LASHKAR GAH, Afghanistan - After the Taliban made nine threatening phone calls and fired a Kalashnikov outside his house, Shah Mohammad Mir left his hometown for months before returning with a new car and a new telephone number. His crime was lendi
Schools Secretary Ed Balls has rejected claims of any inappropriate use of public funds in payments to two independent Muslim schools.Conservative leader David Cameron had asked the prime minister to examine the funding of schools which he claimed
CAIRO As Egypt gears for pop diva Beyonce Knowles' first performance in North Africa, Islamic conservatives are branding her show an insolent sex party that threatens the Muslim nation's social peace and stability. On giant posters plastered acr
The fast-growing Islamic financial sector needs strong regulation to ensure it never faces the damage to the global system caused by the financial crisis, Malaysia’s prime minister said yesterday.Najib Razak, whose government oversees one of the wor
Two suicide bombers attacked the International Islamic University in Islamabad on Tuesday, killing four students and wounding at least 18 others. The bombers struck at mid-afternoon inside a women's cafeteria and a faculty office in the Islamic law
SHARM EL-SHEIK, Egypt - Egypt's security chief predicted Thursday that the country's largest opposition group, the banned Muslim Brotherhood, would not see gains in next year's parliamentary elections. The Brotherhood unexpectedly won 88 seats, or 2
PARIS - As France debates whether to ban the burqa, the government is leading a drive to attract billions in investment from Muslim countries by turning Paris into the European capital of Islamic finance. The French parliament this month has approv
BERLIN - Germans were deciding Sunday whether to return the nation's first woman chancellor to a second term in office following a lackluster election campaign centered largely on economic issues and a rash of last-minute threats by Islamic extremis
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