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A Canadian Muslim organization is urging the Canadian government to ban traditional Muslim garments designed to cover a woman's face, saying they are medieval and misogynist symbols of extremism with no basis in Islam.
A look at how Muslims around the world began celebrating Eid al-Fitr, a three-day feast that marks the end of the holy fasting month of Ramadan.
President Barack Obama is extending greetings to Muslims celebrating Eid al-Fitr (ayd ahl-FIH'-tur), which marks the end of the holy monthlong fasting time known as Ramadan.
The Philippines' largest Muslim rebel group warned Saturday that fighting could break out again if efforts to revive peace talks fail, saying a new truce remains fragile.
On Friday afternoons, the people coming to pray at this building take off their shoes, unfurl rugs to kneel on and pray in Arabic. The ones that come Friday evenings put on yarmulkes, light candles and pray in Hebrew.
One of the first plays about Muslim-Americans in the United States debuts in a time and place rich with symbolism: Sept. 11 in New York City.
Federal officials says a JBS Swift & Co. meatpacking plant in Colorado was wrong to fire more than 100 Muslim workers who walked out during Ramadan last year in a dispute over prayer breaks.
Muslim advocates said Friday that federal officials determined a Nebraska meatpacking plant wasn't doing enough to accommodate the religious needs of its Muslim workers but stopped short of laying out specific recommendations.
Philippine troops clashed with about 30 Muslim gunmen who took over a remote islet near southwestern beach resorts popular with foreign tourists, killing at least seven and capturing two, officials said Wednesday.
A former inmate who accused federal prison workers in Illinois of defiling his Quran and torturing him with a nightstick when he complained has settled his civil rights lawsuit for $48,000, one of his attorneys said Thursday.
Georgia courtrooms will allow religious headgear after last year's arrest of a Muslim woman who refused to remove her headscarf in a west Georgia courthouse.
Muslim rebels said Friday they will only resume peace talks if an international body guarantees an autonomy deal with the Philippine government despite President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo's order for her troops to hold fire.
Moneeb Hassan remembers having to choose between a final exam in American history or celebrating the Muslim holy day of Eid al-Adha. In the end, he chose both.
Muslim rebels in the southern Philippines said Thursday they have killed more than 500 government troops in 10 months of fighting since the collapse of peace talks, a claim the military dismissed as propaganda.
An African music star who ignited worldwide controversy among fellow Muslims with one of his albums was in the city Saturday to perform at an arts festival aimed at spreading a deeper understanding of Islam.
Government troops seized a Muslim separatist rebel camp Saturday following three days of fighting that left 30 guerrillas dead, a Philippine military spokesman said.
Muslims still face substantial discrimination in Europe, especially at work, and many fail to report racist incidents because of a lack of trust in authorities, a European Union human rights agency said Thursday.
Seeing-eye dogs are a nonstarter among many Muslims who consider the animals unclean, but a horse the size of a dog just might work.
For generations, the ethnic Muslim Rohingya have endured persecution by the ruling junta of Myanmar, a predominantly Buddhist country.
Austria's Islamic Community says it has revoked the license of a Muslim religion teacher who allegedly gave his students anti-Semitic pamphlets.
- This is the full transcript, provided by the White House, of President Barack Obama's interview with Hisham Melhem of the Al-Arabiya television network.
City court workers including a municipal judge in an Atlanta suburb will undergo sensitivity training after police arrested a Muslim woman for refusing to remove her religious headscarf before attending a hearing.
A Muslim woman arrested for refusing to take off her head scarf at a courthouse security checkpoint said Wednesday that she felt her human and civil rights were violated. A judge ordered Lisa Valentine, 40, to serve 10 days in jail for contempt of court, said police in Douglasville, a city of about 20,000 people on Atlanta's west suburban outskirts.
The cleric stood before dozens of bearded men who had gathered on a crowded Mumbai street corner to honor the 171 people killed by Islamic militants.
Vandals desecrated at least 500 tombs of Muslim soldiers in northern France on Monday — an act President Nicolas Sarkozy denounced as "repugnant racism."
Hezbollah gears up for new war with IsraelHezbollah is rapidly rearming in preparation for a new conflict with Israel, fearing that Benjamin Netanyahu's government will attack Lebanon again prior to any assault on Iran's nuclear facilities. Last week, Israeli commandos seized a ship in the Mediterranean loaded with almo …
Why fundamentalism will fail A seemingly unstoppable force is being undone from the inside
Nidal Hasan: Ft. Hood Shooter Participated in Homeland Security Disaster PreparationThe task force was not officially affiliated with the White House. It was a project of the Homeland Security Policy Institute, an independent thinktank housed at George Washington University, aimed at drafting policy recommendations for the incoming Obama administration.
