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Taliban Supreme Leader Who Is Rarely Seen Attends Afghan Clerics' Meeting
The Taliban's reclusive supreme leader Hibatullah Akhundzada showed up Friday at a major gathering of clerics in the Afghan capital called to rubber-stamp the hardline Islamist group's rule over the country.
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Government To Build 560 Model Mosques, Islamic University: Sheikh Hasina
Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today announced that her government will construct 560 model mosques and an Islamic university with the Saudi assistance, in an attempt to woo hardline Islamists ahead of the parliamentary elections scheduled next month. Speaking at an Islamic clerics rally in Dhaka, Ms Hasina urged the clerics not to be agit...
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What Has Brought Iranian Protesters To The Streets?
Iran warned of a tough crackdown on Sunday against demonstrators posing one of the boldest challenges to its clerical leaders since nationwide unrest shook the Islamist theocracy in 2009.
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"New York Bomber Read Extremist Books, Urged Wife To Do So": Bangladesh Police
The Bangladeshi-origin New York City bomber had read books by an Islamist cleric convicted for inciting the murder of an atheist blogger in the country and also "encouraged" his wife to do so to learn about religion, police said in Dhaka today.
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Israel Jails Islamic Cleric for Inciting Aqsa Violence
An Israeli court on Tuesday ordered the jailing of a firebrand cleric whose Islamist group has been accused of inciting a wave of violence over Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa mosque compound.
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Saudi Arabia Signals Easing of Tension With Islamist Cleric
The spiritual leader of the Muslim Brotherhood attended a ceremony organised by Saudi Arabia in Qatar on Friday, signalling an easing of Riyadh's hostility towards the Islamist movement.
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Syria Car Bombs Kill 26, Including Anti-Regime Druze Cleric: Monitor
A prominent Druze cleric known for criticising Syria's regime and Islamists was assassinated in a car bomb attack that killed 25 others and sparked riots outside the city of Sweida on Friday, a monitor said.
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UK's Most High-Profile Islamist Cleric Anjem Choudary Charged With IS Support
Anjem Choudary, Britain's most high-profile Islamic political activist, well-known globally for praising the men responsible for the September 11 attacks on the United States, was charged on Wednesday with inviting support for Islamic State (IS).
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Gunmen Kill 7 in Attack on Muslim Council in Southern Afghan: Police
Gunmen opened fire on a gathering of Afghan Muslim clerics in the southern province of Helmand, killing seven people, police said on Wednesday.
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American Charged With Islamic State Ties Contacted Jamaica Cleric: US Official
An American woman arrested last month for trying to travel to Syria to join the militant group Islamic State was in touch with an Islamist preacher in Jamaica, a federal law enforcement official said.
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Muslim Cleric Warns Against IS Recruitment in Canada
A Canadian imam known for his pacifist sermons warned Friday that Islamist militant group IS was actively recruiting in Canada and said one member issued him a death threat.
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Iraq's Sunni Clerics Suffer Under Insurgent Rule
Early this year Sunni Arab worshippers in the Iraqi city of Fallujah were surprised to see an armed man in sunglasses instead of the regular sheikh ascend the mosque pulpit.
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Iraqi Slaughter Swells Crowded Shiite Cemetery
Responding to an appeal from Shi'ite clerics, Salah al-Wa'ili signed up earlier this month with a militia near Baghdad fighting the Islamist insurgents who have swept through northern Iraq and threatened the capital.
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Bangladesh's Oldest Brothel Closed After Islamist Pressure
Bangladesh's oldest brothel has been shut down following pressure from local clerics and politicians amid rising conservatism in the Muslim-majority country, police said on Monday.
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Indian Muslim Group Invites Volunteers to Defend Iraq's Shrines
Muslims in India are signing up to defend Iraq's holy shrines and, if need be, fight Sunni Islamist militants in the country where the civilian death toll from the Sunni insurgents' advance is estimated at least 1,300.
