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TOPEKA, Kan. -- Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback has signed a law aimed at keeping the state's courts or government agencies from basing decisions on Islamic or other foreign legal codes, and a national Muslim group's spokesman said Friday that a court ...
May 26, 2012 at 00:10 | Source: Huffington Post
— Waterbury's Muslim population has "exploded" in the past 10 years, according to Naveed Khan, who worships with about 500 other people at the Islamic American Society of Connecticut. The society's new home, under construction on Schraffts ...
May 27, 2012 at 00:45 | Source: Hartford Courant
The Islamic Development Bank and the Asian Development Bank agreed to a $133 million financing plan to develop two wind projects in Pakistan as the nation seeks new renewable sources to overcome power shortages. Pakistan’s Fauji Foundation ...
May 23, 2012 at 02:08 | Source: Businessweek
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria — In brutally poor neighborhoods and mansions alike, this city choked by military checkpoints seethes with rumors, paranoia and conspiracy theories. Even academics like to assert a favorite: The homegrown Islamic extremist ...
May 27, 2012 at 03:22 | Source: Los Angeles Times
BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — The two rebel groups that seized control of the northern half of Mali announced Saturday that they had agreed to formally merge their movements, a leader who signed the agreement said. The leader, Alghabass Ag Intalla of ...
May 27, 2012 at 03:51 | Source: New York Times
JAKARTA -- Pop diva Lady Gaga's show in Indonesia has been canceled, her promoters said Sunday, after Islamic hardliners threatened "chaos" if she entered the world's most populous Muslim-majority nation. "Lady Gaga's management has considered the ...
May 27, 2012 at 05:17 | Source: New York Post
Yes, if she is in that country, she should respect their ways. No, she has just as much right to her own religious beliefs as they do. AMMAN, Jordan — A Christian Jordanian woman said Sunday she is suing her Gulf Arab employer for arbitrary ...
May 27, 2012 at 13:17 | Source: New York Daily News
KANSAS CITY, Kansas (Reuters) - Kansas lawmakers have passed legislation intended to prevent the state courts or agencies from using Islamic or other non-U.S. laws in making decisions, a measure critics have blasted as an embarrassment to the state.
May 25, 2012 at 21:26 | Source: YAHOO!
Thousands of Muslims are expected to attend a convention in the city this weekend sponsored by the Islamic Circle of North America with the goal of promoting religious tolerance and fighting "Islamophobia." The group, a New York City-based ...
May 26, 2012 at 03:31 | Source: Hartford Courant