International Business News - Mosque http://www.ibtimes.com All articles are copyrighted by IBTimes.com 400 100 http://www.ibtimes.com/ http://www.ibtimes.com/images/top_logo_ibt2_3.gif Iran's Revolutionary Court has convicted three men of involvement in a bombing inside a packed mosque that killed 14 people in April and sentenced them to be hanged publicly near the scene of the attack. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081129/death-sentences-for-men-who-bombed-iranian-mosque.htm Sat, 29 Nov 2008 11:49:15 EST Two men pleaded guilty Monday to firebombing a storefront mosque that was reduced to rubble with black swastikas spray painted on it. A federal indictment said the two and a third defendant also tagged "White Power" on the outside of the mosque before torching the building with Molotov cocktails. No one was injured in the February fire that burned down the Islamic Center of Columbia, about 40 miles south of Nashville. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081103/2-plead-guilty-to-firebombing-tennessee-mosque.htm Mon, 03 Nov 2008 22:06:36 EST Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan stressed unity among religions, while still preaching a message of black empowerment, at a rare public event Sunday deemed "a new beginning" for the Chicago-based movement. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/155704-farrakhan-mosque.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081019/farrakhan-discusses-new-beginning-for-noi.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081019/farrakhan-discusses-new-beginning-for-noi.htm Sun, 19 Oct 2008 22:44:19 EDT The Nation of Islam, a secretive movement generally closed to outsiders, has planned a rare open-to-the public event at its Chicago-based headquarters in what the Minister Louis Farrakhan deemed a "new beginning" for the group. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/155011-farrakhan-mosque.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081018/farrakhan-says-new-beginning-for-nation-of-islam.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081018/farrakhan-says-new-beginning-for-nation-of-islam.htm Sat, 18 Oct 2008 07:37:56 EDT The first mosque with a minaret and a dome in Germany's formerly communist east opened on Thursday as police corralled protesters behind a roadblock three blocks away. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081016/first-mosque-opens-in-germanys-ex-communist-east.htm Thu, 16 Oct 2008 14:06:06 EDT Police have blown up a suspicious backpack outside a Texas mosque and arrested a man who claimed it contained a bomb. Austin police Lt. Cedric Hudson says 46-year-old Azzam Baytie threatened the North Austin Muslim Community Center on Sunday. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081005/police-blow-up-suspicious-backpack-at-texas-mosque.htm Sun, 05 Oct 2008 19:19:16 EDT Protesters throwing stones and paintballs disrupted the opening of an "anti-Islamification" conference Friday organized by a right-wing German nationalist group that opposes the building of a large new mosque. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/134340-germany-mosque-protest.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080919/anti-mosque-nationalists-attacked-in-germany.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080919/anti-mosque-nationalists-attacked-in-germany.htm Fri, 19 Sep 2008 13:38:16 EDT Police announced plans Thursday to station 3,000 officers this weekend in downtown Cologne, where thousands are expected to demonstrate against far-right groups attending an "Anti-Islamification" conference. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080918/cologne-prepares-for-protests-over-mosque.htm Thu, 18 Sep 2008 11:34:07 EDT Far-right groups from around Europe are planning to join German nationalists in a protest next week against plans for a large, new mosque in the city of Cologne. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080912/far-right-european-groups-to-protest-german-mosque.htm Fri, 12 Sep 2008 11:46:14 EDT A mosque under construction collapsed in northwest China, killing eight people and injuring 23 others, state media reported Friday. Investigators were looking into whether Thursday's accident in Xiajiuzhuang village in Qinghai province may have been caused by failed support beams, the official Xinhua News Agency said. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080725/report-8-die-in-northwest-china-mosque-collapse.htm Fri, 25 Jul 2008 01:17:11 EDT Thousands of Islamists demanded Sunday that Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf be publicly hanged as they observed the one-year anniversary of a deadly military crackdown on the radical Red Mosque. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/86952-pakistan-radical-mosque.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080706/pakistan-red-mosque-siege-remembered.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080706/pakistan-red-mosque-siege-remembered.htm Sun, 06 Jul 2008 10:00:59 EDT A year after the deadly military siege of the Red Mosque, the radical spirit of the pro-Taliban stronghold lives on. The dead are hailed as martyrs. Militants--and politicians--use the Pakistani mosque standoff as a rallying cry. And conspiracy theories have found fertile ground as questions linger about how many people died and whether any were women or children. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/84122-pakistan-red-mosque.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080702/1-year-later-pakistan-mosques-spirit-lives-on.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080702/1-year-later-pakistan-mosques-spirit-lives-on.htm Wed, 02 Jul 2008 12:20:57 EDT A bomb exploded outside a Shiite mosque in northwest Pakistan on Monday, killing at least four people and wounding five others, police said. The bomb exploded near the outer wall of the mosque in downtown Dera Ismail Khan as worshippers were leaving after evening prayers, said Abdul Ghafoor, a local police officer. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080616/bomb-explodes-outside-shiite-mosque-in-pakistan.htm Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:04:02 EDT