Jamaa' Ahlus Sunnah Bahamas

Carmichael Road
Nassau
Nassau / Paradise Island, Bahamas

Review

At home in Indonesia, Obama reaches out to Muslims

JAKARTA, Indonesia -- From the most Muslim nation on earth, President Barack Obama is reaching out to the Islamic world, declaring that efforts to build trust and peace are showing promise but are still clearly "incomplete."

Today President Obama will deliver one of the most personal and potentially consequential speeches of his presidency, reflecting on his own years of upbringing in Indonesia a...

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Local Muslim organisation should comment on the death of Osama bin Laden

EDITOR, The Tribune.

Re: Bin Laden is dead. -The Tribune, May 2, 2011.

THERE used to be an organisation of local Muslims, Jama'at-ul-Islaam (a.k.a. The Revolutionary Movement in The Bahamas).

They were very outspoken and kept us well informed about things Islamic.

However, they also seem to have become strangely quiet since 9/11.

If still in existence, it might be educational for many of us i...

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Court discharges Muslim man from China seeking asylum

A MAGISTRATE discharged a Muslim man who was arrested for violating the national curfew after the accused explained he is homeless and seeking asylum in the country after fleeing China.

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Muslim takes police fight to Privy Council

A FORMER police constable has vowed to fight the government all the way to the Privy Council to get justice for being fired from the Royal Bahamas Police Force because of his unwillingness to compromise a key component of his Muslim faith...

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Gunman Shoots Dead Humble Muslim

POLICE are investigating the circumstances surrounding a shooting incident that left one man dead and another man in hospital on Tuesday night. According to reports, shortly after 11pm, two men were at Ash Lane, Pinewood Gardens in the vicinity of Mt Tabor Church, when they were approached by a man they knew, who shot them and fled the area...

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Crown fails to appear again in case regarding Muslim officer

THE Crown has failed to appear on three occasions to represent the state in a lawsuit against former Commissioner of Police Ellison Greenslade for firing a police constable because of his unwillingness to compromise a key component of his Muslim faith.

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Radicalization among Sri Lanka's Muslims was slow and steady

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) -- A spate of attacks against mosques, shrines and followers of Sufi sheikhs in Sri Lanka more than a decade ago point to early warning signs of fundamentalism taking root among a sliver of the country's Muslims. The Easter attacks [...]
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Supreme Court to rule on sacking of Muslim officer

THE Court of Appeal has ordered that a Supreme Court judge is to determine whether former Commissioner of Police Ellison Greenslade was right to fire a police constable because of his unwillingness to compromise a key component of his Muslim faith.

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Appeal court confirms rights of Muslim RBDF officer who refused to join Christian prayer service were violated

THE Court of Appeal has upheld a ruling by Chief Justice Sir Michael Barnett which found that the Royal Bahamas Defence Force violated the constitutional rights of a Muslim officer who refused to participate in a Christian prayer service.

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