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Minnesota is home to thousands of Muslims from around the world. Like other immigrants, they have worked hard to establish themselves and support their families. But, since 9/11, the state's Muslims have become more concerned about presenting the real image of their faith and getting involved in their local communities. "Until 1998, the Muslim community in Minnesota, the whole state, was about 5,000 to 6,000 people," he says. "But in 1998, there was an influx of Somali immigrants, about 70,000 of them. Then we had another 15,000 from Bosnia and Kosovo. They got political asylum." Ul Huq estimates the number...

Belgrade, 19 Sept. (AKI) - Kosovo parliament president Kol Berisha has warned of an ethnic Albanian rebellion if the province is not granted independence in the near future, a Serbian newspaper reports. Belgrade daily Politika said in a front page article on Tuesday that Berisha made the statement during a visit to Slovenia on Monday. According to Politika, Berisha said he expected that the United Nations-brokered talks in Vienna on the status of Kosovo status would yield no results and that it was now up to the international community to impose a solution, granting Kosovo independence.

TEHRAN, Aug. 25 (MNA) – The Bosnian translation of the Iranian book, “The Worship”, written by Hassan Rohaninejad was published by Iran’s cultural attaché to Bosnia & Herzegovina. The book has been translated by the Bosnian translator Ramez Lalic and published in 1,000 volumes for the Bosnian youth. A part of the series “From the viewpoints of Imam Ali (AS)”, the book studies “worship” from Imam Ali’s view and discusses the whys and wherefores of worshipping. A section of the book reads, “Worship means humble obedience to the Most High that has different degrees.” Imam Ali (AS) has divided worship...

Historian David Littman is a representative to the United Nations (Geneva) of the Association for World Education. He has spent years tracking the rise of Islamic influence at the UN. According to him, “In recent years, representatives of some Muslim states have demanded, and often received, special treatment at the United Nations.” “As a result, non-diplomatic terms such as ‘blasphemy’ and ‘defamation of Islam’ have seeped into the United Nations system, leading to a situation in which non-Muslim governments accept certain rules of conduct in conformity with Islamic law (the Shari’a) and acquiesce to a self-imposed silence regarding topics touching...

We have seen videos on TV of Muslim Jihadis beheading infidel hostages. Less attention has been paid to the fact that Muslims are beheading entire nation states. Although this is happening in slow motion, it is no less dramatic. Historically, the major cities have constituted a country’s “head,” the seat of most of its political institutions and the largest concentration of its cultural brainpower. What happens when this head is cut off from the rest of the body? ... The next step will be pushing the Government to recognize sharia law for Muslim communities – which will be backed up...

Serbia must accept a "different vision" for the future make-up of south-east Europe or face increasing isolation and diminishing prospects of closer relations with the European Union, Tony Blair, the UK prime minister, will tell Vojislav Kostunica, his Serbian counterpart, tomorrow --- Belgrade is under pressure from the UK, US and the UN administration in Kosovo to accept independence as the "least problematic solution". However, Mr Kostunica faces formidable domestic pressure not to abandon Serbia's historical claims to the province, now dominated by ethnic Albanians. Belgrade continues to offer "the widest possible autonomy" without conceding sovereignty. --- Serbian state-run newspapers...