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Political levers lock into gear early in election year - From article.wn.com - 3 hrs 1 mts ago CAIRO — Egypt’s parliamentary elections are still months away, but the arrests have already started. Related Times Topic: Egypt The authorities have locked up hundreds of members of the Muslim Brotherhood, a routine signal that votes will soon be counted. However, what is different this year is that the arrests have begun much earlier than in years past, that they are aimed at a large number of the group’s leaders and that they follow a series of steps by the national leadership to limit the development of a strong political opposition, said independent analysts, human rights groups and members of the Brotherhood. “We see this as a continuation or intensification of a...

Israel to limit worshippers at jerusalem mosque - From www.khaleejtimes.com - 3 day 4 hrs 17 mts ago JERUSALEM - Israeli police said they would bar Muslim men under the age of 50 from prayers on Friday at Jerusalems Al-Aqsa mosque compound, one of Islams holiest sites, fearing clashes.

Egypts top cleric dies aged 81 - From news.bbc.co.uk - 4 day 4 hrs 57 mts ago Egypts top Muslim cleric has died suddenly in Saudi Arabia at the age of 81.

Egypts al azhar leader dies in saudi arabia - From article.wn.com - 4 day 4 hrs 58 mts ago Shaikh Mohamed Sayed Tantawi, the head of Egypts most prestigious seat of Islamic learning al-Azhar, died of a heart attack on Wednesday on a visit to Saudi Arabia, religious officials at Al Azhar said. He was 81. Mohamed Wasel, Tantawis deputy, will temporarily take charge of the Sunni Muslim institution until Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak appoints a new head. Wasel has been heading al-Azhars committee for inter-faith dialogue. Al-Azhar, which runs schools, universities and other educational...

Egypts top muslim cleric dies of heart attack - From article.wn.com - 5 day 1 hrs 21 mts ago CAIRO – Egypts state-owned news agency says the countrys top Muslim cleric has died of a heart attack during a visit to...

Lessons from iraqs first - From article.wn.com - 5 day 1 hrs 21 mts ago By Hugh Sykes BBC News, Baghdad In 2006 and 2007, Osama Salim didnt miss a single days school at Baghdad College for boys. That was quite an achievement. Baghdad College is in Adhamiya, a largely Sunni Muslim district of Baghdad which for months was occupied and menaced by al Qaeda in Iraq. Theyve gone now but the memory of those days is still vivid. IRAQI GENERAL ELECTION Voting to elect 325-member parliament. About 19 million eligible voters out of 28 million Around 6,200 candidates from 86 factions competing 200,000 security personnel on duty in Baghdad Key issues: Security, services and disqualification of alleged Baathists Previous votes: Jan 2005 (transitional national assembly),...

Influential muslim women through the ages - From news.google.com - 5 day 5 hrs 55 mts ago border=1

elan: The Guide to Global Muslim Culture Influential Muslim Women Through the Ageselan: The Guide to Global Muslim Culture... Influential People of 2009, who was recently appointed as the first woman minister in Saudi Arabias history (Deputy Minister for Womens Education). ...and more »

Clashes erupt at sacred compound in jerusalem - From www.khaleejtimes.com - 9 day 2 hrs 8 mts ago JERUSALEM - Clashes erupted Friday between Muslim worshippers and Israeli riot police at a sacred and disputed hilltop compound following a sermon on a recent Israeli decision to include two West Bank shrines on a list of national heritage sites.

Turkey: us genocide vote endangers caucasus peace - From article.wn.com - 9 day 10 hrs 16 mts ago Saturday, March 06, 2010 - Powered by Zerin Elci Reuters ANKARA: Turkey said on Friday chances of its Parliament ratifying peace protocols with Armenia were jeopardized by a US congressional panel vote that labeled the massacre of Armenians by Ottoman Turks in 1915 as “genocide.” Turkey and its fellow Muslim ally, Azerbaijan, saw the US vote undermining efforts to stabilize the South Caucasus, a volatile region with pipelines taking oil and gas to the West. “This decision will not bring peace to the Caucasus,” Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu told a news conference hours after Turkey recalled its ambassador from Washington. Turkish leaders reacted with...

