemetery has so angered some residents of Newton County outside Atlanta that their commissioners have temporarily banned all building permit approvals for religious institutions. The moratorium prompted the Cou...
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2016-08-23
1891 Views
Donald Trump called Monday for a Cold War-style mobilization against “radical Islamic terror,” repeating and repackaging calls for strict immigration controls — including a new ideological litmus test for Muslim visitors and migrant...
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2016-08-23
1859 Views
The final parish meeting of the Holy Trinity Church, in the center of Bath, took place on a rainy day in February 2011. Anglo-Catholic congregations had worshipped here, under the hammer-beam roof and monuments to heroes of Napoleonic wars, for nigh ...
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2016-08-22
1871 Views
Islamic Education in Europe
Faith of Our Fathers
For a snapshot of how Europeans, Muslim and non-Muslim, learn about Islam, visit the Centrum mosque near Hamburg railway station. A converted public bath, it is one of about 60 prayer spaces serving ...
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2016-08-21
1841 Views
Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Wednesday refugees had not brought terrorism to Germany, adding that Islam belonged in the country as long as it was practiced in a way that respected the constitution. More than a million people fleeing war and pover...
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2016-08-20
2300 Views
Dr. Iqbal Al-Nadvi (Mohammad Iqbal Masood Al-Nadvi) is the Chairperson of Canadian Council of Imams and also serves as the Amir (President) of Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA) Canada.
His previous positions include the following: Dir...
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2016-08-20
2685 Views
Welcoming hundreds of thousands of visitors from across the world, Muslim dawah teams took to the Brazilian streets in Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo to spread the true message of Islam. Jamila da Lima is one of those volunteers who found Islam a few y...
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2016-08-19
1841 Views
Figures released in July by Destatis, the government's statistics agency, showed that more than 2.1 million people migrated to Germany in 2015.
More than 33,000 migrants who are supposed to be deported are still in Germany and are being cared for by...
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2016-08-19
1913 Views
Two German associations of judges have called for a headscarf ban on judges and lawyers, arguing that the measure is required to ensure neutrality in court.
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2016-08-17
1999 Views
Parliamentary report says Muslim women face more discrimination and unemployment than any other cultural or ethnic group.
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2016-08-16
1963 Views
A leading French Muslim organization is to create a foundation to finance the country’s mosques, possibly through levies on halal food, in a bid to curb religious funding by radical Islamists.
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2016-08-16
1942 Views
Will Smith was in the Middle East on Sunday promoting the movie "Suicide Squad", but the Hollywood star said his time in Dubai is also a chance to counter an increasingly anti-Muslim climate surrounding the U.S. presidential race.
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2016-08-15
1850 Views
No hijab-wearing players are present on the basketball courts at the Rio Olympics, for instance ― and it’s not for lack of qualified players. The International Basketball Federation (FIBA) has long prohibited athletes from wearing “equipment that may cause injury to other players.” For some reason, FIBA deems hijabs to fall into that category, but a growing body of athletes and advocacy organizations are working to change that.
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2016-08-11
1757 Views
The Republican challenging House Speaker Paul Ryan said this week that the US should debate deporting all Muslims from the country.
"I'm suggesting we have a discussion about it. That's for sure," Paul Nehlen said on 560 AM's "Morning Answer" i...
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2016-08-11
2035 Views
Muslims in the Greek capital have had to worship in makeshift facilities since the end of Ottoman rule. There hasn’t been a mosque in the Greek capital in 150 years. That’s about to change.
On Thursday, the Greek parliament approve...
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2016-08-10
1919 Views
Pope Francis said on Sunday that it was wrong to identify Islam with violence and that social injustice and idolatry of money were among the prime causes of terrorism. "I think it is not right to identity Islam with violence," he told reporters aboar...
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2016-08-09
2028 Views
Muslims in France and Italy flocked to Mass on Sunday, a gesture of interfaith solidarity following a drumbeat of jihadi attacks that threatens to deepen religious divisions across Europe.
From the towering Gothic cathedral in Rouen, only a few mile...
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2016-08-08
1419 Views
In an election year filled with anti-Muslim vitriol, some mosques are urging their worshipers to vote in an attempt to make their voices heard. To do so, they're borrowing a strategy used by African-American churches and organizing "souls to the poll...
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2016-08-06
1603 Views
The California State Assembly voted to pass a resolution that officially recognizes August 2016 as Muslim Appreciation and Awareness Month. The resolution comes at a time of increased anti-Muslim rhetoric, according to a recent civil rights repo...
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2016-08-03
2328 Views
Denmark should halt immigration from Muslim countries to stem the threat of violence from extremists, the nation's second-largest party argued Thursday.
Soer...
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2016-08-02
2561 Views
Date: July 19–September 26 (weekdays only)
Venue: Ryerson and Burnham Libraries, The Art Institute of Chicago, 111 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois, US
Since 1892, more than sixty exhibitions related to Islamic art have...
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2016-08-01
1753 Views
When an 18-year old German Iranian killed nine people and then shot himself on Friday in Munich, speculation that it was an Islamist attack circulated for hours. But doubts arose when a video was uploaded in which t...
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2016-07-31
2208 Views
Muslims are the fastest-growing religious group in the world. Indeed, if current demographic trends continue, the number of Muslims is expected to exceed the number of Christians by the end of this century and the number of Muslims will grow more than twice as fast as the world's population from now until 2050.
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2016-07-27
1914 Views
Muslim leaders in the United States have begun to register a million voters to help combat Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s rhetoric against Muslims.
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2016-07-27
1992 Views
More U.S. employers are taking steps to make Muslims feel accepted and safe at work, as their faith comes under scrutiny with the rise in terror attacks and calls by presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump for a ban on Muslim immigrants.
