Tenn. Muslims Seek Approval for Cemeteries
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Muslims planned to turn an old sod farm near Memphis into a cemetery, but angry neighbors protested, complaining the burial ground could become a staging ground for terrorists or spread disease from unembalmed bodies.
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Gaza City - With Yasser Arafat fighting for his life in hospital and Israel firmly opposed to a Jerusalem burial, many Palestinians see the Gaza Strip as a fitting alternative place of rest for their leader.
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NAJAF, Iraq  For centuries, the world&#39;s 120 million Shiite Muslims have revered the gold-domed mosque of Imam Ali bin Abi Talib named after the slain cousin and son-in-law of Islam&#39;s prophet Muhammad as a place of pilgrimage.
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Board cites traffic, water concerns in deciding against Muslim sect's proposal.
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ALBANY, N.Y.  - Angry and saddened, members of a  Muslim community in New York state's capital have been staying  away from their mosque for fear of being labeled terrorists as  they await a bail hearing on Tuesday for two men accused of  supporting terrorism.
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Airport officials said Friday they will consider setting aside a private area for prayer and meditation at the request of imams concerned about the removal of six Muslim clerics from a US Airways flight last week.
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The widow of a soldier killed in Afghanistan won state approval Wednesday to place a Wiccan religious symbol on his memorial plaque, something the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs had refused.
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A minister orders an inquiry into an Islamic school which is accused of promoting religious intolerance.
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Iran's hardline president will honor an American scholar's request to be buried in a historic Iranian city when he dies, the state broadcasting company said Thursday.
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An Islamic civil rights group on  Thursday asked federal authorities to step in and investigate  whether two separate fires at U.S. mosques this week were hate  crimes.
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BAGHDAD, March 6 -- Inside the tent of Ali Abbas in the central city of Hilla, Shiite men beat their chests in a feverish rhythm on Tuesday. The pilgrims were mourning the death of Imam Hussein, the  prophet Muhammad's grandson who was slain with his family in 681. They had walked dozens of miles,...
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DOUAR ESCUELA, Morocco  - Neighbors of a Moroccan suspected suicide bomber portray him as a religious man who tried in vain to lift his family out of poverty after his release from a prison term for membership of a militant group.
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Investigators have begun to excavate at the site of a mass grave in northern Iraq which is believed to contain up to 300 bodies. The site at Hatra, south of Mosul, is believed to contain the bodies of Kurdish
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BAGHDAD, Iraq  An Iraqi delegation delivered a peace proposal to aides of militant cleric Muqtada al-Sadr in Najaf on Tuesday as explosions, gunfire and a US air strike on the sprawling cemetery ...
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Shiite Muslims on Tuesday marked Ashoura, commemorating the death in A.
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By Tom Benning, The Knoxville News-Sentinel, Tenn.  Jun. 1--Two years ago, Abe Whaley watched in agony as construction  progressed on Legacy Mountain, a ridge nestled between Pittman Center and  Pigeon Forge.
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COLOGNE, Germany -- On Muslim holidays, hundreds of faithful hoping to pray at the city's Ditib Mosque are forced to spread their prayer rugs in a nearby parking lot and follow the service on loudspeakers. The mosque holds only 600 people.