This woman's got incredible guts and resolve, she's an inspiration for the rest of us. May God strengthen her and make things easier for her.
December 15, 2006
From Head Scarf to Army Cap, Making a New Life
By ANDREA ELLIOTT
LACKL...
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My comments: so not cool. This is the European modernity and sensibility the Turks are clamouring for?
Amid the Minarets of Istanbul, Club Music Pulses
By SETH SHERWOOD
IT was supposed to be a day of mourning.
At exactly 9:05 a....
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Islam thrives as Russia's population falls
CROWDED MOSQUES | Worried local authorities won't allow Muslims to build more places of worship
A steady stream of devout Muslims pours into the Sobornaya Mosque on a cold, grey Friday afterno...
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I came across this while I was browsing through journals for an essay. I had to edit out the last part ("Recommendations") because of Islamica's charcater limit. Note I have not posted a link to the article because you'd have to have ac...
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October 17, 2006
Op-Ed Contributor
Can You Tell a Sunni From a Shiite?
By JEFF STEIN
Washington
FOR the past several months, I’ve been wrapping up lengthy interviews with Washington counterterrorism officials with a fundamental quest...
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It frustrates me when I read about how Muslims can be such effin' idiots.
October 17, 2006
Iraq’s Christian Minority Flees as Extremist Threat Worsens
By MICHAEL LUO
BAGHDAD, Oct. 16 — The blackened shells of five cars still sit ...
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LEICESTER, England — The sports hall doubles as a prayer room and dining hall for male teenagers, at other times for young women, but never the two together. In the kindergarten, female teachers, warned of an impending visit by a man, draw ...
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As Muslims observe the holy month of Ramadan, Christians worldwide are praying along with them. But the extra prayers may not be welcome. In a campaign called the "30 Days Muslim Prayer Focus," Christians are asking God to help Muslims ...
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Why I'm Banned in the USA
By Tariq Ramadan
Sunday, October 1, 2006; B01
LONDON
For more than two years now, the U.S. government has barred me from entering the United States to pursue an academic career. The reasons have changed over ti...
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September 28, 2006
At German Conference on Muslim Relations, One Vote Is Unanimous: Mozart Must Go On
By MARK LANDLER
BERLIN, Sept. 27 — Amid all the issues that divide Germany’s Muslims and non-Muslims — from women’s rights to the teach...
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MINNEAPOLIS, Sept. 30 (AP) — Hundreds of Muslim cabdrivers at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport may soon be required to put different colored lights atop their vehicles after refusing to take customers they know are carrying alcohol.
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India's Cash-for-Fatwa Scandal
Muslims in the country are outraged by revelations, uncovered by a TV sting, that clerics take money for their religious rulings
By ARAVIND ADIGA/NEW DELHI
Last week, many Muslims in India, like their count...
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If you watch the video below, you will find that it's a recitation of Surah Qalam during the Taraweeh prayers last year in Makkah. While the Imam recites, there are English subtitles with the translation below.
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I was reading a thread in the Islam forum when I noticed one of the Google ads near the top. It advertised for a "Muslim lotah." Intrigued, I clicked. I was greeted with this:
https://www.biffy.com/
The website makes it eminentl...
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Lage Raho Munna Bhai: Great movie, or greatest movie?
Discuss.
Official site: http://www.lagerahomunnabhai.com/base.htm
Trailer: http://www.lagerahomunnabhai.com/video/MB2_384.wmv
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Held up by a secret service bodyguard in his dying moments after being shot in the stomach, this is President Bush being assassinated.
Surrounded by a crowd of panicking onlookers, the American leader is pictured just seconds after being gunn...
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August 9, 2006
Essay
In London, the Victoria and Albert’s New Gallery Shows the Islamic World as Oasis, Not Caldron
By ALAN RIDING
LONDON, Aug. 7 — It was not a happy coincidence that the Victoria and Albert Museum’s splendidly ref...
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French President Jacques Chirac has marked 90 years since the Battle of Verdun by unveiling a monument to Muslims who fell in the key WWI battle.
The memorial is the first to Muslims who died in 300 days of clashes over the strategically loc...
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Innocent: The State of the American Man
By Tom Junod
July 2006, Volume 146, Issue 1
Can America and Islam coexist? The answer may lie with the fate of twenty-five-year-old "American Taliban" John Walker Lindh. The prison profi...
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June 18, 2006
U.S. Muslim Clerics Seek a Modern Middle Ground
By LAURIE GOODSTEIN
Every seat in the auditorium at the University of Houston was taken, and the crowd was standing in the back and spilling out into the lobby, straining to hea...
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