Jordan works on mosque law
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Jordan's parliament moved Sunday to tighten state control over mosque preachers, amending legislation that aims to prevent the kingdom's mosques from being used to propagate extremist ideas.
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NAJAF, Iraq  - Fears of heavier fighting in Najaf  grew on Wednesday after an Iraqi peace delegation failed to  defuse a confrontation between U.S. troops and militiamen holed  up in a revered shrine in the city.
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NAJAF, Iraq  - Fighters loyal to rebel Shi'ite  cleric Moqtada al-Sadr were firmly in control of Najaf's Imam  Ali mosque on Saturday, giving the lie to government claims  that police had taken control of the shrine.
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THE HAGUE -- The Dutch parliament asked the government yesterday to draft legislation compelling mosques to employ only imams who have studied Islamic religion in the Netherlands.
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A Muslim cleric in Indian-administered Kashmir issues an edict against Indian soldiers renovating mosques.
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Aug. 20 (Bloomberg) -- Iraqi religious authorities took control of the Imam Ali Mosque in the southern city of Najaf from militiamen loyal to Shiite Muslim cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, said Sabah Kadhim, senior adviser to the Iraqi Interior Ministry, in a ...
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Jordan said on Monday that the West Bank fence will interfere with establishing a stable Palestinian state and have a spillover effect that will threaten neighboring countries.
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NAJAF, Iraq - Militants filed out of the Imam Ali Shrine, closed the doors behind them and turned over the keys to Iraq's top Shiite cleric Friday, symbolizing their acceptance of a peace deal to end three weeks of devastating fighting in this holy city.    By Friday afternoon, dozens of Iraqi police and national guardsmen surrounded the shrine compound - many kissing its doors and weeping - as the government began to re-establish control over the Old City of Najaf...
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NAJAF, Iraq  - Fears of heavier fighting in Najaf grew on Wednesday after an Iraqi peace delegation failed to defuse a confrontation between US troops and militiamen holed up in a revered shrine in the city.
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Williams argues official status for Islamic law could aid social cohesion
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NAJAF, Iraq  - Iraqi police took control of the  Imam Ali Mosque in the holy city of Najaf on Friday after  entering the shrine and arrested some hundreds of militiamen,  Interior Ministry and an Iraqi government source said.
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Muhammad Bardawi, 77, has witnessed Ramallah&#39;s Mukata compound in all its incarnations: as a British Mandate police station, a Jordanian army post, an Israeli civil administration camp, the seat of the Palestinian Authority government, and now a shrine to
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The government said Saturday it wants to unify the calls to prayer that blare separately from thousands of mosque loudspeakers in the capital Cairo, but the idea was criticized by radicals as un-Islamic.
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JERUSALEM -- Hoping to quell days of Muslim protests, Jerusalem's ultra-Orthodox Jewish mayor yesterday ordered a review of construction outside a holy site at the heart of the Arab-Israeli conflict, a spokesman said.
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Jordan has charged a group of militants  for their alleged role in a thwarted chemical attack using  suicide bombers against Jordanian and U.S. targets in the  kingdom, security sources said Tuesday.
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NAJAF, Iraq  - Iraq&#39;s interim government said it had defused a Shi&#39;ite rebellion in Najaf on Friday without a shot being fired, but rebel militiamen denied police had seized the city&#39;s sacred Imam Ali Mosque from their control.
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AMMAN -- Jordanian authorities have arrested scores of Islamist and leftist activists critical of US policies, leading opposition figures said yesterday.