A body has been found in the rubble of a Leicester kebab shop that exploded in the early hours of Monday morning, police have revealed.
Six people – two men and four women – have been arrested in connection with the incident, which detectives are treating as suspicious.
The emergency services were called to the shop on Narborough Road at 2.23am on Monday following reports of an explosion.
They arrived to find the kebab shop had been destroyed and, at 4.30pm on Monday, [...]
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In Bosnia, which prides itself as the home ground of “European Islam”, religious fervour and relaxed joie de vivre live easily side by side, even during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
While many Sarajevans strictly observe the Ramadan fast, the cafes in the cobbled streets of the Bosnian capital’s Ottoman old town still abound with tourists and locals alike.
Young veiled women walk by, crossing others with hair blowing wildly in the wind, as Bosnians’ beloved beer flows freely — and [...]
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A 13 year old Christian from the Chak district of Layyah, Punjab province, disappeared on August 28. The suspicion is that he has been kidnapped, while listening to mass in the local Catholic Church in Rawalpindi. One priest reported the disappearance to the police, but so far officials have found no trace leading to the whereabouts of the boy. Meanwhile in Faisalabad, a woman aged 64 was attacked by a group of students from an Islamic religious school, because she [...]
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A Libyan father killed his three daughters after they were raped by Gaddafi’s troops to lift the shame on his family, a human rights group said today.
The girls, aged 15, 17 and 18 were allegedly assaulted by soldiers at a school in the town of Tomina, near the war-shattered city of Misrata, during a two-month siege.
When they returned home, their father slit their throats in a so-called honour killing, according to Physicians for Human Rights
The horrific story was one of [...]
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Louisiana state prisons should be allowed to ban inmates from receiving copies of a newspaper published by the Nation of Islam because its contents pose a security risk, a lawyer for the state argued Tuesday before a federal appeals court.
The state wants the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to overturn a federal judge’s ruling that the David Wade Correctional Center must deliver copies of The Final Call newspaper to Henry Leonard, a convicted murderer who claimed the Homer prison violated [...]
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The media, academics, activist groups, and a few politicians have promoted the view that Islamophobia is raging across America. The opposition to the location of the 9/11 Mosque, efforts to criticize the adoption of Sharia law in America, attempts to restrict the viewing of the anti-Semitic and anti-American Al Jazeera network on cable stations in America were seen as manifestations of Islamophobia in America. The latest and most example of this trend has been the Center for American Progress report [...]
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A terror cell with more than 10 members is in the Sinai desert and will soon attempt to infiltrate into Israel, according to the Minister for Homeland Defense, Matan Vilnai.
“The security establishment in on an alert regarding a terror attempt by a terrorist cell in Sinai numbering over ten people,” said Vilnai Tuesday. “The security establishment is working to foil the terror attempt,” he added.
Vilnai spoke at the Elbit factory in Sderot, not far from Gaza.
Large security forces have spread [...]
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Colonel Gaddafi’s wife and three of his children have fled to Algeria after a dramatic escape across the desert to avoid rebel forces.
Safiya Gaddafi, her sons Mohammed and Hannibal and daughter Ayesha were smuggled out in a cloak-and-dagger operation, arriving yesterday morning.
Algerian authorities refused to reveal if the dictator was with his family, sparking furious accusations that they had allowed the ‘Mad Dog’ of Libya to escape justice.
However the Italian news agency ANSA said that Gaddafi and his sons Saadi [...]
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In the early Monday morning hours, a Palestinian terrorist commandeered a taxi in Tel Aviv, drove it to a packed nightclub and ran over several policemen before coming to a halt and stabbing several bystanders. As he repeatedly stabbed Israelis, the terrorist shouted in Arabic, “God is great.”
But that’s not exactly how the New York Times is reporting this terrorist rampage in the heart of Israel.
In a dispatch posted on the Times’ website, Jerusalem bureau chief Ethan Bronner is ever [...]
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Just how dumb is Unite Against Fascism? Having lobbied the government many times in recent months to ban marches by the English Defence League, it is now outraged that the Government has not only taken up this offer to squish the EDL but has pushed it further, by banning all public protests in five London boroughs for the next 30 days. That means both the Right-wing EDL and the lefties at UAF – and anyone else with a political gripe [...]
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Sixty-six U.S. troops have died in Afghanistan so far this month, making August the deadliest month for American forces in the nearly decade-long war.
Nearly half of the troops killed died on Aug. 6 when the Taliban shot down a Chinook helicopter in eastern Afghanistan. That was the single deadliest event of the war and sent the monthly total soaring, according to a tally by The Associated Press.
The 30 American service members — most of them elite Navy SEALs — were [...]
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A shooting outside a Copenhagen mosque after prayers to mark the end of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan has left one person dead and at least two people injured, police said Tuesday.
