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- American Visions of the Houri
- The news media shapes American understanding of Islam. Instead of accessing detailed or scholarly sources of information, Americans tend to learn about Islam as a system of belief through the commentaries they watch on television, read in newspapers, or find while surfing on the Internet. After September 11th, one aspect...
- Research articles 2007-01-01
- Religion and the Early Modern State: Views from China, Russia, and the West
- Religion and the Early Modern State: Views from China, Russia, and the West. Edited by James D. Tracy and Marguerite Ragnow. Studies in Comparative Early Modern History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. xviii + 418 pp. $80.00 cloth. Publishers dislike the festschrift. Collected volumes of academic articles often lack...
- Research articles 2006-09-01
- 9. Perspective
- Analyzing "American" Wars As was mentioned at the beginning of this discussion, I have concentrated on the later history of the mass media's involvement with wars, as well as tending to focus on both American media and American wars. Both emphases seem justified on the grounds that the American...
- Research articles 2003-09-22
- Nehemia Levtzion and Randall L. Pouwels , The History of Islam in Africa
- NEHEMIA LEVTZION and RANDALL L. POUWELS eds, The History of Islam in Africa. Athens OH: Ohio University Press; Oxford: James Currey; Cape Town: David Philip, 2000, 592 pp., US$75.00, ISBN 0 8214 1296 5 hard covers, $26.95, 0 8214 1297 3 paperback. Statistics of the growth in the number...
- Research articles 2001-09-22
- A Matter of Opinion: How Assimilation Can Work For Us; America's pop culture will conquer Islamic fundamentalism here
- Tobin, Jonathan S. Jewish Exponent 02-03-2000 A Matter of Opinion: How Assimilation Can Work for Us; America's pop culture will conquer Islamic fundamentalism here Paranoia about Arabs and Muslims is a recurrent theme in American society. But these issues...
- Research articles 2000-02-03
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- Attitudes Toward Muslims Mixed in Europe and the U.S
- ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- A new Financial Times/Harris Poll of cross sections of adults in the five largest European countries and the United States looks at attitudes toward Muslims and finds differing opinions on Muslims as a threat to national security, prejudice towards Muslims and whether parents would object to a...
- Research articles 2007-08-23
- Having faith in the markets - and in a higher law.(investments of American Muslims)(Brief Article)(Interview)
- There are at least 7 million Muslims living in the U.S. and, by some estimates, just 3% of them have money invested in the stock market. Indeed, most Muslims won't even put their money into ordinary bank accounts because of Islamic strictures again There...
- Research articles 2000-11-20
- 300,000 U.S. Muslims Approve Suicide Attacks
- Jihad Watch Some of the results of the recent Pew Research Center poll of Muslims in America were startling: 26% of Muslims between the ages of 18 and 29 affirmed mat there could be justification in some unspecified circumstances for suicide bombing, and 5% of all the Muslims...
- Research articles 2007-06-04
- Under suspicion: since the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001, Arabs and Muslims around the world have become targets of discrimination.(Minorities--Arabs/Muslims)
- The President of the Canadian Arab Foundation said in May 2003 that the one million Arabs and Muslims in Canada feel threatened." Raja Khouri says Ottawa's anti-terrorism law gives police wide-ranging powers to infringe on the rights of the one million Arabs and Muslims living in...
- Research articles 2003-10-01
- Iran leader urges Muslims to fund Palestinians
- TEHRAN AFP — Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei called on Muslims worldwide to provide money to the Palestinians during his talks with the Islamic radical Hamas movement, state television reported. "We must make a plan so all Muslims will be able to supply the Palestinians with a yearly...
- Research articles 2006-02-20
- Pope urges 'firm, humble' dialogue with Muslims
- VATICAN CITY AFP — Pope Benedict XVI urged Catholics to engage in "firm and humble" dialogue with Muslims, in an address to bishops from Germany, which has a sizable Muslim minority. Pope Benedict said Catholics should manifest their beliefs with the same conviction as Muslims, who "are attached with great...
