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When Obama flew to Cairo a few days later to deliver a landmark speech to the Arab and Muslim world, Mubarak did not attend.

Even if Goko, as a Muslim, does not celebrate Christmas, I wanted to get him a gift and found a t-shirt that I thought he would like.

This means that at the end of a year (calendar year or fiscal year) a Muslim has to calculate what amount must be paid for zakah.

He said he wants to launch a dialogue not just with them, but with the wider Muslim world.

He said it was dangerous for France to be seen as part of a "western bloc against the Arab and Muslim world" .

But once the conquering was done, Muslim leaders found that trying to compel uniform belief in a multinational empire was a lose-lose game.

Eventually, he said, the national network could replace the global Internet in Iran, as well as in other Muslim countries.

(in Muslim belief) one of the dark-eyed virgins of perfect beauty believed to live with the blessed in Paradise.

He was surprised to see, across the lake, some of his friends who had died in Rwanda including a Muslim.

MINTIMER SHAIMIEV has ruled Tatarstan, a large Muslim republic in the heart of Russia, for two decades with a soft voice and a tight fist.

I thought I would be the only Chinese Muslim there. That couldn't have been further from the truth.

A Muslim might well consider that Islam awareness deserves more than just a week.

'Indonesia can be a good partner for the U. S. to reach out to the Muslim world, ' he said.

A candidate for president must be at least forty years of age, a Muslim, and a citizen of Afghanistan.

Many Democrats and US Muslim groups argued that this hearing was a form of racial profiling, and should be expanded to include other groups.

Ambassador Liu congratulated Baroness Warsi on her being a member of the British Cabinet as the first Muslim woman.

This new generation is trying to open up the debate about how to be both a good Muslim and a good citizen in a modern secular society.

"The U. S. really needs to be friendly to Muslim countries, " he said.

A French law court has allowed a Muslim man to annul his marriage on the ground that his wife was not a virgin on their wedding night.

Besides, there seems to be an assumption that the salvation of Muslim women must mirror that of western women.

fanning the flames of a protest that has since spread into a more generalized criticism of Muslim institutions in the United States.

Unity, founded early in the last century, is one of several British schools run along Christian lines in an overwhelmingly Muslim country.

Ghadaffi might have been a bad man, but we knew what we were dealing with, he ruled AGAINST muslim extremists (our enemies).

Jingning County is now one of the focus of heritage buildings and is the county seat of Muslim places of religious activities.

And yet our inability to protect religious minorities is obvious to the thousands of Muslim victims of the Gujarat riots of 2002.

You don't have to be a Christian or Jew or Muslim or even a spiritual person; inside you know the right thing to do.

"As I watched her, I wanted to make Muslim women's lives more comfortable and bring them out of the closet, " she said.

They set aside other activities, face in the direction of the Muslim holy city of Mecca, and kneel down in worship.

The president said it is important "not to say that our only two options are the Muslim Brotherhood, or to suppress the Egyptian people. "

The 16-year-old is one of 675 Muslim students studying in the US for a year under a US State Department-sponsored cultural exchange program.

This is, in-fact, except for two or three Muslim countries, which encourage their women to observe this ruling or at least "let it go" .

He said that included references to a recently passed law in France banning the face-covering veil, which Muslim extremists have criticized.

The matter is delicate, not only because some of France's Muslim groups consider that such a move would further stigmatise Islam.

Clashes ensued between the advancing Muslim crowd and the much smaller group of Christians trying to push them back.

Most of the boat people were Rohingyas, members of a Muslim minority, many of whom had already fled Myanmar once, for Bangladesh.

"What bin Laden ends up doing is saying anyone who disagrees with him, any Muslim, is in fact an apostate, " he said.

When his death was confirmed by his brother Jermaine, who became a Muslim 20 years ago, he said: "May Allah be with you, Michael. "

Why would a Siberian shaman feel any desire to be a citizen of the same state as a West African Muslim? Or vice versa?

Thus, Allah must be the first love in the heart of a true Muslim followed by His messenger and the jihad in the cause of Allah.

It has no significant Muslim population (just a handful of Tatars, and some Soviet-era Iraqis, both highly integrated).

Herman Cain repeated his earlier statement that he would not be comfortable with a Muslim in his cabinet.

