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| UpdatedMuslim preacher Junaid Thorne challenges the Australian Federal Police to show any evidence that he is the leader of a local terror cell.
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| UpdatedNigerian army troops rescue one of the Chibok schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram extremists more than two years ago, with a 10-month-old son born to a Boko Haram fighter.
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In the remote mining town of Mt Isa, the Muslim population doesn’t have a mosque and had to meet for worship in their homes or any other space that was available — until a Catholic church came to their rescue in the spirit of unity and goodwill.
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| UpdatedPolice are forced to deploy tear gas as a day of peaceful protests in Jakarta turns violent, as hardline Islamists call for the arrest of the city's Christian governor over comments he made about the Koran.
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| UpdatedA disused demountable building in the grounds of Mount Isa's Good Shepherd Parish becomes a symbol of interfaith cooperation.
Topics: catholic, islam, religion-and-beliefs, mount-isa-4825
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| UpdatedThe size of the Muslim population in Papua New Guinea has increased more than ten fold since the turn of the decade, rising from fewer than 500 to more than 5,000 people.
Topics: islam, religion-and-beliefs, pacific, papua-new-guinea
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| UpdatedA prominent Vanuatu Presbyterian pastor wants the Muslim faith kept out of the country.
Topics: religion-and-beliefs, islam, christianity, pacific, vanuatu
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| UpdatedFor years Sakdiyah Ma'ruf snuck around behind her parents' backs, hiding her job as one of Indonesia's first female Muslim stand-up comedians — not anymore.
Topics: comedy-humour, arts-and-entertainment, community-and-society, islam, women, indonesia
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| UpdatedControversy brews in India as Prime Minister Narendra Modi weighs in on the so-called "triple talaq" law, which allows Muslim men to divorce their wives simply by saying the phrase three times.
Topics: religion-and-beliefs, islam, marriage, divorce, world-politics, india
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Mariah Idrissi was walking through a shopping centre near Wembley in London when a woman stopped her, took a photo and asked for her phone number. She did not know it then, but that was to be a turning point in her life.
Topics: community-and-society, human-interest, arts-and-entertainment, fashion, islam, united-kingdom
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| UpdatedYenny Wahid, a well-known Islamic activist and daughter of the former Indonesian president Abdurrahman Wahid, tells the ABC's Samantha Hawley Indonesia has become a more conservative society.
Topics: islam, community-and-society, religion-and-beliefs, indonesia
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| UpdatedNigeria's Government is negotiating the release of another 83 Chibok schoolgirls abducted by Boko Haram in 2014, but more than 100 others appear unwilling to leave their Islamic extremist captors, a community leader says.
Topics: islam, law-crime-and-justice, terrorism, nigeria
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| UpdatedMalaysia is set to debate a bill that could see stricter forms of sharia law introduced, but critics say the so called hudud bill would result in punishments such as the amputations of limbs for crimes like theft.
Topics: community-and-society, religion-and-beliefs, islam, government-and-politics, society, malaysia, asia
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It is important to prosecute militants who destroy antiquities. But "everyday" development does vastly more damage to heritage than war, writes Professor Ian Lilley
Topics: terrorism, islam, history, ancient-religions, religion-and-beliefs, community-and-society, unrest-conflict-and-war, sculpture, mali, syrian-arab-republic, turkey, karratha-6714
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A Muslim women's cycling group called the Sydney Cycling Sisters has been training hard and want to show the wider community that fears about their community are unfounded.
Topics: community-and-society, religion-and-beliefs, people, race-relations, islam, sydney-2000
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| UpdatedAnne Aly, the first Muslim woman elected to Federal Parliament, says she has found some common ground with controversial Queensland Senator Pauline Hanson.
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| UpdatedMost Muslims living in Britain and Australia are neither enemies of Western civilisation nor blameless victims of Islamophobia, Mona Siddiqui says.
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Malcolm Turnbull joins other political leaders in calling out racial and religious discrimination as a new poll shows that one third of Australians believe Muslim Australians should be subjected to more scrutiny than other religious groups.
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| UpdatedNew ANUpoll finds fear of terrorism is genuine and prevalent, and it leads to widely held but nuanced attitudes towards national security, civil liberties, immigration, and Islam.
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Victoria Police have charged three men for serious religious vilification in what is believed to be a state-first to proceed to the courts.
Topics: crime, law-crime-and-justice, community-and-society, discrimination, islam, melbourne-3000, vic, australia
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Muslim journalist Noor Tagouri becomes the first woman to wear a hijab in Playboy magazine, as part of a series celebrating people pushing the boundaries in their industries.
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Thousands of people sign a petition calling for the end of the male guardianship system in Saudi Arabia — where women have to obtain consent from a male relative for a range of decisions — in the first large-scale campaign on the issue.
Topics: islam, women-religious, religion-and-beliefs, saudi-arabia