15/01/2010
Giving back to their country and showing the real image of their faith, a group of Muslim doctors are championing an initiative to help poor American patients in the northeastern state of Ohio.
"We want to do our best in helping out, especially in these economically challenging times," Pediatrician...
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15/01/2010
Islamic relief organizations rushed to send immediate aid to quake-hit Haiti, as rescue efforts continued amid expectations that the death toll would reach 100,000.
"The earthquake is really devastating and especially unbearable for a country that has suffered so much deprivation," Hamid Azad,...
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14/01/2010
An upcoming series of religious studies might raise a few eyebrows, but ultimately, its instructor hopes, will help locals better understand a religion often associated with extremism and terrorism, and realize that it shares many common tenets with Christianity.
The Rev. Mark Broadhead, pastor of...
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14/01/2010
Daniel Ayalon, the Israeli deputy foreign minister, has issued a special statement of apology for his treatment of the Turkish ambassador to Israel.
Ayalon had delivered on Monday a rebuke to Ahmet Oguz Celikkol regarding a television show in Turkey that Israel considers offensive.Turkey reacted by...
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05/01/2010
As Gaza is still reeling under a choking Israeli siege for two years and a half, the world has betrayed the 1.6 million people in the strip by failing to act to end the blockade, 16 aid groups says in a report on Tuesday, December 22.
“It is not only Israel that has failed the people of Gaza with a...
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05/01/2010
Seen as a beacon of moderate teachings, Turkey’s madrasas (religious schools) are growing as a role model for schools around the world.
“Of course imam-hatip schools should shed light on Islam and the profession of being an imam”, Huseyin Korkut, Association of Imam-hatip Graduates President, told...
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26/12/2009
Muslims activists from 26 European countries have come together to launch the first rights council to enlighten European Muslims about their rights, monitor rising Islamophobia and defend Muslim rights in European courts of law.
“We think European human rights groups are not doing enough to defend...
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25/12/2009
In a decade when Islam has been castigated and condemned as a result of the combined efforts of Islamic extremists who seem bent on destroying it and the Western struggle against them, the massive majority of moderates in the Muslim world have felt pushed into a corner and marginalized.
Yet in...
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11/12/2009
Whether looking for a job, buying something from a shop or visiting the doctor, minorities in Europe commonly face discrimination, the EU's Fundamental Rights Agency has said.
Using language rarely found in the dry reports of EU agencies, the FRA described as "shocking" the rampantly racist, anti-...
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13/11/2009
An American-born Jewish settler was indicted on Thursday, November 12, for a string of murderous hate-crime attacks against Palestinian civilians in the occupied West Bank, reported Yediot Aharonot.
"The indictment is unusual both in terms of the extent of the offenses and their severity, and in...
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