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More than 43,000 Malaysians have protested online over a court ruling allowing a Malay-language Catholic newspaper to use the word Allah to describe the Christian God.
Muslim Voices New Podcast Episode! Rosemary Pennington talks to Sarah Thompson of Noblesville, Indiana, who converted from Christianity to Islam.
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Converting to a new religion is never an easy thing. Things can be even more complicated for non-Muslim women who convert to Islam … most of the time.
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A 28-year-old Somalia man was armed with an axe and a knife when he entered Kurt Westergaard's home, police said. The intruder, who reportedly has ties to a Somali terrorist group, was shot in the knee. Westergaard caused outrage in the Muslim world for his cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad.
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German investigators have dropped a probe into a policeman who shot an Egyptian trying to stop his pregnant wife being stabbed to death in a courtroom in July, a spokesman for prosecutors said Wednesday. ...
Muslim Voices This calls back to a story from a few months back when Malaysia was pulling Christian Bibles out of bookstores and libraries that used the word "Allah" in the place of "God".
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The BBC's Jennifer Pak in Kuala Lumpur said some Muslim groups suspect the Catholic Church is seeking to encourage Muslims to convert to Christianity - a move which is illegal in Malaysia.
Muslim Voices In light of the suicide bombing of an Ashura procession in Karachi, Pakistan, Muslim Voices writes about why there seem to be so many clashes on this holy day.
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The term Shia has political origins, meaning “party of Ali” or “supporters of Ali”. So when Hussein challenged Muawiya’s legitimacy to Ali’s former...
Muslim Voices Iran's deputy police chief said Ali Mousavi - nephew of the opposition leader - was assassinated by unidentified assailants and not killed by security forces.
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Tens of thousands of hard-line government supporters turned out for state-sponsored rallies Wednesday, some of them calling for the execution of opposition leaders as Iran's police chief threatened to show
Muslim Voices Listen to blogger and civil rights attorney Arsalan Iftikhar talk about "jihadi-cool" and politically disenfranchised youths' desire to become "thugs". From NPR's Tell Me More.
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A branch of Al-Qaeda clamed responsibility for the foiled bombing attack of Detroit-bound Delta Airlines Flight on Christmas Day. The Al-Qaeda offshoot at the center of the controversy is based in Yemen. ...
Muslim Voices Check out this Michigan-based Muslim organization that is protesting the use of violence in the name of Islam.
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Muslim Voices Guest blogger Yvonne Maffei writes about the Arab influences on Sicilian cuisine, and how she used food to talk to her non-Muslim family about Islam. Great read!
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Years ago as a new Muslim, I began cooking up my family’s traditional dishes, now with halal meat and ingredients. By inviting our non-Muslim family to...
Muslim Voices Interesting article - It seems there is a lot of trouble stirred up by requiring religious affiliation on identification cards.
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She is very young, only about three years old, and branding the blue cross onto the girl's inside wrist brings a piercing shrill scream.
Muslim Voices New Podcast Episode! This week is an interview with one of the two Muslim politicians in the U.S. House of Representatives.
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André Carson said the fact he was a Muslim never turned into a negative, but he did have to face opponents who attempted to tap into some of the fears and...
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Live blogging on Iran violence. http://bit.ly/7MRHLa
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"On Saturday night in Tehran, members of a pro-government militia broke
into a mosque where former President Mohammad Khatami, a reformist
leader, was speaking, forcing him to break off before concluding his
remarks."
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Basij and plain cloth attacking mourners at Khatami's speech in Jamaaran (House of Ayatollah Khomeini). Taasua 27 Dec. 2009 اعضای گروهک فشار در شب عاشورای حسینی با فریادهای حیدر حیدر , ابوالفضل علمدار ...
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The police opened fire on protesters, killing at least four people, including a nephew of the opposition leader, as demonstrators flooded the streets, according to witnesses and opposition Web sites.