And that's the point, the designers say: the suits allow women, Muslim or not, to choose comfort over conformity.

Jesus told him that as this Muslim was dying, he called upon the name of Jesus, and Jesus saved him from hell.

An old Muslim man beside me whipped off his prayer cap and stuck his head far out the window, like a Labrador.

It was a gesture of pity, but from that moment she was to be honored and given great respect in the Muslim community.

One day he insisted we fly with him by helicopter to see what he called a massacre of Serb villagers by marauding Muslim fighters .

Republican candidate Mitt Romney said the president has exhibited weakness in his outreach to the Muslim world.

He was born in Mecca, the holiest of Muslim places and was the only person to be born within the Kaaba sanctuary inside the city.

The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) warned the Muslim never to abuse, scorn, belittle, or deny his wife any of her rights.

At least 69 Muslim Kashmiris protesting Indian rule have been shot down in the street by Indian paramilitary police in recent weeks.

Some analysts said the decisive factor in the defeat of the party that backs Musharraf, the Pakistan Muslim League (PML), was the president.

The clashes on Wednesday appeared to have started with a disagreement in a gold shop owned by a Muslim family.

Just as they tried to stoke a Shiite-Sunni civil war in Iraq, and failed, they are now trying to stoke a Hindu-Muslim civil war in India.

The Muslim population is often persecuted, and is socially quite marginalized.

But in many Muslim nations people grumbled that the Pope appeared to be regretting the reactions to the speech, but not the speech itself.

White House officials had said the speech was intended to start a process to "re-energise the dialogue with the Muslim world" .

To commemorate him, at least one member of each Muslim family will be named Mohammed, Ahmed or other derivations of the word.

And if that view becomes more respectable, so too does a defensive Muslim reaction, which is often tinged with geopolitical grievance.

He began to perceive what he said was the hostility of Muslim youth.

Srila Prabhupada once said he would take the dust of the feet of any devotee who preached in the Muslim countries.

And the numbers would not be threatening if the Muslim-immigrants had a strong desire to assimilate.

Three of the first people he talked to asked if the senator's second name was really Hussein and if it was true he was a Muslim.

In 778 Charlemagne invaded Spain, trying to take advantage of skirmishes between the Muslim rulers, but was repulsed at Saragossa.

I'm also proud to carry with me the goodwill of the American people, and a greeting of peace from Muslim communities in my country.

The attack took place in the early evening when Afghans were breaking their fast during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.

Israel claims that they were a Muslim Brotherhood vanguard which had carefully rehearsed scenarios for an armed attack on their convoy.

There is no doubt that losing a child is a very sad and tragic event for any parent, Muslim or not.

Outside the Muslim countries, however, there is a general consensus that it would be bad if China were to rival the U. S. militarily.

But when he moved to Madinah, Allah commanded him to establish the Muslim State, and this necessitated some sort of power and authority.

A Sunni Muslim group, Jundollah (God's soldiers), claimed responsibility for that blast and Iran said the group operated from Pakistan.

France's Muslim community is trying to come up with its own means of financing its clerics.

The body of a dead Muslim should be given Kafan with three pieces of cloth: a loin cloth, a shirt or tunic, and a full cover.

He took seriously the Muslim idea of a dialogue based on the commands of Jesus of Nazareth to love God and one another.

The Islamists did not play a role in Tunisia and in Egypt the course of events seems to have taken the Muslim Brotherhood by surprise.

A retired German Muslim leader who asked not to be named said he was concerned.

Dufour said she would not date a fundamentalist(10) Muslim and that her mother worries about her safety.

Muslim comedians do not just ridicule their fellow citizens' foibles. Satire bubbles up in even the most repressive regimes.

The Islamic religious authority, like the police, can also carry out raids among the Muslim community to identify wrongdoing against Islam.

Christian churches and Muslim groups have no more right to have their say than women's institutes or trades unions.

The jury in Dearborn, home to one of the country's largest Muslim communities, said such a protest would disturb the peace.

No one knows how much support the Muslim Brotherhood and the old-fashioned left have.

I decided to set aside my own pre-conceived beliefs about Jesus as a Muslim and treat the sources with objectivity.

The Labour MP was criticised for walking out of a Muslim wedding last summer after learning that the guests would be segregated by sex.

PRESIDENT OBAMA speaks to the Muslim world today from Cairo as leader of a nation that has lost respect in much of that world.

