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Pristina badly needs a new mosque – but Turkish attempts to court the young Balkan state with investment and advocacy is making some uneasy
It is six years since Islamic leaders and government officials laid the cornerstone of Pristina’s new central mosque – a slab of stone now hidden beneath weeds in a parking lot.
Pulling back the weeds reveals it is covered with bright red graffiti – death threats to Kosovo’s chief mufti, along with the words: “No Turkish mosque or there will be blood.”
The urgency of this #MeToo moment, especially its potential disruption of normative social behavior toward women, has led to the challenging of inter-communal attitudes including those expressed by religious institutions. Congregants from diverse establishments of faith, including Christians and Jews , have come out in opposition of not only the repression of sexual abuse victims but against clerical power structures.
This week's State Department ministerial on international religious freedom has been a well-orchestrated, if hastily organized, event with a sense of common purpose rarely seen in the current administration. It prominently features the work of the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom, as bipartisan a body as you'll find in Washington these days.
The Trump White House on Wednesday will host its first iftar, a meal shared by Muslims during Ramadan, after failing to host the dinner last year. Iftar is the dinner Muslims eat at sunset after fasting all day during Ramadan.
The Supreme Court has so far had little to say about Donald Trump's time as president, even as the nation has moved from one Trump controversy to another. That's about to change.
Chapter 73 of the Qur'an, "The Robed" , contains what is probably the earliest Islamic injunction to turn the other cheek. 8. Remember the name of your Lord and devote yourself to Him wholeheartedly- 9. the Lord of the East and the West.
Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan has answered those who denounced as anti-Semitic his recent "Jews are my enemy" quote with another broadside, this time tweeting a video clip where he says "The Jews have control over those areas of government" - in referring to the FBI.
The U.S. Muslim population will double in approximately 30 years, growing from 3.45 million to 8.1 million, according to projections from The Pew Research Center. The projected growth numbers for the U.S. Muslim population come from a study that Pew conducted to find out how many Muslims actually live in the U.S. The Muslim population in the country has skyrocketed since Pew first conducted a study of American Muslims in 2007, growing at a rate of 100,000 per year since 2011, due to immigration and high fertility rates.
Ahead of Austrian national elections Sunday, the question is less whether the country will swing rightward under the next government and more about how sharp that turn will be, with voters set to reward two major parties that have exploited fears of immigration and Islam. Chancellor Christian Kern is vowing to take his center-left Social Democrats into the opposition if defeated and a handful of small parties are struggling to clear the 4 percent hurdle needed to get seats in parliament.
Does Saudi speech show better or worse side of Trump? #tellusatoday During a speech in Saudi Arabia, President Trump encouraged Muslim nations to fight "Islamic extremism." Check out this story on USATODAY.com: https://usat.ly/2qJF4CD The Saudis and other world leaders have Trump's number.
This copy is for your personal non-commercial use only. To order presentation-ready copies of Toronto Star content for distribution to colleagues, clients or customers, or inquire about permissions/licensing, please go to: Trump is leaving Friday for his first foreign trip, to the Mideast and beyond, and aides had hoped the disarray at home would have been calmed if not resolved by takeoff time.
Vice President Pence toured Southeast Asia's largest mosque on Thursday during a visit to Indonesia, calling the Muslim-majority nation's tradition of following a moderate form of Islam "an inspiration to the world." ... "In your nation as in mine, religion unifies, it doesn't divide," he added.
Fueling the hysteria on the part of politicians like Steve King and Geert Wilders, a blockbuster new report details how a lack of Christian fecundity may leave the earth to others. Controversial right-wing Congressman Steve King made headlines in March when he tweeted his support for anti-Muslin Dutch politician Geert Wilders saying , "Wilders understands that culture and demographics are our destiny.
President Donald Trump's choice of an outspoken but non-political Army general as national security adviser is a nod to pragmatism, but Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster will serve a commander in chief with unorthodox ideas about foreign policy and an inner circle of advisers determined to implement them.
President Donald Trump's choice of an outspoken but non-political Army general as national security adviser is a nod to pragmatism, but Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster will serve a commander in chief with unorthodox ideas about foreign policy and an inner circle of advisers determined to implement them.
A group with placards stating "Say No to Islam" was standing outside of Toronto's Masjid mosque on Friday, and police say they received multiple complaints about the demonstration from some in the mosque and others who weren't present. Toronto Mayor John Tory, a former leader of the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party, criticized the protest, calling it "Islamophobia" in a Tweet: Islamophobia has NO place in our city.
President Donald Trump made a peace offering to the CIA and sought divine blessing for his administration Saturday, but mass protests in multiple cities provided a graphic demonstration of the nation's huge political divides. Trump traveled to the CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, for a briefing from senior agency leaders and spoke to several hundred people in the spy agency's foyer, in front of the wall of honor where fallen operatives are remembered with stars.
When the email lobbed in, what surprised me was not the violence of the language, but the fact that its author was Australian. Barack Obama, the man wrote, deserved to be killed with piano wire.
Breitbart News writer Milo Yiannopoulos was interviewed by Channel 4 News in the UK about his past statements that women offended online should just "log off" the internet and his assertion that, actually, Islam is the real culprit of rape culture. This is the moment Milo Yiannopoulos is challenged on @BreitbartNews headlines and so-called "post-truth politics."
People voting at Oakman Elementary School in the US presidential election on November 8, 2016 in Dearborn, Michigan. Fear and shock were expressed by American Muslims after Republican Donald Trump was confirmed as president-elect of the US after months of anti-Islamic stands.