Author: Spencer S. Hsu

Source: The Washington Post

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/19/AR2009041902276.html

Civil liberties groups are renewing calls for the Obama administration to change screening at border posts by limiting questions about Americans' political beliefs and religious practices and establishing a process for U.S. citizens and residents who are mistakenly included on...

Author: Paloma Esquivel

Source: The Los Angeles Times

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-muslims-fbi20-2009apr20,0,7708003.story

As they sipped tea and nibbled on dates, more than 100 men and women listened to a litany of speakers sounding the same message: The FBI is not your friend.

"We're here today to say our mosques are off limits," Hussam Ayloush, executive director of the Council on American-Islamic...

Author: Reid J. Epstein

Source: Newsday

http://www.newsday.com/news/local/politics/ny-usking2112675328apr20,0,6697433.story

The FBI and Nassau police Monday declined to comment directly about Rep. Peter King's assertion that U.S. Muslims are uncooperative with police, but stressed that they do not focus investigations on particular religious denominations.

However, a spokeswoman for the federal Department of...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: BBC News

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8008364.stm

With less than six months to go until Norway's general election, increasing tensions over immigration and Islam appear likely to play a significant role in the vote.

The leader of the country's main opposition party has warned that it is facing "sneak-Islamisation", while some prominent Muslims say they face growing "persecution".

The heated debate is a...

Author: Suvojit Bagchi

Source: BBC News

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7998819.stm

The Indian government's "war against terror" may cost the Congress party dearly in the election.

Arrests and alleged extrajudicial killings of Muslim youths have angered many in the Islamic community.

"People in power have branded us as terrorists and used us as a vote bank, this cannot go on," said the all-powerful cleric of Delhi's Jama...

Author: Peter Gelling

Source: The New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/19/world/asia/19indo.html?_r=1&emc=tnt&tntemail0=y

The only solace for the almost 200 men living in a squalid refugee camp here is the freedom they now have to pray.

“In Myanmar, if we pray, we are killed,” said Alam Shah, 38, a member of the Rohingya Muslim minority, who fled the predominantly Buddhist Myanmar last year...

Author: Badea Abu Al-Naja

Source: Arab News

Author: Gregg Krupa

Source: The Detroit News

http://www.detnews.com/article/20090417/METRO/904170360/1041/LIFESTYLE04/Michigan+Muslims+request+a+probe+of+FBI

A coalition of Muslim organizations asked U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder on Thursday to investigate complaints that the FBI is approaching local Muslims, asking them to inform on Islamic congregations in Metro Detroit.

...

Author: Jessica Leeder

Source: The Globe and Mail

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20090417.AFGHAN17ART22272/TPStory/TPInternational/Asia/

The law that exploded Afghan women's rights onto the world stage began in obscurity two years ago, when it was published as a proposal in a magazine for Shia clerics.

From there, it was circulated to the Ministry of Justice, where it...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: The National

http://www.thenational.ae/article/20090416/FOREIGN/371299798/1011/NEWS

The dedication of the the World Baptist Alliance’s new baptism centre at Bethany-Beyond-the-Jordan last month was more than just an ordinary religious celebration.

For many of the country’s nearly 10,000 evangelicals, it was seen as a step towards governmental recognition of them as a Christian...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: BBC News

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7985351.stm

Among the dozens of mosques in Istanbul stands a radical exception.

It is not only different in design but is also the first to be designed by a woman.

Known for designing hotels and bars, Zeynep Fadillioglu said she wanted to create something contemporary.

She spoke to the BBC's Sarah Rainsford as they walked through the building.

Author: Tom Coghlan

Source: The Times Online

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article6098614.ece

A group of Afghan women who braved an enraged mob yesterday to protest against an “abhorrent” new Afghan law had to be rescued by police from a hail of stones and abuse.

The protest by about 200 women, unprecedented in recent Afghanistan history, was directed at the Shia Family Law passed last month by...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: BBC News

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/staffordshire/8001751.stm

A Muslim man behind plans for a mosque in Lichfield says he is disappointed by some people's reaction to the idea.

More than 2,500 people have signed up to a Facebook group objecting to plans to build a mosque for Islamic worshippers in the Staffordshire city.

Mosque proposer Abdul Salam said the Muslim...

Author: Andrea Fereshteh

Source: The Durham News

http://www.thedurhamnews.com/need_to_know/story/195295.html

More than 100 faculty, staff, students and members of the Muslim community from Duke and the Triangle gathered Thursday for the official opening of a Muslim Life center at Duke.

For Duke's Muslim Chaplain Abdullah Antepli, the gray clapboard house at 406 Swift Ave. represents "one of the most happy, joyous moments of my life...

Author: Shannon Montanez

Source: The Maneater Student Newspaper

http://www.themaneater.com/stories/2009/4/14/islam-awareness-week-addresses-common-misconceptio/

The Muslim Student Organization sponsored its annual Islam Awareness Week last week with events to create appreciation for the Muslim religion.

The group started the week off by setting up a "Taste of Islam" on Monday on Lowry Mall. The...