Muslim brothers sacrifice big NFL paychecks for spiritual journey to Mecca

Put simply, this is just another striving, improbable, poetic American Dream story: How a family, venerating work and education, traveled from the notorious South Central LA of “Boyz In The Hood” to settle in Spielberg Americana in the shadow of the soaring San Bernardino Mountains—a family with not one but two brothers recruited to play…

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Forty days in Meca

15 October 2012   102 people left from Melilla to Nador yesterday, to catch the bus that will take them to Rabat and then, towards Mecca. The trip was organized by the Andalusian Committee and paid by the Kingdom of Morocco.

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Study: Islamic extremists using rhetoric of victimization, not world domination

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Islamist extremists make heavy use of the Qur’an (Islam’s most sacred text) in their strategic communication. This study analyzed the most frequently cited or quoted verses in the Center for Strategic Communication’s database of over 2,000 extremist texts. The texts date from the years 1998 to 2011, and originate primarily from the Middle…

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Right at home: U.S. mosques are often more Middle America than Middle East

Tucked into the corner of a series of industrial parks in West Valley City, the Khadeeja Islamic Center’s golden dome and minaret might strike some passersby as out of place, even foreign to this American suburb where the dominant architectural features are grey box stores and white church steeples. To be sure, the Islamic Center…

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Dutch Version of Controversial Book on Early Islam Released

2 March 2012   The Fourth Beast, a book by British historian Tom Holland making controversial claims about the origins and development of Islam, has been released in a Dutch translation, though in advance of the English publication. According to an article in Radio Netherlands Worldwide the book’s potentially controversial claims include: that Islam emerged…

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