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A report that Muslims in California have been put under federal surveillance has led to renewed concerns in the American Muslim community that their religious freedom is coming under government pressure.
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In a significant move to tackle growing religious extremism in Britain, four major Muslim groups Thursday published a radical “code of practice” that seeks to involve women in mosque affairs and urges mosques to enforce self-regulation.
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Indian Muslims are demanding the right to pray in nearly 600 historical mosques across the country which are under the control of the central government for archaeological reasons. Muslim leaders say it is high time the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) permitted their community to pray five times a day in all these mosques if it does believe in religious equality.
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Following a speech by President Emomali Rakhmonov stating that three suspected Tajik terrorists have been held by the USA in Guantanamo Bay, the operation of a medressah in Northern Tajikistan is being prevented, 152 mosques were closed down, loudspeakers removed from many and 20 per cent of Imams removed from office.
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Over the past three months, the local authorities in Isfara district of Tajikistan’s northern Sogd region have closed down 33 of the district’s 152 mosques, the chairman of the Isfara branch of the Islamic Revival Party, Abdusator Boboyev, told Keston News Service in the town of Isfara on 10 October. Keston News Service – 21 […]
Questions are being raised over foreign funding of Muslim organisations – and exactly what that money buys. Recent police raids against a number of Arab charities and the arrests of suspected terrorists alerted local and international attention to the resurgence of Islam in Bosnia. And among the questions being raised about the revival is who […]
Julie Harbin is a freelance journalist based in Bosnia.
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