Author: Joe Wojtas

Source: The Day

http://www.theday.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2010309229930

A Muslim leader and a Congregational minister sat side by side on the floor of a classroom at Pine Point School Tuesday morning, surrounded by 15 middle-school students from across the region.

The minister, the Rev. David Good of Old Lyme, talked about his trips with people of different faiths to Jerusalem, where he asks those in his...

Author: James McKinley Jr.

Source: The New York Times

Author: Banan F. Malkawi

Source: Ammon News

http://en.ammonnews.net/article.aspx?articleNO=9651

A discussion of Islam and Muslims in America and America’s relation with the Muslim world may be best understood and explained when viewed from within the context of the history, development, and status of religious pluralism and diversity in the United States. 

In a conversation via video-conferencing on Tuesday held at Princess...

Author: Diana L. Eck

Source: The Boston Globe

Author: Lawrence Wright

Source: The New Yorker

http://www.newyorker.com/talk/comment/2010/09/20/100920taco_talk_wright

When a dozen cartoons satirizing the Prophet Mohammed appeared in the conservative Danish daily Jyllands-Posten, in September, 2005, there was only a muted outcry from the small Danish Muslim community, and little reaction in the rest of the Muslim world. Six months later, however, riots broke out and Danish...

Author: Anne Barnard

Source: The New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/21/nyregion/21mosque.html?_r=1

The proposed Islamic community center and mosque in Lower Manhattan got its strongest vote of confidence yet from major Muslim leaders on Monday, after months of behind-the-scenes grumbling that they were not properly consulted on the project, and a day’s worth of intense and painful conversations at a hotel near Kennedy...

Author: Lawrence Wright

Source: The New Yorker

http://www.newyorker.com/talk/comment/2010/09/20/100920taco_talk_wright

When a dozen cartoons satirizing the Prophet Mohammed appeared in the conservative Danish daily Jyllands-Posten, in September, 2005, there was only a muted outcry from the small Danish Muslim community, and little reaction in the rest of the Muslim world. Six months later, however, riots broke out and Danish...

Author: Barun S. Mitra

Source: The Wall Street Journal

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704129204575505134072018578.html

What if somebody built a mosque and nobody cared? No, not the so-called Ground Zero mosque in New York. The mosque in question is in the small Indian town of Ayodhya, in northern Uttar Pradesh state. Six decades ago the mosque became the subject of a contentious lawsuit. The conflict...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: Reuters

http://blogs.reuters.com/faithworld/2010/09/19/mosques-to-become-bigger-part-of-german-life-chancellor-angela-merkel/

Chancellor Angela Merkel has said Germans had for too long failed to grasp how immigration was changing their country and would have to get used to the sight of more mosques in their cities.

Author: Meg Luther Lindholm

Source: National Public Radio

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129886566

While most Muslims in Fargo, N.D., say they feel accepted within the wider community, many are watching protests over the proposed Islamic cultural center near New York City's Ground Zero closely, particularly as they plan to expand their own mosque.

Fargo's Muslim...

Author: Meg Luther Lindholm

Source: National Public Radio

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129886566

While most Muslims in Fargo, N.D., say they feel accepted within the wider community, many are watching protests over the proposed Islamic cultural center near New York City's Ground Zero closely, particularly as they plan to expand their own mosque.

Fargo's Muslim...

Author: Erica Noonan and Katrina Ballard

Source: The Boston Globe

http://www.boston.com/yourtown/wellesley/articles/2010/09/17/school_visit_to_mosque_decried/?p1=News_links

Wellesley’s school superintendent apologized yesterday for allowing middle school pupils to participate in a prayer service during a field trip to a Roxbury mosque last spring.

The apology to parents was made...

Author: Helen Gray

Source: The Kansas City Star

http://www.kansascity.com/2010/09/17/2231355/local-muslims-find-support-after.html

Mustafa Hussein of the Islamic Center of Greater Kansas City didn’t know what to expect.

The proposed Islamic center and mosque in New York City blocks from ground zero has drawn harsh anti-Muslim reaction.

A Florida pastor threatened to burn...

Author: Janet Zink

Source: The St. Petersburg Times

http://www.tampabay.com/news/politics/elections/muslim-candidate-for-state-house-tackles-religion-issue-head-on/1122063

As Z.J. Hafeez worked the room at a recent candidate forum in Tampa, he shook hands with a man who leaned in and peered at his name tag.

"Z. J. Hafeez," he read slowly. "That's a funny name...

Author: Christian Fraser

Source: BBC News

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-11339335

Muslims in Paris who find themselves too busy to pray have been given a new option, thanks to a Tunisian businessman.