They had, on one side, a decorative, star-shaped Arabic calligraphy saying: “God, increase my knowledge.” On the other side, they had the text of the Muslim Shahada, the “testimony,” which ...

They knew what Obama's upright forefinger meant. However, the shahada is a verbal declaration of an Islamic creed, not a "Muslim gang sign" hand gesture: In Islam, the first of the five pillars is ...

Sitting in her apartment surrounded by 15 family members and friends, she read out the Arabic text ... On her 26th birthday, Takao recited the Shahada in front of her boyfriend, family ...

What bothered me was the brief two-sentence passage. According to the original article, the phrase was "the shahada, an Islamic declaration of faith." Why not "Mary had a little lamb" or "the ...