Associated Press
| May 5, 2013
At least 20 people have been killed and person and several injured when thousands of Islamic activists demanding an anti-blasphemy law clashed violently with Bangladesh police in Dhaka. Protesters set fires and hurled rocks as security forces fire...
Associated Press
| Apr 30, 2013
Buddhist mobs overran two mosques and set hundreds of homes ablaze in central Myanmar, injuring at least 10 people. Terrified families who fled the attacks near Okkan, some 70 miles north of Yangon, could be seen hiding in forests and crouching in...
Al Jazeera English
| Apr 22, 2013
Pitched clashes in northern Nigeria between the military and Islamist militants killed some 185 people, according to witnesses. Rocket-propelled grenades and heavy gunfire bombarded the remote town of Baga, where some 2,000 homes were wrecked...
SBS (Australia)
| Apr 17, 2013
WARNING: Contains Nudity. Taking a page from the Femen demonstrators book (or, rather, removing a few fig leaves), Egyptian revolutionist Aliaa Elmahdy stripped down and posted a nude photo of herself on her blog (warning: full-frontal nudityin vi...
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Mosaic
| Apr 11, 2013
Bassem Youssef, the Egyptian political satirist and host of popular television show al-Bernameg (modeled on Jon Stewart's The Daily Show), is best known for poking fun at Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood. But the joke wa...
Al Jazeera English
| Mar 30, 2013
He's been labelled Egypt's Jon Stewart for taking on Egypt's political and social upheaval with humor and a bevy of comic impersonations. Now popular television presenter Bassem Youssef is in hot water, accused by the government of insulting Islam...
Associated Press
| Mar 17, 2013
Dozens of people were busted after violent clashes erupted between Egypt's security forces and protesters outside the Muslim Brotherhood's headquarters in Cairo. In the town of Samanod some 50 miles north, meanwhile, two suspected motorized ricksh...
Euronews
| Mar 14, 2013
Pope Benedict XVI's reputation in the Muslim world never fully recovered from some ill-received comments about Islam he made in 2006. He made attempts to mend relations in following years, but many welcome the chance for a new start with a new pon...
Vice
| Mar 11, 2013
The always-cheeky Vice travels to Kabul to find happy hordes of Afghan men turning their backs on sharia bans against gambling to put their money down on fighting dogs and quail. One long-time "underworld" gambler who fashions himself as something...
Al Jazeera English
| Mar 10, 2013
Final preparations are being made at the Vatican for the election of a new Catholic pope. And as Roman Catholics keep a close eye on the ballot, the church's place in today's society is also under scrutiny. So too is its relationship with th...
— Feb 24 at 03:52 am
...turmoil wasn’t any less of an explosion. Born between the years of 570 and 571 in the city of Mecca, Muhammad combined pagan, Christian, and Jew...
— May 7 at 02:35 am
...of faith, ritual prayer, the zakat (charity), fasting, and the hajj (a pilgrimage to Mecca). Many Muslims are characterized by their commitment ...
Islam is a monotheistic and Abrahamic religion articulated by the Qur'an, a book considered by its adherents to be the verbatim word of God and by the teachings and normative example of Muhammad, considered by them to be the last prophet of God. An adherent of Islam is called a Muslim.
Muslims believe that God is one and incomparable and the purpose of existence is to love and serve God. Muslims also believe that Islam is the complete and universal version of a primordial faith that was revealed at many times and places before, including through Abraham, Moses and Jesus, whom they consider prophets. They maintain that the previous messages and revelations have been partially misinterpreted or altered over time, but consider the Arabic Qur'an to be both the unaltered and the final revelation of God. Religious concepts and practices include the five pillars of Islam, which are basic concepts and obligatory acts of worship, and following Islamic law, which touches on virtually every aspect of life and society, providing guidance on multifarious topics from banking and welfare, to warfare and the environment.
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