... :Heavily armed Al-Shabaab militants attacked a mosque in the Somali town of Basra between Afgooye and Balcad, northwest ... and injuring 13 others. According witnesses, the guerrillas forced their way into the mosque where celebrating people gathered to commemorate a ritual but ... -Shabaab official in Lower Shabelle confirmed the attack at the mosque, claiming that the people were 'apostates' ...

... 100 houses of worship in North America, expanded this year to include events in eight European countries. The weekend meetings, which have been taking place in November and December, bring together mosque and synagogue congregations to discuss ways of overcoming anti-Semitism and Islamophobia in their own communities. To get an idea of how these meetings go, here are reports on twinning events ...

... With just 300 or so Muslims in all of Nicaragua, it became an instant mystery here when a big new mosque suddenly seemed to spring up recently in a residential neighborhood. Like, who paid for ... . Unfolding the map, Julio Gonzales noted that the current one has a cathedral, but no mosque and said that many tourists have been asking where the new one is. "He's very busy," said a man ...

... , crisscrossing the Hindi heartland to raise support for his impending assault on the mosque. The rest as they say is history. Now that the report is soon to be presented in Parliament, with indictment of ... cuts across the party lines and Congress understands that it is as much responsible for the destruction of the mosque as the BJP. Such an outcome should surprise no one. Congress Party has a ...

... Seri Begawan, the capital of the Sultanate of Brunei. The mosque is classified as one of the most spectacular mosques in the Asia ... sights in the capital and the country in general. The architecture of the mosque has a heavy influence of both Islamic and Italian styles. ... witness a panoramic view of the city. The interior of the mosque is for prayer only but it has a magnificent mosaic stained glass ...

... expansion plan defeated. <-- Proposed mosque includes a Muslims Only cemetery. A controversial proposal to expand ... rules changed to do that. In order to grow, the Lilburn mosque plans on buying three neighboring properties. For 11 ... city council Wednesday and was also defeated. Members of the mosque said they will continue to fight for expansion. And when they say they will continue to fight ...

... nationalist politicians for playing a role in the 1992 demolition of a mosque in Ayodhya. The report clearly implicates more than 60 people - ... ,000 pages, rejected an argument by Hindu nationalists that the mosque's destruction was a spontaneous eruption by activists. ... a Hindu temple to be built on the site of the destroyed mosque.     __._,_.___ ...

... (SIOE) threatened to hold a protest outside of Harrow Mosque, in London. For all their talk, only a handful of Islamophobes actually attended ... Sunday 13th December. Harrow Central Mosque would like to have a number of community volunteers to act as stewards ... souls from among three hundred thousand brave enough to answer the mosque’s own call for help, against the same people who claim to defend ...

... Malik Hasan apparently attended the same Virginia mosque as two Sept. 11 hijackers in 2001, at a time ... Hasan ever attended the Falls Church, Va., mosque but confirmed that the Hasan family participated in services ... Anwar Aulaqi was an imam, or spiritual leader, at the mosque. Aulaqi told the FBI in 2001 that, before he moved ... hijacker, Hani Hanjour, attended the Dar al Hijrah mosque in early April 2001 ...

... in Middle Eastern affairs who came to transport four members of the mosque of the Islamic Community of Greater Kileen onto the post, ... as Zavage spoke, FBI agents swarmed the mosque, going through trash cans and even taking a few items with them. (So why the hell ... ) Dr. Mansoor Farooqi, a pediatrician and president of the mosque, as well as the co-founder Ofman Danquah, will attend the memorial ...

... wearing blue gloves, began to search through a trash bin outside the mosque. An ABC News reporter saw agents empty the ... . The FBI agents arrived moments after Farooqi and three other Mosque leaders had been escorted by an Army officer to the scheduled memorial ... 39;s shooting in which 13 died and more than 50 were injured. The mosque president then returned to speak with the agents. He appeared to ...

... the Pakistani Taliban had claimed responsibility. City residents said access to the mosque was mostly restricted to soldiers and their families. Witnesses said two of the militants entered the mosque, ... . He said the installation included an army parade ground as well as the mosque, which was often used by military officers. Abbas said authorities were investigating how the attackers penetrated ...

... issue of integration of Muslims. Many can only understand Dutch mosque design from that perspective. Traditional Dutch mosques ... Dutch society. The patron of the Essalam mosque in Rotterdam, for instance, once said that his mosque fits very well into the surroundings because if you remove ... freedom to express one’s religious identity in mosque design is eroding in the Netherlands. (more) Source: RNW ...

... thing and the women are at least SOMETIMES right in the front as well. It's a small comfort for me, at least. This particular mosque that we frequent on the day after Thanksgiving, however, segregates differently. They built a ... our way to attend different early morning Eid prayers at another mosque near my parent's. There's no guarantee that it will be any better, but I figure that it ...

... the north side of the Old Port. It is the $30 million Grand Mosque of Marseille, a place for the metropolitan region's more ... ; After failing in two lawsuits to block a construction permit for the mosque, Perdomo's Regional Front and three other rightist groups ... A native French retiree polishing his car near where work on the mosque is scheduled to begin in April lamented the project. But ...