Sentences with phrase «muslim groups»

Civil rights advocates and Muslim groups have vowed to challenge the application and constitutionality of the law in court.

The more recent conflict in the Darfur region in western Sudan that began in 2003 illustrates the mounting tensions between two Muslim groups — camel herders and subsistence farmers.

Secondary head teachers in the Association of School and College Leaders are planning to meet Muslim groups to see how they can work together to meet the challenge of the clash.

However, the role of governors has been put under scrutiny with the so - called «Trojan Horse» allegations in Birmingham, where there are claims that hardline Muslim groups have sought to gain influence over school governing bodies.

The local authority inquiry was one of four official investigations into claims some Muslim groups had attempted to take over schools.

He also says the current system of oversight has contributed to problems in some schools in Birmingham and the so - called Trojan Horse conspiracy, in which there were claims of hardline Muslim groups trying to take over schools in the city.

There were calls for inspections to take place without any advance warning after claims some schools in the city were being taken over by hard - line Muslim groups,

Secondary head teachers in the Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL) will be meeting Muslim groups to consider how they can work together to work out the logistics of the clash between Ramadan and the exam season.

Muslim groups have called on McDonnell to condemn the remark because Robertson is a longtime political benefactor of the Republican, who won a blowout victory in this year's closely - watched gubernatorial election.

Some Muslim Groups in Nigeria on Monday condemned the denial of Miss Firdaus Amasa, a University of Ilorin law graduate, from being called to the Bar...

He faced anger from Muslim groups for «patronising» them and was accused of playing into the hands of extremists by delivering that speech on the same day that the English Defence League staged a major show of strength in Luton.

«Spuc and its colleagues in many pro-family, Christian and Muslim groups will ensure same - sex marriage becomes a big general election issue, especially in marginal constituencies,» chief executive John Smeaton said.

A new hurdle has emerged for a proposed $ 100 million, 13 - story mosque and cultural center, which Muslim groups have pitched for a site adjacent...

Those steps include putting Muslim groups under surveillance and using a record number of stop - and - frisks in high - crime neighborhoods.

Most of New York City's House delegation backed a failed measure to rebuke the New York Police Department's intelligence - gathering efforts focused on Muslim groups.

«We thank the Chief Imam, Sheik Nuhu Sharabutu, leaders of the various Muslim groups and the entire Muslim community for dutifully committing to the Ramadan fast.

Muslim groups are demanding a stronger response to the wave of anti-Islamic violence they say is sweeping Europe and the UK.

Claims by British Muslim groups that Britain's foreign policy is responsible for the current critical terror alert have been rejected by Foreign Office minister Kim Howells.

During a lengthy conversation with Cohen, on which he based part of his article, I suggested that neither the IPPR nor Fabian Society would have published my recent pamphlet for Policy Exchange which outlined a model for engagement with Muslim groups based on normative British values.

At 7:30 p.m., NYC Public Advocate Tish James, LGBT groups, Muslim groups, and Hispanic groups host a unity vigil honoring the victims of the Orlando shooting, Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn.

A letter addressed to the prime minister and signed by three Muslim MPs and other British Muslim groups calls for an urgent revision of UK foreign policy.

On the other side we have minority Muslim groups who are indulging in a similar religious populism, advocating the fact that «we are more Muslim when we are non-Western» or clearly against the West.

You have some gall coming here trying to offer advice about editorial policy though, given that 90 % of content at your own place is obsessed with obscure Muslim groups and what they're doing.

As Lucinda Platt and others have shown, Britishness is especially common among migrants and minority ethnic populations — and in particular those from South Asian and / or Muslim groups — who are far more likely to identify as British than their white British neighbours are.

The allocation of government funding will «shift significantly» towards those Muslim groups that are proactively working to combat extremism, Ruth Kelly has announced.

They also partially validate the concerns of Muslim groups, who highlight the counter-productive effect of heavy handed policing in Muslim communities.

The Society's other main streams of work are around raising awareness of the Muslim community and Muslim issues, supporting other Muslim groups and influencing policy development.

While radical Muslim groups like ISIS use ancient religious texts to support their horrific deeds, others violate historical and scriptural witness to promote a more appealing version of Muhammad.

In Germany, he addressed the German parliament, met Jewish and Muslim groups, held a prayer vigil with young people and celebrated Mass in Berlin's Olympic Stadium (built by Hitler, nastily said all the non-German critics; and in use ever since, like the autobahns, one might riposte).

But Ibrahim Hooper, a spokesman for the Council on American - Islamic Relations, said that many American Muslim groups had issued condemnations of Muslim terrorists.

BBC: Kenyan Muslim groups «to protect churches» Muslim leaders in Kenya have agreed to form self - defence groups to protect churches following a deadly attack on Sunday.

I agree some muslim groups may be more dangerous than others, just as some Christian or atheist ones at that.

By the way, even though they had nothing to do with it, most Muslim groups actively denounce the terror attacks.

CNN contacted the Council on American - Islamic Relations and the Islamic Society of North America, two major Muslim groups, and neither responded to requests for comment.

Many in the community came out in favor of Rep. Peter King's, R - New York, insistence last year on holding congressional hearings on radicalization within American Islam, even as other Muslim groups blasted the hearings as anti-Muslim.

They survey the emergence of Islam in the seventh century; provide an overview of the life and teachings of Muhammad and of major themes in the Qur» an; clarify Muslims» understanding that theirs is the same religion God revealed through Abraham, Moses and Jesus; and explore the development, debates and practices of various Muslim groups as the religious system and broader civilization spread rapidly.

Then show me all the Muslim groups and their huge followings that are out there trying to stop the radicals from blowing themselves and innocent people off the face of the Earth in the name of their religion.

The Protestant Church of Pakistan (a 1970 union of Anglicans, Methodists, Lutherans and Presbyterians) has an especially urgent real estate anxiety in the capital because conservative Muslim groups are pressing to keep the skyline free of spire and cross.

On the one - year anniversary of President Obama's address to the Muslim world from Cairo, Egypt, a coalition of American Muslim groups are pressing him to keep his pledge to make it easier for American Muslims to give to Islamic charities, a religious obligation called zakat.

The administration has done little to deliver on that pledge, so Muslim groups are urging American Muslims to call the White House today and hold its feet the fire.

In recent years, the church has been under some pressure with the rise of fundamentalist Muslim groups in Egypt and a hostile regime in the Sudan.

It's been reported local political analysts consider this type of incident «political warming,» targeting Christians and members of the largest and most moderate Muslim groups in the country, ahead of the upcoming elections in June.

These groups (along with non-Christian sects like the various Black Muslim groups) have been vilified by the political right for being anti-American and for refusing to accept patriotic values or for resisting participation in the political process.

Few Muslim groups engage Hollywood as much as the Muslim Public Affairs Council, which has built relationships with studio executives at all four major networks, and consulted on shows from «Seventh Heaven» to «Bones.»

I've never seen Muslim groups putting up billboards condemning other groups like the Christians have.

Several Muslim groups across the world have expressed concerns over U.S. President Donald Trump's travel ban.

Uighurs, a traditionally Muslim group, complain of cultural and religious repression and discrimination.

We will always be afraid of any organized muslim group!

Its not just Americans worried about what some Muslim group praying in public / on a plane may be planning!

And the Jewish student would lead the Muslim group only if the club's membership voted that student to be the president, correct?