• Muslim Advocacy and Organizations

    In life and words, Muslim leader bridges cultures

    by  • May 14, 2013 • Featured North America, Interfaith and Multicultural Engagement, Islamic Practice and Jurisprudence, Mosques and Community Centers, Muslim Advocacy and Organizations, Public Opinion and Islam in the Media, Special Coverage, United States

    William Suhaib Webb, imam of the Islamic Society of Boston Cultural Center in Roxbury, has been a target of conservative Muslims on the Internet, who call him a sellout, and of other critics who say he is an extremist. He has tried, for better or for worse, to respond to all of it —...

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    French Council for the Muslim Religion (CFCM): Ramadan dates fixed

    by  • May 14, 2013 • France, Islamic Practice and Jurisprudence, Muslim Advocacy and Organizations

    Liberation 09.05.2013 For the first time in France, the representatives of the Muslim community of the country have used astronomic calculations to determine the dates for the holy Islamic month of Ramadan. The French Council for the Muslim Religion (CFCM) announced that this year’s Ramadan will start on July 9 and finish with the...

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    Bradford Muslims Rally To Save Synagogue From Closure

    by  • May 10, 2013 • Islamic Practice and Jurisprudence, Mosques and Community Centers, Muslim Advocacy and Organizations, United Kingdom

    With only just over thirty members and an extravagant Grade II listed Moorish building, the tiny Jewish community of Bradford have for many years been in despair about their finances – until the local Muslim community stepped in to help. The grand-looking Reform synagogue, is on an unassuming street, between the Yorkshire Tandoori, Al-Hijaab...

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    Islam/ A Letter to Napolitano (the newly re-elected president): Guarantees or we will take to the piazzas

    by  • May 10, 2013 • Issues in Politics, Italy, Muslim Advocacy and Organizations

    A Letter from the Islamic Community to Napolitano (the Newly re-elected President). Italian piazzas have become spaces of heated tensions where popular discontent is most visible. Today, on behalf of the Italian Islamic community Sharif Lorenzini, Vice President of the Islamic Community in Puglia wrote a letter to Giorgio Napolitano, the newly re-elected president....

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