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Mufti says condemning Jews is heresy
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Gaza- of all places- giving aid to Haiti
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Muslims destroying Prophet Ezekiel’s tomb
JPost: Iraq erasing Jewish identity of Prophet Ezekiel from tomb For centuries Jews, Christians and Muslims came to Al-Kifl, a small town south of Baghdad, to visit the tomb of the Prophet Ezekiel and pray. The distinctive Jewish character of the Al-Kifl shrine, namely the Hebrew inscriptions...
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Taking lessons from Malaysian extremists
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Tariq Ramadan defends his views
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Muslims take over synagogue to pray
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Civilian deaths in Gaza under-reported
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Al-Qaradhawi opens ‘Center for Middle Path in Islam’
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Forget the Muslims in China
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The unfathomable enigma of Sultan Malik
From the thirteenth century, intrepid Chinese voyagers had an almost complete map of Southeast Asia. Invariably, the names they gave to places were direct transliterations. Thus, Singapore, which was once known as Pulau Ujong, was called Puluozhong. The long, jungle-covered island of Sumatra,...
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