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Maryland Mosque Invites Jewish Neighbors for Iftar As Muslims around the world observed Ramadan over the past month, one mosque in the suburbs of Washington found the holy month of fasting from sunrise to sundown could provide an opportunity for some

VOA标准英语2011--Rabbi, Imam and Pastors Defend US Food Subsidy Program

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VOA标准英语2014--Thai Muslims Create Thriving California Mosque

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CNN 2011-03-18

Let's start with the people inside the plant. And their situation is not great. It's pretty clear they will be getting very high doses of radiation and certainly the potential for lethal doses of radiation. So you can - And they know it, don't they?

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By Steve Mort Orlando, Florida 09 February 2007 watch Hispanic Muslim report The number of Hispanic Americans converting to Islam is growing rapidly -- particularly in New York, California, Texas and Florida, which have the greatest concentration of

CNN 2010-04-11

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This is the VOA Special English Education Report. Zaytuna College is a new four-year college in Berkeley, California. Zaytuna is seeking to become the first accredited Muslim college in the United States. The name comes from the Arabic word for olive

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American Muslim groups seeking to build mosques or community centers - or even summer camps - have faced suspicion and sometimes organized opposition since the September 11 terror attacks by Islamic extremists 10 years ago. Some of the fiercest battl

VOA标准英语2010-Young Muslims in US Seek Homegrown Imams

Vidushi Sinha | Washington 16 April 2010 The Muslim population in the United States is growing, and so is its need for spiritual guidance. A new generation American Muslims is demanding more from local mosques than they can always provide. It's not w

VOA标准英语2010年-Muslim Americans Observe Holy Month of

Muslim devotees take part in a special morning prayer to start their Eid al-Fitr festival, which marks the end of Muslim's holy fasting month of Ramadan, outside the Baitul Ma'Mur Mosque in Brooklyn, New York, 20 Sep 2009 The Ramadan Effect: Muslim S

VOA标准英语2010年-French Imam Teaching Tolerance and Inc

At a time when France is fearful of Islamist radicalism, one imam is speaking out against religious extremism and against intolerance and racism toward Muslims. Friday afternoon prayers at al-Nour mosque, an unassuming building tucked behind a superm

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VOA标准英语2008年-Italy Arrests Imam Linked to Morocco Suicide Bo

Italian police have arrested a Muslim imam from Morocco who has been linked to suicide bombings in Casablanca in 2003. The imam of a mosque in the northern Italian city of Varese was picked up at his home in Italy and Italian authorities say they pl

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本期内容： Preparations started for Muhammad Alis funeral on Friday: an interfaith service, led by an imam, in his home town of Louisville, Kentucky, with Bill Clinton among those speaking. In one of many tributes to the champion boxer, whose de

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U.S. hands over last military base to Iraq

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2015年CRI Keeping Pace with Time Makes Me Progressive: The Imam in the Internet Era

It is 6 in the morning. The sun is rising over a village Mosque in Hutubi, a county 80 kilometers away from Xinjiang's capital city Urumqi. 48-year-old imam Yang Jie has just finished his 1-hour early morning exercise. Putting down the fitness equipm

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The White House has said the United States will not issue a visa to the man nominated by Iran to be its next ambassador to the United Nations, which hasits headquarters in New York. Hamid Aboutalebi has been linked to the group which stormed the US e