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LA Times: Computer project manager tries his hand at Muslim matchmaking
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Information technology project manager Mohammad Mertaban is doing his part to resolve the “marriage crisis” in the Southern California Islamic community. It seems that growing numbers of devout Muslims in the U.S. are reaching their late 20s and early 30s still single. These are faithful who “tend to avoid Western-style dating,” writes Raja Abdulrahim in the Los Angeles Times. These same…
Rifle-toting soldiers tag along, protecting Thai monks collecting traditional daily alms
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With a Muslim insurgency threatening to destabilize Thailand’s south, armed soldiers have begun shadowing the area’s Buddhist monks as they make their daily rounds begging for alms. “With its barbed wire, sandbag bunker and armed guard, Wat Lak Muang in Thailand’s strife-torn deep south looks more like a military outpost than a typical Buddhist temple,”…
School picks OK! over Baghdad for musical
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Pennsylvania school kids will sing about the Sooner state instead of Baghdad after complaints prompted school officials to cancel plans to put on “Kismet,” a musical about a Muslim poet. Instead, students at Richland High School in Johnstown, Pa., will sing and act in Rogers and Hammerstein’s “Oklahoma!” reports David Hurst in the Johnstown Tribune-Democrat newspaper. Kismet is “a classic Tony Award-winning…
Muslim member of Dutch parliament issues his own “fatwa”
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On the eve of 9/11, a Dutch Muslim politician has launched a campaign calling on Muslims around the world to stop blindly following decrees issued by a handful of extremists, and to start thinking for themselves, according to the British news agency Reuters. “Tofik Dibi, a member of parliament for the opposition GreenLeft Party, said…
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