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Study: Radicalized Muslims Have Little Actual Knowledge Of Islam...
Extremists and Islamophobes alike have attempted to paint violent factions within Islam as the true expression of the faith. But a new study gives credence to what countless Muslim leaders, activists and scholars have argued: that groups like the self-proclaimed Islamic State are Muslim in name alone. A group of German scholars at the Universities of Bielefeld and Osnabrück analyzed 5,757 WhatsApp messages found on a phone seized by police following a terrorist attack in the spring of 2016. The messages were exchanged among 12 young men involved in the attack. The attack itself was not identified in the report. Deutsche Welle noted that the timeframe suggested it may...
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Boxing Champ Launches Sports Hijab...
A boxing champion from the East End has created a sports hijab to help more Muslim women get into combat sports. Ruqsana Begum (below) – who is the current British female Atomweight Muay Thai boxing champion – runs personal training sessions and women-only sessions in the sport at the Osmani Centre in Whitechapel. She said: “I came up with the idea during the Olympics. I was interested in the story of an American athlete who was told she couldn’t compete wearing her hijab due to health and safety reasons, so her father created one that was approved for her to fight in. “I thought if they can create one...
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Is Islamic Law an Answer for Humanitarians?...
DUBAI, 24 April 2014 (IRIN) – Humanitarian action today is largely taking place in Muslim-majority countries where some combatants turn to Islamic law, among other sources, to guide their military behaviour. As a result, in the last decade, aid and advocacy agencies have increasingly tried to understand Islamic law in order to use its humanitarian provisions as tools of negotiation with armed groups in the Muslim world. This is particularly helpful in engaging Islamist armed groups, some of whom reject international humanitarian law (IHL). Some aid agencies try to situate their arguments for access or protection of civilians within a religious context, sometimes using scholars, mullahs or other religious...
Ramadan Inspires Local Clothing Drive
Posted: Sep 28, 2008 4:21 PM EDT By Elise Roberts – bio | email BILOXI, MS (WLOX) – This month the Muslim community is marking the holy month of Ramadan. It is the 9th month on the Islamic calendar. It is also a special time of prayer, fasting and service. Muslims in South Mississippi are wrapping up the month of Ramadan with its annual clothing giveaway. Sunday, the Biloxi Islamic Center was draped in clothing. From suits to sandals, there was something for everyone. “We started off small. We didn’t get a lot of publicity, so we didn’t get a lot of people to come out and participate. But each year the crowd is getting bigger and bigger,”...
Bush Praises Muslim Americans
September 18, 2008 Washington, DC U.S. President George Bush hosted a White House dinner breaking the fast of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. VOA White House Correspondent Scott Stearns has the story. This was the president’s eighth Iftaar dinner in eight years at the White House. Mr. Bush gave thanks for the many ways that Muslim Americans enrich the lives of all Americans. “One of the great strengths of our nation is its religious diversity. Americans practice many different faiths. We all share a belief in the right to worship freely. We reject bigotry in all its forms. And over the past eight years, my administration has been proud to work closely with Muslim Americans to promote...
Ibn Sina – Text – Medieval Persian Scientists and Philosophers
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Ancient Discoveries Islamic Science
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Muslims Emphasize Charity During Ramadan
Sunday, August 31, 2008 | 6:57 p.m. CDT; updated 7:05 p.m. CDT, Sunday, August 31, 2008 BY KATIE ROOKSTOOL COLUMBIA — Monday evening, many people will see just another crescent moon. To the Muslim community worldwide, it marks the beginning of Ramadan, the most significant month of the year. According to the Islamic calendar, Ramadan is the month the Quran was revealed and is now one of the five pillars of the Islamic faith. Common practices during Ramadan include fasting, intensified prayer and communal readings of the Quran. An important component of the spiritual reflection during Ramadan is charity, and Muslims in Columbia have joined hands to demonstrate their generosity toward those less fortunate. “Charity is one of...
Most Muslims Upbeat on Globalization
August 28, 2008 Washington A survey conducted in predominantly Muslim nations shows an overall embrace of globalization, trade, and integration into the world economy. From Washington, VOA’s Michael Bowman reports. For those who view Muslims as generally insular, inward-looking and suspicious of the world at large, the results of the poll may come as a surprise. Conducted by the U.S.-headquartered group, WorldPublicOpinion.org, the poll surveyed the opinions of more than 5,000 people in Egypt, Turkey, Azerbaijan, Iran, Indonesia, the Palestinian territories, and Muslim areas of Nigeria. “All of the Muslim countries we polled in, a majority or at least a plurality said that they thought that globalization, defined as the increasing connections of our economy with others around the...
6,000 Islamic Scholars Issue Fatwa Against Terrorism
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Saudi King Proclaims Moderate, Tolerant Islam at Spanish Faith Congress
July 17, 2008 Saudi King Abdallah Bin-Abd-al-Aziz has told the world conference on interfaith dialogue in Madrid that “Islam is the religion of moderation, balance and tolerance”, according to a report in a Spanish paper. It says he also condemned extremism and made a call for reconciliation among faiths to combat the “spiritual void” responsible for many of the world`s ills. The following is the text of the report by the Spanish newspaper ABC website on 17 July; subheadings as published: Madrid: King Abdallah (Bin-Abd-al-Aziz) of Saudi Arabia transmitted a message of a moderate, balanced and tolerant Islam yesterday in Madrid and urged “turning a new page for humanity where reconciliation will replace dispute”. The monarch of one of the countries which, paradoxically, applies the Islamic...
Mecca Conference Promotes Dialogue Between Muslims and Followers of Other Faiths
June 12, 2008 Washington DC Religious leaders and Islamic scholars from more than 50 countries gathered for an international conference in Mecca last week to address the challenges facing the Islamic world. The conference was part of a recently announced initiative by Saudi King Abdullah to promote dialogue between Muslims and followers of other monotheistic faiths. King Abdullah’s tone was one of reconciliation between Islam’s two main branches, Sunni and Shi’a. The King, a Sunni Muslim, was reported to have entered the hall with a leading Shi’a politician, former Iranian President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, who later sat at his left in a gesture of unity. Ibrahim Hooper, communications director for the Council on American-Islamic Relations in Washington, attended...
Survey: Americans Freely Change, or Drop, Their Religions
By Cathy Lynn Grossman, USA TODAY A new map of faith in the USA shows a nation constantly shifting amid religious choices, unaware or unconcerned with doctrinal distinctions. Unbelief is on the rise. And immigration is introducing new faces in the pews, new cultural concerns, new forces in the public square. The U.S. Religious Landscape Survey, released Monday by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life, documents new peaks, deepening valleys and fast-running rivers of change in American religiosity. Based on interviews with 35,556 adults in the continental United States, it shows so much diversity and dynamism that a co-author sums it up simply. “Churn. Churn. Churn. The biggest news here...
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