Turkey u0027s Modern, Muslim Face

Will the US really institute a Muslim registry ?

The name of the book is Islam Without Extremes A Muslim Case for Liberty.

To Europe s east lies Russia, to its south the Muslim world.

Jinnah s idea of Pakistan South Asian Muslim nationalism has been overrun by the dogma of Islamic universalism.

Abu Leil went to an Islamic school here and wears a loose headscarf.

The LGBT Muslims blog identified 5 Muslim nations where the legal system does not outlaw homosexuality.

British Muslim mental health activist Hussain Manawer won a trip aboard a commercial spacecraft.

A true Muslim or Chinese scholar cannot be defined as a true Chinese or a true Muslim by being critical of his own world.

A key source of this unrest is Tahirul Qadri, a Toronto based Muslim cleric who arrived in Lahore in early December.

From Facebook, ChangeInLibya shares the following photograph showing a Libyan family breaking its fast this Ramadan, the Muslim month of fasting, in the dark.

France bans all religious signs, including the Muslim headscarf, in public schools and for some government workers.

The Muslim world is home to many successful movements that combine doctrinal conservatism with a modern outlook that supports capitalism and embraces technology.

I assure you if it happens, at the end, both the West and the Muslim world will have suffered.

But the suicide bombing in Cirebon was unusual since a Muslim house of prayer was targeted by a terrorist.

Saudi Arabia's vice police arrested this mascot at the opening of a sweet shop because .. it wasn't wearing the Islamic attire

The UN Security Council has condemned the opposition s recent attack on a mosque in Damascus, which killed a senior pro government Muslim cleric.

Much has been said of President George W. Bush s American led crusade to bring democracy to the Muslim world.

This is ironic, of course, since 1.) it's not like the Muslim world has welcomed churches or freedom of worship with open arms up to now, and 2.) restrictions on building non Muslim houses of worship are enshrined in the Pact of Umar, which has provided a far reaching precedent for oppressing non Muslims in a variety of ways.

In reality, however, the election is a straightforward fight between Obasanjo, a born again Christian from the Yoruba southwest, and Buhari, an ascetic Muslim from the Hausa Fulani dominated north. So far, bleak predictions that the campaign would split Nigerians along Islamic Christian lines, triggering sectarian violence before the voting, have not come to pass.

So far, bleak predictions that the campaign would split Nigerians along Islamic Christian lines, triggering sectarian violence before the voting, have not come to pass.

It is knowing that an African Islamic scholar named Bilali Muhammad was enslaved and brought to this land two hundred years ago.

Democracy and freedom expanded over recent decades into Latin America, Africa, Europe, and Asia, but the Muslim world continues to struggle.

The dynamics of the region changed when the Afghan freedom fighters of 1980 s were converted into mujahidin through a criminal enterprise in which both the West and the Muslim world happily participated.

The problem with being the bridge, though, is that neither side neither the West nor the Muslim world considers Turkey fully one of its own.

It is not immediately apparent why Jewish or some extreme forms of Christian orthodoxy should be more compatible with Republican values, let alone feminism, than Muslim salafism.

After this trip, I am even more convinced that we all have the same God and that for instance, Christians and Muslims simply take different paths to reach God.

Abu Bakar Ba asyir is a radical Muslim cleric who was convicted of blessing the original 2002 Bali bombing, and suspected by some of providing much more.

When the Muslim world was thrown into confusion and disarray after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the democratic wing of the Islamist movement was working on a platform of legislative reforms it would propose for EU accession.

Despite our enthusiasm for the possibilities of what this initiative can do to broaden understanding, a performance, a film, or an art exhibition cannot find solutions to all of the problems that divide Americans and the Muslim world.

A Sydney based Muslim cleric, Sheik Hilaly, recently made headlines in Australia when he publicly reflected that immodest women invite rape because they are like uncovered meat. More unfortunate still was his implication that this was the cause of a series of gang rapes in Sydney in 2000, in which the attackers legal defense was that they thought the women were sexually available because they wore Western clothes.

A Sydney based Muslim cleric, Sheik Hilaly, recently made headlines in Australia when he publicly reflected that immodest women invite rape because they are like uncovered meat.

In their view, Turkey had re oriented its foreign policy toward the Muslim Middle East and away from the West a shift supposedly reflected in the country s deteriorating relations with Israel and improving ties with Iran and Syria.

Ramadan wrote that the Muslim response to Pope Benedict XVI's speech on Islam was disproportionate, and was encouraged by reactionary Islamic regimes in order to distract their populations, and that it did not improve the position of Islam in the world.