Muslim in Sheep's ClothingThose watching events at Fort Hood have come face to face with the reality of Islamic jihad in America.
Muslim, but Presumed InnocentThe earliest indications are that Major Malik Nadal Hasan, the alleged killer of thirteen soldiers who wounded 30 more at Fort Hood, broke under the stress of his forthcoming deployment to Iraq in his capacity as a psychiatrist.
Good NazisMaybe it's just a matter of ideology. Nazis are statist and believe fealty to the state and party should be paramount in the life of every citizen. Strict adherence to Nazi ideology is expected and deviation is punishable, by death in many cases.
Ft. Hood: Army Tests Sole-Killer Theory as Details Emerge I had my doubts about how much of this story was being covered up when the first reports said two others had been detained in connection with the shooting and then that detail was changed to a lone gunman.
Reforming Islam From WithinIs a movement to reform Islam from within already here — and some of us do not even know it? On October 27, 2009, the well-known Muslim peace activist from Bangladesh, Shoaib Choudhury, arrived in New York City to give talks on the problem of jihad at several prestigious inst …
Web post by Fort Hood gunman Major Nidal Malik Hasan could shed light on motivesInvestigators trying to understand why a US army psychiatrist launched into a shooting spree on a military base in Texas will be poring over an internet posting he is thought to have made comparing the sacrifice of Islamist suicide bombers and American military heroes.
BBC NEWS | South Asia | 'Fashion Week' first for PakistanPakistan is hosting its first ever fashion week in the city of Karachi against a backdrop of heavy security. Around 30 Pakistani designers are taking part in the event which ends on Saturday.
Mark Steyn: Shooter exposes hole in U.S. terror strategySame ideological pathologies that drive al-Qaida overpowered Hasan's American identity.
Fox hosts want 'special screenings' for Muslims in militaryIn the wake of a shooting rampage at Fort Hood by a military psychiatrist of Middle Eastern lineage, the hosts at Fox News have begun suggesting that all Muslims in the military should be treated as potential threats.
Pro-US, pro-Zionist Australia refuses to support Goldstone Report at UN General AssemblyAustralia has voted against the endorsement by the UN General Assembly of the Goldstone Report on Israeli war crimes in Gaza. Jewish South African Richard Goldstone is an eminent human rights lawyer and judge.
U.S. Muslims Condemn Attack at Fort HoodIn light of the tragedy at Fort Hood, I fully expect some Republicans to start "McCarthyite" attacks on all Muslims on the armed forces. I have no doubt that President Obama will stand up to them. This is America and we have freedom of religion.
We "broke the law," admits CIA agent convicted of renditionOne of the Americans convicted in absentia by an Italian court for her part in the 2003 abduction of a Muslim cleric by CIA operatives has acknowledged they "broke the law" and complained she was given insufficient protection by her superiors in Washington.
Venezuela President Hugo Chavez accuses State of Israel of Palestinian GenocideHC re Gaza: "The question is not whether the Israelis want to exterminate the Palestinians. They're doing it openly ...What was it if not genocide? ... The Israelis were looking for an excuse to exterminate the Palestinians."
In our fragmented society where there are political points to be scored on anything -- even a senseless tragedy like the shooting at Fort Hood -- there is bound to be some massive spinning coming over the next few days.
Muslims fear backlash in wake of Fort Hood massacreAmerican Islamic groups braced themselves for a public backlash against the faith on Thursday after it was revealed that the alleged shooter in the Fort Hood massacre has a Muslim name.
UN General Assembly endorses Goldstone Report on Israeli et al Gaza atrocitiesThe UN General Assembly approved on Thursday an Arab-backed resolution endorsing the Goldstone Report. 114 nations voted in favor of the resolution and 18 voted against it, with 44 members abstaining.
Muslim men abduct Christian eighth-grader, force her to convert and marry.DHAKA, Bangladesh, November 3 (CDN) — A bail order in Bangladesh has impeded police from rescuing a young Christian girl who was abducted and forced to convert to Islam and marry one of her kidnappers, according to police.
Koran verses "appear" on baby in RussiaIn Russia, thousands of Muslims are flocking to see a baby who has verses from the Koran mysteriously appearing on his body:
Clinic Apologizes for Telling Muslim Doctor She Can't Wear HeadscarfDALLAS — A suburban Dallas medical clinic has apologized to a Muslim doctor for telling her during a job interview that she would not be allowed to wear her headscarf while at work.
Muslim doctor denied Hijab in USADALLAS: A Muslim doctor interviewing for a job at a suburban Dallas medical clinic says officials there told her she couldn't wear her hijab (headscarf) in the workplace.
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