Thousands of Muslims mark end of Ramadan
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Close to 15,000 area Muslims thronged the Qwest Field Exhibition Center yesterday for services marking Eid-ul-Fitr. The festival of Eid marks the end of Ramadan, Islam&#39;s holy month of prayer and fasting; Hisham
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How a hostage crisis in Iraq moved Muslims to rally around the republic
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Thousands of Muslims celebrated the end of the month-long period of fasting and praying. In a cavernous hall decorated with gold balloons that read &quot;Eid Mubarak,&quot; or Blessed Eid, they prayed together, bought
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MECCA, Saudi Arabia  - Muslim pilgrims performed  final rites of the haj on Saturday, with many praising its  safety following fears of stampedes or al Qaeda strikes.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Muslims in Iraq and worldwide have spent the weekend celebrating the end of the holy month of Ramadan. The feast of Eid ul-Fitr follows a month of daylight fasting.
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Thousands of people massed around Benazir Bhutto's tomb in southern Pakistan early Thursday to mark the end of the 40-day mourning period for the slain opposition leader.
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Signs reading âEid Mubarak,â or Happy Eid, hang on the walls of a Crown Point mosque as local Muslims celebrate the closing of their holiest month.
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Hundreds of thousands of Muslims from  around the world on Friday began a three-day annual Islamic  prayer meeting outside the Bangladesh capital, Dhaka, with  politics banned and sermons set to call for world peace.
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A month of fasting and spiritual contemplation began yesterday for the 30,000 members of London&#39;s Muslim community. The start of the holy month of Ramadan was signalled Thursday night by sighting of the new crescent moon.
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MUZAFFARABAD, Pakistan  - The Islamic fasting   month of Ramadan began in somber mood in northern Pakistan on   Monday, nearly a year after an earthquake struck the   mountainous region, killing 73,000 people.
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Several hundred people rallied Wednesday to demand an end to what they said was the persecution of Christians in the Middle East that has forced thousands to flee the region.
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Muslims gathered Sunday across the Bay Area to celebrate Eid, a holiday that commemorates the end of Ramadan, the month of fasting.
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All that was missing was the crowds. But a  Ramadi celebration of a martyred tribal leader  provided telling evidence of the area's sudden turn against anti-American Islamic extremists
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The Muslim holy month of Ramadan is  supposed to be a time of spiritual joy, but the most that  Iraqis can pray for this time is that it brings a moment of  peace.
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Hundreds of thousands of Shiite Muslims clambered aboard buses or began trekking homeward on foot Saturday at the end of Ashoura, a 10-day ritual to cleanse the spirit and scourge the body in honor of their founding saint.
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Thousands of Islamists demonstrated across Pakistan after Friday prayers against the death of a cleric in detention over suspected links to Al Qaeda and against raids on seminaries.
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Thousands of Kashmiri Muslims, scarred by 15 years of violence, have celebrated Eid al-Fitr, days after India announced it will reduce the number of troops in the disputed Himalayan territory.