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Malaysian groups want Islam bolstered

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - Some 100 Islamic groups in Malaysia called Wednesday for wider powers for Shariah courts and stricter enforcement of religious and moral doctrines ahead of general elections next month.
02 21 2008 12:57AM (...more)

FEATURE - "Untold" story of WW2 stirs Muslim youth pride

BIRMINGHAM, England (Reuters) – Taunted by racists as a "Paki" and "terrorist", Haroon bin Khaled spent his teenaged years feeling rejected by mainstream Britain and increasingly drawn to al Qaeda extremism.
07 4 2009 4:33PM (...more)

Balkan Muslim youth embrace Ramadan fast

SARAJEVO (Reuters) - Mela Softic stopped drinking alcohol a month ago as part of her preparations for Ramadan fasting that began last Monday.
09 10 2008 10:47AM (...more)

Former Guantánamo prisoner asks U.S. to review its founding ideals

Khartoum, Sudan - It took US Army interrogators at Guantánamo Bay five years to reach the conclusion that Adel Hassan Hamad was exactly who he claimed to be: a hospital administrator in Pakistan . On Dec. 11, 2007, they put him back on a military cargo plane, hooded and handcuffed, and sent him back to his home to Sudan .
02 7 2008 12:03AM (...more)

Malaysia's ex-PM Mahathir wants Iraq war leaders on war crimes charges

LONDON (AFP) - Former Malaysian prime minister Mahathir Mohamad called here Friday for an international tribunal to try Western leaders with war crimes over the war in Iraq, a spokesman for the organisers said.
04 26 2008 1:36PM (...more)

Malaysian Islamic party to protest rocker Lavigne concert

KUALA LUMPUR (AFP) - Malaysia 's conservative Islamic party has said it will mount protests at Canadian rocker Avril Lavigne 's concert here Friday, after failing to have it banned.
08 28 2008 4:09AM (...more)

Protest in Kashmir over youth killings

SRINAGAR, India (Reuters) – Protests erupted in Kashmir on Sunday over the killing of two Muslim youth in a shooting incident blamed on the army, police and witnesses said. Authorities have ordered a probe into the deaths which
02 25 2009 9:48PM (...more)

Dutch lawmaker: UK trip is a win for free speech

LONDON – Anti-Islamic Dutch lawmaker Geert Wilders returned to Britain on Friday — eight months after being turned away by authorities at 10 29 2009 2:40AM (...more)

Pakistani Christians Speak Out at the United Nations

Last week the Human Rights Council of the United Nations meeting finished with several new decisions taking place reaching from Palestine and Sudan problems. But
10 15 2009 5:41AM (...more)

Al-Qaida branch claims Mauritania suicide bombing

NOUAKCHOTT, Mauritania – Al-Qaida's North African branch claimed responsibility Tuesday for a suicide bombing outside the French Embassy in Mauritania 's capital. Al-Qaida in 08 20 2009 3:37PM (...more)