Author: Bob von Sternberg

Source: The Star Tribune

http://www.startribune.com/local/99127539.html?page=1&c=y

An appliance manufacturer said Friday that it has changed policies at its freezer plant in St. Cloud that will make it possible for its Muslim employees to observe Ramadan, but a Muslim civil liberties group is questioning whether the changes go far enough.

Author: Aftab Gulzar

Source: BBC News

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-10712868

Halal meat has become a common part of life in the UK, but now a company has launched a range of halal make-up, which is free from alcohol and animal products.

But there has been a warning from some Muslim leaders who claim some other businesses are cashing in on halal products.

Author: Ian Sparks

Source: The Daily Mail

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1296821/Two-Muslim-women-marched-swimming-pool-French-holiday-village-wearing-burkinis.html?ito=feeds-newsxml#

Two Muslim women were ordered out of a swimming pool in France because they were wearing 'burkinis'. 

They jumped into the water...

Author: Paul Vitello

Source: The New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/23/nyregion/23mosque.html?_r=1&adxnnl=1&ref=religion_and_belief&adxnnlx=1279890041-owuf1RI4W6PDMF/By1IE2Q

The board of trustees of a Roman Catholic Church on Staten Island, whose members include Archbishop Timothy M. Dolan, has formally rejected a controversial proposal to sell a...

Author: Maggie Hyde

Source: St. Louis Today

Wire Service: RNS

http://www.stltoday.com/lifestyles/faith-and-values/article_ee43e11e-dea0-5771-979b-9b5e77b11a42.html

Ahmadi Muslims have been preaching peace since the movement was founded 121 years ago in India.

Now, they say they are just trying to get the rest of the world — including their fellow...

Author: Maggie Hyde

Source: Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life

Wire Service: RNS

http://pewforum.org/Religion-News/Fla-church-plans-to-burn-Qurans-on-9-11-anniversary.aspx

A Florida church with "Islam is of the devil" signs in its front lawn plans to host an "International Burn A Quran Day," on the ninth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks this year. 

Author: Louisa Lim

Source: NPR

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=128628514

It is 5:50 in the morning, and dark shadows scurry through narrow alleys to the mosque, as the call to prayer echoes from a minaret in Kaifeng. This city in central China's Henan province has an Islamic enclave, where Muslims have lived for more than 1,000 years.

In an alleyway called Wangjia hutong, women go to their own mosque, where...

Author: Jon Pareles

Source: The New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/22/arts/music/22sufi.html?_r=1&ref=religion_and_belief

Hands waved overhead. Voices shouted lyrics and whooped with delight. Children were hoisted onto parents’ shoulders. In the tightly packed crowd a few dancers made room to jump. T-shirts were tossed to fans from the stage.

Yet in the songs that Abida Parveen was singing,...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: Express India

http://www.expressindia.com/latest-news/Demolition-of-Hindu-temple-triggers-protest-in-Rawalpindi/649340/

The demolition of part of an 87-year-old temple triggered protests by the minority Hindu community in the Pakistani garrison city of Rawalpindi before authorities said they would prevent the rest of the shrine from being pulled down.

Hundreds...

Author: Ron Scherer

Source: Christian Science Monitor

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/2010/0720/Ground-Zero-mosque-spate-of-terror-plots-fueling-fears

Several proposed Islamic centers, including one near Ground Zero, have touched off a heated nationwide debate that raises questions about the state of religious tolerance in post-9/11 America.

Author: Ciaran Giles and Jorge Sainz

Source: Beliefnet

Wire Service: AP

https://www.beliefnet.com/columnists/news/2010/07/spain-parliament-rejects-burqa

...

Author: Albert Aji and Elizabeth Kennedy

Source: The Detroit News

Wire Service: AP

http://www.detnews.com/article/20100720/NATION/7200361/1041/LIFESTYLE04/Syria-bans-women-s-face-coverings-at-universities

Syria has forbidden the country's students and teachers from wearing the niqab -- the full Islamic veil that reveals only a woman's eyes --...

Author: Stephen Prothero

Source: CNN

http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2010/07/19/my-take-ground-zero-mosque-good-for-america-and-new-york/

I love New York, and I love the idea of a mosque at Ground Zero.

What began as a local question concerning the construction of an Islamic community center and mosque a few blocks from Ground Zero has morphed over the last few weeks into a statewide, national and...

Author: Bob Smietana

Source: WBIR/The Tennessean

http://www.wbir.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=127568&provider=rss

As a seminary student, the Rev. Jeremy Squires 
learned most of what he needed to know to be a 
Methodist preacher, but he didn't learn much about 
other faiths, like Islam or Buddhism. 

That's left Squires, pastor of Pleasant View United 
Methodist church in...

Author: Paul Hockenos

Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education

http://chronicle.com/article/Educating-Imams-in-Germany-/66282/

In the snow-swept courtyard of the white-marble Sehitlik Mosque, Berlin's largest Islamic prayer house, the resident imam greets the faithful with handshakes and embraces. A slightly built, cordial man wearing an open parka, Mustafa Aydin is a Turkish civil servant on a four-year posting abroad, as are many of...