LONDON --A Muslim man who was so hungry while fasting during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan that he killed a swan to eat was jailed for two months at a court in Britain Wednesday.
Tens of thousands of protesters denounced Pope Benedict XVI as an enemy of Islam at a rally that highlighted the deep strains in Turkey before hosting the pontiff this week.
CAIRO • Al Azhar University, the preeminent academic institution in the Sunni Muslim world, repudiated Egypt’s culture minister yesterday for objecting to the growing practice of women wearing the veil.
Ms Azmi's lawyers said they were unaware of the decision to sack her A Muslim classroom assistant suspended by a school for wearing a veil in lessons has been sacked.
RIYADH, 22 November 2006 — A presenter from King Saud University at an international medical seminar at the King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center caused a stir yesterday when he insisted that all women — including medical and media professionals — leave the room before he would enter the room to give his presentation.
CAIRO, Egypt: Nearly 1,000 students protested at a top Egyptian Islamic university on Tuesday against the culture minister after he criticized the Muslim veil, and dozens of lawmakers demanded his removal.
AMMAN, Jordan — A Jordanian accused of opening fire on Western tourists in Amman's Roman amphitheater, killing a Briton and wounding six others, insisted in court Wednesday that God "blessed" him for the attack and said the British are enemies of Islam.
U.S. Muslims outraged after imams kicked off plane
ReutersMuslim leaders expressed outrage on Tuesday after six imams were removed from a commercial airline flight in Minnesota for what they said was nothing more than trying to say evening prayers.
"They were treated like terrorists ... humiliated," said Abu Hannoud, civil rights director for the Arizona chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, who said the men were taken off the US Airways flight in handcuffs.
Copts-United learned from reliable sources that Police Intelligence Major Ahmad Ali Abu-Zeid has arrested two Christians named Amir Gaber Salama and Emad Adly Aziz on a false and fabricated charges in an attempt to silence and pressurize the Christians in the village to accept the last two events of violence against them resulting in the death of a Christian and the severe injury to the other which took place a month earlier. Copts-United will update you with information as they arrive.
قال الدكتور فتحي سرور رئيس مجلس الشعب المصري ان المجلس سوف يستدعي وزير الثقافة فاروق حسني لاستجوابه في جلسة خاصة أمام لجنتي الشؤون الدينية والثقافية، حول تصريحاته المعارضة للحجاب.
طلبت ياسمين، البالغة من العمر 14 عاما، وشقيقتها سندس، البالغة من العمر 11 عاما، وهما من أصول عراقية، طلبتا من مدير مدرستهما، ومن خلال والدهما، تخصيص غرفة لهما لتصليا فيها خلال فسحة اليوم الدراسي.
لكن الامر استغرق عدة أيام حتى تم توفير الغرفة المطلوبة.
وخلال أيام الانتظار قررت ياسمين وسندس وتلميذات أخريات إقامة الصلاة في ساحة المدرسة
A British Airways (BA) employee has lost her fight to openly wear a cross necklace at work at Heathrow. Nadia Eweida, 55, of Twickenham, has been on unpaid leave since her bosses told her she could not visibly wear her cross at the check-in counter.
Eighty Egyptian lawmakers on Sunday called for a parliamentary debate to discuss Culture Minister Farouq Hosni's controversial remarks describing the Islamic veil as regressive, parliamentary sources said.
The Dutch government agreed on Friday a total ban on the wearing of burqas and other Muslim face veils in public, justifying the move on security grounds.
Egypt's largest opposition group, the Muslim Brotherhood, has called for Culture Minister Faruq Hosni to be sacked for saying the wearing of Islamic veils was a "regressive" trend.
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