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Expat Muslims Hampered By Language Barriers When a Muslim attends Friday prayer at a mosque, he also expects to hear a khutbah (Friday sermon) on issues concerning Islam. But in Saudi Arabia, all mosques deliver the khutbah in Arabic which many expat Muslims don’t understand. Expat Muslims are thus hampered by language barriers when trying to understand [...] All People To Practice Faith Openly With a clarion call delivered from a Vatican document, Pope Benedict XVI called for all states to guarantee religious freedom – which in other words, for all people to “practice their faith publicly”. In the document, Pope Benedict XVI said the Catholic Church respected all religions and recommitted the Vatican’s stance [...] Islam Will Be No. 1 Religion In Whole Of Europe Is it possible that Europe – a continent with majority of Christians – will turn Islamic over the next 5 to 10 years? For now, this scenario seems unthinkable as Europe has a rich history that is deeply entrenched with Christianity, and Muslims represents only 5 per [...] The Planted Seeds Of Hypocrisy Prominent Iraqi scholar Sayyid Ahmed al Qabbanji said, in a recent Ramadan lecture graced by the Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed, that the taking on of a fundamentalist view of Islam can only produce ignorance, intolerance of others and ultimately, terrorism. This is because the fundamentalist view focuses on [...] The Threats That The Kerala Engineer Received The Kerala High Court has directed the police to provide protection to Rayana R Kazi, a Muslim engineering graduate, who complained that, since she returned from her engineering course in Chennai in June 2009, she had been getting anonymous letters and threatening calls for not wearing a headscarf and observing [...] The Case Involving Jill Ireland Lawrence Bill The Malaysian government lost a case against The Herald, a publication of the Roman Catholic Church, when High Court Judge Lau Bee Lan ruled that Islam does not have exclusive use of the word “Allah” and thus The Herald newspaper is free to use that term to refer to their God. [...] The Young Imam Show A televised search for Malaysia’s most eligible young Muslim leader has caught the country by storm. Following closely to the modus operandi of the “American Idol” and Britain’s “The X Factor”, Malaysia’s “Imam Muda” or “Young Imam” is a different spin and features ten good-looking male contestants aged between 18 and 27, including [...] Council of Europe’s Resolution And Its Implications Just as countries in Europe are rushing one after the other to ban the wearing of full-face veils in public, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe has unanimously passed a resolution warning that governments that do so would be denying women “who genuinely and freely desire to do [...] |
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