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2016-07-26
2178 Views
American Islamic Outreach has been working with local Muslim Business to set up Quran Kiosks and Stands.
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2016-07-25
1991 Views
For the past six years the Religious Freedom Project (RFP) at Georgetown University’s Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs has been the global center for cutting edge research into the meaning, value, and impact of religious fr...
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2016-07-25
6560 Views
Here are five facts about the size and makeup of the Muslim population in Europe based on the Pew Research Center’s most recent population estimates.
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2016-07-24
2165 Views
The Australian TV presenter Sonia Kruger has called for an end to Muslim immigration to Australia, agreeing that “the more Muslims we import, the more danger we are in.”
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2016-07-20
2183 Views
The Department for Culture, Media and Sport of the United Kingdom government announced that Goldsmiths, University of London lecturer Dr Aminul Hoque, a Bangladeshi Muslim, has been appointed as a Trustee for Royal Museums Greenwich. Dr Hoque’s position is voluntary and runs for four years.
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2016-07-19
2583 Views
Rep. John Bennett, R-Sallisaw, who in the past has called Islam "a cancer in our nation that needs to be cut out" has proposed an interim study on radical Islam, Shariah Law, the Muslim Brotherhood, and the radicalization process.
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2016-07-18
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Data from the Pew Research Center has revealed the youngest and oldest religious groups in the United States. U.S. Muslims in the survey have a median age of 33 and about four-in-ten Muslim adults in the U.S. are under the age of 30. The average age within Judaism is 50 years old, Catholics (49 years old), Orthodox Christians (40 years old), Buddhists (39 years old), Hindus (33 years old) and the median age of the entire U.S. population is 46 years old.
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2016-07-16
2401 Views
Despite heated campaign rhetoric and the Orlando shooting, new polls show that the American public’s views of both Islam and Muslims have become more favorable. Here’s why.
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2016-07-16
2400 Views
President Barack Obama clobbered former House Speaker Newt Gingrich on Friday for suggesting that America should deport Muslims who profess a belief in Islamic Sharia law, telling a gathering of diplomats in Washington that the idea is 'repugnant.'
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2016-07-13
2513 Views
Famous German journalist Martin Lejeune has announced his reversion to Islam, pronouncing shahada, the declaration of faith, in front of hundreds of Muslims.
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2016-07-12
1844 Views
It had been 10 days since Omar Mateen, a self-declared adherent to the Islamic State, massacred 49 people at an Orlando nightclub. And Nezar Hamze, a police officer in the Broward County Sheriff’s Office, wanted to prepare this mosque’s c...
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2016-07-12
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In a field off a rural stretch of Glasgow Street, a decades-old dream is slowly taking shape. There, the Kitchener-Waterloo Islamic Association is constructing what it is touting as the largest Islamic Center in Canada on a 4.5-hectare (11-acre) plot...
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2016-07-11
2029 Views
Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne joined Muslims in fasting on Wednesday, June 22nd and then took part in the Iftar (fast-breaking meal) with the community at the Sayeda Khadija Center in Mississauga. “I am honored to participate in the fast with ...
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2016-07-11
1974 Views
When Mona Eldadah started this camp four years ago, the idea was mainly about getting fasting Muslim kids off the couch during the holy month of Ramadan, and into activities that were both creatively stimulating and unifying.
Now, the camp has reach...
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2016-07-07
2115 Views
A court in Bavaria has ruled against restrictions on wearing headscarves for law students who are undergoing practical training in the justice system in the German state.
The Augsburg administrative court upheld a complaint by a 25-year-old Muslim s...
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2016-07-07
2030 Views
A new member of Virginia’s Republican State Central Committee apologized over the weekend for posting anti-Muslim, anti-immigrant rhetoric on Twitter and Facebook — much of which echoed incendiary comments by presumptive GOP presidential ...
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2016-07-05
1938 Views
A group of Christians, Muslims and Jews join hands to build a place where they can all worship: Berlin's "House of One" is aiming to become the world's first building to combine a church, a synagogue and a mosque under one roof.
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2016-07-05
2036 Views
Muslims in Bayonne, New Jersey, have wanted an Islamic center and prayer hall for nearly two decades — they currently pray in the cramped basement of an elementary school.
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2016-07-02
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An Iftar & Dinner party was organized by Progressive Muslim Forum (PMF) UK, International under the chairmanship of Khurshid Alam on 21st of June 2016 at Berrymede School Main Hall, Osborne Road, Acton, and London, W3 8SJ.
This event was a chari...
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2016-07-01
2111 Views
The cities of Qum and Mashhad in Iran hosted the 7th round of Catholic – Shi’a dialogue early this May.
The Catholic group which was invited by Dr Mohammad Ali Shomali comprised of Abbot Primate Notker Wolf, head of the Benedictine Conf...
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2016-06-30
1998 Views
German President Joachim Gauck joined Muslims on an interfaith iftar last week in Berlin, sending an out loud message against demonizing Muslims.
“Promoting encounters is particularly important at a time when mutual mistrust is spreading,&rdqu...
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2016-06-30
1787 Views
Many people believe that the EU is only something that affects people involved in politics, or it makes strange laws such as determining how straight bananas should be. However it is an institution that, like it or not, affects lives of British...
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2016-06-25
2034 Views
Russell Moore offered a ringing defense of religious freedom for all, including Muslims, during the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission’s (ERLC) report to the 2016 Southern Baptist Convention (SBC).
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2016-06-25
2293 Views
Germany is seeing a rise in Islamophobia, according to a new study which highlights the tensions surrounding the recent influx of refugees. More than 40 percent of residents said they believe Muslims should be forbidden from coming to Germany.
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2016-06-23
1563 Views
The Council on American-Islamic Relations had planned to hold a news conference unveiling a report on Islamophobia, including the rise of “Muslim-free” businesses, anti-Muslim rallies by armed protesters, direct attacks on Muslims and the...
