AMERICANS’ UNDERSTAND OF ISLAM SHAPES BY ISLAMOPHOBIC NEWS Addressing misconceptions about Islam, a Muslim scholar has emphasized that a narrow media focus have played a hand in shaping America’s views of the Muslim world, resulting in increasing anti-Muslim bias. “Americans’ understanding of Islam has unfortunately been shaped by the news,” …

Ayatollah Araki has visited Pakistani religious leaders only to find Sunni-Shia ties ‘surprisingly cordial’ in a land notorious for sectarian violence. Secretary General of the World Forum for Proximity of Islamic Schools of Thought (WFPIST) Ayatollah Mohsen Araki attended in Pakistan a series of joint meetings of Sunni and Shia major religious leaders …

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