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NEWS ABOUT: Islam

Islam stories: 178 news summaries

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(Newser) - A former UN worker who faces possible lashing in Sudan for wearing pants blasted flogging as an "insult" to humans that has nothing to do with Islam and everything to do with "men mistreating women," she tells the Guardian. Lubna Ahmed Hussein and 12 other women were... More »

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Islam • crime • dress code • Sudan • Muslims • Islamic dress code • indecent exposure • court • Koran • flogging • Lubna Ahmed Hussein

(Newser) - The leader of an uprising set on introducing Islamic law in Nigeria died in custody today, the BBC reports. Mohammed Yusuf was captured in his in-laws’ goat pen in Maiduguri—and was later seen standing and with no visible injuries by a Reuters reporter. “He has been killed,”... More »

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Islam • Africa • Nigeria • violence • Islamic law • Shariah • Mohammed Yusuf • police custody

Terror Suspect Led Typical Suburban Life

But Boyd fought in Afghanistan, said 'good Muslims' waged jihad

Jul 29, 09 5:32 AM CDT
(Newser) - The arrest of construction worker Daniel Boyd and his sons for conspiring to support terrorists came as a complete shock to their neighbors in North Carolina, who describe the 39-year-old father as a friendly gardener and fisherman. But Boyd has followed an uncommon path. After converting to Islam in the... More »

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Islam • jihad • North Carolina • Islamic extremism • terror suspects • terror cell • suburbs • Muslim convert • domestic terrorism • Daniel Boyd

(Newser) - A criminal court in the Maldives has ruled that 150 women will be flogged for having affairs in the Muslim country, reports the Independent. Some 50 men face the same punishment. Earlier this month an 18-year-old woman fainted after being flogged 100 times for having sex with two men, who... More »

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Islam • crime • courts • Muslim • Maldives • female sexuality • flogging • caning

(Newser) - Chinese authorities forced mosques in Urumqi to stay closed today and reimposed a curfew in the restive western city, reports the BBC. The curfew was lifted after thousands of troops had seemed to restore order between Han Chinese and Uighur Muslims, who have battled in the worst ethnic violence China... More »

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China • Islam • mosque • ethnic conflict • ethnic violence • Han Chinese • Xinjiang • Uighurs • Urumqi

(Newser) - President Obama is viewed favorably around the world, but his popularity hasn't worked any magic on the image of the US, Tom Schaller writes on FiveThirtyEight. A new poll of people in 20 countries finds the average global opinion of the role the US plays in the world is 41%... More »

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Islam • US foreign policy • United States • reputation • opinion polls • Obama administration • President Obama • global community

 Turkish Game Show 
 Tries to Convert Atheists 

Imams, priests, rabbis, and monks given chance to convert unbelievers live on TV

Jul 3, 09 1:29 AM CDT
(Newser) - This was probably only a matter of time: A Turkish game show starting this fall will bring on 10 atheists per show and give holy men from four faiths the chance to convert them, the Guardian reports. A Muslim imam, a Greek Orthodox priest, a rabbi, and a Buddhist monk... More »

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Islam • Turkey • Christianity • religion • Judaism • game show • Buddhism • atheism

Burka Is 'Not Welcome' in France: Sarkozy

Prez says religious covering a sign of female 'subservience'

Jun 22, 09 1:03 PM CDT
(Newser) - Nicolas Sarkozy today spoke out strongly against Islamic coverings for women, like the burka, the BBC reports. In a rare speech to parliament, which is considering a ban, the French president said, “we cannot accept to have in our country women who are prisoners behind netting. … The burka... More »

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Islam • Nicolas Sarkozy • France • French Parliament • Islamic Sharia law • niqab • ban • clothing • Muslim women • burka

ANALYSIS

Death of 'Neda' May Echo for Weeks in Iran

Lengthy Shia cycle of mourning martyrs often includes protests

Jun 22, 09 6:40 AM CDT
(Newser) - It's not clear who killed the Iranian protester known as Neda, but footage of her gruesome shooting in the streets of Tehran may transform the demonstrations gripping Iran, Time reports. Shia Muslims mourn their dead three, seven, and 40 days after death, and Iranians often use those commemorations for protests.... More »

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Iran • Islam • Shia • shah • martyrdom • mourning • Iranian election • Mir Hossein Mousavi • Neda

OPINION

Obama the Messiah
Twists History

Hovering from on high, he finds fault with US: Krauthammer

Jun 12, 09 8:40 AM CDT
(Newser) - "He's sort of God," a Newsweek writer said of Barack Obama on MSNBC recently, which for Charles Krauthammer is only a mild overstatement of how the president sees himself: "hovering above mere mortals, mere country, to gaze benignly upon the darkling plain beneath him." In his... More »

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Barack Obama • Islam • Muslims • women's rights • Cairo • Muslim women • President Obama

Gaza's Single Ladies to Hamas: Put a Ring on It

Islamic group sees matchmaking as 'humanitarian work'

Jun 6, 09 3:54 PM CDT
(Newser) - Washington deems Hamas a terrorist group, but for Gaza’s lonely single women, the Islamic militant group can be a lifesaver, the AP reports. Hamas runs a “marriage and development” service that finds husbands for hundreds of women, often helping those in their 30s—who are considered spinsters. “... More »