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2016-06-23
2073 Views
Smithsonian's museum of Asian art will hold its first ever exhibit of "exquisitely decorated manuscripts" of the Quran in the United States. The exhibit is set to open October 15, 2016 and will run through February 2017.
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2016-06-22
1658 Views
Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and the Center for Race and Gender at UC Berkeley released a report Monday entitled “Confronting Fear: Islamophobia and its Impact in the United States.”
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2016-02-01
2312 Views
For years, independent Islamic schools remained at the top score of UK GCSE results, setting example for faith schools as successful, highly-achieving and inspiring educational institutes in Britain.
The Muslim schools overall average of students wh...
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2016-01-31
2161 Views
A Muslim delegation formally invited Pope Francis to visit the Grand Mosque of Rome, thought to be the largest mosque in the Western world. Although the Vatican has not yet officially accepted, the visit was certain to take place, but the date had not yet been announced for security reasons.
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2016-01-30
1935 Views
The Council on American Islamic Relations, the nation's largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today joined 17 Maryland-based groups in calling on Stevenson University to drop anti-Muslim activist Ayaan Hirsi Ali as a speaker at an up...
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2016-01-13
1348 Views
The Swiss attorney general has opened a criminal investigation of a leading member in a Swiss Muslim organization accused of violating a ban on jihadist groups, the attorney general’s office said on Saturday.
Switzerland is on high alert after...
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2016-01-09
1741 Views
In Washington, D.C., on Sunday, the Washington National Cathedral played host to an interfaith pilgrimage of Christians, Jews and Muslims who walked with each other from congregation to congregation, calling for the faithful choose "unity over extrem...
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2016-01-04
1565 Views
European Muslims bid outgoing year farewell with mounting challenges such as recurring charges that link them to terrorism and allegations that they are unable to integrate into western communities.
Organizations, centers and associations that care ...
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2016-01-04
1954 Views
The head of Muslim faith schools in Britain has called for the teaching of Judaism in the schools, echoing a call by Britain’s chief rabbi to teach Islam in Jewish schools.
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2016-01-04
1700 Views
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, released a preliminary report on incidents targeting American mosques and religious institutions in 2015 that shows a greater ...
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2016-01-02
1619 Views
Saudi Arabia has executed the prominent Shia cleric Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr, the interior ministry said.
He was among 47 people put to death after being convicted of terrorism offences, it said in a statement.
Sheikh Nimr was a vocal supporter of the m...
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2016-01-01
1797 Views
French Muslims in the northern French city of Lens made a show of solidarity with the city's Christians, volunteering as guards at the local Catholic Church Christmas mass, French media reported.
The Muslims decided to guard the church after Fran...
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2015-12-21
1925 Views
A British Muslim family heading for Disneyland was barred from boarding a flight to Los Angeles by US authorities at London’s Gatwick airport amid concerns of an American overreaction to the perceived terrorist threat.
US Department of H...
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2015-12-20
1599 Views
Wheaton College students, faculty and others held a sit-in to support Professor Larycia Hawkins who, as part of her Christian Advent devotion, wore a hijab to show solidarity with Muslims. Her explanation for the gesture didn't sit well with the...
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2015-12-20
1701 Views
U.S. Muslim Leaders Announce Campaigns to Enhance National Security, Address Rising Islamophobia
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The US Council of Muslim Organizations (USCMO), a coalition of leading national and local Muslim organizations, today announced ...
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2015-12-18
1689 Views
New York, United States – Republican presidential front runner Donald Trump’s anti-Muslim rhetoric tells one story about the modern day US. But, students painstakingly learning Arabic’s right-to-left script in classro...
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2015-12-17
2025 Views
A lack of training and funding is creating a Muslim leadership vacuum in the U.S. That’s bad for everyone.
One of many ugly patterns since Sept. 11, 2001, is that those who say they are worried about Islamic terrorism often fight to keep mosqu...
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2015-12-16
1502 Views
The first Arabic-language television talk show in Germany aims to help foster the integration of refugees from Arab countries with a simple message: “Follow the rules!”
Germany is bracing itself for more than one million asylum seekers t...
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2015-12-16
1864 Views
The Georgetown University’s Interfaith Gathering for Solidarity, Understanding, and Peace was held on December 16, 2015 to promote understanding through faith leaders’ reflections and through music and prayer.
Imam Talib Shareef, preside...
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2015-12-15
1585 Views
A new Pew Research Center survey gauges Americans’ views on a variety of questions related to Islamic extremism and Muslims.
Among the key findings are that a majority of U.S. adults (61%) say U.S. Muslims should not be subject to additi...
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2015-12-14
1735 Views
From the suburbs of Los Angeles to the outskirts of Washington, D.C., mosques around the United States are warily stepping up security in the face of growing fears about reprisals on American Muslims.
The increasing safety concerns described by Amer...
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2015-12-06
3531 Views
Speaking during a press conference held at the 2015 Marrakech International Film Festival on Saturday, Francis Ford Coppola quoted the Holy Qur'an and defended Islam in a touching way.
He quote the Qur'an, specifically Surah Al Fatihah emphasi...
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2015-12-04
1766 Views
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) joined leaders of New Jersey’s Muslim community, interfaith partners and public officials at a news conference in Jersey City, N.J., to condemn leading GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump&rsq...
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2015-12-03
1679 Views
France is likely to close up to 160 mosques in the coming months as part of a nationwide police operation under the state of emergency which allows places of worship that promote radical views to be shut down, one of the country's chief imams has sai...
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2015-11-21
1851 Views
We’ve told you how the Paris attacks led to threats against Muslims nationwide. Here in Central Florida, Muslims are using billboards to sort out the facts from the fiction behind their beliefs.
While driving along I-4 in Orlando, there are ...
