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Whole Foods' Ramadan Marketing Headaches

Whole Foods is encountering a not entirely unforeseen headache during their first Ramadan marketing campaign: Pressure from anti-Muslim bloggers and internal dissent at their company.READ»

Whole Foods Celebrates, Monetizes Ramadan

Thanks to a new social media-centered marketing campaign, Whole Foods will become the first national retail chain to celebrate Ramadan.READ»

China's Return To The Silk Road

China is reclaiming its place as the world's megabazaar, with the city of Yiwu as its one-stop shop for traders from the Muslim world.READ»

Iran Cracking Down Online With "Halal Internet"

Introducing a nationwide intranet that one high-ranking official calls a "Halal Internet." In: censorship and e-banking. Out: sex and profanity. READ»

Pakistan Dials Its Islamic Net Censorship Up to 11, Shutters Yahoo and Bing

Pakistan's just made a move that's not going to qualify it for any "friendly world citizen" awards: Its government's said it'll be filtering scores more Web sites for anti-Islamic content. Facebook, YouTube, and Wikipedia were just ...READ»

Can a Modern Mosque in Copenhagen Settle the Disputes Between Danes and Muslims?

Given the local tensions with Muslim immigrants, the Bjarke Ingels Group mosque is either ingenious or outrageous.READ»

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Q&A: Abdelaziz Aouragh, Owner of El Asira, the Online Muslim Sex Shop That Isn't a Sex Shop

Earlier this week, Fast Company reported on El Asira, an online sex shop for Muslims. Naturally, we wanted to hear more about this innovative business, and so we contacted the guys behind it to find out a little bit more. Abdelaziz ...READ»

Frank Gehry Walks Away From a $250 Million Job

Gehry's move might doom the Jerusalem's controversial Museum of Tolerance.READ»

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Facebook Gets Religion, But You Can't Poke the Pope

The kind of fame Facebook finds always brings its own surprising developments. For example: The Pope just joined. But elsewhere Muslim clerics are busy debating the merits and morals of the social 'net. Did Facebook just get ...READ»

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Not a Hoax: Mecca Redesign Leaked [video]

Mecca, the holiest city in Islam, is going to be redesigned, and a proposed master plan just leaked to YouTube. Because of the extreme sensitivity of the project, details about the redesign have been sparse. Nonetheless, it ...READ»

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A Quiet Coup: Turkey's First Mosque Designed by a Woman

Women's rights in the Islamic world are grim; even in Turkey, which has a secular government, feminism is still a foreign concept. But Zeynep Fadillioglu has quietly pulled off a coup: She's the first woman in Turkey to design ...READ»