President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama are on their way to Fort Hood, the U.S.'s largest military base, for an afternoon service today. Fort Hood's Soldier Readiness Center was the scene of a massacre last Thursday, as Major Nadil Malik Hasan appeared to stage a one-man war against the military.
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The personal Web site for Anwar al Awlaki, a radical American imam, who had contact with two of the Sept. 11 hijackers lauds alleged Fort Hood shooter Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan as a hero. Anwar al Awlaki was a spiritual leader at two mosques where three of the Sept. 11 hijackers worshipped.
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As the Muslim community reels over the Fort Hood shootings committed by Major Nadil Malik Hasan, a devout Muslim, news emerges over a Kent, Conn. 9-11 memorial which has been derailed. The reason is that the father of the victim insists the memorial says his son was murdered by "Muslim terrorists."
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In the wake of the Fort Hood tragedy, in which Major Nidal Malik Hasan shot and killed 13 and wounded 30, Muslims around the U.S. brace for fallout. With his cry of 'Allahu Akbar,' which means "God is Great" in Arabic, Hasan set the stage for possible retribution against Muslims in the U.S.
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There was a time when parents tried to teach their kids acceptance. Gainesville, FL high school students have been sent home over the last few days for wearing t-shirts with the phrase “Islam is of the Devil” on teh back. The children wearing the shirts belong to the Dove World Outreach Center, an evangelical “New Testament Church.”
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One can hardly imagine a fundamemtalist Muslim woman being able to swim at all, because how could one do so in a burqa? One woman tried, however, wearing a head-to-toe "burquini," but was summarily shown the exit when she did so.
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Violence erupted today during a protest of a law passed last month in Afghanistan that has several affects, one of which is regulating when and why a wife may leave her home alone. But the more controversial portion of the law, which many say constitutes marital rape, states that a husband can demand sex with his wife every four days unless she is ill or would be harmed by intercourse.
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Taliban gunmen in the remote district of Khash Rod in southern Afghanistan executed a young couple for trying to elope, Hashim Noorzai, head of Khash Rud district of Nimroz province said Tuesday.
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Hundreds of thousands of Muslim pilgrims are performing the ritual "stoning of the Devil," Monday, at Muzdalifa, outside of Mecca, in one of the high points of the annual Hajj. Pilgrims will also sacrifice a lamb to mark the day Muslims call Eid al- Adha, or "Feast of the Sacrifice."
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Pilgrims pray during Friday prayers inside the Grand mosque in Mecca, 05 Dec 2008. Millions of Muslims from all over the world are taking their first steps in the annual Hajj pilgrimage. Officials in Saudi Arabia say 2.5 million Muslims have come to the holy city of Mecca for the start of the annual rite Saturday.
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Indian Muslim leaders recently endorsed a religious decree by the Deobandi movement, the Taliban’s spiritual fathers, denouncing terrorism as un-Islamic. Now, the Deobandi political leader has told RFE/RL that he will convene Muslim clerics across South Asia to endorse the fatwa. Is this a turning point for the Taliban?
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Seven years ago, a group of mostly Saudi terrorists hijacked airliners and flew them into New York's World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Now, Saudi King Abdullah has flown to New York to urge world leaders at the UN to find ways of bridging the divide between Islam and the West.
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