- Research articles 2006-11-10
- Black Crescent: The Experience and Legacy of African Muslims in the Americas
- Gomez, Michael A. Black Crescent: The Experience and Legacy of African Muslims in the Americas. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. 385 pp. This book, Black Crescent: The Experience and Legacy of Africa Muslims in the Americas, is a "social history of the experiences of African muslims and their descendants throughout...
- Research articles 2007-04-01
- Why Muslims mistrust Blair on terror.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-23 December 2002-BBC: Why Muslims mistrust Blair on terrorC1994-2002 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:12232002 A poll carried out for the BBC found that the majority of Muslims in Britain believe the war on terror is a thinly veiled war on Islam. ...
- Research articles 2002-12-23
- Anti-terrorism order worries Muslims
- Samih Jaber and Mohammed Barakat aren't talking about what happened to them in an Israeli jail last month.The two Chicago businessmen are scared to talk to the press, according to Muslims in Chicago, who also worry that the arrest of the two prominent and wealthy Chicago businessmen is part of...
- Research articles 1995-03-31
- Yahoo for Muslims.(Brief Article)
- The first finance and investment portal built around Islamic principles has been launched to target the needs of Muslims worldwide. Offering a range of banking, finance and insurance products and services IslamiQ.com will initially focus on US and UK The first finance and investment portal built...
- Research articles 2000-05-01
- MUSLIMS ENJOY RELIGIOUS FREEDOM FOREIGN AFFAIRS MINISTER
- According to IINA, Japan's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ms Yuriko Kawaguchi, has said that the Muslims of Japan enjoy complete freedom of worship, adding that her country has helped the Palestinians to the tune of US$600 million, and also granted Iraq US$According to IINA, Japan's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ms...
- Research articles 2003-11-04
- Peace in Bosnia. (NATO uses fire power against Bosnian Serbs to aid Muslims and Croats in Bosnia-Herzegovina; includes information about other noteworthy events of 1995)(Politics and Current Affairs)(Brief Article)
- A crossed-fingers end to Europe's bloodiest war in 50 years came when NATO at last used its air power against the Bosnian Serbs, helping the Muslims and Croats to reoccupy large stretches of lost land. The presidents of Bosnia, Croatia and Serbia signeA crossed-fingers end to Europe's...
- Research articles 1995-12-23
- The Afghan connection. (Muslims in Afghanistan and the bombing of the World Trade Center)
- Egypt allowed the FBI to extradite Mahmoud Abu-Halima, a suspect in the World Trade Center bombing, after Egyptian Pres Husnni Mubarak met with Pres Clinton to discuss Muslim terrorism. Investigations suggest Muslims backed by Afghanistan may have plannedEgypt allowed the FBI to extradite Mahmoud Abu-Halima, a suspect in the World...
- Research articles 1993-04-10
- As FBI Launches New Round of Questioning, Legal Coalition Mobilizes to Offer Legal Advice to Arabs and Muslims
- CHICAGO, Aug. 12 /U.S. Newswire/ -- A coalition of Chicago-area legal organizations today opened a telephone hotline for Arabs and Muslims designated for surveillance and questioning by federal law enforcement authorities in a new round of interviews undeCHICAGO, Aug. 12 /U.S. Newswire/ -- A coalition of Chicago-area legal organizations today...
- Research articles 2004-08-12
- Dell Fires 30 Tennessee Muslims Over Workplace Prayer; Muslim Civil Rights Group Calls for Rehiring, Offers Mediation
- WASHINGTON, March 10 /U.S. Newswire/ -- A prominent national Islamic civil rights and advocacy group today called on Dell Computers to rehire 30 Muslims workers allegedly fired from a plant in Tennessee for seeking to perform religiously-mandated prayers WASHINGTON, March 10 /U.S. Newswire/ -- A prominent national Islamic civil rights...
- Research articles 2005-03-10
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