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Indian Express
May 16, 2012
The biggest group of imams in the country, the Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind, is taking the first tentative steps towards addressing issues faced by Muslim women. At its two-day conference beginning here tomorrow, one of the resolutions before the thousands of ...
Kansas City Star
May 16, 2012
The
Muslim Brotherhood Party in
Egypt has stated that if it is elected to power it will 're-examine' the Camp David Accords.
The Nation, Pakistan
May 16, 2012
Reuters
May 16, 2012
By Hadeel Al Shalchi | ZLITAN,
Libya (Reuters) - Mohamed Salem believes it was divine intervention that saved the
Muslim holy site where he works from being destroyed.
Gulf Daily News
May 16, 2012
MANAMA: The World
Islamic Funds and
financial markets Conference (WIFFMC) has over the last eight years established itself as the world's most influential annual gathering of leaders in the
global Islamic funds and investments industry.
Pakistan Daily Times
May 16, 2012
Karachi: The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) is playing a major role in spreading the
market of
Islamic banking in Pakistan and we salute their efforts.
CNN
May 16, 2012
By Brad Lendon,
CNN (CNN) -- An Iranian rapper is facing death threats and has a $100000 bounty on his head for a song that some say insults an
Islamic Shiite imam. Shahin Najafi, who sings in
Farsi and lives in Germany, told the German website Qantara ...
Religion Dispatches
May 16, 2012
By Bruce B. Lawrence Bruce B. Lawrence is the Nancy and Jeffrey Marcus Humanities Professor of
religion and Director of the
Islamic Studies Center at Duke University. Your outlook, your disposition, even your very life, can be measured not just by your ...
Ahram Online
May 16, 2012
Wasfy Amin's jewelry shops in the heart of
Islamic Cairo ran into trouble when a street revolt scared away tourists last year.
Phys.Org
May 16, 2012
Among Islamists, certain
global brands can be considered threats to
Muslim identity, according to a new study in the Journal of
consumer Research.
Sacramento Bee
May 16, 2012
By
Islamic Relief USA WASHINGTON, May 16, 2012 -- /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ --
Islamic Relief USA (IRUSA), a relief and development organization based in the DC metro area, has become a full voting member of the National Voluntary
organizations Active in ...
Voice of America
May 16, 2012
The international court has issued an arrest warrant for Saif al-
Islam Gadhafi to be tried at The Hague. He is being held by a Libyan
militia outside the capital, Tripoli.
The Republic
May 16, 2012
Jakarta (Reuters) - Pop star Lady Gaga has been refused a permit to perform in the Indonesian capital next month over security concerns,
police said on Tuesday, after
Islamic groups voiced strong objections to her "vulgar" style.
Seattle Post Intelligencer
May 16, 2012
DUSAN STOJANOVIC, AP FILE This July 13, 1995 file photo shows Dutch UN peacekeepers sitting on top of an APC as
Muslim refugees from
Srebrenica, eastern
Bosnia, gather in the village of Potocari, some 5 kms north of Srebrenica.
Washington Post
May 16, 2012
Cairo - Had
Egypt's post-revolutionary political winds held steady, Mohammed Morsi, the
Muslim Brotherhood's presidential candidate, would have been coasting to victory in this month's election.
MarketWatch (press release)
May 15, 2012
San Francisco, CA, May 15, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- Indonesia is home to the world's largest
Muslim population. It is also home to a transgender community known as the waria, biological men who live openly as women.
Buffalo News
May 15, 2012
The Lackawanna
Islamic mosque has less than 10 acres for its proposed cemetery on South Street in the 1st Ward, so it was seeking a variance to move ahead with the project.
Onislam.net
May 15, 2012
ASHGABAT - Citing parallels between
Islamic teachings and laws on refugees protection, the
UN High Commissioner for Refugees has called on
Muslim countries to enshrine long-standing
Islamic principles in their treatment of refugees,
Central Asia Online ...
Ahram Online
May 15, 2012
"Before building a
Muslim state, the
Islamic Group [Gamaa Islameya] could have thought about food security for the Egyptian people," it is claimed Bin Laden wrote in one memo, referring to the Islamist organisation involved in the assassination of ...
Patch.com
May 15, 2012
By Lisa Sink Local
Muslim leaders address concerns about
sharia law at an April 23 public information session at Gethsemane Evangelical Lutheran Church.
MarketWatch (press release)
May 15, 2012
WASHINGTON, May 15, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- The Washington-based Council on American-
Islamic Relations (CAIR) today called on
Muslims and all other
Americans who value
civil liberties to contact
Kansas Governor Sam Brownback to ask that he not ...
Altmuslimah
May 15, 2012
The event was hosted by an array of
organizations, coming together to call Geller's conference what it was: an anti-
Islam hatefest.) Yet what has made more headlines than the ridiculous conference itself has been the barring of
Muslim women (and some ...
News24
May 15, 2012
Hundreds of residents in the city of Kano, the largest in Nigeria's mainly
Muslim north, thronged outside the central
mosque for the wedding of divorcees and widows attended by the city's traditional chief and government officials.
Reuters
May 15, 2012
May 15 - Fitch Ratings has assigned
Dubai Islamic Bank PJSC's (DIB) USD2.5bn trust certificate issuance programme a 'A(exp)'expected rating.