Bahrain shia demand cabinet change - From article.wn.com - 10 day 3 hrs 59 mts ago Bahrains largest Shia parliamentary group is demanding the cabinet be chosen by its elected parliament, and not appointed by the king. The al-Wefaq bloc, which holds 17 of 40 seats in the assembly, added that the power sharing envisioned in Bahrains constitution of 2002 had not yet been sufficiently implemented. Khalil al-Marzooq, the opposition al-Wefaq spokesman, told journalists on Thursday that the national charter that 98.4 per cent of people voted for [in 2002] clearly states that Bahrain is transferring into a constitutional monarchy. Bahrains citizens are predominantly Shia Muslim...

Turkey warns us against genocide bill - From article.wn.com - 13 day 4 hrs 1 mts ago ANKARA - Turkey warned on Monday relations with its ally the United States would be damaged if a U.S. congressional panel votes this week to label a World War One-era massacre of Armenians by Turkish forces as genocide. The Armenian issue has poisoned ties between NATO member Turkey and the United States in the past. In 2007, Ankara recalled its ambassador to Washington for consultations after a U.S. panel approved a similar bill. Muslim Turkey accepts...

Israeli police out in force after al - From article.wn.com - 14 day 4 hrs 26 mts ago JERUSALEM (AFP) – Israeli police stepped up security around the Al-Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem on Monday after several people were wounded in clashes in and around the fiercely contested holy site. We have deployed reinforcements inside the Old City and will continue to limit access to the Temple Mount to Muslim men over the age of 50 as well as women, Jerusalem police spokesman Shmulik Ben Rubi told AFP, referring to the site by its Jewish name. The compound will also be open to tourists like any normal day, he...

Palestinian pm prays at mosque in israel heritage row - From article.wn.com - 17 day 42 mts ago HEBRON, West Bank (AFP) – Palestinian prime minister Salam Fayyad prayed at the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron on Friday amid a fifth straight day of clashes in the West Bank town over Israels adding the shrine to a national heritage list. Young protestors threw stones at Israeli troops in the town centre as Fayyad joined the main weekly Muslim prayers at the site which is also holy to Jews, an AFP correspondent reported. We are all Hebronites, Fayyad declared after the prayers. The Palestinian people understand...

Iranian rebel admits us links - From article.wn.com - 17 day 42 mts ago An alleged member of a Sunni Muslim group fighting the Iranian government has said in a televised confession that his group received help from the United States. Abdolmalek Rigi, the leader of Jundallah, said on state-run TV on Friday that Iranian authorities had detained him on his way to a meeting with a high-ranking American person in Kyrgyzstan. Rigi was reportedly seizedafter Iranian warplanes forced a flight from Dubai to Kyrygzstan to land at an Iranian airport. They [Americans] said they would co-operate with us and will give me military equipment, Rigi said in Farsi in the prerecorded...

Israel says heritage plan will not harm muslim prayer - From www.khaleejtimes.com - 17 day 6 hrs 41 mts ago JERUSALEM - Israel said on Thursday its plan to rehabilitate Jewish shrines in the occupied West Bank, which has drawn Palestinian and Western criticism, will not affect Muslim worshippers or change the status quo.

Iran arrests sunni rebel leader rigi: state tv - From www.khaleejtimes.com - 20 day 8 hrs 49 mts ago Iran arrested Abdolmalek Rigi, the leader of Sunni Muslim rebel group Jundollah, on Tuesday, state television reported. Rigi was arrested in eastern Iran, a source told Arabic language al Alam television.

Iran arrests leader of sunni militants jundullah - From article.wn.com - 20 day 11 hrs 8 mts ago Iranian authorities have arrested the leader of the Sunni Muslim militant group Jundullah, according to reports on state television. The...

Ri ambassador to qatar, nu figure rozy munir dies at 67 - From news.google.com - 20 day 11 hrs 8 mts ago border=1

Peninsula On-line RI Ambassador to Qatar, NU figure Rozy Munir dies at 67Jakarta PostIndonesian Ambassador to Qatar Rozy Munir, a leading figure in the countrys largest Muslim organization, Nahdlatul Ulama (NU), and a former minister during ...Indonesian envoy deadPeninsula On-lineall 2 news articles »

Iran arrests sunni militant - From news.bbc.co.uk - 20 day 12 hrs 31 mts ago The authorities in Iran arrest Abdolmalek Rigi, the leader of Sunni Muslim militant group Jundullah, say reports on state TV.

