Report: Muslim strength up in Old City

Jerusalem Post;  July 15, 2002 ;     571 words ......peripheral, and the Old City is viewed purely within...interests, Ramon said. The Old City is growing more religious...who returned to the Old City after 1967. Overall, the Old City's population has grown by...the Muslim community. The Muslim population remained constant from ...

In southern city of Basra, water, electricity and British style are key to...

AP Worldstream;  November 3, 2003 ;     700+ words ......ended, southern Iraq's largest city is enjoying a relative peace...coalition presence, and a Shiite Muslim population that despised the former regime...of their houses. But this city of 1.3 million people has...The city's majority Shiite Muslim population was harshly repressed ...

AJC study: US Muslim population figures inflated by several million

Jerusalem Post;  October 24, 2001 ;     590 words ......10-24-2001 Headline: AJC study: US Muslim population figures inflated by several million...October 24, 2001 -- NEW YORK - The Muslim population of the United States is overstated...Committee. The study, "Estimating the Muslim Population in the United States," states the...

Muslims hide their grief as city's Hindus look for scapegoats

The Sunday Telegraph London;  July 16, 2006 ;     305 words ......India, bringing the spotlight of suspicion to bear on the city's Muslim population, families of Muslims killed in the blasts are silently coming...cramped home at Kajupara, in the Borivili East area of the city, weeping, but Rehana, 32, said her heart had become a pather...

Vic: Speaker "exaggerated Muslim population to raise concerns"

AAP General News (Australia);  February 25, 2004 ;     191 words ......02-25-2004 Vic: Speaker "exaggerated Muslim population to raise concerns" A tribunal's been...exaggerated the size of Australia's Muslim population to create alarm about their numbers...Pastor SCOTT told the seminar the Muslim population was 350,000 in 2000, and growing...

China shuts city as Olympic torch nears ; WORLD IN BRIEF

Evening Standard - London;  June 17, 2008 ;     56 words ...CHINA locked down the city of Kashgar today to make sure no demonstrations disrupted...Soldiers and firefighters patrolled the main square. The city, in the oil-rich border region of Xinjiang, is the centre of the country's Muslim population..

Mosque location sought in Waukesha County; As Muslim population grows,...

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  November 17, 2007 ;     688 words ......the direction of the holy city of Mecca where the Prophet...Waukesha-Pewaukee area to serve the growing Muslim population. When Muslims started meeting...from Brookfield west to the city of Pewaukee. Hassan said the...N7-W23825 Blue Mound Road in the city of Pewaukee to a mosque. ...

Crowds Welcome Clinton in Sarajevo; Bosnian Muslims Credit President With...

The Washington Post;  December 23, 1997 ;     661 words ......excitement and affection from the city's war-weary Muslim population. "In general, people are sick...sold this morning, and the city was festooned with the Stars...stroll through the center of the city, women came up and hugged them...route into the center of the city along what was ...

Muslim Population Triples in Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region

Xinhua English Newswire;  September 3, 1998 ;     196 words ...The Muslim population in northwest China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region...founding 40 years ago. Statistics indicate that the Muslim population in this region, which has the largest number of Hui...the autonomous region also has helped increase the Muslim population. A Muslim couple ...

Vic: Speaker exaggerated Muslim population to raise concerns

AAP General News (Australia);  February 25, 2004 ;     409 words ......25-2004 Vic: Speaker exaggerated Muslim population to raise concerns MELBOURNE, Feb...exaggerated the size of Australia's Muslim population because he wanted to create alarm...Pastor Scott told the seminar the Muslim population had increased from 201,000 in 1996...

Hindu alarm over surge in Muslim population

Belfast Telegraph;  September 9, 2004 ;     222 words ......miscalculation that had exaggerated the rate of growth in the Muslim population.According to the initial figures, based on comparing censuses in 2001 and 1991, the Muslim population grew by 36 per cent, compared with 20.3 per cent growth in...

Iran lashes out at US move against Muslim population

Xinhua News Agency;  December 23, 2002 ;     228 words ...Iran lashes out at US move against Muslim population TEHRAN, Dec. 23 (Xinhua) -- Iranian Foreign Ministry...against nationals of particular countries and against the Muslim population. Iran will do all it can to defend the reputation and...

Group: Muslim Population Overstated

AP Online;  October 22, 2001 ;     700+ words ......Writer AP Online 10-22-2001 Group: Muslim Population Overstated NEW YORK (AP) -- The American...saying commonly used estimates of the Muslim population in this country are too high, likely...in mosques and concluded that the Muslim population in the United States was between...

Letter: Solving two problems by cleaning up our city.(Letters)

The Birmingham Post (England);  June 13, 2003 ;     304 words ......too excited, as I thought Birmingham was an industrial city. In the time I have been here I have come to love England, and especially Birmingham. It is a beautiful city, with all of its trees, canals and parks. I have found...Ragar Tariq Kiani, the MP visiting from Pakistan writes, a city that is divided ...

New Survey undercuts myth of huge U.S. Muslim population

Jewish Telegraphic Agency;  October 24, 2001 ;     700+ words ......Survey undercuts myth of huge U.S. Muslim population In the run-up to the 2000 presidential...has read publications that printed Muslim population estimates that didn't jibe with his...methods have been used to calculate the Muslim population, Smith said. For example, one ...