Friday 25 July 2008, 09:11 AM (BST)


Arts and Culture

Can Islam Accommodate Democracy...?

Usman Khalid, Pakistan, Friday 25 July 2008

There is a powerful rhetoric around today that claims Islam – not just fundamentalist or Wahhabist or Safalist Islam, but Islam itself is a religion hostile to democracy...

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Obama, McCain Should Condemn Islamophobia

CAIR, USA, United States, Wednesday 16 July 2008

Now that Sens. John McCain and Barack Obama have become the presumptive presidential nominees for the Republicans and Democrats, they should address how all bigotry, including Islamophobia, hurts America...

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Seeking Common Ground In Faith

Michelle Boorstein, United States, Saturday 5 July 2008

For the first time in five Sundays of gatherings, the small group of Washington area Muslims and Jews around the fireside table seemed like it was about to move from polite chat on religious history to something unavoidably combustible...

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American Muslim Women Bemoan Lack Of Male Suitors

SONDOS KHOLOKI-KAHF, United States, Saturday 21 June 2008

Afaf, 25, has been searching for a husband for a solid two years to no avail. "All my friends were getting married by the age of 22, so, naturally, I wanted to be part of the 'wedding club,'" she recalls. "And, of course, there was this romantic notion that it would be the love story of love stories."...

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Interfaith Movement In America Digs Deeper

Michelle Boorstein, United States, Wednesday 11 June 2008

For more than a decade, interfaith efforts have been on the rise in the United States, fueled by the growth of newer religious minority groups and by post-Sept. 11 interest in Islam. But participants and experts say a new credo is changing the movement: Go deeper.

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Pakistanis, the most philanthropic people in US

Amjad Hussain, United States, Wednesday 4 June 2008

A CIVIL society depends on the generosity of its citizens for the support and strengthening of its basic fabric. Charitable giving adds to the beauty and durability of the warp and weft of this fabric...

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Reason & Revelation

Omnia Wasfy, Egypt, Thursday 15 May 2008

Reason & Revelation: How can they collide creating conflicts and how can one end up leading to the other

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Manzanar Pilgrimage Turns 39

AlexIsao Herbach, United States, Wednesday 7 May 2008

Hundreds of participants make this year’s pilgrimage one of the most attended in its history. The Muslim-American contingent, which has been growing steadily within the last few years, was the largest in the pilgrimage’s history.

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Beware Bahrain: Attack of the Raunchy Dancer !

Aaliyah Anon, South Africa, Friday 2 May 2008

Top entertainment news of today concerned a certain Haifa Wehbe, a very sultry, raunchy and controversial Lebanese singer from the Middle East. Certainly a lighter note to take our minds off the daily carnage and destruction we see around the world today!

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Does going to Mecca make Muslims more moderate?

Ray Fisman, United States, Wednesday 30 April 2008

Does the Hajj open minds, or does it expose Muslims to radical views that unite them against the non-Islamic world? Researchers reported that those who went to Mecca came back with more moderate views on a range of issues, both religious and nonreligious, suggesting that the Hajj may be helpful in curbing the spread of extremism in the Islamic world.

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