Reuters
May 15, 2012
Islamist contenders for the presidency say
Christians, who form about a tenth of
Egypt's 82 million mostly
Muslim people, will not be sidelined, but mistrustful Copts will not vote for them.
McClatchy Washington Bureau
May 15, 2012
The Islamist, former
Muslim Brotherhood leader Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh, accused Moussa of complicity in the former
Hosni Mubarak regime.
CNN
May 15, 2012
There has been an outcry against Lady Gaga performing among Islamists and conservative
Muslims, who say her revealing costumes and sensual dance moves are "haram," an Arabic term that means "forbidden by
Islamic law." The chairman of the
Islamic ...
Washington Post
May 15, 2012
On the campaign trail for the presidential election, now only nine days away, the
Muslim Brotherhood has taken a sharp turn rightward, becoming bolder in saying it wants to bring a state where
religion and
Islamic law play a major role - and insisting ...
Jakarta Post
May 15, 2012
Muslim activists are warning that people might form vigilante groups if the government takes no action against the violent campaigns carried out by a number of hard-line
organizations.
Lanka Business Online
May 15, 2012
May 15, 2012 (LBO) -
Sri Lanka's pioneering
Islamic insurer, Amana Takaful PLC plans to invest more into fixed income securities, after its bottomline was hit by falling equity prices and lower returns from gold, officials said.
The Atlantic
May 15, 2012
children attend a class at
Istanbul's Fatih College, run by followers of Fethullah Gulen, a Turkish preacher who advocates moderate
Islam rooted in modern life. / Reuters With conservative
Muslim believers becoming more visible in Turkey these days, ...
Huffington Post
May 15, 2012
Dubai, May 14 (Reuters) - An Iranian rapper living in Germany has a $100000 bounty on his head after an Islamist website offered a reward for anyone who kills him over a song that satirises the
Islamic Republic and irreverently addresses a historic ...
Washington Post
May 15, 2012
Jakarta, Indonesia - Lady Gaga might have to cancel her sold-out show in Indonesia because
police worry her sexy clothes and dance moves undermine
Islamic values and will corrupt the country's youth. National police spokesman Boy Rafli Amar said ...
Albany Times Union
May 15, 2012
Ty Masterson, left, an Andover Republican, speaks in favor of a bill meant to prevent
Kansas courts government agencies from basing decisions on
Islamic or other foreign legal codes, as Sen. Tim Owens, right, an Overland Park Republican, waits to reply ...
Gulf Daily News
May 15, 2012
MANAMA:
Islamic finance industry is facing key growth constraints that need to be addressed, Central Bank of
Bahrain (CBB) executive director of financial
institutions supervision
Abdul Rahman Al Baker claimed yesterday.
Times of India
May 15, 2012
GUWAHATI: Muslim Yuva Parishad, Asom, on Monday said the state administration must initiate measures to modernize the state's water transport system within one month.
The News Journal
May 15, 2012
In the parliamentary elections four months ago, the Freedom and Justice Party and al-Nour, the more hardline Islamic party, scored an overwhelming victory, claiming close to a combined 70 percent of the parliamentary seats.
Gatestone Institute
May 15, 2012
by Soeren Kern
Muslim parents are now pressuring local educational authorities to begin teaching Arabic in
public schools. The
Islamic Council of the
Basque Country says Basques should view the speread of Islam in their region "not as a problem, ...
msnbc.com
May 15, 2012
The course, "Perspectives on
Islam and
Islamic Radicalism," raised the option of "taking war to a civilian population," in disregard of the Geneva Convention of 1949, and possibly destruction of Mecca and Medina, Islam's holiest sites.
Washington Post
May 15, 2012
Jakarta, Indonesia - Lady Gaga might have to cancel her sold-out show in Indonesia because
police worry her sexy clothes and dance moves undermine
Islamic values and will corrupt the country's youth. National police spokesman Boy Rafli Amar said ...
Sin Chew Jit Poh
May 14, 2012
According to my general understanding, however, Addin refers to the implementation of the formal
Islamic way of life. In other words, the teachings of Islam must be observed in different aspects of life. Azman: For
Muslims, Addin is very important.
The Sun Daily
May 14, 2012
Houston Chronicle
May 14, 2012
Besides three pieces of Quranic tapestry, the walls at the three-month-old Ibrahim
Islamic Center are bare. "It's something to have a million-dollar
mosque," said the 39-year-old resident imam, "but if you have cheap projects and cheap ideas coming out ...
Arab News
May 14, 2012
By KHALIL HANWARE | ARAB NEWS STAFF With an estimated $1.2 trillion in assets in 2012,
Islamic banks have now developed in size and capability to such an extent that they can participate in financing major
infrastructure projects either through direct ...
Times of India
May 14, 2012
Sickened by the violence in his own film that ensues when a
Muslim girl falls in love with a
Hindu boy, Habib Faisal has decided to take a long break.
Reuters
May 14, 2012
| TRIPOLI, Lebanon (Reuters) - Twenty people were wounded in renewed clashes overnight between Alawite supporters of President
Bashar al-Assad and
Sunni Muslim fighters in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli, medical sources said on Monday.
