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The Latest: German says Islamic extremists target migrants
2015-09-18 12:53:30| Automakers - Topix.net
17, 2015. . Refugees rest in a former furniture factory after crossing the border from Austria in Freilassing, southern Germany, Thursday, Sept.
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Why Islamic Declaration on Global Climate Change could be a game changer on Global Warming
2015-08-23 00:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Daily Kos: Pope Francis may have soaked up headlines earlier this summer when he published a whopping 192-page encyclical on climate change, but this week Muslims issued a declaration that could influence an even larger population than the Catholic decree. The declaration, announced Tuesday as part of the two-day International Islamic Climate Change Symposium in Istanbul, further exemplifies the trend of faith-based climate activism ahead of the U.N. climate change summit in December. Like the papal encyclical,...
Islamic Experts Urge Muslim Action Climate Change
2015-08-22 15:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: A group of Islamic experts urged the world's 1.6 billion Muslims to do more to fight global warming, in a new example of religious efforts to galvanize action before a U.N. climate summit in Paris in December. In June, the world's most important Christian leader, Pope Francis, urged world leaders to hear "the cry of the earth and the cry of the poor" in an encyclical on the environment for the world's 1.2 billion Roman Catholics. Unlike Roman Catholicism, Islam is a highly decentralized religion...
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Islamic call on rich countries to end fossil fuel use
2015-08-18 16:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: Islamic environmental and religious leaders have called on rich countries and oil producing nations to end fossil fuel use by 2050. The Islamic Climate Declaration says that the world's 1.6bn Muslims have a religious duty to fight climate change. It urges politicians to agree a new treaty to limit global warming to 2C, "or preferably 1.5 degrees." The Declaration asks Muslims, in the words of the Koran, "not to strut arrogantly on the Earth". The Declaration is like a trigger - to say,...
Indiana Joneses run hi-tech race against Islamic State
2015-06-30 01:22:03| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
The kit recording the world's threatened cultural treasures