Islam

The church that’s opened its doors to Islam: Christians roll out welcome to Muslims who were having to pray in the wind and rain because their mosque was so small

  The Syed Shah Mustafa Jame Masjid mosque was too small to fit everyone in Church minister Rev Isaac Poobalan saw worshippers praying outside Now he has handed over part of St John's Episcopal Church in Aberdeen Bishop says: 'It would be good to think we can change the world' By HELEN LAWSON A Scottish church has become the first in …

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Former PVV member converts to Islam By The Holland Times

  A former member of the far-right PVV has converted to Islam, if a statement released via Twitter is to be believed. Arnoud van Doorn was a member of Geert Wilders' anti-Islam party until the end of 2011 and, according to the Doğan News Agency, a personal friend of Wilders himself. The surprising announcement came via Van Doorn's Twitter account, …

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After centuries of stagnation science is making a comeback in the Islamic world

The road to renewal THE sleep has been long and deep. In 2005 Harvard University produced more scientific papers than 17 Arabic-speaking countries combined. The world’s 1.6 billion Muslims have produced only two Nobel laureates in chemistry and physics. Both moved to the West: the only living one, the chemist Ahmed Hassan Zewail, is at the California Institute of Technology. …

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