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More than ever before, the Gaza Strip and the West Bank represent opposite poles of a future state of Palestine, each increasingly distinct, adding fresh obstacles to the quest for a two-state solution that envisions Israel and Palestine existing side by side. Gaza has become imbued with a narrow Islamist culture that considers Israel's elimination the ultimate goal; the West Bank, in contrast, has become relatively open...
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Kadafi's government is touting its success in persuading the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group to renounce Osama bin Laden's tactics.
A nation the West once considered a major sponsor of terrorism may have pulled off a groundbreaking coup against Al Qaeda: coaxing a group once strongly allied with Osama bin Laden to renounce its onetime partner as un-Islamic...
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Tens of thousands of Palestinians have turned out in the Gaza Strip to celebrate the 22nd anniversary of the founding of the Islamist group Hamas. Supporters filled the streets, waving banners and portraits of assassinated Hamas founder Sheikh Ahmed Yassin. The event comes almost a year after a deadly three-week conflict between Israel and Hamas. The Islamist group has controlled Gaza since routing the rival Palestinian Fatah faction from...
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This is a cross post by Ishtiaq Hussain of Quilliam, from Religion Compass Exchanges
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Like Christianity and Judaism, Islam is an Abrahamic faith and a Monotheistic religion. Its followers are called Muslims. Islam was founded in Arabia in the 7th century by the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh). The Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) fought against oppression, injustice and corruption. [...]
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Palestinian supporters of the Hizb ut Tahrir, an international pan-Islamist party seeking to re-establish an international Islamic state, take part in a rally in Bureij refugee camp, central Gaza Strip, Monday, July 20, 2009. The Hizb ut Tahrir rally held in Gaza Monday was a rare public event as the group does not recognize the authority of the Palestinian Authority or Hamas.A great deal of Muslims believe that Sharia law should be imposed in...
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Ramallah, Dec 11 (DPA) Tensions in the West Bank rose Friday as settlers torched a Palestinian village mosque in anger at a government decision to partially suspend Israeli construction in the occupied territory.
Hundreds of Palestinians, in return, rioted after Friday’s prayers, burning tires and throwing rocks in at least two locations in the West Bank.
Unidentified [...]
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RAMALLAH: The Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad has terming the attack on mosque located in West Bank as Jewish terrorism, has said that it is a bid to cease chances of reopening of dialogue between Palestine-Israel.
Jewish settlers attacked on a West Bank mosque where fire was set to a library and hate messages were sprayed [...]
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Switzerland has long been known as a land of tolerance and neutrality. But on Sunday, the majority of Swiss citizens voted in favor of an outrageous law to ban all future construction of mosque minarets. Mosque minarets?!
The minaret, a benign feature of traditional Islamic mosque architecture, has been drawn into a right-wing, fear-mongering campaign. According to supporters of this new law, the minaret of a mosque is essentially a...
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Swiss voters overwhelmingly approved a constitutional ban on minarets on Sunday, barring construction of the iconic mosque towers in a surprise vote that put Switzerland at the forefront of a European backlash against a growing Muslim population. Muslim groups in Switzerland and abroad condemned the vote as biased and anti-Islamic.
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As far back as 2800 B.C., the Assyrians warned that the end of the world was near. Mayans predicted the apocalypse for 2012. Jerry Walls of the Center for Philosophy of Religion at the University of Notre Dame talks about our ongoing fascination with the end of days.
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The lunar Islamic calendar does not align with the Gregorian calendar. Next week, the Islamic calendar will turn from year 1430 to year 1431 H.
Muslims measure the passage of time using the Islamic (Hijrah) calendar. This calendar has twelve lunar months, the beginnings and endings of which are determined by the sighting of the crescent moon. Years are counted since the Hijrah, which is when the Prophet Muhammad migrated from Mecca to Madinah...
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Shah Wali-u Allah was born on 4th Shawwaal, 1114 / 21 February 1703 1703 at Phulat in Delhi. His ancestors had migrated from Arabia to Iran for reasons not known. Later on when the invasion of the Tatars caused widely spread terror and destruction in Iraq and Iran, the forefathers of the Shah are said [...]
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Muslim groups in Switzerland and abroad condemned the vote as biased and anti-Islamic.
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