Police spokesman Lau Thygesen said the shooting took place outside the Muslim Culture Institute, located in the Danish capital’s western Vesterbro district, and that the roads surrounding the mosque and a nearby car park have been cordoned off. Thygesen could not immediately provide more details.
A spokesman for the [...]
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The president of the newly established state of South Sudan told a visiting Israeli delegation that their future embassy in the Jewish state will be built in the disputed city of Jerusalem rather than in the political capital of Tel Aviv, according to a newspaper report.
Danny Danon, Israeli member of Likud Party and Parliament member, is currently on a visit to South Sudan capital of Juba where he met with president Salva Kiir.
The ‘Jerusalem Post’ newspaper quoted Kiir as telling [...]
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A Muslim man is paying a high price for a joke he made while chatting to his wife on a messenger conversation on Skype.
The man in question jokingly typed “talaq”, which translates as “I divorce thee”, three times in a row during a conversation with his wife on the internet messenger. Worried about his joke, the husband decided to seek the advice of the Islamic authorities in case his actions invalidated his marriage.
After admitting “I don’t understand Islam very much” [...]
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Up to 28,000 are expected at Alton Towers on September 17 when there will be no music, booze or gambling.
Instead there will be prayer areas, Muslim stalls and all food served will be halal.
Organisers Islamic Leisure have billed it the First National Muslim Fun Day and tickets can only be bought through their website.
Non-Muslims phoning the Staffordshire park have been refused tickets.
One, George Hughes, 19, who rang up for 15 tickets for a pal’s birthday, said: “I couldn’t believe it.
“It’s [...]
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Two conservative activist groups are planning a protest in Tulsa after a police captain was suspended for not making his officers attend a law enforcement appreciation day at a local mosque.
Officials with Act for America and the Tulsa 9/12 Project plan to protest Tuesday morning at Chapman Centennial Green Park in downtown Tulsa.
Tulsa 9/12 President Ronda Smith says the group plans to present a petition with 53,000 signatures to Tulsa city officials.
Capt. Paul Fields was suspended without pay for two [...]
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U.S. Muslims are content with the nation’s direction — in contrast to many Americans — and few believe there is support for Islamic extremism here. And 7 out of 10 view President Barack Obama’s tenure favorably, a survey released Tuesday found.
With the 10th anniversary of the al-Qaida attacks on New York and the Pentagon approaching, the Pew Research Center found that most Muslims felt ordinary Americans were friendly or neutral toward them.
In contrast to the majority of the general public [...]
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Hundreds of migrant laborers from predominantly Muslim Central Asian nations brawled with Russian police and private security guards over a job site restriction on alcohol, Russian media reported on Monday.
News reports said the conflict began after guards prevented a group of construction workers from bringing alcoholic beverages into their dormitory in preparation for the Muslim holiday Eid ul-Fitr, which ends the Ramadan month of fasting.
Consumption of alcohol, considered impermissible by many members of Islam, is however considered by some Muslims [...]
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Many Indonesians found themselves hungry and confused on Tuesday after the government declared the Eid al-Fitr festival that ends the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan would not start for another day.
After consulting with religious groups, the government decided on Monday that the moon was not in the right position for the festival to begin on Tuesday, as it has done for most Muslims around the world. It will start Wednesday instead.
“It’s a rather chaotic situation. People have had to change [...]
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The Scottish government is lashing out at those critical of its decision to release the Lockerbie bomber.
First Minister Alex Salmond said there is no evidence that Abdel Basset al-Megrahi has breached his license conditions despite quote, “ill-informed and misguided speculation to the contrary.”
Salmond was responding to a CNN reporter who found al-Megrahi seemingly comatose and near death in a Tripoli villa. Many U.S. lawmakers have spoke out against Scotland’s release of Al-Megrahi from prison in 2009, after he served eight [...]
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A Muslim hotel valet at one of Washington’s most exclusive hotels has sued his employer, claiming he was barred from working on floors occupied last year by a visiting Israeli delegation.
Mohamed Arafi of Kensington, Md., filed the suit in federal court in Washington Monday against the Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group.
Arafi says that his bosses prevented him from working on the 8th and 9th floors of the hotel back in December when those floors were occupied by an Israeli delegation. The [...]
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Senior Official in Egyptian Islamic Jihad: If We Come to Power, We will launch a campaign of Islamic conquests to instate Shari’a worldwide: ‘The Christian is Free to Worship His God in His Church, but if the Christians Make Problems for the Muslims, I Will Exterminate Them’
On August 13, 2011, the Egyptian daily Roz Al-Yousef published an interview with Sheikh ‘Adel Shehato, a senior official in Egyptian Islamic Jihad (EIJ), who, on March 23, 2011, was freed from prison in [...]
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