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2015-02-01
3417 Views
Following the publication of cartoons desecrating Islamic sanctities in France, the Noble Quran and books about Islam are becoming a best-seller in the country.
The number of people buying the Quran and Islamic books in French bookstores has skyro...
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2015-02-01
1981 Views
Muslim pupils across Britain are suffering a backlash of bullying and abuse following the Charlie Hebdo massacre amid a broad rise in Islamophobia in schools, which the Government is failing to tackle, campaigners have told The Independent.
The so...
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2015-01-19
2153 Views
The far-right anti-Islam Flemish Interest Party in Belgium has forwarded a bill to Parliament forbidding women with headscarves from driving vehicles.
The bill, presented by the Flemish Interest Party’s former president Filip Dewinter on Fri...
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2015-01-12
2021 Views
More than a thousand protesters took to the streets in Sweden on Friday to urge an end to a spate of attacks against mosques, amid growing tensions over the rise of an anti-immigration party.
The demonstrations in Sweden's three largest cities, St...
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2015-01-12
2187 Views
A group of Muslims in Holland started an online campaign titled Not My Islam (Niet mijn Islam) which received 11 thousands people's support on the very first day.
Group members who identify themselves as “the silent majority who respects Hol...
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2015-01-12
2416 Views
In the aftermath of Wednesday’s extremist attack in Paris, Muslim unions and leaders expressed outrage at the “barbaric” targeting of the Charlie Hebdo magazine headquarters, which left 12 people dead.
The French Muslim Council (...
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2015-01-12
2062 Views
Local Muslim leaders joined in the chorus of condemnation Wednesday of the attack in Paris. And, a local international relations expert talked to San Diego 6 about the likelihood of a similar attack on American soil.
"There is no way that a true ...
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2015-01-12
1977 Views
Hundreds are to gather yesterday in Dearborn at one of Michigan's biggest mosques for a celebration of Islam's prophet that will include the wrapping of gifts for needy children. The event is one of several held in recent days by Muslims in metro Det...
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2015-01-12
2170 Views
Tens of thousands of people have marched in Dresden calling for “open mindedness and humanity.” DW’s Kate Brady was there to see how the eastern German city took a stand against the anti-Islamization PEGIDA group.
Families, young c...
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2015-01-12
2140 Views
Gothenburg’s main mosque was evacuated on Friday night after a bomb threat, exacerbating Swedish Muslims’ fear of reprisals following this week’s Charlie Hebdo massacre in Paris.
Three mosques in Sweden have suffered arson attacks ...
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2014-12-22
1954 Views
Machiel de Graaf, a parliament member for the Party for Freedom (PVV) led by Islam critic Geert Wilders, has called for the closure of all mosques in the
March of the Dutch Freedom Party against Islamic incursion.
March of the Dutch Freedom Party...
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2014-12-22
1728 Views
English football fan Julie Phillips, 51, has been banned from all football stadiums for minimum three years for tearing up a copy of Islam's Holy Book during an English football match and throwing the pieces in the air.
Police said Phillips, who a...
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2014-12-22
1866 Views
Coincident with the last ten days of Safar month (lunar month) a group of Australian Muslims visited Imam Reza (A.S.) holy shrine.
According to the report issued from Astan Quds Razavi's special headquarter for the last ten days of Safar month, t...
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2014-12-22
2212 Views
Dresden (Germany), December 15:
A record 15,000 people marched in eastern Germany against “asylum cheats” and the country’s “Islamisation” in the latest show of strength of a growing far-right populist movement.
Chance...
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2014-12-15
2079 Views
Iraqi Defence Minister Khaled al-Obeidi said on Thursday that the number of pilgrims in the city of Karbala for the annual Arbaeen commemoration had reached a record 17.5 million this year.
Arbaeen, which marks the end of the 40-day period o...
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2014-12-13
2093 Views
The two-day WAVE conference kicked off work in Tehran on Tuesday and ended Wednesday evening.
The conference came in the aftermath of a last year proposal by Iranian President Hassan Rouhani during his address to the UN General Assembly meeting in...
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2014-12-06
4067 Views
The report published by The Independent was based on a research conducted by Dr. Nabil Khattab and Professor Ron Johnston with data from the Office for National Statistics’ Labour Force Survey of more than half a million people.
The study says...
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2014-11-24
2201 Views
The Muslim world must urgently tackle the issue of Takfiri violence, which certain entities seek to use as a pretext to promote Islamophobia, says an analyst.
“It is about time that Muslim community started this discussion, and it has...
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2014-11-24
2451 Views
The most significant anti-Islam action of the 2014 midterm election, Alabama’s Amendment 1, was approved by voters. Alabama is the eighth state to approve a law intended to vilify Islam. The measure was inspired by Islamophobe David Yerushalmi&...
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2014-09-27
2311 Views
British Muslim leaders have called on Prime Minister David Cameron and other politicians to stop referring to the militant jihadist group as the “Islamic State” and have instead suggested the media and politicians begin using the name the...
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2014-09-27
2336 Views
Banks across the United States have closed the accounts of Muslim customers without any explanation.
Dozens in the US said they received notices saying that their bank accounts had been shut. These include business owners, nonprofits, and students.
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2014-09-27
2318 Views
In non-Muslim societies, a woman in a headscarf is often perceived as less approachable and sociable, according to past research, and some see the head covering as a means of repressing women.
But a new British study concludes that for many Muslim w...
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2014-08-30
2364 Views
A relatively small Muslim community in America’s far north western state of Alaska have put final touches on their first mosque.
A relatively small Muslim community in America’s far north western state of Alaska have put final to...
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2014-08-30
2155 Views
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Birmingham Ladywood MP has been branded “shameful”, “extremely irresponsible” and accused of “stirring up tensions” and behaving in a inappropriately by leaders of Britain’s Jewish commu...
