Author: Julia O'Malley

Source: Anchorage Daily News

http://community.adn.com/adn/node/153155

I sat in the back of the gym at the Fairview Recreation Center on Friday, counting the people lined up for prayers at Anchorage's Eid Day, the Muslim holiday that marks the end of Ramadan. Four hundred. Five hundred. Maybe, with children, close to 600.

I went to a similar gathering five years ago, then the group in the gym had been half the size. I tried to...

Author: Everton Bailey, Jr.

Source: Google News

Wire Service: AP

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gW1xHFWZTQLD-N6V4-EsN-KOshdwD9I7D8C00

The Hartford City Council's decision to replace a scheduled Islamic prayer with an interfaith moment of silence before its meeting sends the wrong message to Connecticut's Islamic community, Muslim leaders said.

Mongi...

Author: Keith Uhlig

Source: The Wausau Daily Herald

http://www.wausaudailyherald.com/article/20100914/WDH0101/9140525/Anonymous-peace-message-sent-to-Muslim-community

When members of the Islamic Society of Central Wisconsin arrived at their mosque for noon prayers Saturday, a message awaited them.

It was the day after a story was published in Gannett Central...

Author: Jordana Horn

Source: The Jerusalem Post

http://www.jpost.com/International/Article.aspx?id=188103

One month after taking a stand against construction of the proposed Islamic Cultural Center near the destroyed World Trade Center site in Manhattan, the Anti-Defamation League has started an interfaith coalition meant to help American Muslim communities that are facing opposition to the building of mosques.

The Interfaith Coalition...

Author: Jim Yardley

Source: The New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/15/world/asia/15kashmir.html

The authorities expanded a strict curfew across Kashmir on Tuesday and sent more security officers across the restive Himalayan region after bloody protests erupted there a day earlier, fueled partly by a report of Koran desecration in the United States.

The bloodshed, which rippled across different districts in...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: BBC News

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-11305033

France's Senate has overwhelmingly approved a bill that would ban wearing the Islamic full veil in public.

The proposed measure was already backed by the lower house of parliament, the National Assembly, in July.

The ban will come into force in six months' time if it is not overturned by constitutional judges.

Author: Everton Bailey, Jr.

Source: Google News

Wire Service: AP

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gW1xHFWZTQLD-N6V4-EsN-KOshdwD9I7D8C00

The Hartford City Council's decision to replace a scheduled Islamic prayer with an interfaith moment of silence before its meeting sends the wrong message to Connecticut's Islamic community, Muslim leaders said.

Mongi...

Author: Keith Uhlig

Source: The Wausau Daily Herald

http://www.wausaudailyherald.com/article/20100914/WDH0101/9140525/Anonymous-peace-message-sent-to-Muslim-community

When members of the Islamic Society of Central Wisconsin arrived at their mosque for noon prayers Saturday, a message awaited them.

It was the day after a story was published in Gannett Central...

Author: Julia O'Malley

Source: Anchorage Daily News

http://community.adn.com/adn/node/153155

I sat in the back of the gym at the Fairview Recreation Center on Friday, counting the people lined up for prayers at Anchorage's Eid Day, the Muslim holiday that marks the end of Ramadan. Four hundred. Five hundred. Maybe, with children, close to 600.

I went to a similar gathering five years ago, then the group in the gym had been half the size. I tried to...

Author: Jordana Horn

Source: The Jerusalem Post

http://www.jpost.com/International/Article.aspx?id=188103

One month after taking a stand against construction of the proposed Islamic Cultural Center near the destroyed World Trade Center site in Manhattan, the Anti-Defamation League has started an interfaith coalition meant to help American Muslim communities that are facing opposition to the building of mosques.

The Interfaith Coalition...

Author: Amy Zerba

Source: CNN

http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2010/09/13/churches-read-from-quran-in-face-of-proposed-quran-burning/

Rev. Larry Reimer’s says there's a simple message at the core of his faith: people have more in common than they have in conflict.

It's one reason he chose to have a passage from the Quran read at the United Church of Gainesville, part of the United Church of...

Author: Habiba Nosheen

Source: National Public Radio

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129709336

In a world where Google has put every bit of information at our fingertips, some people are now demanding less information when they surf the Internet.

Some Jews, Muslims and Christians are abandoning Yahoo and Google and turning to search engines with results that meet their religious standards.

Author: Mary E. O'Leary

Source: The New Haven Register

http://www.nhregister.com/articles/2010/09/13/news/new_haven/doc4c8d99ae18b9f677991290.txt

Valarie Kaur is an award-winning filmmaker who has fought racism for the past nine years, and still she found herself overwhelmed and paralyzed by the anti-Muslim sentiment flowing from controversy over the planned Islamic center near Ground Zero in New York.

Author: Staff Writer

Source: Yahoo News

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100913/ap_on_bi_ge/us_ramadan_newspaper_apology

The publisher of a Maine newspaper has apologized for giving Page One coverage to the end of Ramadan on Sept. 11 without mention of the ninth anniversary of the 2001 terrorist attacks

Author: Anne Barnard

Source: The New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/14/nyregion/14imam.html

The imam working on the planned Muslim community center near ground zero said Monday he was open to all options to resolve the fierce dispute surrounding it, while possibly provoking the project’s opponents by declaring that the site, two blocks from the former World Trade Center, was not “hallowed ground.”

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