Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich delivered the following remarks to a Jewish National Fund meeting Nov. 15 at the Selig Center [in Athens, Georgia]: Let me work back. I'm going to get to Iran since that's the topic, but I'm going to get to it eventually.
As Palestinian missiles and mortar bombs continued to fly against Israeli border communities, DEBKAfile reports that on Wednesday, Dec.
More than one million Muslim pilgrims have begun a symbolic devil-stoning ritual in Mina on the third day of the Hajj pilgrimage. Pilgrims threw pebbles at a stone wall outside Mecca, shaved their heads and bought sacrificial animals. Hajj centres around Mecca, Mina and M …
AHMADINEJAD TAKES PART IN HAJJ PILGRIMAGE The Iranian President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has joined millions of Muslim pilgrims at the annual hajj pilgrimage. More than 1.5 million pilgrims have come to Saudi Arabia for the largest annual religious gathering in the world.
The Guardian's religious affairs correspondent travels to the Hajj to offer a unique insight into the rituals and mood at the world's largest pilgrimage.
OVERWORKED nurses have been ordered to stop all medical work five times every day to move Muslim patients' beds so they face towards Mecca. The lengthy procedure, which also includes providing fresh bathing water, is creating turmoil among overstretched staff on bustling NHS w …
Saudi Arabia is expecting more than two million visitors this month for the annual Hajj, a momentous event in the Muslim calendar.
The first commercial airline flight in 14 years took off earlier this week from the Mosul airport, U.S. military officials said Tuesday.
KUALA LUMPUR (AFP) — Malaysia, Iran and Turkey plan to build an "Islamic car" fitted with a compass to find the direction of Mecca, and a compartment to keep the Koran in, the Malaysian state news agency said.
"A demonstration is planned outside the Saudi embassy in London later in the week in protest at the country's human rights record.
Helbing and Johansson scanned the video material for early warning signals announcing the start of a mass panic.
The book, entitled Guidelines for Performing Islamic Rites at the International Space Station, teaches the Muslim astronaut how to perform ablutions, determine the location of Mecca when praying, prayer times, and how to fast in space, the Star newspaper reported on Saturday.
Author Geneive Abdo, once a UN liaison for improving relations between Western and Islamic societies, was the first American journalist to be based in Tehran after the U.S. cut off ties post-1979 revolution.
Michael J. Totten is a free-lance journalist, usually based in Beirut.
In October, Malaysia's first astronaut will join a Russian crew and blast off into space. The news of a Muslim astronaut was cause for celebration in the Islamic world, but then certain questions started popping up.
A group of British and American Muslims on pilgrimage to Mecca say they were illegally detained and brutally beaten by Saudi religious police.
Eight British and American Shi'ite Muslims who said they were arrested and tortured by religious police as they prayed during a pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia called Friday for a full inquiry into their ordeal.
A stupid candidate who wants to sit on the President seat warns that Muslims holy sites, Mecca and Madina should be attacked if US is attacked.
Tom Tancredo threatens Saudi Arabia
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How do you pray facing Mecca five times a day when you are circling the Earth 16 times every 24 hours? This is one of the problems facing Malaysian authorities as they prepare to send their first man into space.
A leading Saudi prince and son of Saudi Arabia's founder has died in a US hospital at 65, state media reported on Saturday.
How do you pray facing Mecca five times a day when you are circling the Earth 16 times every 24 hours? This is one of the problems facing Malaysian authorities as they prepare to send their first man into space.
A Dutch police station trying to help Muslim detainees face Mecca for their prayers painted arrows in cells pointing in the wrong direction.
Five times a day across the globe, devout Muslims face this city in prayer, focused on a site where they believe the prophet Abraham built a temple to God.