Not long ago, Abdullah Mohamed Hashim might have felt out of place in the city's cubicle culture because he's Malaysian and a Muslim.

And it is tribal, family or Muslim affiliations that usually predominate, not the concept of nation; or not as Obama uses the word.

The attacks came as Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim country, appeared to be re-establishing itself as a tourist destination.

Instead, for a crucial decade, while China grew, the US found itself bogged down in conflicts in the Muslim world.

The question of Muslim identity , assumed seriousness during the decline of Muslim power in South Asia .

Fakih, who moved to the United States as a baby, is believed to be the first Arab-American and Muslim to hold the title of Miss USA.

Fakih, who moved to the United States as a baby, is believed to be the first Arab-American and Muslim to hold the title of Miss USA.

As Ramadan begins, Michelle and I would like to send our best wishes to Muslim communities in the United States and around the world.

The long marriage between Sudan's Arab-and-Muslim north and its black, animist and Christian south was always unequal and unhappy.

When the Muslim Brotherhood won 20% of seats six years ago, it was the only party that presented a real alternative to Mr Mubarak.

Many Muslim Turks came to see the rise in nationalism of the Christian Armenians as a threat to the existence of the Ottoman state.

ONE of the biggest events in the Muslim calendar, Eid al-Adha, which begins this weekend, is supposed to be a festival of sacrifice.

I was a Muslim, and learned a bit of voodoo too, in the African incarnation.

Over the Christmas period Ms Bruni-Sarkozy visited a shrine in India and told a Muslim cleric that she was praying for another son.

Islamists who are not violent, like the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, should be able to contest free elections.

The Muslim Brotherhood is a powerful force in Egypt, even if it is not allowed to contest elections openly.

Orders have come mainly from the US and Britain, and from neighbouring Muslim countries, he said.

Above all, it is a rare example of a mainly Muslim country with a thriving, secular democracy and a liberal, free-market economy.

As an Arab Muslim, watching and hearing news on what went on in Palestine and Iraq had gotten to a nauseating point with me.

He called it "a crime against religion and the entire Muslim umma [community]" .

Today, Holdbrooks is a practising Muslim again, but he does not seem to be at peace.

The bombings intensified the debate in Western Europe about to what extent Muslim culture should be tolerated or legislated against.

The demonstrators, some carrying anti-mosque placards, seemed to have no trouble buying water from a Muslim from Bangladesh.

I once asked a Muslim man living in a shack without indoor plumbing what kept him in the city.

Per head, the income of the wealthiest Muslim country (the United Arab Emirates) is 200 times that of the poorest (Somalia).

Analysts say if Muslim hard-liners take power in Egypt, Israel will feel surrounded in a way it has not been for decades.

Across the country, al-Qaeda cells are trying to topple the government and bring about a Muslim caliphate in the region.

Compared to Muslim Palestinians, Christians tend to be wealthier, more educated, and better able to integrate in the Western world.

Yangzhou Muslim food flourished in Qing Dynasty and was an important part of Huaiyang Cuisine Style.

Yet the separatist chiefs preferred to see it as a brazen effort by the government to shift Hindus into the Muslim-dominated Kashmir valley.

Like the other Muslim House member, Minnesota Representative Keith Ellison, Carson converted to the religion as an adult.

During the build-up to the US election, Barack Obama faced allegations that he was a Muslim.

Acquaintances described him as a gun-loving Norwegian obsessed with what he saw as the threats of multiculturalism and Muslim immigration.

Certainly, bin Laden saw himself as a messiah, the savior, of his own Muslim people, and perhaps, of humanity.

In an interview on the ABC network, Obama referred to "my Muslim faith" by mistake.

To his credit, Mr Erdogan was the first Muslim leader to tell Egypt's Hosni Mubarak to step down.

Muslim men kicked up plumes of dust as they shuffled through the ashes of their stalls, which a week earlier had numbered more than 5, 000.

This startlingly modern hotel in the city of ancient Muslim royalty boasts a pool intended to give a sense of swimming into a 3-D movie.

The Muslim Brotherhood is a religious and political group founded on the belief that Islam is not simply a religion, but a way of life.

Muslim women were herded into "rape camps" where they were raped repeatedly, usually by groups of men.

