Omar Saif Ghobash, ambassador of the United Arab Emirates to Russia, has written a series of essays to his two teenage sons Saif and Abdullah.
Islam
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Ending of Muslim registry praised by Catholic organizations
Some see the end of the registry as a way to make it difficult for an incoming Donald Trump administration to target Muslims through such a program.
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Want to learn more about Islam? Here are some good places to start.
A new report found 70 percent of Catholics do not know a single Muslim.
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Report finds American Catholics have lots to learn about Islam
Fewer than two in 10 U.S. Catholics hold a favorable view of Muslims, with many possessing little understanding when it comes to the beliefs of the world’s second largest religion.
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The future of the Rohingya community in Myanmar rests with an advisory committee
Hundreds of Rohingya were killed and tens of thousands forced to flee their homes in 2012 unrest in Rakhine state, and many continue to be confined to squalid camps there.
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What Islam really teaches about the Virgin Mary
In the Quran, Mary is twice chosen: as the pious girl dwelling in the Temple, and as the mother of Jesus.
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‘Allahu akbar’ was never a call to violence and destruction.
Editors Note, Feb. 25, 2019: America has become aware that this article included extensive unattributed material from other sources. Accordingly, we have removed the text. A Feb. 22 story in the National Post of Canada documented multiple cases in which Father Rosica used material from other authors without providing proper citations. “What I’ve done is wrong, and I am sorry about that,” […]
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Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslim Minority Become Newest Boat People
A few small but significant steps toward ending the suffering of Rohingya Muslims adrift on the Andaman Sea have been made in recent days Responding to broad international criticism of previous decisions to turn away boatloads of Rohingya landing on their shores Southeast Asian regional powers Mal
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Who Speaks for Islam?: Muslim authorities call for an end to militant violence.
“Why don’t they speak out?” Faced with the savage persecution of Christians and other religious minorities in Syria and Iraq, that is a question one often hears as the atrocities of the so-called Islamic State continue in the name of Islam.
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Regensburg Redux: Was Pope Benedict XVI Right About Islam?
Eight years ago this Friday Sept 12 Pope Benedict XVI delivered a lecture at the University of Regensburg in Bavaria in which he seemed to diagnose Islam as a religion inherently flawed by fanaticism It was an undiplomatic assertion to say the least.