10/04/2010
Despite being in a protracted political conflict over the Holy Land that began around the advent of Zionism more than a century ago, Jews and Muslims have common historical roots, as well as theological commonalities.
Our common roots go beyond the Abrahamic tribal constructs. Abraham himself is...
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31/03/2010
The first reference to the term “islamophobia” appeared in an essay by an orientalist Etienne Dinet “The Orient in the eyes of the Occident” (1922) for defining negative attitude to Islam, that was traced back in many clashes between the Muslim world and Europe from the Crusades to colonialism...
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23/03/2010
The Ukrainian artist who converted to Islam praises greatness of the Creator through His creations and considers creativity as worship to the Almighty.
Oleg Petrovich Kalenchuk was born in 1954 in Simferopol. He started to draw since very young age. He studied at children's art school, and after it...
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22/02/2010
What were the presidential elections for the Ukrainian Muslims which number reaches several hundred thousand persons? What are they waiting from their result? The Mufti of the Spiritual Management of Muslims of Ukraine "Ummah" Said Ismagilov tells about it.
- How Muslims of Ukraine remembered...
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17/02/2010
Resonant case of 25-year-old Susanna Ismailova from Crimea which has legal proceedings with the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine for the right to be photographed for the passport with her hijab on became an occasion to numerous discussions in mass-media, basically by people who are not...
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17/02/2010
Between the Israeli assault on Lebanon and the Zionist "war on terror," the Muslim world is now center stage in every American home. I see the carnage, death and destruction that have befallen Lebanon, but I also see something else: I see you. I can't help but notice that almost every woman I see...
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09/02/2010
This article is written to present an historical background for those who are "looking for" veiled writers, for those who have "found/not found" them, and for those who defend them saying, "they were always there; you didn't see them." For the question, "Were there women in Islamic history," still...
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01/02/2010
After the parliamentary committee in France recommended forbidding to French Muslim women to wear a yashmak in official establishments, politicians joined the discussion in the country. Left parties opposed such attempts of the state regulation of fashion. The doctor of theology, the assistant to...
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01/02/2010
“My wife would not want to remember that tragic event [the loss of an almost full-term baby after a forced fatal injection of drugs into the baby] as she has just overcome the trauma, so I request that you not speak to her,” said Alimcan Karluk, head of the research center at the East Turkistan...
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30/01/2010
Despite some positive shifts, the situation with human rights in Ukraine remains unfavorable. To such a conclusion came the American human rights organization Human Rights Watch in the report published on Wednesday, on January, 20th, in New York. The main problems of Ukraine named by the observers...
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