"I never thought he would be a person associated with the Muslim Brotherhood, " Dr. Mohammed said.

And the effect seems to hold, whether you're Christian, Muslim or agnostic, progressive, independent or conservative.

Now he tends to scrawny, tick-ridden cattle in Muslim-majority parts of Mindanao.

It follows a violent end to the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, in which at least seven people were shot dead in protests across Syria.

One of his main grievances appears to be against Muslim immigration to Europe.

This was a brazen attempt to create Muslim-Christian tensions, and similar to plays in Iraq and Pakistan.

If Muslim tribunals are starting in Britain, it would be odd to abolish sharia in a place where it has been applied since Ottoman times.

By this measure, the Muslim majority living in the Indian-administered Kashmir valley has never been Indian.

His aim is to turn the message of President Obama to the Muslim world last week - a message that included the U.

The peoples need to pressure their governments to take such a stand and prove to the world that the Muslim Ummah is still alive.

The number of Muslim children who had not received at least two polio drops was reduced from 5% in 2002 to nearly 0% in 2004.

A Muslim couple in India has been told by local Islamic leaders they must separate after the husband "divorced" his wife in his sleep.

Just as bad, from Israel's point of view, it helps feed antipathy towards Israel, not just in the Arab and Muslim worlds, but in Europe too.

All your religious books, whether Christian or Muslim or another, all sustain and nourish this idea, this concept of an individual.

It said the amnesty would cover all political movements, including the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood.

IN MUSLIM countries, a conservative head-covering does not always mean being conservative in other ways.

Faten had fallen in love with a young man called Samer, a Muslim, from Jericho. Her family disapproved of her choice.

Security official said the blast occurred near a restaurant in the mainly Shia Muslim Shula district in the northwest of the city.

At a recent grassroots dialogue session, some non- Muslim MPs asked why Muslim women DID not shake hands.

He was the son of a minor official in the Mongol empire, a Central Asian Muslim killed by Ming troops during the invasion.

Without money or prospects, some have turned to crime, helping to swell a prison population estimated to be up to 70% Muslim.

First of all, you are to be commended for your desire to wish Muslim colleagues and friends a happy Ramadan.

President Barack Obama has used the fact that his father was a Muslim to foster better relations with the Islamic world.

Tight-fitting trousers will also be forbidden and Muslim head-dresses will have to be 'school blue' colour.

Abu Sayyaf claims responsibility, saying a suicide bomber sabotaged the boat to protest ill treatment of Muslim communities.

What if the new one eventually delivers the greatest of the Arab nations into the patient hands of a hostile Muslim Brotherhood?

Palfrey Junior is a state school, with no religious affiliation. But the fact that 98% of its pupils are Muslim affects the ethos.

I told him that Germany and the Netherlands, two states with large and vocal Muslim minorities, were among Israel's best friends in Europe.

At almost every British university, there is an ISOC to which practising Muslim students, seeking soulmates, soon gravitate.

At least Mr Yar'Adua is a northern Muslim, taking over the presidency from a Christian southerner.

Mr Gul was fiercely opposed by secularists and the army, because his wife wears the Muslim headscarf, banned in public buildings.

People have every right to be fundamentalist whether Jewish, Christian, or Muslim, but I sure wish they wouldn't choose to be.

Her appointment did not prevent another eruption of street violence in the heavily Muslim banlieues last month.

Republican spots feature the sound of a ticking bomb and a quote from Osama bin Laden about every Muslim's sacred duty to kill Americans.

Rauf is on a tour sponsored by the U. S. State Department to discuss Muslim life in the United States and promote religious tolerance.

As an Arab and a Muslim, there was nothing much I can benefit from what Obama has to say.

So I had a very inventive teacher, a Pakistani Muslim, who wanted to teach us about this.

Breivik is not so much racist as anti-Muslim: all his hatred is focused on the Muslim threat.

This was a watershed in modern Indian history, exacerbating tensions between the Hindu majority and Muslim minority.

Bin Laden said the five French people were kidnapped in Niger last month, is France's response to anti-Muslim acts.

You see, even before I became Muslim, Ramadhan earned itself a place in my heart.

The PPP and its main coalition partner, Nawaz Sharif's Pakistan Muslim League, have been far too busy for duty in the "war on terror" .

