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Muslim Brotherhood starts own social networking site

The Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt's influential Islamist opposition movement, will launch its own social networking site next month to promote moderate Islam, an official said on Wednesday.

Mosque and myth

The prevailing disputation over the right of Muslim Americans to build a community centre and mosque a short distance from the site of the 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks has

Mohamed ElBaradei: The View From the Muslim World

"Some people want to make it appear that we will wake up tomorrow and find that Iran has developed the bomb. This is not the case. Sixteen US intelligence agencies

Why America Needs More Muslims

There is already a mosque near the site of the World Trade Center -- it’s been there since 1985. Men and women pray together at Masjid al-Farah; its services are

The Arab World’s Cultural Challenge

We must first of all reconnect with the Arab and Islamic tradition that built spaces for cultural autonomy over centuries.

Shame on ADL for opposing Mosque 2 blocks from Ground Zero

The ADL (Anti-Defamation League) publicly opposes the construction two blocks from Ground Zero of the Cordoba House (also known as Park 51), which the planners imagine as hosting a range

Burning of Quran evident aggression against Muslims

The Dove World Outreach Center in Gainesville, Florida, has advocated on its website the intention of burning copies of the Quran.

Egyptian and US scholars unite to bridge religious gap

A group of young American religious scholars and teaching assistants from Egypt 's oldest and renowned Azhar University engaged in a two week interactive project in an effort to bridge

Facebook and Muslim Outrage: Gleaning the Wrong Lesson, Again

“Any depictions of the prophet are considered blasphemous by Muslims,” wrote Agencies, as reported readily by Aljazeera.net English.

The impresario: Gilles Kepel, scholar of radical Islam

After a series of books established him as a world-famous analyst of radical Islam, Gilles Kepel decided to stop writing and start mapping a renaissance in Gulf-Europe relations. John Gravois