« Previous Entries

mosque

Mosque blasts in Pakistan’s NW kills at least 71 (Reuters)

November 5th, 2010

Pashtun men dig graves for victims of the Waali Mosque suicide bomb attack, in Darra Adam Khel, a tribal region in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province November 5, 2010. REUTERS/K. ParvezReuters - Two explosions killed at least 71 people in mosques in Pakistan’s northwest on Friday, officials said, after a relative lull in militant violence.


Tags: least, blasts, kills, Pakistan’s, mosque,…

Police say bombing of mosque in Pakistan kills 2 (AP)

October 22nd, 2010

US special envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan Richard Holbrooke, seen here on October 18. The United States is looking to expand support for Pakistan in high-level talks, but also encouraging its frontline partner to do more after a string of disputes on how to fight Islamic extremism.(AFP/File/Andreas Solaro)AP - Police say a bomb has exploded in a mosque in northwest Pakistan, killing at least two people.


Tags: police, bomb, mosque, bombing, northwest, kills, Pakistan, mosque in pakistan

…

Ahmadinejad heads to border with Israel (AP)

October 14th, 2010

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad waves to the crowds from the sunroof of his SUV, upon his arrival in Beirut, Lebanon, Wednesday, Oct. 13, 2010. Thousands of cheering Lebanese welcomed Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to Lebanon on Wednesday, throwing rose petals and sweets at his motorcade at the start of a visit that underscores deep divisions within this tiny Arab nation. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Tawil)AP - Hezbollah supporters used mosque loudspeakers Thursday to rally crowds ahead of a trip by Iran’s president to southern Lebanon near the border with Israel, a visit the U.S.…

Pastor nixes Quran-burning, claims NYC mosque deal (AP)

September 9th, 2010

Imam Muhammad Musri of the Islamic Society of Central Florida, right, speaks to the media as Pastor Terry Jones of the Dove World Outreach Center looks, Thursday, Sept. 9, 2010, in Gainesville, Fla. (AP Photo/Phil Sandlin)AP - The anti-Muslim leader of a tiny Florida church backed off his threat to burn the Quran, defusing an international firestorm Thursday after he said he was promised that a…

Fla. imam: No deal to move NYC mosque (AP)

September 9th, 2010

Dove World Outreach Center church pastor Terry Jones announces the burning of the Korans will continue as planned during a news conference in Gainesville, Florida September 8, 2010. REUTERS/Scott AudetteAP - A Florida imam says that no deal has been reached to move the site of a mosque at the site of ground zero in exchange for a Florida…

Police: Attack on Pakistan minority mosque kills 1 (AP)

September 3rd, 2010

Displaced flood victims, without tents, from various villages of Ghotki gather next to the Indus river banks at Ghotki, 65 km (40 miles) from Sukkur, in Pakistan's Sindh province September 3, 2010. Severe flooding in Pakistan has destroyed cropland and livestock and displaced millions of people, causing damage the government has estimated at $43 billion, or almost one quarter of the South Asian nation's 2009/10 gross domestic product (GDP). REUTERS/Athar Hussain (PAKISTAN - Tags: DISASTER ENVIRONMENT)AP - A suicide attack on a mosque belonging to a minority sect killed at least one person and wounded several others in northwest Pakistan on Friday, police said.


Tags: Pakistan,…

NY mosque imam: extremism is global threat (AP)

August 20th, 2010

Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, left, executive director of the Cordoba Initiative, greets an unidentified worshiper inside a Muharraq, Bahrain, mosque after leading midday prayers Friday, Aug. 20, 2010. Rauf, the imam leading plans for an Islamic center near the site of the Sept. 11 attacks on New York, is on a U.S.-funded outreach tour to Bahrain, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates to talk about religious tolerance in America. (AP Photo/Hasan Jamali)AP - The imam leading plans for an Islamic center near the Manhattan site of the Sept. 11 attacks said Friday that extremism poses a security threat in both the…

NY mosque imam in Mideast for outreach tour (AP)

August 19th, 2010

FILE - This May 25, 2010, file photo shows Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, executive director of the Cordoba Initiative, addressing a gathering as groups planning a proposed Islamic center, including a mosque, two blocks from the World Trade Center site to be named Cordoba House showed and spoke about their plans for the center at a community board meeting in New York. The New York imam and his proposed mosque near ground zero are being swiftly demonized by some campaigning Republicans, without regard to facts like these: Islam is already very much a part of the World Trade Center neighborhood. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)AP - The imam leading plans for an Islamic center near the Manhattan site of the Sept. 11 attacks began a U.S.-funded outreach tour of the Middle East Thursday to…

Mosque once used by Sept. 11 attackers shut down (AP)

August 9th, 2010

AP - A Hamburg mosque once frequented by some of the Sept. 11 attackers was shut down Monday because German authorities believe the prayer house was again being used as…

Police detain 40 after Iran mosque bombing (AP)

July 17th, 2010

An unidentified woman injured during Zahedan's Thursday bomb blasts sits in a hospital at the city of Zahedan, 940 miles (1570 kilometers) southeast of the capital Tehran, Iran, Friday, July 16, 2010. A Sunni insurgent group said it carried out a double suicide bombing against a Shiite mosque in southeast Iran to avenge the execution of its leader, as Iranian authorities Friday said the death toll rose to 27 people, including members of the elite Revolutionary Guard. (AP Photo/Fars News Agency, Ali Azimzadeh)AP - Iranian police arrested 40 people following the devastating bombings of a mosque in the country’s southeast as funerals were under way for the victims, local media reported on…

PAGE 1 of 212