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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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: Steve Pardo

Source: The Detroit News

http://www.detnews.com/article/20100913/METRO/9130336/Quran-burned-in-East-Lansing

The Michigan chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations is asking the FBI to launch a hate-crime investigation following the discovery Saturday of a burned Quran in East Lansing.

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: 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: 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: 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.”

 ...

Author: Steve Pardo

Source: The Detroit News

http://www.detnews.com/article/20100913/METRO/9130336/Quran-burned-in-East-Lansing

The Michigan chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations is asking the FBI to launch a hate-crime investigation following the discovery Saturday of a burned Quran in East Lansing.

Author: Tariq Ramadan

Source: The Washington Post

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/10/AR2010091005366.html

Just a short time ago, Europe seemed to be the part of the West where fears of Islam were most evident, with its bitter controversies over headscarf bans or the construction of mosques in France, Germany, the Netherlands and Switzerland. Yet in recent weeks, America's relationship...

Author: Edward Wong

Source: The New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/13/world/asia/13kashgar.html?_r=2&ref=religion_and_belief

Barbershop floors were littered with the remains of men’s haircuts and beard-trims. Women in head scarves walked the dusty streets carrying plastic bags stuffed with food from the bazaars: melons, grapes, fried sweets, Frisbee-shaped bread, chunks of freshly butchered...

Author: Tariq Ramadan

Source: The Washington Post

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/10/AR2010091005366.html

Just a short time ago, Europe seemed to be the part of the West where fears of Islam were most evident, with its bitter controversies over headscarf bans or the construction of mosques in France, Germany, the Netherlands and Switzerland. Yet in recent weeks, America's relationship...

Author: Edward Wong

Source: The New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/13/world/asia/13kashgar.html?_r=2&ref=religion_and_belief

Barbershop floors were littered with the remains of men’s haircuts and beard-trims. Women in head scarves walked the dusty streets carrying plastic bags stuffed with food from the bazaars: melons, grapes, fried sweets, Frisbee-shaped bread, chunks of freshly butchered...

Author: Niraj Warikoo

Source: The Detroit Free Press

http://www.freep.com/article/20100911/NEWS05/100911017/Muslim-duo-visits-30-mosques-in-30-states

Two young Muslims who traveled across America during Ramadan to visit 30 mosques in 30 days ended their religious journey Friday in metro Detroit, where they celebrated the end of the Islamic holy month with local residents.

It was a...

Author: Niraj Warikoo

Source: The Detroit Free Press

http://www.freep.com/article/20100911/NEWS05/100911017/Muslim-duo-visits-30-mosques-in-30-states

Two young Muslims who traveled across America during Ramadan to visit 30 mosques in 30 days ended their religious journey Friday in metro Detroit, where they celebrated the end of the Islamic holy month with local residents.

It was a...

Author: Sandra Constantine

Source: The Republican

http://www.masslive.com/news/index.ssf/2010/09/western_massachusetts_muslims_1.html

Local Muslims say hostilities against them and their religion have flared up in recent weeks in the wake of the heated controversies about a proposed mosque near Ground Zero, the threatened burning of the Quran and the 9/11 anniversary.

Hostilities include graffiti...