Muslim
Global survey shows Obama more popular abroad than at home
June 18, 2010A new international survey shows U.S. President Barack Obama remains widely popular in most parts of the world, but both the President and the U.S. face some image challenges in predominantly Muslim nations. The survey of 24,000 people was conducted in...
Unity of Russia’s muslims must come from below
June 17, 2010by Paul Goble Frustrated by the often unseemly struggles of the leaders of Russia’s Muslim Spiritual Directorates (MSDs) and convinced that both Russia and Russia’s Muslims would benefit from the formation of a united Islamic organization...
Russian journalist puts on a hijab to test Muscovites’ reactions
April 29, 2010By Paul Goble In an update of John Howard Griffin’s 1961 classic study of racism in the US, “Black Like Me,” in which a white journalist passed as a black man, a Russian writer donned a hijab in order to see for herself just how the...
Ukraine: New Crimean Tatar women’s journal highlights revival of reformist Islam
March 07, 2010By Paul Goble A Crimean Tatar journal for women launched this week represents the latest development in a trend that has attracted relatively little attention: the revival especially among the Tatars and other Muslim groups in Russia of the principles...
China's Uyghurs -- A Minority In Their Own Land?
July 08, 2009By Breffni O'Rourke The Uyghurs of western China are an ethnic Turkic people who are by tradition Muslim, and who feel more kinship with the peoples of Central Asia than with the Han Chinese -- the communist state's dominant population. The Uyghurs...
Assassinations Roil Russia's Caucasus Region
June 11, 2009By Peter Fedynsky The deputy head of Ingushetia's Supreme Court has been shot dead in the latest incident of violence to hit Russia's troubled Caucasus region. The assassination of Justice Aza Gazgireeva follows a recent high profile killing in neighboring...
- December 06, 2007
Fourteen Muslim rebels convicted in a 2001 tourist group abduction that left five hostages dead have been sentenced to life in prison in the Philippines. Four other defendants were acquitted following the trial, which began in 2003, the BBC reported...
UK's Muslims decry thought police
December 06, 2007The head of the Muslim Council of Britain lamented the prosecution of a woman convicted of writing poetry praising beheadings and possessing terrorist manuals. Muhammad Abdul Bari said British lawmakers criminalized the thoughts of Muslim youths ahead...
Islamic televangelists preach 'Islam Lite'
December 03, 2007Muslim televangelists are preaching "Islam-Lite" to younger Muslims from Egypt to London as an alternative to the fiery idiom of Islamic fundamentalism. Moez Masoud, a 29-year-old Egyptian, and several other younger pulpiteers are preaching...
Trial delayed for Fort Dix attack suspects
November 28, 2007The Philadelphia trial for five Muslim men accused of plotting an attack on Fort Dix, N.J., has been delayed based on their complaints of access to evidence. U.S. District Judge Robert Kugler heard defense lawyers complain Tuesday they haven't been...