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Taliban Supreme Leader Who Is Rarely Seen Attends Afghan Clerics' Meeting
The Taliban's reclusive supreme leader Hibatullah Akhundzada showed up Friday at a major gathering of clerics in the Afghan capital called to rubber-stamp the hardline Islamist group's rule over the country.
-
Government To Build 560 Model Mosques, Islamic University: Sheikh Hasina
Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today announced that her government will construct 560 model mosques and an Islamic university with the Saudi assistance, in an attempt to woo hardline Islamists ahead of the parliamentary elections scheduled next month. Speaking at an Islamic clerics rally in Dhaka, Ms Hasina urged the clerics not to be agit...
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What Has Brought Iranian Protesters To The Streets?
Iran warned of a tough crackdown on Sunday against demonstrators posing one of the boldest challenges to its clerical leaders since nationwide unrest shook the Islamist theocracy in 2009.
-
"New York Bomber Read Extremist Books, Urged Wife To Do So": Bangladesh Police
The Bangladeshi-origin New York City bomber had read books by an Islamist cleric convicted for inciting the murder of an atheist blogger in the country and also "encouraged" his wife to do so to learn about religion, police said in Dhaka today.
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Israel Jails Islamic Cleric for Inciting Aqsa Violence
An Israeli court on Tuesday ordered the jailing of a firebrand cleric whose Islamist group has been accused of inciting a wave of violence over Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa mosque compound.
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Saudi Arabia Signals Easing of Tension With Islamist Cleric
The spiritual leader of the Muslim Brotherhood attended a ceremony organised by Saudi Arabia in Qatar on Friday, signalling an easing of Riyadh's hostility towards the Islamist movement.
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Syria Car Bombs Kill 26, Including Anti-Regime Druze Cleric: Monitor
A prominent Druze cleric known for criticising Syria's regime and Islamists was assassinated in a car bomb attack that killed 25 others and sparked riots outside the city of Sweida on Friday, a monitor said.
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UK's Most High-Profile Islamist Cleric Anjem Choudary Charged With IS Support
Anjem Choudary, Britain's most high-profile Islamic political activist, well-known globally for praising the men responsible for the September 11 attacks on the United States, was charged on Wednesday with inviting support for Islamic State (IS).
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Gunmen Kill 7 in Attack on Muslim Council in Southern Afghan: Police
Gunmen opened fire on a gathering of Afghan Muslim clerics in the southern province of Helmand, killing seven people, police said on Wednesday.
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American Charged With Islamic State Ties Contacted Jamaica Cleric: US Official
An American woman arrested last month for trying to travel to Syria to join the militant group Islamic State was in touch with an Islamist preacher in Jamaica, a federal law enforcement official said.
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Muslim Cleric Warns Against IS Recruitment in Canada
A Canadian imam known for his pacifist sermons warned Friday that Islamist militant group IS was actively recruiting in Canada and said one member issued him a death threat.
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Iraq's Sunni Clerics Suffer Under Insurgent Rule
Early this year Sunni Arab worshippers in the Iraqi city of Fallujah were surprised to see an armed man in sunglasses instead of the regular sheikh ascend the mosque pulpit.
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Iraqi Slaughter Swells Crowded Shiite Cemetery
Responding to an appeal from Shi'ite clerics, Salah al-Wa'ili signed up earlier this month with a militia near Baghdad fighting the Islamist insurgents who have swept through northern Iraq and threatened the capital.
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Bangladesh's Oldest Brothel Closed After Islamist Pressure
Bangladesh's oldest brothel has been shut down following pressure from local clerics and politicians amid rising conservatism in the Muslim-majority country, police said on Monday.
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Indian Muslim Group Invites Volunteers to Defend Iraq's Shrines
Muslims in India are signing up to defend Iraq's holy shrines and, if need be, fight Sunni Islamist militants in the country where the civilian death toll from the Sunni insurgents' advance is estimated at least 1,300.
