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  5 messages from Baba Ramdev to Indian Muslims on International Yoga Day

  India | June 20, 2015 17:36 IST

  New Delhi: International Yoga Day is going to be celebrated on June 21 in 192 countries including 47 Muslim countries.The United Nations (UN) declared June 21 as ‘International Yoga Day' after Prime Minister Narendra Modi

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  10 unknown facts of holy month of Ramzan

  India | June 18, 2015 15:00 IST

  Eid( Eid-Al-Fitar), also famous as Mithi-Eid, is the most important festivals of Muslims. The countdown for the festival has started with advent of the sacred month of Ramzan. The devotees observe day long fast or

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  To bolster the image of Islam, Muslim group launches billboard campaign in US

  World | June 17, 2015 11:52 IST

  New York: To bolster the image of Islam, tarnished by organisations like al-Qaeda and Islamic State, a Muslim group in the United Sates of America (USA) has come up with a billboard campaign to showcase

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  In a first, PM Modi praises Islam, hosts envoys from Muslim nations

  Politics | June 16, 2015 13:13 IST

  New Delhi: In an effort to reach out to Muslims, Prime Minister Narendra Modi yesterday praised Islam for emphasising on importance of education.Citing the teachings of Quran, Modi said, “The Quran mentions the word 'ilm'

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  Am a true Muslim, Prophet Mohammed was a great 'yogi': Sakshi Maharaj

  Politics | June 15, 2015 11:26 IST

  New Delhi: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Sakshi Maharaj has claimed that he is a true Muslim and Prophet Mohammed was the biggest practitioner of yoga."In Islam, the biggest name is that of Mohammed and

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  Use of 'Allah' in yoga is insult to Lord Shiva, says Pravin Togadia

  Politics | June 15, 2015 14:50 IST

  New Delhi: Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) leader Praveen Togadia has said that Muslims using word 'Allah' during yoga is an insult to Hindus."The use of word Allah during yoga would be an insult to Lord

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  Hafiz Saeed unaware about 'jihad' in Islam: Asaduddin Owaisi

  Politics | April 21, 2015 12:14 IST

  New Delhi: All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) chief Asaduddin Owaisi yesterday said that Jamaat-ud-Dawa chief and 26/11 mastermind Hafiz Saeed was 'unaware about the teachings of Islam'."People like Hafiz Saeed are unaware about teachings of

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  Muslims responsible for bringing bad name to their community: Madani

  Politics | March 21, 2015 18:50 IST

  BIJNOR : Muslims themselves are responsible for bringing a bad name to the community and creating the "Islam's image of terror", Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind general secretary Maulana Mehmood Madani today said and called for spreading education

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  We are against violent extremism, not Islam: Barack Obama

  World | February 20, 2015 9:08 IST

  Washington: US President Barack Obama Thursday echoed his Wednesday's call for Muslim communities around the world to resist the notion that the West was at war with Islam in his final speech at the White

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  At war with people who have perverted Islam: Obama

  World | February 19, 2015 7:53 IST

  Washington: President Barack Obama has said the US and its allies are not at war with Islam but with people who have perverted the religion, asserting that groups like ISIS and Al-Qaeda are desperate for

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  Polygamy not integral part of Islam, rules Supreme Court

  India | February 10, 2015 11:08 IST

  New Delhi: Though the Islamic personal law allows Muslim men to have four wives, the Supreme Court, on Monday, said that a Muslim's fundamental right to profess Islam does not include practising polygamy.A bench of

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  Muslim prisoner can grow his beard: US Supreme Court

  World | January 21, 2015 9:50 IST

  Washington: The US Supreme Court today unanimously agreed that prisons cannot stop Muslim inmates from wearing beard according to their religious belief. The issue was brought to the apex court's notice by an inmate in

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  Pakistan lawmakers condemn caricatures of Islam's prophet

  World | January 15, 2015 19:45 IST

  Islamabad: Pakistani lawmakers passed a resolution and marched outside parliament on Thursday to protest the publication of images of Islam's prophet in the satirical French magazine attacked by extremists last week.Like many other Muslim nations,

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  Saudi blogger to be publicly given 1,000 lashes, 10 years jail for insulting Islam

  World | January 13, 2015 17:42 IST

  Dubai: A Saudi blogger who was sentenced last May to 10 years in prison and 1,000 lashes will be publicly flogged for the first time after Friday prayers outside a mosque in the Red Sea

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  3.7 lakh apply for madrassa exams in UP

  India | January 09, 2015 14:02 IST

  Lucknow: Over 3.7 lakh students in Uttar Pradesh have applied for exams for clerics conducted by the Madrasa Education Board, which is a steep rise from the miniscule number of applications it received last year,

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  IS hails Charlie Hebdo attackers as 'heroes'

  World | January 09, 2015 8:58 IST

  Beirut: The Islamic State (IS) jihadi organisation on Thursday hailed the alleged perpetrators of Wednesday's terror attack on the office of the French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo, as “heroes”.The IS, in a statement, accused the

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  Saudi blogger to be publicly flogged for insulting Islam

  World | January 09, 2015 8:14 IST

  Dubai:  A Saudi blogger who was sentenced last May to 10 years in prison and 1,000 lashes will be publicly flogged for the first time after Friday prayers outside a mosque in the Red Sea

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  Hindu Mahasabha leader asks youth to marry girls of other faiths

  India | January 07, 2015 9:23 IST

  Jind: A Hindu Mahasabha functionary stirred a controversy by appealing to Hindu youth to marry girls from other faiths as a counter to 'Love Jihad'.Addressing a meeting of followers, working president of the Haryana unit

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  Embracing Islam will be real home coming: Asaduddin Owaisi

  Politics | January 04, 2015 11:53 IST

  Hyderabad: Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM) chief Asaduddin Owaisi said that Islam is the 'real home' of all religions in the world and hence the real 'home coming' will be when people of other religions embrace it.The

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  Conversion to Islam solely for marriage not valid: Allahabad High Court

  India | December 19, 2014 16:15 IST

  Allahabad:  In a significant judgement, the Allahabad High Court has ruled that the religious conversion of girls “without their faith and belief in Islam” and “solely for the purpose of marriage” to Muslim boys could