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NEWS ABOUT: Islam

Islam stories: 178 news summaries

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Pope Pounds Protestants

Jul 11, 07 5:32 AM CDT
(Newser) - In a remarkable nod to the 16th century, Pope Benedict XVI’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, which he once led, said of Protestant denominations, 'it is nevertheless difficult to see how the title of 'Church' could possibly be attributed to them." The document restates Benedict's position... More »

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Islam • Pope Benedict XVI • Orthodox Christianity • Protestants

Radicals Kill Pakistani Colonel

Mosque crisis continues, as Islamic students remain barricaded inside

Jul 8, 07 11:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - A Pakistani colonel leading an attempt to breach the walls of a mosque where Islamic students are holed up has been shot and killed, the BBC reports. Since last Tuesday, when the standoff began, 20 people are believed to have died. Pakistan's President Musharraf has said the Islamic fighters "... More »

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Islam • Pakistan • Pervez Musharraf • Islamic militants • Red Mosque • terrorist

Pakistan Mosque Battle Kills 9

Islamic students clash with security forces in shootout; 140 wounded

Jul 3, 07 4:35 PM CDT
(Newser) - A heavy gun battle between Pakistan's government and armed students at a radical mosque has left nine dead, the BBC reports. The melee lasted throughout the day as soldiers traded fire with militant students at Islamabad's controversial Lal Masjid, or Red Mosque. Among the dead were three female students, a... More »

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Islam • Pakistan • Pervez Musharraf • Red Mosque • Lal Masjid • Islamic Sharia law • Islamabad • mixed martial arts

Egypt Suffers From a Fatwa Free-for-All

Urine-drinking, breastfeeding edicts jeopardize religious authority

Jun 12, 07 3:08 PM CDT
(Newser) - The credibility of fatwas, the religious rulings that guide daily life for Muslims, is being strained in Egypt, the New York Times reports.  A flap ensued recently when one authority ruled in favor of  drinking the Prophet Mohammed’s urine and another approved co-ed workplaces if the women breast-fed... More »

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Islam • law • Egypt • Muslim • Mohammed • fatwa

Face It: Court Approves Full Veil at Cairo U

Panel lifts ban imposed for security

Jun 12, 07 12:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - Women at the American University in Cairo cannot be barred from wearing the traditional Islamic veil covering the entire face, or niqab, a court has ruled after a lengthy battle, reports the BBC. While some hailed the ruling as a blow for religious freedom, others blasted it as a dangerous... More »

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Islam • dress code • women • Islamic veil • Muslim • Cairo • niqab

Pope Backtracks on Muslims

Benedict rebuilds demoted department the leads dialog with Islamic world

May 29, 07 5:31 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Pope applied some salve to wounded relations with the Muslim world yesterday after neglecting and then appearing to slander Islam in a speech last fall. In a surprising reversal, Benedict XVI announced he is restoring the Vatican department responsible for Muslim affairs, which he demoted in importance last year. More »

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Islam • Pope Benedict XVI • Vatican City • Catholic Church • religion • Vatican

Tolerant Swiss to Ban Minarets?

May 28, 07 9:57 PM CDT
(Newser) - The Swiss have gone NIMBY (not in my back yard) on minarets.  While Switzerland's constitution guarantees freedom of religion, a number of leading politicians want to ban them via a referendum this fall.  There are now exactly two minarets in all of Switzerland. More »

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Islam • religion • Switzerland • minarets • Islamic law

Iran Charges American Scholar

Imprisoned academic accused of working against government

May 22, 07 11:20 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Iranian government has charged an Iranian-American scholar already in custody in Tehran with working for "the soft-toppling of the country." Haleh Esfandiari, 67, was arrested May 8 after being under house arrest since January. The accusations come just days before American and Iranian diplomats are to meet... More »

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Iran • Islam • CIA • Middle East • Haleh Esfandiari • scholar • Iraq war

Nigerian Prez Accuses VP of Death Threat

President's mind full of "cobwebs of juju," replies former #2

May 22, 07 7:27 AM CDT
(Newser) - The president of Nigeria and his former vice president are locked in a jihad of words, after the latter allegedly consulted Islamic holy men about when the former would die, and assured other ministers the date was not far off. President Olesugun Obasanjo decried the treasonous consultation, but added that... More »

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Islam • Nigeria • Atiku Abubakar • occult • holy man • Olesugun Obasanjo

