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...Why the absence of stories by, say, Syed Mujtaba Ali, the greatest Bengali wit and raconteur?...
...Islam is central to the music, but just as you don’t need to be Christian to enjoy gospel music or the works of JS Bach, qawwali transcends religious boundaries....
...On Thursday, Maulana Fazlur Rehman, a veteran mobiliser who heads the Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam (JUI-F), will lead the marchers from across Pakistan into the capital....
...Faisal Islam has the scoop. Brexpats hope The European Court of Justice has been asked to rule on the status of UK citizens living in the EU after Brexit after a referral from a Dutch judge (BBC)....
...“The need to clamp down hard on militants is very urgent,” said Syed Muhammad Raza, a member of the Baluchistan provincial assembly. “We can’t afford to lose more time.”...
...An increasing drift towards Saudi-style Islam has accompanied the growing political influence....
...Muhammad Musri, a Floridian imam and president of American Islam, had come to the site and said the attacks would “absolutely” worsen relations between Muslim-Americans and the rest of the population....
...The two men became close after Mr Marquez converted to Islam and became enamoured with Farook’s radical preachings....
...“We cannot turn against one another by letting this fight be defined as a war between America and Islam. That, too, is what groups like Isil want. Isil does not speak for Islam....
...“But it is clear that the two of them had gone down the dark path of radicalisation, embracing a perverted interpretation of Islam.”...
...Some Tory MEPs said they were reassured over accepting the two parties by Syed Kamall, the Tory leader in the European parliament, who is a practising Muslim....
...A Thatcherite Tory – Syed Kamall – was yesterday elected the leader of the group....
...The government dismissed Ms Zia’s proposal as backward and Syed Ashfraful Islam, the League’s general secretary, said Ms Zia was taking after army chief and former president Gen Ziaur Rahman, her late husband...
...“Whichever cricket team wins the Ashes, they become a hero to England,” said Syed Hasin ud din Shah, who heads the Islamic college in the city of Rawalpindi....
...Syed Ashraful Islam, a spokesman for Sheikh Hasina’s Awami League, said initial investigations indicated the attack was planned and that the mutineers had outside assistance, though he did not elaborate....
...Serajul Islam, a former professor at Chittagong Medical College, said it would be better for Mr Yunus to start politics from grassroots level, the way he started his organisation, Grameen Bank....
...Arzu has devoted the day’s front page to violent protests around the world against Israeli excavations near the Al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem, Islam’s third holiest site....
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