Word: siddiqui
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...like calling Indian Sikhs "Islamics"--reflects this ignorance. Not every Muslim is fanatic, and not every turban-wearing guy is a terrorist. Muslims from different countries embrace very different ideals. I am sure the Department of Homeland Security could do a better job of providing cultural-sensitivity training. FAISAL SIDDIQUI Bombay...
...approximately 70,000 Muslims living in Japan, the widening probe is worrying for a different reason. At the Medina masjid one town over from Nishi-Kawaguchi, mosque chairman Raees Siddiqui, a 53-year-old Pakistani, is happy to chat about a possible backlash against Muslims due to the arrests, but he only has a few minutes: the 30-year resident of Japan, who runs a million-dollar used-car export business, says he has to be at the police station soon. No, he's not wanted for anything, or even questioning, he replies, simultaneously offended and amused at the suggestion...
...money. "Islamic banking is still a virgin territory," notes Rumman Faruqi, ceo of the London-based Institute of Islamic Banking and Insurance. "We have a lot of catching up to do." But the sector remains upbeat. "We are seeing more risk-taking innovations in Islamic asset management," says Rushdi Siddiqui, director of Dow Jones' Islamic Market Indexes, which lists about 1,400 Shari'a-compliant stocks in its global-equity index. "Islamic banks and investors have become more sophisticated and will demand more complex investment vehicles," Hassoune predicts. And as long as there are believers like Uddin, the future...
...come to see where we make the bombs," Maulana (teacher) Adil Siddiqui, said to a teenager who asked who I was. Siddiqui was a broadcaster with All-India Radio, the state radio, until he retired to this seminary to escape the world. This seminary is Dar-ul-uloom, or the place of knowledge, home to 3,500 boys and young men, mostly from poor families, in the Indian farming town of Deoband. It is also the spiritual home of the particular brand of Islam practiced by the Taliban...