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...Imam Qari Asim, senior Imam at Makkah Masjid, Leeds, and an estranged former adviser to Gove on anti-Muslim hatred, said there was a risk that young people who are not in fact extreme in their views or actions...
...Sheikh Abdulrahman al-Sudais, imam of the Grand Mosque, has asked God to grant victory to the Palestinians as he led prayers during the holy month of Ramadan....
...Beside the local mosque, the imam laid out carpets. It was nearly time for the sunset prayers, and the mosque had fatal cracks running through it....
...“Today the deceased are not Afghans,” said the imam to more than 50 mourners. He was standing behind the four coffins, which were laid on the floor. “They belonged to humanity....
...And having said that he may be at risk of an assassination plot, he compared himself to Imam Hussain, a grandson of the Prophet Mohammed who was killed taking a stand against a tyrannical ruler in the seventh...
...There is a chapter built around Mohammed Mahmoud, the imam who stopped a crowd from setting on a terrorist who had just attacked Finsbury Park mosque in 2017, another on Patrick Hutchinson, the black activist...
...Justin Welby, the Archbishop of Canterbury, and Taj Hargey, a progressive South African-born Oxford imam, have defended the teacher’s right to free speech....
...Mahmoud, senior imam at the East London mosque in the borough of Tower Hamlets, where a more infectious mutation of the virus has been wreaking havoc....
...Sidhoum Rezza, a liberal imam from the Paris suburbs, said: “I’m appalled that in the 21st century someone can be decapitated for exercising their right to free speech . . ....
...from online hate speech — a measure introduced after teacher Samuel Paty was beheaded on the street outside his school in October by a young Islamist enraged that he had used caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed...
...“There’s a disconnect between the law and the reality,” said Dhaou Meskine, a prominent imam in the northern suburbs of Paris. “Secularism is becoming a new dogma that is imposed by force.”...
...However, the council’s president, Mohammed Moussaoui, later said Muslims should accept freedom of speech and criticism of Islam, “even its principles and its foundations”....
...“Shops should be closed during prayer times,” said preacher Saad al-Khathlan, who teaches sharia at Imam Mohammad bin Saud Islamic University in Riyadh, in a lecture earlier this year....
...“Our country is run by the Last Imam [the Mahdi, believed by Shia Muslims to be missing] who decides about the Days of Allah and will help us choose a great leader when the day comes.”...
...Local religious leaders preach that serving alcohol is sinful: “For these things, the Prophet Mohammed has said there will be punishment.”...
...Under the leadership of King Mohammed VI, Morocco has used soft power, including investment, diplomacy, education and cultural relations to carve out a sphere of influence in the continent, which benefits...
...Pope Francis will also meet Muslim leaders such as Ahmed el-Tayeb, grand imam of al-Azhar mosque in Cairo....
...The Saudi charm offensive contrasts starkly with Prince Mohammed’s earlier attempts at countering Iran....
...In Saudi Arabia, Mohammed bin Salman, the young crown prince and de facto ruler, affects to see the hand of Iran everywhere and three years ago launched a war in Yemen....
...However, imams there were said to be divided over whether their resistance should be peaceful....
...More than 2m Iranian pilgrims went to southern Iraq on Thursday to mark the 40th day of martyrdom of Hossein, the third Imam of the Shia, in a display of power....
...The others were Mohammed Aalla, Salh el-Karib and Mohamed Houli Chemlal, young men of Moroccan descent who were believed to be involved in the attack....
...But it was not until he offered to sack the imam that authorities considered reopening the mosque....
...The Muslim Welfare House’s imam, Mohammed Mahmoud, rushed out to protect the alleged attacker from angry members of the congregation. “Some tried to hit him, either kicks or punches,” he said....
...Mohsin Hamid, British-Pakistani writers longlisted, and in Hamid’s case, shortlisted for this year’s Man Booker Prize, any roll-call of storytellers from the subcontinent must include Nadeem Aslam and Mohammed...
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