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2014-08-25
2652 Views
I am a typical American in many ways that are reflected in both my professional and personal lives. Professionally, I am a supervisor with a major police department, and I have been in the military, both active duty and in the reserves for the majori...
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2014-08-25
2132 Views
A Calgary imam will start a 48-hour hunger strike Friday evening to protest the beheading of an American journalist in Iraq this week by ISIS.
Imam Syed Soharwardy, founder of Muslims Against Terrorism and the Islamic Supreme Council of Canada, ...
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2014-08-24
2262 Views
Australia Christian and Jewish leaders have rallied to support the Muslim community, asking members of the Australian public to join them in a campaign called “We’ll love Muslims 100 years”.
Rabbi Zalman Kastel will join Austral...
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2014-07-20
2195 Views
The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) urged all Arab and Muslims in the United States to boycott the Obama administration's celebration of the holy month of Ramadan on Monday, arguing the president has condoned the killing of Palestin...
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2014-07-20
2382 Views
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Aziz Allilou is a student at the Higher Institute of Media and Communications (ISIC) and Morocco World News correspondent in Rabat.
Rabat – Answering the call of Islam, 19 football fans converted to Islam after meeting team Mis...
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2014-07-20
2192 Views
This was the first from any Dallas Mayor. The dinner which was sponsored by renowned city businessman Amir Rupani, Arman Rupani and Mohsin Mandavia and others.
A large number of religious leadership of Shia, Sunni and Ismaili community were in att...
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2014-07-20
2720 Views
A Belgian young Muslim revert to Islam has helped 1000 people to accepts Islam after turning her home into Islamic center for Belgian Muslims seeking to learn more about their religion.
Influenced by her Muslim friends and researching into the rel...
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2014-07-13
2262 Views
Reports and comments on Muslims by the media and politicians bear the hallmarks of the portrayal of Jews in Nazi Germany, a British MP has said.
Reports and comments on Muslims by the media and politicians bear the hallmarks of the portrayal of Je...
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2014-07-13
2016 Views
More needs to be done to tackle online anti-Muslim hatred, says a report.
There is an urgent need to examine the rise of online anti-Muslim hate that has become rampant, says a report by Birmingham City University on online hatred towards Muslims a...
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2014-07-13
1578 Views
More than 1.7 million Muslims living in Spain have started Sunday, the Ramadan. In this context, the Union of Islamic Communities in Spain (UCIDE) calls on employers to provide, where possible, its practitioners workers to fulfill this task. “...
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2014-07-13
2247 Views
This weekend marks the beginning of Ramadan. Nearly one-fourth of the world will observe the annual fast and eight million Muslims in the United States will abstain from food and drink from sunrise to sunset during the holy month. A gruelling task at...
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2014-07-11
2813 Views
In a meeting in the Palace Of Westminster, leaders from Sunni and Shia denominations from cities across the UK agreed that the Islamic State was "un-Islamic".
In a joint statement they also expressed "grave concern" at the repeated attacks by ISIS...
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2014-07-10
2285 Views
HAMILTON – Abstaining from food and water for 15 hours a day, Hamilton Muslim basketball players are taking the challenge of observing the holy fasting month of Ramadan while keeping their high performance in basketball local tournaments.
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2014-07-10
1852 Views
Prayer rooms, hijabs made from local silk and even halal-certified whale meat are appearing in Japan as tourism bosses wake up to the demand from Muslim travelers.
For a largely homogeneous country with only around 100,000 practising Muslims, that m...
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2014-07-10
1977 Views
While Muslims have found greater mainstream acceptance in Metro Detroit and nationwide, more work is needed to address persistent discrimination and intolerance in workplaces, at school and elsewhere, a civil rights advocacy group said.
“Ameri...
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2014-07-09
2243 Views
Muhammadiyah Shiite mosque, located in the Esenyurt district of Istanbul has been attacked, Turkish Sabah newspaper reported on July 8.
A Molotov cocktail was thrown into the mosque on July 8 early in the morning, which caused a fire, according to...
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2014-07-09
1981 Views
On the occasion of birth anniversary of Imam Hassan Mojtaba (AS), a ceremony will be held on July 12 by the Islamic Center of Hamburg.
The center aims to commemorate the noble status of the second infallible Imam (AS) and promote his virtues.
S...
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2014-07-05
1958 Views
The general assembly of the state council in Greece has rejected an appeal to prevent the construction of a mosque in the capital Athens.
Construction of Athens's only mosque is due to start soon after plans were approved eight months ago. The m...
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2014-07-05
2419 Views
The European Court of Human Rights has upheld a French law banning the wearing of the full-face veil, the niqab.
The Strasbourg-based court was ruling on a case brought by a 24-year-old French woman, who argued that the ban on wearing the veil in ...
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2014-07-03
2071 Views
Sayed Hassan Al-Qazwini, leader of the Islamic Center of America, told The Arab American News that he is proud of the behavior of the local Muslim community, despite all that transpired in the last week.
A string of events targeting the local Musl...
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2014-06-28
2267 Views
Nearly 30 years ago, being Muslim in Melbourne meant quietly gathering in the living rooms of apartments for a moment of prayer or having to explain what sounded like a foreign, exotic religion to strangers.
There were no masjids — worship cen...
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2014-06-28
2261 Views
Awaiting the holy fasting month of Ramadan, the family of Noor Khan have been preparing their kids to take part in fasting the holy month to taste the month’s high spirituality and share the needy their feelings all through the year.
“My...
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2014-06-28
2231 Views
With the holy month of Ramadan beginning June 30, the Walled City has been flooded with products made in China. Though some articles from Syria, Malaysia and Indonesia are also seen, the Dragon is undoubtedly the king.
One of the main products is th...