Sarajevo is now identifiably a Muslim city in a sense that it was not when the war began.

Mass text messages were blocked, schools closed down, and a fresh curfew was imposed in the restive, Muslim-majority Kashmir valley.

In Sabah, Muslim can work as a waiter in a chinese shop. You only waiter, we won't ask you to touch non halal food.

"It's a Muslim's duty to protect it, " he said during a tour of the tomb, interrupted by midday prayers.

It would not mean our Muslim minorities would all of a sudden change their behavior, and accept our values.

In those comments earlier this month, he said that he's still a Muslim and that he remains married to Ms.

Berlin wants the gathering of politicians and community leaders to develop into a permanent advisory body on Christian-Muslim relations.

This word suggests that the minority Muslim groups in North America and Europe need to look like the majority, Christian culture.

If an individual Muslim were to commit an act of terrorism, this person would be guilty of violating the laws of Islam.

God have mercy on Osama bin Laden. . . He did everything he thought he could to serve the Muslim cause.

Mr Allawi, himself a Shia Muslim, believes the mystical (or Sufi) tradition must be an integral part of the revival of Islamic civilisation.

Since the 1980s, a number of other mosques have been established, starting with one to serve Muslim university students in Portland.

Therefore, it is unbecoming for a Muslim to engage in or practice any sport that would violate the ethics and basics of his belief.

Why hold the rights of Americans who happen to be Muslim hostage to the policy of a foreign country that happens also to be Muslim?

This was a critical contribution to the reduction of the immunity gap among Muslim and Hindu children in Uttar Pradesh's western region.

Before he was abducted Italian investigators had been tapping the Muslim cleric's phone calls over alleged links with Islamists.

Mosques all over the city had been closed, Muslim residents said.

The story is recommended reading for anyone who seriously wants to understand what Muslim women can be subjected to.

Turkey is not just a fellow Muslim country and their former imperial power.

But the south has long been a destination for Shia Muslim pilgrims wanting to visit the holy sites at Najaf and Karbala.

There is reason, in this defiant bravery, to believe that this century smote by Muslim anger at its beginning can yet fulfill its promise.

There was speculation he might deliver a speech on U. S. relations with the Muslim world while in Istanbul.

again a point debated by Muslim Uighurs who have been rounded up in anti-terror sweeps.

The other story is about a Muslim dervish who was condemned by his enemies to wander in the desert and eventually die of starvation.

"We're all one, " he says, as he spins a globe on his coffee table, counting the Muslim states that once comprised the Islamic caliphate.

"Boss of my own head" , or BOEH in the Dutch acronym, is a feminist group with a mixed Muslim and non-Muslim membership.

They appeared to target Muslim and Han Chinese individuals and businesses first but many Tibetans were also caught in the crossfire.

If a Muslim funeral takes place, the body is usually buried within two days of death.

This partly reflects the failure of violence to accomplish the goals he set himself in the Muslim world.

It also touches a principle that Barack Obama laid out in a recent speech in Cairo aimed at the Muslim world.

I not know if the muslim women would ever wear such attire as shown. . . or. . . i guess they are only meant for fashion shows.

The decision to dump the body at sea is already, predictably, provoking both anger and skepticism in much of the Muslim world.

Muslim-owned consumer-goods companies are also beginning to tap the Muslim market in the West.

Fadela Amara, a Muslim ex-minister in Nicolas Sarkozy's first government, once called the burqa a "prison" ; now she seems to be silent.

Members of the Muslim Association are planning a special trip to the city of Ploiesti near Bucharest to help a new Muslim with disabilities.

Arabs, Pakistanis and other South Asians make up the largest percentage of the foreign-born Muslim population in the United States.

In Asia, the end of the year usually coincides with a host of festivals, with Christmas, Roman, Muslim and Chinese New Years.

Perhaps inevitably, the procedures and general ethos of Muslim mediation are very different from those of a secular court.

But the word 'caste' is routinely used by government experts to refer to social strata in underprivileged Muslim communities.

Then, by virtue of his eloquence and organizational skills, as the "Muslim Student Association, " President.

It is not acceptable and it is almost a crime to throw the body of a Muslim man into the sea.

"It has not been an easy thing in a conservative Muslim society, " Christensen says.

It remains a shining (and rare) example in the Muslim world of a vibrant democracy with the rule of law and a thriving free-market economy.

