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Islam, Abortion, and the Stupak Amendment
Tehrān :: Iran | 13 days ago
Credibility
The national health care debate has taken on crystalline characteristics, refracting the light of American political tensions in a dozen different directions. Partisans of class, race, and immigration politics have been galvanized by myriad issues--real...
Tags: Shia Muslims, Elijah Muhammad, Sunni Islam, Catholic Church, stupak amendment, U.S, Iran, Tehrān
Targeting Muslim Charities in America
Tehrān :: Iran | 15 days ago
Credibility In a December 2008 article, this writer explained that the Texas-based Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development (HLF) was the largest American Muslim charity until the Bush administration bogusly declared it an enemy of the state and shut it down.
Tags: American Muslims, Muslims and Islam, Council on American Islamic, Shia Muslims, Islamic Republic....Iran, US Muslims, Alavi Foundation, Muslim Charities, Treasury Department, muslims charity, Iran, Tehrān, Muslim Brotherhood, Islam in the United States, Global Relief Foundation, Ghassan Elashi, Charitable organization, Politics, Covert organizations, Hamas, Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development, Religion Belief
Yemen suspends offensive on northern rebels
Say'ūn :: Yemen | 3 months ago
Credibility The commission supervising operation Scorched Earth, which began in August, said on Friday that Sana'a "sees no problem in suspending military operations from 9:00 pm (1800 GTM)." The decision comes shortly after the military said three rebel leaders...
Tags: Yemeni Army, Yemen Post, Saada Province, Shia Muslims, Shiite, saada provinces, rebels leaders, Shia Houthi, shiite rebels, Shias
27 killed as Baghdad Shiite mosques bombed
Baghdad :: Iraq | 4 months ago
Credibility A string of bomb attacks targeting Shiite Muslim worshippers as they emerged from mosques across Baghdad on Friday killed 27 people and wounded more than 50, security officials said. The six apparently coordinated blasts occurred outside mosques and prayer...
Tags: Baghdad, Iraqi, Shia Muslims, Shiite Muslim, shia mosque, mosque bombs, car bombs
Leader calls Muslims to unity, vigilance
Chakwāl :: Pakistan | 7 months ago
Credibility Speaking in the Kurd and Sunni majority province of Kurdestan, Ayatollah Khamenei went on to say that Shias who insult Sunni beliefs, and vice versa, are also working for the interests of world powers and adversaries of Islam. Moderate Sunni and Shia...
Tags: Shia Muslims
Five Shias killed in Pak sectarian attack
Quetta :: Pakistan | 9 months ago
Credibility Two gunmen riding on a motorbike opened fire at the victims, who were travelling in a private car on the eastern by-pass outside Quetta, capital of oil- and gas-rich Baluchistan province which borders Iran and Afghanistan. "All the five men, who were...
Tags: Quetta, Shia Muslims
Deadly blast at Pakistan mosque
Dera Ghāzi Khān :: Pakistan | 10 months ago
Credibility Up to 20 people have been killed and dozens injured in a bomb blast near a Shia mosque in Pakistan's central Punjab province. The explosion occurred on Thursday as worshippers gathered for an evening prayer ceremony in the city of Dera Ghazi Khan. Al...
Tags: Pakistani Taliban, Dera Ghazi Khanof, bomb exploded, Shia Muslims, Shia-Hazara, ite mosque, Punjab, death toll, blast killing, punjab province
Vatican: Annual Muslim-Catholic dialogue conference underway
Rome :: Italy | 11 months ago
Credibility The 11th annual inter-faith dialogue conference organised between the Vatican and the Libyan-based World Islamic Call Society got under way in Rome on Monday. The theme of this year's conference is 'Responsibility of leaders in times of crisis'. Catholic...
Tags: Vatican, Shia Muslims
Middle East: Italian Foreign Minister eyes closer ties with Egypt
Rome :: Italy | about 1 year ago
Credibility Rome, 31 Oct. (AKI) – Italy's Foreign Minister Franco Frattini has called for closer ties between Egypt and the G8 group of the world's most industrialised nations plus Russia. "Italy will take the initiative and invite Egypt to take part in the workings...
Tags: Italy, Shia Muslims
Cleric Reignites Age-Old Sunni-Shiite Disputes
Baghdad :: Iraq | about 1 year ago
Credibility Prominent Egyptian-born scholar, Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi , told Egypt's independent Al- Masry al-Youm daily on Sept. 10 there existed Shiite "attempts to invade the Sunni community with their money and cadres trained to do missionary work in the Sunni...
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