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Minneapolis Muslim girls design their own modest sportswear

When Muslims on the Cedar Riverside Community School girls’ basketball team in Minneapolis found their traditional clothing interfered with sports activities, they sought a solution. With the help of students at University of Minnesota’s College of Design and the Tucker Center for Research on Girls & Women in Sport, the girls designed their own sports attire that met both religious …

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A dire situation for Syria’s Palestinian refugees

Several credible reports this week from Palestinian refugees in Syria and Europe, the latter among those who by various means managed to escape the Syrian conflict with their lives, illustrate the increasing pressure and dangers Palestinians are facing here just trying to survive. And the chances of survival are not likely to improve anything soon. Three serious cases over the …

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Ramadan for New Muslims (Second Edition)

To attain God-consciousness and the great reward of Allah, a Muslim needs to learn the morals and lessons from fasting the month of Ramadan. OnIslam.net, therefore, produces a second edition of this e-book, whose contents are based mainly on informative articles, to help new Muslims, and also non-Muslims 

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Ramadan Food Traditions in South Africa

The sun is slowly slipping down behind the majestic mountains. In just a few minutes it will set. While the city is slowly coming to the evening stand still, you see children wearing scarfs and koufiyyahs (Muslim headdress for males) and dressed in thoabs (long garments) scurrying across the streets of suburbia delivering plates of treats to their neighbours; a …

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Saudi Launches Grand Mosque Expansion

JEDDAH – Amid preparations for world's largest gathering of Hajj, Saudi Arabia’s King Salman bin Abdulaziz inaugurated the third expansion of the Grand Mosque to accommodate over 1.85 million pilgrims. “Pilgrims and visitors will say goodbye to the problem of over crowdedness," the head of Grand Mosque and Prophet's Mosque Affairs Abdulrahman Al­Sedais was quoted by Kuwait News Agency (KUNA) …

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