Tag: Muslim

• Monday, July 25th 2011 - 20:40 UTC

  Norwegian mass killer says the organization has “two more cells”

  

  Anders Behring Breivik told a Norwegian judge Monday his bombing and shooting rampage that killed over 80 people aimed to save Europe from a Muslim takeover, and said that “two more cells” existed in his organization.

• Wednesday, March 16th 2011 - 05:38 UTC

  Bahrain threatens to turn into a conflict between Sunni-rulers and Shi’ite majority

  

  Bahrain's king declared martial law as his government struggled to quell an uprising by the island's Shi'ite Muslim majority that has drawn in troops from fellow Sunni-ruled neighbour Saudi Arabia.

• Friday, January 28th 2011 - 14:27 UTC

  Muslim Birth Rate Drops

  

  Decreasing birth rates will slow the world’s Muslim population growth over the next twenty years, reducing it from 2.2% a year in 1990-2010 period to 1.5% up until 2030 a new study says.

• Thursday, November 11th 2010 - 20:29 UTC

  Chilean government supports Muslim school girl use of ‘hijab’

  

  Yasmin Elsayed, a 9-year old girl who was prohibited from wearing a hijab (an Islamic head scarf) at the W. A. Mozart School in the La Reina borough of Chile’s capital Santiago, was allowed to register again for the 2011 school year this week.