RIYADH, Oct 1 (KUNA) -- The Muslim World League (WML) and the Islamic Organization of Latin America (IOLA) will organize, during the end of October, an international Islamic conference the Argentinean capital, Buenos Aires.
In a press release on Sunday, WML's Secretary-General Dr. Abdullah Al-Turki said the forum was aimed at developing the Islamic-Western dialogue through presetting Islam's virtues and refuting false allegations against it.
The forum's other goals were strengthening ties between Islamic organizations which would support overall coordination and cooperation, as well as exhibiting the history and efforts of Muslim societies in Latin America, he noted.
The three-day conference, he said, would discuss the role of Islam in Latin America, dialogue between civilizations according to Islam, claims against Islam, in addition to the current status and future of Islamic societies in Latin America.
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Dubai: American International Group (AIG), the world's biggest insurer by market value, launched its Islamic insurance business yesterday that will target some of the world's 1.2 billion Muslims.
AIG said it had set up a new company AIG Takaful headquartered in Bahrain with a capital of $15 million that will provide Sharia compliant insurance solutions or Takaful.
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Somali Islamic Courts expand control near Ethiopian border
October 02, 2006
Fighters of Somali Islamic Courts have seized control of a strategic village in the agriculturally rich area of Lower Shabelle near the Ethiopian border, reports said on Sunday.
Fighters loyal to the Supreme Council of Islamic Courts (SCIC) group routed pro-government militia from the village of Jawill, some 15km from the Ethiopian border on Saturday. The only roads between Ethiopia and central Somalia pass through the village.
SCIC senior leader Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed has vowed to seize more territories.
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Muslims Bring Voter Registration to Mosques
Date Posted: Sunday, October 01, 2006
About 10,000 have been registered to vote to date but "tens of thousands" more are expected to be signed up before crucial midterm elections on November 7.
DALLAS (Reuters) - American Muslims are setting up voter registration booths in mosques across the United States, echoing a tactic employed by evangelical Christians to support conservative Republican candidates.
Their target: close contests where Muslim voters could make a difference.
"We have set up booths in 150 mosques across the country in the past two weeks," said Mukit Hossain, a political consultant to the Muslim American Society which is behind the drive.
The booths have a computer monitor with a link to a Web site http://www.masvip.org/ to enable Muslims to register on line during Friday prayers.
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Snip: City officials in Yankton were told last night that a banned chemical has been detected in the local water supply. City Manager Jeff Weldon says the chemical has been used as a wood preservative and weed killer but has been banned for almost 20 years.
Theft of chemicals from New Zealand orchards
Snip: Police in Hawkes Bay are warning orchardists to lock up their sprays and keep an eye out for hot chemicals, being offered at very cheap rates. Hastings police are investigating a series of thefts of horticultural chemicals from orchards in the past fortnight.In the latest case, Acting Sergeant Andrew Clinton says thieves got away with chemicals worth $30,000 from a large Hastings orchard.
Airport drops program for Muslim cabbies
Snip: For now, taxi drivers who refuse passengers with alcohol will continue to forfeit their place in the taxi queue and return to the back of the line, which often means a three-hour wait for another fare.
Snip: A PLANNED conversion to Christianity from Islam is understood to have triggered a frenzied domestic dispute that led to the death of a Muslim mother on Monday night.
2 Muslim clerics convicted of money laundering
Snip: Two Muslim clerics in the US who were arrested on suspicion of being involved in terrorism have been convicted for money laundering, Israel Radio reported early Wednesday morning.
Christian girl escapes Muslim kidnappers
Snip: An Egyptian Christian teenager escaped her Muslim kidnappers last week hours after they had drugged her on a public bus. They threatened to rape her and convert her to Islam if her family did not leave their Nile Delta city of El-Mahala el-Kobra. Laurence Wagih Emil, 15, escaped the ground-floor room where she was being held in Cairo’s southern Helwan suburb at 10 p.m. last Tuesday (October 3) while her captors were away breaking their Ramadan fast. Her father, Wagih Emil, had received several threatening text messages from his daughter’s mobile phone. “Take the rest of your daughters and leave the city, or you will lose them one by one,” said one. “The girl is not accepting easily, but she will embrace Islam for sure.” .....