Muslims

Mob in Athens abuses Muslims as they celebrate Eid (Reuters)

November 16th, 2010

Reuters - Dozens of far-right activists and local residents threw eggs and taunted hundreds of Muslim immigrants as they gathered to pray in a central square for Eid al-Adha surrounded…

Targeted by the Taliban, Pakistan’s Sufi Muslims Fight Back (Time.com)

November 12th, 2010

Time.com - A mass movement sees itself as locked in a struggle for the soul of Pakistan, but declines to resort to violence as its enemies have done

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In Indonesia, Obama Reaches Out to Muslims and Business (Time.com)

November 10th, 2010

Time.com - After the “shellacking” Obama and his party took last week in the elections back home, it must have been a welcome relief to be greeted in his former…

Muslims say Obama failing to keep Cairo promises (Reuters)

November 10th, 2010

Reuters - President Barack Obama’s pledge on Wednesday to strive for better relations with the Muslim world drew skepticism in Cairo, where last year he called for a new beginning…

Indian court: Hindus, Muslims must share holy site (AP)

September 30th, 2010

Hindu priests celebrate after hearing the first reports on the court verdict in Ayodhya, India, Thursday, Sept. 30, 2010. An Indian court ruled Thursday that a disputed holy site that has sparked bloody communal riots across the country in the past should be divided between the Hindu and Muslim communities. However, the court gave the Hindu community control over the section where the now demolished Babri Mosque stood and where a small makeshift tent-shrine to the Hindu god Rama rests. While both Muslim and Hindu lawyers vowed to appeal to the Supreme Court, the compromise ruling seemed unlikely to set off a new round of violence, as the government had feared. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh)AP - An Indian court ruled Thursday that a disputed holy site that sparked bloody riots in the past should now be divided between the Hindu and Muslim communities.


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Muslims throng mosques to celebrate end of Ramadan (AP)

September 11th, 2010

Muslims offer Eid al-Fitr prayers at the Ferozshah Kotla mosque in New Delhi, India, Saturday, Sept. 11, 2010. Eid al-Fitr festival marks the end of the Muslim holy fasting month of Ramadan. (AP Photo/Gurinder Osan)AP - Far from the din and controversy roiling interfaith relations in the West, Muslims worldwide thronged mosques, cafes and parks in a solemn and joyful end to the fasting…

Muslims donate nearly $1 billion to Pakistan (AP)

August 29th, 2010

A Pakistani woman displaced by flooding sits on a bed after taking refuge from rising waters on an embankment near the flooded Indus River, near Thatta, Sindh Province, southern Pakistan, Sunday, Aug. 29, 2010. (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer)AP - Muslim countries, organizations and individuals have pledged nearly $1 billion in cash and relief supplies to help Pakistan respond to the worst floods in the nation’s history, the…

2 Muslims jailed 5 years for Malaysia church arson (AP)

August 13th, 2010

AP - A Malaysian court sentenced two Muslim brothers to five years in prison Friday for torching a Christian church during the height of a dispute over whether non-Muslims can…

Bosnia remembers Srebrenica massacre 15 years on (AFP)

July 11th, 2010

A Bosnian woman mourns over coffins of newly identified victims of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre during preparation for mass burial at the Potocari memorial cemetery near Srebrenica, on July 10. More than 775 bodies found in mass grave sites in eastern Bosnia will be reburied on 15th anniversary of the massacre.(AFP/Dimitar Dilkoff)AFP - Tens of thousands on Sunday mark 15 years since the Srebrenica massacre of nearly 8,000 Muslims by Bosnian Serbs, the darkest episode of the violent break-up of Yugoslavia.


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Culture clash: European art provokes Muslims (AP)

March 14th, 2010

Swedish artist Lars Vilks talks during an interview with the Associated Press in Stockholm, Sweden, Wednesday March 10 2010. The Swedish artist who angered Muslims by drawing the Prophet Muhammad with the body of a dog says he believes the suspects arrested in Ireland and the U.S.  in an alleged plot to kill him were not professionals . (AP photo/Scanpix, Bertil Ericson)AP - With the West locked in conflicts across the Muslim world, why would anyone throw fuel on the fire?


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