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Woman asks to be sworn in as Canadian citizen as soon as possible after overturn of policy requiring her to remove niqab
'I feel the policy regarding veils at citizenship oath ceremonies is a personal attack on me, my identity as a Muslim woman and my religious beliefs,’ said Zunera Ishaq
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Austria passes controversial reforms to 1912 Islam law
The Austrian parliament has passed controversial reforms to the country's century-old law on Islam. The bill, which is partly aimed at tackling Islamist radicalism, gives Muslims more legal security but bans foreign funding for mosques and imams.
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Ramadan 2015: China Forces Officials in Xinjiang to Swear They Will Not Fast During Holy Month
China is also stoking religious sentiments by ordering halal restaurants to remain open during the day.
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Embryology and the Qur'an
The internet provides a vehicle for many to communicate their beliefs. Muslims have also taken to social media (like twitter) to proselytize for their religion. A popular tactic is to claim that the qur'an is filled with modern scientific knowledge. This seems to be a bizarre tactic. The Islamic world has not really been at the forefront of scientific discovery since, well, Copernicus worked out that the solar system was heliocentric before Muslim astronomers.
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Images of Ramadan 2015
Series of pictures of Muslims around the world observing Ramadan, a month of fasting from sunrise to sunset.
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University In U.K. Finds Muhammad-Era Quran Pages Among Its Possessions
The manuscript is one of the earliest versions of Islam's holy book to survive. Radiocarbon analysis dates the parchment on which the text is written to between the years 568 and 645.
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The most and least racially diverse U.S. religious groups
The nation’s population is growing more racially and ethnically diverse – and so are many of its religious groups, both at the congregational level and among broader Christian traditions.
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CAR: Unprotected Muslims forced to abandon religion | Amnesty International
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Carbon dating suggests ‘world’s oldest’ Koran could be older than the Prophet Muhammad
Scholars believe a copy of the Koran held in England may be even older than the Prophet Muhammad. Carbon dating of a fragment from a Koran stored at a Birmingham library suggests that the book was produced between 568 and 645 A.D., said scientists at the University of Oxford, but Islamic scholars generally believe Muhammad lived between 570 and 632 A.D.
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Muslim flight attendant accuses ExpressJet Airlines of suspending her for not serving alcohol
A Muslim flight attendant filed a complaint with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission claiming she was suspended from her job for not serving alcohol, which is against her religious beliefs, CBS Detroit station WWJ-AM reports. Lena Masri, an attorney for the Council on American-Islamic Relations Michigan, said Charee Stanley followed management's directions, working out an arrangement with her coworkers to accommodate passenger requests for alcohol.
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Standing Firm Against Armed Bigotry
As anti-Muslim demonstrations loom this weekend, Americans have a responsibility to stand up for religious minorities.
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It’s up to us to stop these Muslim girls making the worst mistake of their lives
Sara Khan is determined to protect young Muslim women from the lure of extremism – but has her vocal support for the government’s anti-radicalisation strategy alienated the very people she hopes to save?
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What ISIS Really Wants
The Islamic State is no mere collection of psychopaths. It is a religious group with carefully considered beliefs, among them that it is a key agent of the coming apocalypse. Here’s what that means for its strategy—and for how to stop it.
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Here's What the Social Science Says About Countering Violent Extremism
I am an anthropologist. Anthropologists, as a group, study the diversity of human cultures to understand our commonalities and differences, and to use the knowledge of what is common to us all to help us bridge our differences. My research aims to help reduce violence between peoples, by first trying to understand thoughts and behaviors as different from my own as any I can imagine: such as suicide actions that kill masses of people innocent of direct harm to others.
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After Paris Attacks, a Darker Mood Toward Islam Emerges in France
Unlike the response in January after attacks at the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo and elsewhere left 17 dead, there were no grand public appeals for solidarity with Muslims after the Friday attacks that left 129 dead in Paris. There were no marches, few pleas not to confuse practitioners of Islam with those who preach jihad.
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US Muslim forced off plane cites Islamophobia
Being told to get off plane in front of passengers was "humiliating", says Kameelah Rasheed, who alleges discrimination.
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Is A British Program Spotting Radicals Or Alienating Muslims?
The British government is trying to stop terrorism with a program called Prevent. Teachers, doctors and others are obliged to report suspicious behavior but many worry it's creating a culture of fear.
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The Holy Quran Experiment
Islam has been under huge scrutiny lately and is often criticised for being an aggressive religion... but what about Christianity?In this video we disguised a Bible as a Quran and read some of it's most gruesome verses to the people. This is what they had to say.
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American Jihadi - Abu Mansoor Al-Amriki
Back in 2011 this video was uploaded to YouTube. Just goes to show how easy it is to radicalise - but only if you are that type of person. A type that most people quite clearly are not.
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Only You Can Prevent Islamophobia
Last week, 23-year-old Ruhi Rehman of Newcastle, Britain, became a viral video star. In a recent video interview with the Daily Mail, she related the story of being abused on a local commuter train. As the story goes, Rehman and her younger sister had been sitting quietly on the train when, suddenly, they found themselves singled out and threatened by a young man, apparently because he objected to their wearing the hijab. He then demanded that the sisters leave their seats.
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