Gunmen slaughter iraqi families, behead victims - From article.wn.com - 21 day 3 hrs 20 mts ago Gunmen murdered two Iraqi families, mostly children, beheading some of the victims and killing 12 people on Monday, less than two weeks before elections. Nine children were among those killed in their homes in and around Baghdad, while 11 other people died in violence across Iraq, including three in a suicide car bombing and a police commando who was shot dead by a sniper. The worst incident occurred in Al-Wehdah, a predominantly Shiite Muslim town in an ethnically-mixed area about 20 kilometres (12 miles) southeast of Baghdad. Eight members of the...

Elections of kmca qatar held - From news.google.com - 21 day 13 hrs 25 mts ago Elections of KMCA Qatar heldSahilOnlineQatar: Saquib Raza Khan of Mangalore was unanimously elected as the President of Karnataka Muslim Cultural Association (KMCA), Doha Qatar. ...and more »

Senior sunni lawmakers party to boycott iraq vote - From www.khaleejtimes.com - 22 day 14 hrs 9 mts ago BAGHDAD - A prominent Sunni Muslim politician banned from running in Iraqs parliamentary vote next month has withdrawn his party from the ballot, a spokesman said on Saturday, calling on others to join the boycott.

Islamic finance eyes new regions - From www.khaleejtimes.com - 24 day 9 hrs 58 mts ago MANAMA - Muslim countries in Central Asia and Indonesia are seen as the next growth areas for the Islamic finance industry after hopes of expansion into Western markets faded and Gulf Arab markets remain fragmented.

With steel and asphalt, bridge helps seal baghdads division - From article.wn.com - 24 day 11 hrs 4 mts ago BAGHDAD - On a bend in the Tigris where caliphs summered when Baghdad was the City of Peace, the pontoons came first. Steel and asphalt followed. Now, two years on, the Greihat Bridge, a gesture of wartime expediency, has become permanent, traversing the river, joining two Shiite Muslim neighborhoods and, some fear, going too far. The footbridges rationale is mundane: to carry Shiites from Greihat to the sacred, gold-leafed shrine in Kadhimiya, bypassing routes through Sunni neighborhoods. Its symbolism is momentous, though. Traffic is already channeled around sectarian fault lines. Blast walls besiege every neighborhood. But the Greihat Bridge, just 15 feet across and 575 feet long, is...

Lafarge malayan, qatar islamic, pakistan: islamic bond alert - From news.google.com - 26 day 15 hrs 1 mts ago Lafarge Malayan, Qatar Islamic, Pakistan: Islamic Bond AlertBusinessWeekNews: {LMC MK CN }) QATAR ISLAMIC BANK SAQ: The Gulf states biggest lender that complies with Muslim banking rules hired HSBC Holdings Plc and Credit ...

President obama addresses the us - From news.google.com - 28 day 12 hrs 1 mts ago President Obama Addresses the US-Islamic World ForumFOXNews (blog)President Obama spoke via video conference to the US-Islamic World Forum in Doha, Qatar today. The President built on his speech to the Muslim world last ...President Obama to Announce Special Envoy to Muslim WorldABC News (blog)Call to wage war on illiteracy in Islamic worldPeninsula On-linePresident L-DopaBig Government (blog)Huffington Post (blog) -BusinessWeek -Peninsula On-lineall 283 news articles »

Obama names u.s. envoy to muslim world body - From www.khaleejtimes.com - 28 day 14 hrs 42 mts ago DOHA - U.S. President Barack Obama said on Saturday he was naming a special envoy to a top Islamic body to further Washingtons cooperation with the Muslim world.

Obama names us envoy to muslim world body - From www.khaleejtimes.com - 28 day 14 hrs 42 mts ago DOHA - U.S. President Barack Obama said on Saturday named a new special envoy to a top Islamic body to deepen Washingtons cooperation with the Muslim world.

Egypt coptic murder trial opens - From news.bbc.co.uk - 28 day 14 hrs 43 mts ago A court in Egypt adjourns the trial of three Muslim men charged with killing six Coptic Christians and a policeman.

Qatars inflation may hit 5 pct in 2010 - From news.google.com - 30 day 11 hrs 26 mts ago border=1

AFP Qatars inflation may hit 5 pct in 2010-agencyInteractive InvestorDOHA, Feb 13 (Reuters) - Inflation in Qatar could reach up to 5 percent in 2010 due to the improvement in the global economy, the Gulf states central bank ...Obamas bid to boost ties with Muslims heads for QatarAFPEmir congratulates Ahmadinejad on Iranian National DayPeninsula On-lineWashington prepares to retrieve support in the Arab and Muslim worldArab Monitorall 19 news articles »

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