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China steps up a campaign against religious extremism in Xinjiang by implementing a range of measures, including prohibiting "abnormal" beards, the wearing of veils in public places and the refusal to watch state television.
Topics: islam, world-politics, religion-and-beliefs, china
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A Benedictine monk working to preserve Islamic manuscripts may at first sound like a contradiction, but for Father Columba Stewart it's a vital mission.
Topics: islam, sacred-texts, united-states
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The UN is warning that " the worst is still to come" in Mosul with 400,000 civilians still trapped in the old city and mass displacement predicted in the coming weeks.
Topics: refugees, unrest-conflict-and-war, islam, iraq
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| UpdatedAn online debate erupts after a photo emerges of a woman wearing a hijab and using her mobile phone while walking past a person injured in the London terrorist attack.
Topics: social-media, islam, community-and-society, terrorism, united-kingdom
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Topics: multiculturalism, islam, christianity, gardening, mareeba-4880, cairns-4870
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Topics: rural, multiculturalism, christianity, islam, agricultural-crops, mareeba-4880, cairns-4870
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Topics: multiculturalism, islam, christianity, agricultural-crops, mareeba-4880, cairns-4870
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| UpdatedA Bangladeshi man believed to have been radicalised while studying at a Victorian university appears in an Islamic State propaganda video to criticise fellow Muslims who have not embraced jihad.
Topics: terrorism, unrest-conflict-and-war, islam, religion-and-beliefs, community-and-society, bangladesh, australia
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| UpdatedDutch right-wing politician Geert Wilders is driving a debate about national identity in the Netherlands, ahead of the country's election.
Topics: world-politics, elections, immigration, community-and-society, religion-and-beliefs, islam, netherlands
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| UpdatedEuropean companies may bar staff from wearing Islamic headscarves and other visible religious symbols under certain conditions, the EU's top court rules, setting off a storm of complaints from rights groups and religious leaders.
Topics: religion-and-beliefs, islam, international-law, european-union, belgium
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| UpdatedShootings, bombings, desecrated cemeteries and racist graffiti — minority groups in the United States say the number of race hate crimes are increasing in President Donald Trump's America.
Topics: race-relations, donald-trump, multiculturalism, immigration, religion-and-beliefs, islam, judaism, united-states
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| UpdatedWhen Dutch voters go to the polls on Wednesday, it will be the first of three big elections in 2017 involving founding European Union members.
Topics: government-and-politics, elections, immigration, community-and-society, islam, netherlands
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Topics: community-and-society, religion-and-beliefs, islam, women-religious, women
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Topics: community-and-society, religion-and-beliefs, islam, women-religious, women, nsw, lismore-2480
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ABC North Coast's Samantha Turnbull speaks to Muslim women Zuleyha Keskin and Rashida Joseph, and former Lismore mayor Jenny Dowell, at a community event to help combat Islamophobia.
Topics: community-and-society, religion-and-beliefs, islam, women-religious, women, lismore-2480
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When Lismore women heard about eggs and lit cigarettes being thrown at their Muslim sisters, they decided to stage an event to combat Islamophobia.
Topics: community-and-society, religion-and-beliefs, islam, women-religious, women, lismore-2480
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Topics: religion-and-beliefs, islam, women-religious, women, lismore-2480
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| UpdatedA school with just $1.30 left in the bank urges parents to pay their children's fees and pleads with the Government to be given enough funding support to make it until the end of the year.
Topics: schools, islam, religion-and-beliefs, community-and-society, government-and-politics, federal---state-issues, croydon-5008, adelaide-5000, sa
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| UpdatedNot for almost half a century has Saudi Arabia's King graced Indonesia with his presence, but that's all about to change, in a big way.
Topics: world-politics, government-and-politics, foreign-affairs, islam, religion-and-beliefs, terrorism, indonesia, saudi-arabia, asia
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| UpdatedWhile there are pockets of antipathy towards Muslims, an overwhelming majority of Australians don't share it, writes Professor Riaz Hassan from Flinders University.
Topics: islam, religion-and-beliefs, community-and-society, multiculturalism, australia
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Money was at the heart of a lot of the debate on the WA election hustings today, with barbs traded over hospital funding, the sale of Western Power and the spending of taxpayers' money in general.
Topics: elections, political-parties, livestock, islam, wa
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| UpdatedA group of Islamic leaders in Perth urges its followers not to vote for the Liberal Party in the state election following the party's preference deal with Pauline Hanson's One Nation.
Topics: elections, political-parties, greens, islam, wa
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Angry parents of the Islamic college at Croydon in Adelaide, which has lost government funding and might be forced to close, say the school should have ensured all taxpayers' money went into schooling and not elsewhere.
Topics: schools, education, religion-and-beliefs, islam, federal---state-issues, government-and-politics, croydon-5008, adelaide-5000, sa
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| UpdatedA recent IS video threatening three Muslim leaders is condemned by the Australian National Imams Council, which it says proves the terrorist group is not representative of their Islamic faith.
Topics: terrorism, community-and-society, islam, australia
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Q&A panellists Yassmin Abdel-Magied and Jacqui Lambie had a fiery exchange over sharia law.
Topics: islam, government-and-politics, federal-parliament, community-and-society, australia