Thursday February 22, 2007
Islam: The government today dismissed calls from Britain’s leading Islamic group for schools to do more to accommodate Muslim pupils who want to wear a headscarf or grow a beard.
Islam: A 12-year-old Muslim girl today lost her high court challenge to her school’s ban on wearing the niqab full-face veil.
Islam: Islamic extremists’ internet use is a challenge to all Western intelligence agencies and New Zealand cannot let its guard down, the Security Intelligence Service has warned.
Islam: The war on terror has radicalised Muslims around the world to unprecedented levels of anti-US feeling, according to the largest survey of Islamic believers ever to be conducted.
Wednesday February 21, 2007
Islam: UK schools will be urged today to allow Muslim girls to wear headscarves for all lessons to promote better integration of Muslim pupils into the state sector.
Islam: The senior Muslim peer, Lord Ahmed of Rotherham, has condemned the wearing of the veil in Britain as “a barrier to integration” and called for an end to their use.
Islam: Mohammed Riaz made every conceivable attempt to prevent his wife and daughters enjoying their Westernised lifestyle. In the end he resorted to murder.
Islam: The jury in the trial of six men accused of plotting suicide bombings in London on July 21, 2005, were shown footage on Tuesday of what prosecutors said was one of the suspects escaping in a burka after the failed attacks.
Monday February 19, 2007
Islam: Most people believe common ground exists between the West and the Islamic world despite current global tensions, a BBC World Service poll suggests.
Islam • Tablighi Jamaat: The group behind the plans is Tablighi Jamaat, a Muslim missionary sect whose charitable trust, Anjuman-e-Islahul Muslimeen, has owned the 18-acre site since 1996. Tablighi Jamaat was called “an ante-chamber for fundamentalism” by French security services. Two of the July 7 London suicide bombers are believed to have attended one of its mosques.
Islam • Israel: An Israeli archaeologist said the site of an archaeological dig outside a disputed holy compound in Jerusalem might contain a Muslim prayer room, and the work drew renewed condemnation Sunday.
Islam: Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to the Netherlands complained to a senior Dutch diplomat about recent remarks by a prominent politician critical of Muslim immigrants and Islam, the Dutch Foreign Ministry said Sunday.
Thursday February 15, 2007
Islam: Dutch MP Geert Wilders was threatened with a suicide attack last week. Two young men reportedly planned to shoot the politician down and detonate a van full of explosives next to the politician.
Wednesday February 14, 2007
Islam: If Muslims want to stay in the Netherlands, they should tear out half the Koran and throw it away. And they shouldn’t listen to the imam. Faction leader of the Freedom Party (PVV) Geert Wilders said this in an interview with daily newspaper De Pers on Tuesday.
Islam: A poem in which a Muslim woman lauds the wearing of the hijab and suggests those who fear her are godless people who’ve led lives of debauchery, has sparked angry reaction in Quebec.
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Islam is a diverse religion with sects ranging from liberal to ultra-conservative. The media often roughly divides Muslims in those who follow a so-called ‘moderate Islam’ from those who condone, promote and/or engage in acts of violence and terrorism on behalf of Islam.
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The vast majority of Muslims are people who have been born into the religion. Leaving Islam — in favor of another religion or of atheism — is difficult, as those who do so usually are rejected by family, friends and the larger community. In Islam, apostasy is punishable by imprisonment or death.
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