Eighteen percent of those surveyed said they believe that President Obama is a Muslim, despite his self-identification as a Christian.

But it has crept back, as a wave of religiosity has prompted many to embrace a more distinctively Muslim look.

The president's wide-ranging speech was designed to mend fences between the United States and the Muslim world.

Myanmar, formerly known as Burma, is about 90 percent Buddhist, with the rest of the population Christian, Muslim and animist.

Seen in this light, one of the objectives of the September 11th attacks was to provoke the Americans into invading Muslim lands.

Inside the square, protesters again made a show of Muslim and Christian unity, as Copts among the protesters prayed over loudspeakers.

Like a couple months ago in Times Square in New York , there was this Pakistani Muslim guy who tried to blow up a car bomb .

Israel's isolation in the region is due to the opposition of the Arab states and the Muslim world to its very establishment.

The incidents were blamed on Muslim extremists angered by a court ruling overturning a ban on non-Muslims using the word "Allah" for God.

A bombing at a major Shiite Muslim mosque in Pakistan's largest city, Karachi, has left at least 15 people dead and dozens injured.

The initial trigger is a sense of moral outrage, usually over some incident of Muslim suffering in Iraq, Palestine, Chechnya or elsewhere.

Turkey, while a member of NATO, feels rejected by Europe and renewed in its sense of Muslim and Middle Eastern identity.

Every neighbor would be threatened: Russia in its partly Muslim south, China in Xinjiang, Shiite Iran by fundamentalist Sunni trends.

Recently Louis Farrakhan, head of the quasi-Muslim group Nation of Islam "declared Barack Obama to be a messiah" .

Similarly, it is not an oxymoron to be a mainstream Muslim who believes in an Absolute.

and a number of Muslim activists saw the row as a wonderful pretext for promoting themselves and discrediting the West's Muslim allies.

The result was a war that was tainted from the start, without a single Muslim ally and with few major countries invested in success.

Several big issues remain unresolved: What will the Muslim Brotherhood do with its forty-seven per cent chunk of parliamentary platform?

Even the Muslim Brothers look as if they will opt for civil society rather than theocracy.

Therefore RAND and similar institutions do not encourage moderation in the Muslim world, but rather encourage extremism.

The photographic session had to be suspended until Mr Ali had consulted his Muslim spiritual leader on the propriety of the pose.

But religious minorities in Muslim lands should be a cause for a concern--among all Westerners, not just church leaders.

It may well be true that in many countries, Muslim and non-Muslim elites will get better at understanding one another.

Muslim Americans are the most likely of the major faith groups in the United States to reject violent attacks against civilians.

He predicted victory for the former ruling party, a gang of cronies known as the Pakistan Muslim League (Q), or PML(Q).

Xinjiang was the scene of clashes last month between Han Chinese and the province's Uyghur population, a predominantly Muslim ethnic group.

In Syria he recognises an amorphous Muslim sense of "grievance" , but not the millions of Iraqi and Palestinian refugees.

This contact between the various levels of society helps to create a real bond of brotherhood in the Muslim community.

Muslim cab drivers work at many other U. S. airports, but so far this has emerged as an issue only in the Twin Cities.

Previously there did not exist a national identity in Muslim countries.

It was built by the Muslim Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan to honor the memory of his beloved late wife Mumtaz Mahal.

In the past 10 years, the U. S. has directly or indirectly overthrown at least three governments in the Muslim world.

Still, Muslim countries may well make choices with which the West is not comfortable.

The main opposition, the Muslim Brotherhood, lost all its seats in parliament in the general election.

Jackson was believed to be too close to Black Muslim leader Louis Farrakhan, who was known for anti-Semitic remarks.

Christian and Muslim mystics both believe it, as the natural progression of the spirit to a purer and higher state.

The class voted resoundingly for Muhammad, one of the most common names in the Muslim world and the name of Islam's holy prophet.

An American-born Muslim of Palestinian descent, he was deeply dismayed by the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan but proud of his Army job.

It instructed the world the details of every Muslim's life, one of which was the dress of Muslim women and men.

Mady used to be a member of the Muslim Brotherhood, until he split to form al-Wasat.

Muslim group attacked Christians and burned churches in reprisals over the burning of two mosques, which Muslims blamed on Christians.