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2014-06-20
2215 Views
The release of a new FX Networks series about an Arab Muslim who returns to his home country with his American wife and children after 20 years in the US has sparked concerns of US Muslims, expressed worries about potential Islamophobic stereotyping ...
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2014-06-20
2166 Views
Members of the British Muslim community have warned that the murder of a Saudi student in Britain has sparked fears that hate crime is on the rise amid ‘widespread’ Islamophobia in the UK.
“In recent months and weeks, an increasing...
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2014-06-19
2109 Views
Denmark’s largest purpose-built mosque, including the country’s first minaret, opened on Thursday in Copenhagen’s northwest district after receiving a 150 million kroner ($27.2 million) endowment from Qatar.
After years of wranglin...
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2014-06-19
2178 Views
America’s largest Muslim advocacy group has picked Ohioan female Muslim lawyer Roula Allouch as its new acting national board chair replacing previous chair Omar Zaki who stepped down after two years in his post.
"I would like thank Omar Zaki ...
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2014-06-19
2367 Views
Travelling thousands of miles to offer support to his country’s team in World Cup 2014 Brazil, British Muslim actor Riz Ahmed has claimed that he was racially abused during England’s game against Uruguay when another fan silenced him whil...
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2014-06-19
2274 Views
Donations to Islamic Relief in the UK this Ramadan will be matched pound for pound by additional funding from the UK Government it has been announced.
The charity’s new partnership with the Department for International Development is being ann...
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2014-06-19
2276 Views
Douglas Cruikshank, 39, and 18-year-old Chelsea Lambie threw bacon at the window of Edinburgh's Central Mosque and wrapped the meat around door handles on January 31 last year.
Edinburgh Sheriff Court heard they and a third offender were associated ...
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2014-06-19
2239 Views
LONDON — Senior leaders of England’s estimated 2.7 million Muslims have called on religious scholars and political commentators in the media not to inflame sectarian tensions involving Islam’s two main sects — the Sunnis and S...
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2014-06-13
1934 Views
A schoolgirl today told how her teacher has changed her life after he gave her one of his kidneys.
Alya Ahmed Ali, 13, was on dialysis three times a week. Today she said she had been given a new lease of life after teacher Ray Coe donated his kidney...
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2014-06-13
2030 Views
This year’s World Cup is the first time since 1986 that Ramadan has fallen during the tournament Staff writer, Al Arabiya News The football World Cup - which coincides with the Islamic fasting month of Ramadan - will likely affect Muslim footba...
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2014-06-13
2049 Views
Minarets of the Russia's largest mosque was crowned with cupolas. According to the project construction of the mosque will be completed in three years. The general sponsor of the construction is the Charity Fund "Ural".
"The building will include fo...
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2014-06-13
2306 Views
ALBERTA – Young as they might be, Muslim students from Fort McMurray Islamic School in Canada’s Alberta district have succeeded in impressing the whole community by their special awareness day in which they highlighted Islamic beliefs, ac...
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2014-06-12
2312 Views
MEMPHIS – A basketball phenomenon, Bilqis Abdul-Qaadir has always dremed of a flourishing future as a professional basketball player who has reserved the title of the best player in the state during her high school years.
"As of right now I'm ...
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2014-06-06
1981 Views
Canada’s growing Halal food industry has made it an attractive target for fraud – something that leaders in Canada’s Muslim community hope to end.
“Halal is really important to uphold a Muslim&r...
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2014-06-06
1783 Views
At the opening of the V Moscow International Halal Exhibition Moscow Halal Expo 2014 an official signing ceremony of the Memorandum of Understanding and Cooperation between the Council of Muftis of Russia and the Islamic Religious Council of Poland w...
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2014-06-06
2293 Views
According to the information reported in the Turkish press and from the General Secretariat of Religious Affairs in Turkey, 779 people residing in the Country have converted to Islam since the beginning of 2014.
The overwhelming majority of th...
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2014-06-06
2467 Views
REYKJAVIK – Plans to launch the construction works of the first mosque in Iceland have been causing lots of uproar in the Nordic island, amid increasing hate speech on the social networking websites against the religious minority.
“The c...
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2014-06-06
2204 Views
A leading American Muslim civil rights group organized a blood donation drive on Friday, June 06, at the Islamic Society of Greater Oklahoma City’s mosque, showing their pride in their state and giving back to their community.
“We are ...
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2014-06-06
2274 Views
With graduation season under way in the valley, 15 students who never imagined heading off to college will have the opportunity to, thanks in part to Diplomas to Degrees (d2D), a Boys & Girls Clubs of Coachella Valley college readiness pilot prog...
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2014-06-06
2287 Views
LONDON – A few days ahead of the holy month of Ramadan, British Muslims have announced the planned launch of a special TV channel which will join a growing number of specialized channels broadcasting to the growing Muslim minority.
“In s...
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2014-06-05
2261 Views
New data released from the US census authority has found that Islam is the second largest religion in twenty American states after Christianity that appeared as the dominant faith across the country.
The new data was released by the Association of S...
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2014-05-30
2134 Views
Muslims in London Borough of Tower Hamlets have launched a new campaign to help smokers quit tobacco before the holy fasting month of Ramadan, offering them counseling and health services.
“Ramadan is an ideal time to start healthy habits,&r...
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2014-05-30
2345 Views
ISTANBUL – Tens of thousands of Turkish Muslims have gathered on Saturday dawn to pray outside historic Aya Sofia mosque, urging Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan to reopen the museum to serve as a Muslim worshipping house.
“This is a seriou...
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2014-05-30
2298 Views
NEW YORK - The first time Irfaan Noorudin saw the black-and-white ad equating Islam with antisemitism, he was sitting in traffic not far from the US Capitol when a bus bearing the incendiary message rolled past.
“It’s still so jarr...