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Islam • Gaza • Hamas • women • marriage • Palestinians • matchmaking

Dubai Woman Rattles Arab World With Sex Advice Book

Book of frank erotic advice rooted in religion shocks Arab world

Jun 6, 09 10:27 AM CDT
(Newser) - A Dubai marriage counselor is making waves in the Arab world with a frank book on sexuality, the New York Times reports. Wedad Lootah, a former Islamic scholar, grounds her book of erotic advice in the teachings of the Koran. She discusses taboo subjects such as homosexuality and urges readers... More »

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Islam • sex education • sexuality • United Arab Emirates • Koran • Arab

OPINION

 Obama Echoes Bush— 
 But Does It Better 

Why? 'He is decidedly not' his predecessor

Jun 4, 09 1:10 PM CDT
(Newser) - President Obama’s speech in Cairo sounded a lot like President Bush’s 2006 speech to Muslims—yet Obama’s manages to carry far more weight, writes Michael Crowley in the New Republic. Both spoke of respect for “the history and traditions of the Muslim world”; both suggested governmental... More »

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Barack Obama • Islam • Middle East • Muslims • Cairo • speech • George W. Bush • President Obama

OPINION Roundup

 Obama 'Shrewd' 
 in Cairo Speech 


Jun 4, 09 11:24 AM CDT
(Newser) - Most of America wasn’t even awake when it happened, but Barack Obama’s Cairo speech got people talking anyway, the Washington Post reports. The New York Times says Obama delivered a "sweeping and forceful—at times scolding and combative" message, which included what the Wall ... More »

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Barack Obama • Islam • Middle East • Egypt • Muslim • Cairo • speech • opinion

 Obama Seeks 
 'New Beginning' 
 for US, Muslims 

Calls for end to 'cycle of suspicion and discord'

Jun 4, 09 6:06 AM CDT
(Newser) - Speaking in Cairo, President Obama called for a “new beginning” for the US and the Muslim world, the BBC reports. The “cycle of suspicion and discord must end,” he said at Cairo University, urging a “sustained effort...to respect one another and seek common ground.”... More »

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Islam • Middle East • Muslims • Cairo • speech • keynote speech • President Obama

 Converts Plan 
 Islamic College in Berkeley 

Renown converts lead effort to reinterpret Islam

Jun 3, 09 3:45 PM CDT
(Newser) - Two superstars of American Islam are at the helm of what they hope will be the nation’s first accredited Islamic college, tasked with creating scholars who can usher a religious renewal. Hamza Yusuf and Zaid Shakir, both converts, aim to admit Zaytuna College’s first class next year in... More »

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Islam • American Muslims • Berkeley • religious school • Zaytuna College • Hamza Yusuf • Zaid Shakir

Foiled Robber Leaves Store With $40, Bread

Shopkeeper pulls gun on would-be perp, who begs for mercy, food

Jun 3, 09 10:19 AM CDT
(Newser) - A man approached a Long Island convenience store counter with a baseball bat, demanding cash; the shop owner whipped out his shotgun, prompting the man’s tearful pleas for mercy. The impassioned display worked, Newsday reports: Mohammad Sohail took pity on the robber and gave him $40 and a loaf... More »

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Islam • crime • bread • robbery • money • convenience stores • Long Island • conversion • Mohammad Sohail

 China Takes 
 Bulldozers 
 to Ancient 
 Islamic City 

Beijing plans demolition of one of the Silk Road's oldest sites

May 28, 09 6:57 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Islamic city of Kashgar, in China's far west, has some of the best preserved traditional architecture on the ancient Silk Road, and more than a million tourists a year visit the rambling mud-and-straw buildings that Genghis Khan once passed by. Now, however, the Chinese government wants to tear down... More »

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China • Islam • demolition • Chinese Communist party • Uighurs • Silk Road

Saudi Crackdown Sends Female Gym Rats to Sidelines

Religious leaders say sports are unfeminine

May 14, 09 3:51 PM CDT
(Newser) - Though obesity and diabetes are on the rise in Saudi Arabia, officials there are cracking down on women-only sports clubs because they lack licenses—which no government body will actually issue. Leaders say their opposition is based on Islam, but, Caryle Murphy writes for GlobalPost, it stems as much from... More »

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obesity • sports • Islam • Saudi Arabia • diabetes • women's rights • athletics • fitness • Jay-ZTV

 Pope Visits Holy 
 Sites of Judaism, Islam 

Benedict meets with leading Muslim cleric after visit to Dome of the Rock

May 12, 09 5:52 AM CDT
(AP) - Pope Benedict XVI began the second day of his Holy Land tour at one of the most contentious sites in the Arab-Israeli conflict: the Dome of the Rock, where Muslims believe the Prophet Muhammad ascended to heaven, and the adjacent Western Wall. The pontiff urged both sides to engage in... More »

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Islam • Pope Benedict XVI • Catholic Church • Jerusalem • Judaism • Dome of the Rock • Arab Israeli conflict • Western Wall

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