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Every year, millions of pilgrims descend on the central Iraqi city of Karbala to commemorate the Shiite holiday of Arbaeen, one of the largest organized gatherings in the world
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Terror inquiry after teacher beheaded near Paris
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Scaled-down hajj begins in coronavirus era – in pictures
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Turkey turns the Hagia Sophia museum into a mosque
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The Chinese government is engaging in a widespread, systematic campaign of forced birth control and sterilization on Uighurs and other minorities
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France mandates masks to control the coronavirus, but burqas remain banned
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Eating in Xi'an, where wheat and lamb speak to China's varied palette
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We are all niqabis now: Coronavirus masks reveal hypocrisy of face covering bans
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Coronavirus COVID-19 cases spiked across Asia after a mass gathering in Malaysia. This is how it caught the countries by surprise
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Taqwacore: The paradoxes of the punk Islam scene
Hi folks, I was recently introduced (at a relatively superficial level) to the existence of the "Taqwacore" sub-culture of Western punk music. The duality inherent or apparent in this type of...
Hi folks, I was recently introduced (at a relatively superficial level) to the existence of the "Taqwacore" sub-culture of Western punk music. The duality inherent or apparent in this type of self-expression is absolutely fascinating to me, and I would love to learn more about it.
I personally find it a little hard to understand exactly how these musicians reconcile the anti-establishment and maybe progressiveness of punk with many tenets of Islam; the concept of organized religion seems inherently establishment (and dated) to me, and yet these groups somehow embrace both ends of the spectrum. I'm very curious if any Tildesians have opinions on Taqwacore bands or thoughts on the sub-genre as a whole!
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'It’s not easy to believe in a god when people tell you God doesn’t like us'
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The Muslim world’s question: ‘What happened to us?’
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India and Pakistan: A continuing story
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What the Gulf: Blood and oil
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How art created stereotypes of the Arab world
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A thread on the devil in Islamic tradition and folklore
@aaolomi: Islam, like Christianity and Judaism, has a devil. But Iblis, as he's known to Muslims, differs from the red-skinned and horned devil popular in "Western" imagination. A thread on the devil in Islamic tradition and folklore
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China is destroying Uighur graveyards, leaving behind human bones and broken tombs in what activists call an effort to eradicate the ethnic group’s identity in Xinjiang
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Jews and Muslims in Sweden outraged over call to ban male circumcision
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The secret gay history of Islam. In Muslim cultures, homosexuality was once considered the most normal thing in the world – so what changed?
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Shalt thou eat an Impossible Burger? The definitions of "halal" and "kosher" are being challenged by new food technology
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Fear and oppression in Xinjiang: China’s war on Uighur culture
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Denmark has a national songbook – should it mention Ramadan?
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Hajj 2019: live updates as pilgrims begin rituals in Makkah
Hajj 2019: live updates as pilgrims begin rituals in Makkah Hajj 2019: the Islamic pilgrimage to Makkah explained Every able-bodied Muslim is meant to do the Haj once in their lifetime. Why? What...
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Politics complicate the hajj spiritual journey for some Muslims
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Many US prisons deny Muslim inmates halal food and proper prayer
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China Muslims: Xinjiang schools used to separate children from families
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Coffee: The muslim drink
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The ongoing persecution of China’s Uyghurs
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India’s Muslims quiver in the new dawn of an emboldened Narendra Modi
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Muslims of early America: Muslims came to America more than a century before Protestants, and in great numbers. How was their history forgotten?
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Muslim lawmakers host Ramadan feast at Capitol
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Queer Muslim women reflect on navigating their faith and sexuality
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Brunei will not enforce death penalty for gay sex following backlash
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Ramadan: Three Muslims explain how they combine its spirituality with their busy lives
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Microsoft accused of being 'complicit' in persecution of one million Muslims after helping China develop sinister AI capabilities
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Indonesia’s Muslim youth find new heroes in Instagram preachers
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Brunei introduces death by stoning as punishment for gay sex
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How new role models are inspiring young Muslim women to reimagine their lives
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We Talked to Muslims in the LGBTQ Community About Standing Up for Queer Youth
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A sports hijab has France debating the Muslim veil, again
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Pakistan court upholds Aasia Bibi's blasphemy acquittal: Christian woman free to leave after petition against her acquittal on blasphemy charges dismissed by Supreme Court.
Pakistan court upholds Aasia Bibi's blasphemy acquittal This is a follow-up to this previous story: Pakistan’s ultra-Islamist party blocked roads in major cities for a third day on Friday in...
Pakistan court upholds Aasia Bibi's blasphemy acquittal
This is a follow-up to this previous story: Pakistan’s ultra-Islamist party blocked roads in major cities for a third day on Friday in protest against the acquittal of a Christian woman on death row for blasphemy allegations.
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First Muslim superhero returns after seventy years – just in time to take down a few Nazis
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China holding 800k Muslim minorities in internment camps
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Tens of thousands protest in India for controversial Hindu temple
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'They ordered me to get an abortion': A Chinese woman's ordeal in Xinjiang
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Ex-detainee describes torture in China's Xinjiang re-education camp
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Pakistan’s ultra-Islamist party blocked roads in major cities for a third day on Friday in protest against the acquittal of a Christian woman on death row for blasphemy allegations
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Satellite images expose China's network of re-education camps
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Calling prophet Muhammad a pedophile does not fall within freedom of speech: European court
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