Number of Muslim converts on rise in UK - 05Jan2010 - English
According to a report by the interfaith organization Faith Matters, there were around 60,000 British Muslim converts in 2001. Whereas that number...
According to a report by the interfaith organization Faith Matters, there were around 60,000 British Muslim converts in 2001. Whereas that number has now shot up to about 100,000.
55% of these converts are white.
And 62% of them are female
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US charges Muslim students with conspiracy - 08Feb2011 - English
Eleven Muslim students have been charged with conspiring to disrupt a speech given by the Israeli ambassador to the United States at the University...
Eleven Muslim students have been charged with conspiring to disrupt a speech given by the Israeli ambassador to the United States at the University of California last year.
The students called Israeli Ambassador to the US Michael Oren a murderer, and continually disrupted his speech on US-Israeli relations at the University of California in Irvine in February 2010.
The Orange County district attorney's office charged the students with two misdemeanor counts of conspiracy one year after the event, a Press TV correspondent reported on Tuesday.
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Rally to call for an END to Western Interference in the Muslim World -...
Protestors gathered in Karachi to display their solidarity with the people of Bahrain, Yemen, Libya, and other uprising in the Middle East. The...
Protestors gathered in Karachi to display their solidarity with the people of Bahrain, Yemen, Libya, and other uprising in the Middle East. The demand of the protesters is the END of Western Interference in the Muslim World. Public calls for an end to the dictatorial regimes - the puppets of the world's Zionist powers.
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Do mixed cultural marriages within Muslim communities alienate converts...
This week's Islam and Life wishes to scrutinize whether mixed cultural marriages within Muslim communities in the West alienate converts to Islam.
This week's Islam and Life wishes to scrutinize whether mixed cultural marriages within Muslim communities in the West alienate converts to Islam.
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BBC Podcast: Muslim White Female Part 1 - English
After 9/11, many Muslims in the US and Britain experienced an upsurge of suspicion and hostility from people around them. At the same time,...
After 9/11, many Muslims in the US and Britain experienced an upsurge of suspicion and hostility from people around them. At the same time, paradoxically perhaps, the number of white converts to Islam began to rise. In Britain, their number has doubled in the last ten years -- and nearly two-thirds of the newcomers are women. In this programme, Miriam O\'Reilly meets women who have chosen to embrace Islam for very different reasons -- among them Lauren Booth, sister-in-law to Britain\'s former Prime Minister, Tony Blair; and Myriam Francois Cerrah, a successful child actress who appeared in \"Sense and Sensibility\" alongside Emma Thompson and gave up her dreams of Hollywood when she found Islam. We hear what drew them to a faith that exposed them to negative reactions after 9/11, and - in the eyes of their non-Muslim sisters -- has forced them to give up much of their personal freedom.
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BBC Podcast: Muslim White Female Part 2 - English
After 9/11, many Muslims in the US and Britain experienced an upsurge of suspicion and hostility from people around them. At the same time,...
After 9/11, many Muslims in the US and Britain experienced an upsurge of suspicion and hostility from people around them. At the same time, paradoxically perhaps, the number of white converts to Islam began to rise. In Britain, their number has doubled in the last ten years -- and nearly two-thirds of the newcomers are women. In this programme, Miriam O'Reilly meets women who have chosen to embrace Islam for very different reasons -- among them Lauren Booth, sister-in-law to Britain's former Prime Minister, Tony Blair; and Myriam Francois Cerrah, a successful child actress who appeared in "Sense and Sensibility" alongside Emma Thompson and gave up her dreams of Hollywood when she found Islam. We hear what drew them to a faith that exposed them to negative reactions after 9/11, and - in the eyes of their non-Muslim sisters -- has forced them to give up much of their personal freedom.
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