Group, city meet on Muslim scarf ban
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Officials of a south Georgia city where a Muslim woman was prohibited from wearing a traditional head scarf into a courtroom met with members of a national Muslim advocacy group on Wednesday.
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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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CAIRO - As he walked to noon prayers at his mosque in Milan  on a chilly day in February 2003, Osama Hassan Nasr says he was stopped by a  man waving a badge and shouting, 'Police.'      The man demanded his ...Comment
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Police in Manchester are seeking to reassure local imams and councillors after the shooting of an Asian man gunned down while in a car with three friends over a violent new year period.
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Board cites traffic, water concerns in deciding against Muslim sect's proposal.
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Pilot projects to root out Islamist extremists grooming young Muslims are being planned for British cities.
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The militant demand that a French ban on Islamic head scarves be overturned has raised an unprecedented backlash among religious and political leaders in the Middle East, who have often been silent about hostage slayings and other terrorism.
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30 August 2004 -- Paris said today that it will not repeal a ban on the wearing of Muslim headscarves in public schools, despite the demands of hostage-takers in Iraq holding two French journalists.
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BERLIN, Sep 28 (IPS) - German politicians met Muslim leaders this week for  an unprecedented Islam Conference -- a debate that the government  hopes will pave the way for smoother integration of the  country's Muslims, even though community representatives  warn that more needs to be done.
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Germany holds an Islam conference to tackle integration problems amid a row about self-censorship.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- After months of whipping his followers into a frenzy of anti government sentiment, the head cleric at a radical mosque was caught yesterday trying to leave his besieged compound clad in a head-to-toe veil known as a burqa, police said.
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Foreign ministers from seven key Muslim states gathered in the Pakistani capital for talks on a new Islamic initiative to end the turmoil in the Middle East.
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The country's leading secular opposition party has vowed to appeal this weekend's decision to lift a head-scarf ban to Turkey's top court.
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One in three people would back a ban on the Muslim face-covering veil in public places, a survey suggests.
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BBC Europe editor Mark Mardell talks to headscarf wearers and headscarf opponents to understand the Turkish debate on Muslim dress.
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Turkish lawmakers were set to lift a ban on Islamic headscarves at universities Saturday, as tens of thousands of people took to the streets to protest the move as a threat to secularism.
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Representatives of an Arab-American group and an antiwar group say they are urgently conferring with their attorneys on what steps to take after a federal judge turned down their request to gather in New York&#39;s Central Park and stage a