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  The leaders who could not lead

  Mahboob A Khawaja | Updated at 12:00am on December 09, 2019

  ONCE the Arabs were leaders in knowledge, creativity, science and human manifestation, progress and future-making — the Islamic civilisation lasting for eight hundred years in...

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  A worrying return of the same sectarian ruse

  | Updated at 12:00am on October 22, 2019

  SUNDAY’S clash between local people and the police at Borhanuddin in Bhola, which brewed over a Facebook comment alleged to have defamed Islam and the...

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  Saudi prepares for Hajj

  Agence France-Presse . Makkah | Updated at 02:51pm on August 07, 2019

  More than 2.5 million Muslims will on Friday begin the annual Hajj pilgrimage in the Islamic holy city of Makkah, Saudi Arabia, against a backdrop...

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  Plots still on to carry out terror attack in Bangladesh: PM

  Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha . Dhaka | Updated at 12:00am on April 26, 2019

  Prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday stressed the need for forging a collective resistance of all against extremism as it had become a common problem...

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  JnU student remanded under Digital Security Act

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 07:29pm on April 12, 2019

  A Jagannath University student was remanded in police custody for two days on Friday for interrogation in a case filed by a Bangladesh Chhatra League...

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  Islamophobia practically enshrined as public policy in Australia

  Jason Wilson | Updated at 12:00am on March 20, 2019

  Any 28-year-old has grown up in a time when racism was ratcheting up in the public culture, writes Jason Wilson THE worst terror attack in...

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  Sinead converts to Islam

  Agence France-Presse . London, United Kingdom | Updated at 12:00am on October 27, 2018

  Outspoken Irish singer Sinead O’Connor has announced she has converted to Islam and changed her name to Shuhada....

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  Policing Islamism: a fatal disconnect

  Paul Rogers | Updated at 12:00am on October 21, 2018

  THE radical preacher Anjem Choudary was released early on October 19 from Belmarsh high-security jail in south-east London, having been moved there from Frankland prison...

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  India outlaws Islamic instant divorce

  Agence France-Presse . New Delhi | Updated at 12:41am on September 20, 2018

  The Indian government Wednesday issued an executive order making the Islamic practice of ‘instant divorce’ a criminal offence punishable by up to three years in...

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  Mosque protest highlights China’s shrinking religious spaces

  Agence France-Presse . Beijing | Updated at 12:05am on August 12, 2018

  Thousands of demonstrators gathered at a mosque in China to stop its government-ordered demolition, a participant said Saturday, as Beijing’s increasingly harsh policies against religion...