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2014-05-29
2071 Views
In a rundown Sao Paulo street, squeezed between a graffiti-covered sports bar and a dilapidated unisex hairdressers, lies a little haven of Islamic tranquillity.
Here, while Brazil is rushing to be ready in time for next month’s Fifa Worl...
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2014-05-29
2285 Views
A group of young Muslims from the London borough of Newham have launched a new campaign to highlight a forgotten Islamic tenet of supporting democracy, a tradition that goes back to Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him).
“Muslims should take pa...
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2014-05-29
2289 Views
As Brazil government were adding the final touches on World Cup preparations, a Brazilian active Muslim community was working around the clock to prepare their own welcome for hundreds of thousands of fans expected to arrive soon in the South America...
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2014-05-29
2079 Views
A recent controversy over anti-Islam comments in Northern Ireland has come to an end quickly after representatives of the Irish Muslim community asserted that they have received and accepted an apology from First Minister over anti-Islam slurs he mad...
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2014-05-21
2849 Views
Celebrating the achievements of Muslims throughout the US, Muslim Oscars will be held later this month to celebrate shinning role models of American Muslim citizens who reflect the true-image of Islam.
“All too often, the media is filled with ...
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2014-05-21
2124 Views
Kuwait's Awqaf Ministry plans to hand out 250,000 copies of Quran translations in different languages in Brazil during the FIFA World Cup.
The ministry's Quran Board announced that it has held a tender for the procurement of the copies, Al-Shoruq Al...
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2014-05-21
2010 Views
A family fun day to raise money for a new mosque and community centre in East Reading is set to take place on Sunday.
The Aisha Masjid and Islamic Centre will hold the family fair at its new premises in London Road, and families from all faiths and ...
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2014-05-21
2049 Views
Independent MP's bill would have empowered police to require people to remove any face covering to establish their identity |
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2014-05-21
2210 Views
The controversial West Ham mega mosque, which was threatened with eviction by Newham Council has won a reprieve from the Master of the Rolls.
A council injunction ordering the demolition of the mosque has been suspended until Communities Secretary, ...
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2014-05-21
1723 Views
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation's largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today marked the upcoming Memorial Day holiday with the release of a video featuring American Muslim veterans ex...
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2014-05-08
2137 Views
By airing the adhan, Channel 4 became the first mainstream British television channel to broadcast the call to prayer (adhan) on a daily basis.
CAIRO – Amid an incredibly positive reaction from the Muslim community, British TV Channel 4’...
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2014-05-08
2167 Views
Certain exports of Welsh lamb are being prepared according to Islamic religious rules, it has emerged.
Industry body Meat Promotion Wales confirmed yesterday that some sheep are being slaughtered at Welsh abattoirs according to halal principles.
Th...
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2014-05-08
2383 Views
Cheryl Sudduth is making history; she is the second Muslim woman to run for Congress in the United States. A 2014 democratic candidate, she is seeking election to the House of Representatives to represent the 11th congressional district of California...
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2014-05-07
2066 Views
"I will exert all my efforts for ensuring that Muslims do not consider themselves as a minority in Greece," Stamou said.
ATHENS – A hijab-clad Greek woman has become the first ever Muslim candidate to represent her country at the coming Europe...
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2014-05-07
2203 Views
According to retailers, the animals, blessed while being slaughtered, were also stunned before slaughtering.
LONDON – Responding to a new controversy surrounding meat labeling in UK, British religious leaders have called for labeling halal mea...
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2014-05-07
2158 Views
Chicago area Islamic groups were coming together Thursday to express their collective outrage at a crime that has horrified the world; the kidnapping of nearly 300 schoolgirls by a terrorist group in Nigeria.
CBS 2’s Mike Puccinelli reports th...
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2014-04-30
12470 Views
Muslim Congress strongly demands the Indonesian authorities to stop its hypocritical attitude toward Shia Muslims.
According to Shafaqna, the Muslim Congress in the statement said:
Dear brothers and sisters, Assalamu alaikum
Today, Thursday, May 1...
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2014-04-30
2038 Views
OTTAWA - The Supreme Court of Canada will hear an appeal in a discrimination case involving aerospace giant Bombardier, a Muslim Canadian pilot of Pakistani extraction and the Quebec Human Rights Tribunal.
Javed Latif claims that Bombardier (TSX:BBD...
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2014-04-30
3864 Views
The developer who once proposed a mosque and Muslim community centre near the site of the World Trade Centre now plans a museum devoted to Islam at the very same site.
According to the New York Times, property developer Sharif El-Gamal said through ...
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2014-04-30
2126 Views
TOKYO, May 1 (KUNA) -- Three people were confirmed dead and 79 others were injured in a violent terrorist attack at a railway station in Urumqi, capital of northwest China's Muslim-majority Xinjiang region, state-run Xinhua News Agency reported Thurs...
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2014-04-30
2091 Views
A SWANSEA store is among nearly 200 of the Subway branches now serving only halal meat.
The Subway in St Helen's Road, Swansea, would have had to apply to be a halal restaurant, according to the company.
The chain, which has around 1,500 outlets ac...
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2014-04-30
1915 Views
Two football fans - one a council worker who used to work with disabled children - were this afternoon convicted of tearing up pages of the Koran during a Boro away match.
Middlesbrough supporters Julie Phillips, 50, and Gemma Parkin, 18, admitted...
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2014-04-24
2601 Views
A film that will be shown at the National September 11 Memorial Museum in New York unfairly links Islam with terrorism and could lead to prejudice and even violence against Muslims, clergy members have said.
Called “The Rise of al Qaeda”...
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2014-04-24
2161 Views
Shocker: more mosques exist in the more populous American states. Another shocker: that fact is very troubling to Allen West.
In a blog post entitled “US centers of Islamic activity form interesting map,” the former Republican congr...
