Author: Daniel P. Finney

Source: The Des Moines Register

http://www.desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2008809230362

In a tan building across the street from the Merle Hay Mall Younkers parking lot, the American dream is happening.

It looks like any other construction site in Des Moines: A stack of bricks sits on a trailer outside the front gate. Pails of spackle and paste sit inside the 3,700-square-foot...

Author: Harold Reutter

Source: The Grand Island Independent

Author: Paul J. Weber

Source: The News Tribune

http://www.thenewstribune.com/tacoma/24hour/religion/story/489414.html

Federal prosecutors Monday started a second attempt to convict leaders of a Muslim charity on charges of financing terrorism after the first trial last year ended with a mistrial on most of the allegations.

The Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development is accused of funneling more than $12 million...

Author: Robin Farmer

Source: The Times-Dispatch

http://www.inrich.com/cva/ric/entertainment_living/religion.apx.-content-articles-RTD-2008-09-21-0276.html

When Amal Damaj learned another Iraqi family had settled in the Richmond area, she quickly visited.

She didn't arrive empty-handed.

Damaj, who lives in Chesterfield County, delivered a basket full of rice, dates, tea,...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: BBC News

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7624523.stm

Muslim police leaders are demanding to know why no action has been taken over a leaflet which blames Muslims for the heroin trade.

The leaflet, distributed to hundreds of households in parts of Lancashire, Cumbria and Yorkshire, says people should "heap condemnation" on Muslims.

The Crown Prosecution Service said there was not enough proof it was...

Author: Jean Ortiz

Source: The Associated Press

Author: Helen T. Gray

Source: The Kansas City Star

http://www.kansascity.com/255/story/804497.html

Kansas City area Muslims are committed to their faith, perhaps even more deeply than Muslims in other parts of the country.

For example, 62 percent of area Muslims who responded to an informal Star survey this month said they attend prayer at a mosque once a week or more. That compares with 40 percent in a recent national survey.

As...

Author: Meredith Heagney

Source: The Columbus Dispatch

http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/faith_values/stories/2008/09/19/ramafast.ART_ART_09-19-08_B3_G6BB7E1.html?sid=101

It was the kind of September afternoon that begs for a breeze or a raindrop -- anything to take the sun down a notch.

The 90-degree heat was getting to the players on the Hilliard Weaver Middle School...

Author: Vern Barnet

Source: KansasCity.com

http://www.kansascity.com/255/story/798378.html

Last week the world lost one of the most transformative figures in the recent history of Islam, Warith Deen Mohammed, sometimes called “America’s Imam.” He was the first Muslim to offer the invocation for the U.S. Senate.

He had been scheduled speak in Kansas City last May but at the last minute was called to an international...

Author: Azhar Usman

Source: Muslim American Society

http://www.masnet.org/views.asp?id=5203

On September 11, 2008, while countless American flags whipped in the wind and the television and radio waves were dominated by remembrances, recordings, and stories about the terror attacks of seven years ago, I attended the funeral of Imam W.D. Mohammed (may God be pleased with him). For me, it was a somber day, but I found myself mostly lost in thought: about African-...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: The Associated Press

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jN9P7bJvEAwgj4WE5c5X2LhwvfKgD938QEFO0

President Bush told a dinner honoring American Muslims that his administration has partnered with those practicing Islam around the world to promote tolerance and spread freedom to millions.

"We reject bigotry in all its forms," the president said before sitting down for dinner Wednesday with about...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: The Associate Press

http://blog.beliefnet.com/news/2008/09/union-muslim-workers-reach-dea.php

A meatpacking plant has agreed to accommodate Muslim workers' request for prayer time during Ramadan, union officials said Wednesday.

Earlier this week 300 Muslim JBS Swift...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: Reuters

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/18/world/europe/18pew.html?emc=tnt&tntemail0=y

Anti-Muslim and anti-Jewish feelings are rising in several major European countries, according to a worldwide survey released on Wednesday.

The Washington-based Pew Research Center’s global attitude survey found that 46 percent of Spanish, 36 percent of Poles and 34 percent of Russians viewed...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: Middle East Online

http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/features/?id=27925

The mass mailing of a controversial DVD "Obsession: Radical Islam's War Against the West" has sparked anger among many in South Florida.

The hour-long video began turning up in mailboxes last week as a direct mailing, and also as an advertising insert in dozens of newspapers, including The Miami Herald and the South-Florida...

Author: Raymond Carlson and Greta Stetson

Source: Yale Daily News

http://www.yaledailynews.com/articles/view/25202

On Tuesday evening, Commons Dining Hall was transformed into something “between Hogwarts and Medina,” in the words of Eboo Patel, the keynote speaker at Yale’s seventh annual Ramadan Banquet.

Nearly filling the room to capacity, more than 500 Yale students, faculty and staff and New Haven residents crowded into...