Muslims supporting congressional hopeful
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When Mohamed Ghabour heard that a Muslim candidate, Keith Ellison, was running for Congress in Minneapolis, Ghabour turned to a sister-in-law who lives in Minnesota for a scouting report. "She said he's a good man," recalled Ghabour, a Muslim pediatrician from the Tampa, Fla., area. "That's all I needed to hear."
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He's a devout Muslim whose wife wears an Islamic headscarf in a nation where religious attire is banned from government buildings. He is also a champion of reforms needed for Turkey to qualify for European Union membership.
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The Republican candidate takes on the tough task of defending his positions before religious conservatives today.
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About one in four Americans holds anti-Muslim views, such as a belief that the religion teaches violence and hatred, according to a survey an Islamic advocacy group released Monday.
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Somali presidential candidate Abdulahi Yusuf Ahmed, left, stands next to an unidentified election official, just after he had taken an oath on the Quran to abide by the election results, Sunday, Oct. 10, 2004
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The leaders of the US Muslim community said that they will announce whether they will endorse any political candidate for president this year, and if so whom, in mid-October.
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Malaysia's  Islamist opposition party called on non-Muslims on Thursday to  back its election campaign to apply strict sharia law,  including amputations and stonings, for the country's Muslims.
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Ihsan Saadeddin is proud to be an   American. But he's tired of having to prove it just because   he's a Muslim too.
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A key Republican senator announced his support Wednesday for efforts by Sen. John McCain and others to block partisan interest groups from spending millions of dollars in big donations in next year's congressional elections as they did in last year's 2004 presidential race.
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Some members of the Sunni Muslim minority in Iraq should get positions in the new government after next month's elections to protect their rights, Sens. Carl Levin (D-Mich.) and Richard Lugar (R-Ind.) said Sunday. The senators also said they opposed quotas even as they favored an accommodation between the majority Shiites and the minority Sunnis.
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The holy month&#39;s fasting culminates in the feast of Eid al-Fitr and prayers for peace, tranquility and greater understanding. Colorado Muslims, including 1-year-old Mohammad Saif Islam of Denver, gather Sunday
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Eight years after a lawmaker was thrown  out of Turkey&#39;s parliament for wearing a Muslim-style  headscarf, devout Turks are pinning hopes of more religious  rights on their next president and his headscarf-wearing wife.
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As both Democrats and Republicans sought their support, American Muslim leaders wrapped up their community's largest convention Sunday still debating whether to endorse a presidential candidate.
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NAJAF, Iraq -- Her full, traditional veil, which stands out even here in the religious capital of the socially conservative Shi'ite south, makes it hard for Anwar Uboud-Ali to see on the campaign trail.
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With just 26 days to the November 2 US presidential election, the Democratic Party has launched a website targeting religious voters, seeking to present Democratic White House hopeful John Kerry and running mate John Edwards as men of faith.
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Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry has received the backing of leaders of the estimated seven-million-strong Muslim-American community, but the endorsement was lukewarm at best.
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Leading US Muslim groups threw their support behind Democratic White House hopeful John Kerry, calling for a protest vote against President George W. Bush.