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2014-04-23
1937 Views
A UK Independence Party member featured in its latest election broadcast has been suspended for expressing "repellent" racist and anti-Islamic views on social media, the party said.
Andre Lampitt appeared in a builder's hard hat in the Ukip film sho...
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2014-04-23
2337 Views
Mohammed Azhar Ali Khan
Dr. Izzeldin Abuelaish’s office at the University of Toronto overflows with books, from the Holy Qur’an to those on medicine and various subjects. The office walls are bulging with honors bes...
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2014-04-07
2200 Views
We’ve all heard of Hollywood and Bollywood. Some of you may have even heard of Lollywood (the Pakistani version) and Nollywood (the Nigerian version). But what about Halalywood? No? Well, as of 2014, you probably will. American actor and c...
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2014-04-06
1762 Views
A Muslim woman has said that she was attacked by airport staff in Sweden and forced to remove her headscarf in public.
Saama Sarsour was travelling from the Arvidsjaur airport in northern Sweden when she aroused suspicion after she caused a metal de...
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2014-04-06
1981 Views
The number of Muslims in the prison population has more than doubled to nearly 12,000 in a decade, figures from the Ministry of Justice show.
The dramatic rise prompted calls for ministers to investigate whether police and the courts are treating Mu...
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2014-04-06
1819 Views
The timing of GCSE, A-level and university exams could be brought forward under controversial plans so they do not clash with the Islamic month of Ramadan.
If approved, schools, colleges and universities would set the exams earlier so Muslim stu...
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2014-04-06
2155 Views
Malaysia and Indonesia have banned the biblical epic ‘Noah’, joining other Muslim nations that forbid the Hollywood movie for its visual depiction of the prophet.
Film censors in both countries said Monday that the portrayal of the ark-b...
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2014-03-17
2237 Views
A group of New Jersey citizens have volunteered to remove hate graffiti sprayed on the Islamic society in Princeton city, showing solidarity with the Muslim community against hate.
“This is bigotry and hate right here on a wall,” Michael...
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2014-03-15
2926 Views
Students with the University of Ottawa’s Muslim Students’ Association (MSA) organized this year’s annual Islam Awareness Week (IAW), from March 3rd to March 7th around the theme of the sustainability of Islam.
Shahad Khalladi, a se...
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2014-03-15
2162 Views
The Serbian military has opened its first masjid [prayer room] for Muslim soldiers in its Belgrade headquarters.
Chief of General Staff Ljubisa Dikovic, the head of Serbia’s Islamic community Adem Zilkic and the mufti of Belgrade Muhamed Jus...
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2014-03-15
1921 Views
HE has been a mainstay in a title-winning Rangers side this year and his late goal against Albion Rovers earlier this month kept his team firmly in the Scottish Cup.
But now French-born central defender Bilel Mohsni has spoken of another side to his...
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2014-03-14
3189 Views
Director of Italian-based Imam Mahdi (AS) Institute said Fiqh (Islamic jurisprudence) can offer practical solutions for the challenges the Muslim world is facing.
Speaking at the international conference on ““Role of Muslim World in Gl...
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2014-03-13
2058 Views
Spain's Catholic Church bids to annex the centuries-old Cordoba mosque has been vehemently criticized by rights groups demanding the recognition of the Islamic rich history in Spain.
“Over the past few years, the Diocese of Cordoba has erased ...
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2014-02-25
1887 Views
SEATTLE — The FBI is working with local law enforcement to determine if a Saturday incident at an Islamic center in Washington was "bias-motivated and a violation of federal law," according to a spokeswoman for the FBI's Seattle division.
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2014-02-24
2336 Views
The Republic of Ireland may be intimately associated with the Roman Catholic Church, but the fastest - growing faith on the emerald isle is Islam - at such a rapid rate that Muslims are projected to replace Protestantism as the second-most popular religion by the year 2043.
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2014-02-23
1967 Views
“It seemed appropriate to use JW3 as a venue to launch Islam Awareness Week this year,” Julie Siddiqui, executive director of Islamic Society of Britain, told Jewish News on Wednesday, February 19.
“The Jewish community have done a...
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2014-02-23
2123 Views
Accusing it of blasphemy, a French Muslims legal organization is suing a French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo after it published inflammatory cartoons insulting Qur’an.
“We know in advance that the trial does not go all the way to the...
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2014-02-23
2792 Views
Leading British Muslim and interfaith organizations have signed a letter of complaint to Daily Mail’s editor Paul Dacre, condemning an article that deployed hateful Muslim stereotypes and used slurs commonly found in racist and far-right websit...
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2013-11-17
2059 Views
POLICE say they are are pleased a demonstration by a far-right group over the opening of a Muslim centre in a village has passed off without incident. Around 200 members of the North East’s English Defence League (EDL) met at Shotton Collier...POLICE say they are are pleased a demonstration by a far-right group over the opening of a Muslim centre in a village has passed off without incident. Around 200 members of the North East’s English Defence League (EDL) met at Shotton Collier...POLICE say they are are pleased a demonstration by a far-right group over the opening of a Muslim centre in a village has passed off without incident. Around 200 members of the North East’s English Defence League (EDL) met at Shotton Collier...
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2013-11-17
2206 Views
“Planning permission will probably not be needed for such uses in view of the previous use of the site. Listed building permission would probably be needed for any changes to the exterior of the buildings.”
Also supporting the idea of getting the building back into community use is Derek Mann, chairman of the Waterside Neighbourhood Action Group.
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2013-11-17
2455 Views
I keep myself aloof from them, in this world and in the Hereafter, O
Beneficent! Blessings of Allah be on you, O Abal Hasan! Blessings of
Allah be on your soul and your body! You suffered patiently and
exercised self-control, (although) You were truthful and Your
truthfulness had been confirmed; Allah destroyed him who gave the
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