KABUL — A suicide bomber killed at least 48 people in the Afghan capital on Tuesday after detonating explosives outside a packed Shiite mosque as throngs of worshippers observed a religious holiday, police and a government official said. The noontime explosion outside a prominent shrine in the Murad Khani district of Kabul was a rare attack in a city where insurgents have in recent months targeted mainly Western installations and military personnel. Read full article > >

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When the demonstrations started in Yemen’s capital, Sana, volunteers turned a mosque into a field clinic to treat wounds.

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Austrian politician Gerhard Kurzmann is cleared of charges of inciting religious hatred after posting a computer game in which players shot at Muslims and mosques.

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JERUSALEM – Israeli authorities say they believe Jewish extremists are responsible for setting fire to a mosque in northern Israel early Monday and leaving behind scrawled messages similar to those written after attacks on mosques in the West Bank. The arson in the village of Tuba-Zangaria caused extensive damage to the mosque and set off clashes between angry villagers and police. Read full article > >

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This an excerpt from a sermon delivered by the Director of Outreach at the Dar Al-Hijrah Mosque at an interfaith service marking the 10th anniversary of 9/11. I’m talking today about time. We are coming upon a time of remembering the 10th anniversary of remembering the events of September 11. I would like to remind us all of where were on September 11, 2001. Immediately after this great tragedy, and probably for us as Americans, the first time in a long time that we had experienced the violence and terrorism that people around the world experience on a daily basis. But in that time, there was something unique that we can look to. Immediately following this tragedy in America, rather than attack one another, we reached out for one another. I saw in Manhattan, people of all different backgrounds helping one another. Nobody asked, what religion are you? Nobody asked in those hours of the rescue person, are you a Sikh?Are you a Buddhist? Are you a Hindu? Are you a Jane? Are you a Zoroastrian? Are you a Unitarian? Are you a Muslim? Or a Jew? Read full article > >

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After nine years of interviews, Imam Johari Abdul-Malik has learned to wait for the questions. If he waits long enough, the reporters inevitably ask about Anwar al-Aulaqi , the radical cleric who once led the Dar Al-Hijrah mosque. They want to know about Maj. Nidal Hasan, the alleged Fort Hood shooter , and the two Sept. 11 hijackers who also once worshiped there. And they often come armed with a list of other terrorism suspects who have been connected in some way with his Northern Virginia mosque. Read full article > >

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After nine years of interviews, Imam Johari Abdul-Malik has learned to wait for the questions. If he waits long enough, the reporters inevitably ask about Anwar al-Aulaqi , the radical cleric who once led the Dar Al-Hijrah mosque. They want to know about Maj. Nidal Hasan, the alleged Fort Hood shooter , and the two Sept. 11 hijackers who also once worshiped there. And they often come armed with a list of other terrorism suspects who have been connected in some way with his Northern Virginia mosque. Read full article > >

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TRIPOLI, Libya — For decades, bearded men in Libya were afraid to walk in the streets or go to the mosque, worried that to be seen as an Islamist would land them in prison, or worse. As Libya’s leader, Moammar Gaddafi regarded Islamists as the greatest threat to his authority, and he ordered thousands of them detained, tortured and, in some cases, killed. The lucky ones fled the country in droves. But with Gaddafi now in hiding, Islamists are vying to have a say in a new Libya, one they say should be based on Islamic law. Read full article > >

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Little Mosque on the Prairie, a television sitcom made in Canada, has been running since 2007 and is currently recording its sixth and final series.

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President Obama and European leaders called Thursday for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to resign, but there was no sign Friday that he was ending his violent crackdown on protests, as Syrian troops again opened fired on demonstrators emerging from mosques. Obama’s rhetorical escalation was backed by new U.S. sanctions designed to undermine Assad’s ability to finance his military operation. “The future of Syria must be determined by its people, but President Bashar al-Assad is standing in their way,” Obama said in a written statement. “For the sake of the Syrian people, the time has come for President Assad to step aside.” Read full article > >

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At least 40 people are killed in an explosion at a mosque in north-western Pakistan’s Khyber tribal region, reports say.

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A government official says 40 people have been killed in a mosque bombing in northwest Pakistan, with 85 wounded.

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Attackers set fire to a mosque near Ramallah in the West Bank, daubing graffiti which suggests they were Jewish settlers angry about building restrictions.

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KHOST, Afghanistan — The United States knows where to find the most feared insurgent family in the Afghanistan war. Troops can point to the downtown Khost mansion owned by its patriarch, Jalaluddin Haqqani; the million-dollar blue-tile mosque he built for the city’s residents; and his base of operations 20 miles away in Pakistan. They are aware of his trucking and warehouse businesses, his sons who command about 3,000 fighters, and their sophisticated training camps that conduct courses in withstanding interrogation and firing rockets across borders. Read full article > >

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India’s Supreme Court suspends an earlier ruling from a lower court about the fate of the Ayodhya holy site, where Hindu zealots destroyed a mosque 18 years ago.

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