Lebanon Seeks Aid in Fighting Islamists

Minister asks foreign governments for cash as troops shell refugee camp

May 22, 07 5:07 AM CDT
(Newser) - Lebanon's finance minister appealed to Arab and Western governments yesterday, begging for money and supplies to help fight militants in a Palestinian refugee camp. Thirty Lebanese troops, 15 members of the group Fatah al-Islam, and more than 25 civilians have been killed in two days of clashes. More »

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Islam • Lebanon • Syria • Palestine • refugee camp • Fatah al Islam • extremists • Lebanese Army • refugee • George W. Bush

Between The Devil and The Deep Blue Sea

Tension between secularism, democracy roils Turkey

May 7, 07 7:53 AM CDT
(Newser) - If the choice is between somewhat more religion in public life and democracy in Turkey, choose the latter, argues the Economist. The ruling party's choice of an Islamist candidate, Abdullah Gul, for president set off a familiar confrontation between the Turkish military and the political establishment. The Economist asks,... More »

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Islam • Turkey • democracy • Abdullah Gul • secularism • Kemal Ataturk

Turkish PM Backs Election Overhaul

Court annuls vote with sole Islamist candidate for president

May 1, 07 7:38 PM CDT
(Newser) - Turkey's prime minister put his weight behind a new, popular presidential vote, hours after a court invalidated Friday's election by parliament. The secular opposition had boycotted that vote because of the Islamist background of the lone candidate, foreign minister Abdullah Gul. More »

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Islam • Turkey • Abdullah Gul • secularism • Recep Tayyip Erdogan • election

Million Turks Rally for Secularism

Apr 30, 07 6:35 AM CDT
(Newser) - Secular Turks staged an enormous rally yesterday amid a constitutional crisis over the election of the next president, the BBC reports. As many as a million protesters turned out in Istanbul to oppose ruling-party candidate Abdullah Gul, who they're afraid is orchestrating an Islamic coup in the country even as... More »

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Islam • Turkey • Middle East • politics • European Union • Abdullah Gul • protests • modernization • rally • radical • secularism • Istanbul • election

Gunmen Execute 23 In Kurdish Sect

Yazidis pulled from
bus and shot in
reprisal for stoning

Apr 22, 07 3:54 PM CDT
(Newser) - Gunmen in northern Iraq stopped a bus carrying workers home from a textile factory  today, identified 23 members of a tiny religious sect on board, and shot them to death. The bus was filled with Christians and Yazidis, a mostly Kurdish sect that worships an angel, the AP reports. More »

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Iraq • Islam • Bashika • religion • execution • Yazidi • stoning • car bomb • Mosul

Iran Frees Murderous
Vice Squad

Convictions overturned for hardliners who killed "morally  corrupt" citizens

Apr 19, 07 4:12 PM CDT
(Newser) - Iran's Supreme Court has exonerated a group of Islamic hardliners earlier convicted of the vigilante killing of Iranians they considered "morally corrupt,"  the Times reports. Six members of the Basiji force, an elite paramilitary group, were originally convicted of murdering five people, including an engaged couple walking... More »

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Iran • Islam • Mahmoud Ahmadinejad • Basiji • fundamentalism • Ayatollah Ali Khamenei

Islamic Scholars Need U.S.

Freedom fosters faith and scholarship

Apr 6, 07 4:27 PM CDT
(Newser) - The Iraq war may be unforgiveable, but America has given Islam a priceless gift: a haven for Muslim scholarship, says a professor at the University of Deleware. "Muslim scholars have always maintained that true happiness comes from the pursuit and dissemination of knowledge," writes M. A. Muqtedar Khan.... More »

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Iraq • education • Islam • America • school • scholarship • University of Delaware • Muslim • Iraq war

Pakistan Deserves Democracy

Novelist calls for transition from Musharraf's rule

Mar 27, 07 3:03 PM CDT
(Newser) - A Pakistani novelist who's seen many benefits from Musharraf's rule concludes that it's time for the embattled leader to go. "By prolonging his rule, the general risks taking Pakistan backward and undermining much of the considerable good that he has been able to achieve," writes Mohsin Hamid.  More »

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Islam • Pakistan • Pervez Musharraf • Islamic militants

Sunni Baghdad
Lies in Ruins as Shiites Rebuild

Insurgents target efforts to provide food, fuel, services

Mar 26, 07 12:05 PM CDT
(Newser) - Baghdad's Sunni neighborhoods are in collapse, lacking food, fuel,  electricity and health care even as their Shiite neighbors have regained basic services, Alissa Rubin reports. In Shiite areas, the Mahdi Army fills in for the government by keeping order and organizing resources, but Sunnis now find themselves under attack... More »

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Iraq • Islam • Middle East • sectarian violence • Sunni • Shiite • insurgents • Baghdad • Mahdi Army

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