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Islamic Funeral Home Gets Burnsville Council OK

May 6, 2008

Author: JOY POWELL

Source: Star Tribune

http://www.startribune.com/local/south/18713219.html

In response to a growing Muslim population in the south metro, the Islamic Institute of Minnesota plans to open a funeral facility in Burnsville that will be used to prepare the dead for burial.

The City Council on Monday night unanimously approved a conditional use permit for the institute to buy a building just off Hwy. 13 at 12th Avenue.
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U.S. Officials Urged to Avoid Linking Islam, Jihad with Terrorism

May 6, 2008

Author: SHAUN WATERMAN

Source: United Press International

http://www.upi.com/International_Security/Emerging_Threats/Analysis/2008/05/06/analysis_us_drops_islam_in_terror_talk/9370/

U.S. officials are being advised in internal government documents to avoid referring publicly to al-Qaida and other terrorist groups as Islamic or Muslim, and not to use terms like jihad or mujahedin,...

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Murrah Building Bombing Shaped Muslim Organization

May 3, 2008

Author: Carla Hinton

Source: The Oklahoman

http://newsok.com/murrah-building-bombing-shaped-muslim-organization/article/3238171/

The Council on American-Islamic Relations was a fledgling organization less than a year old when its co-founder, Nihad Awad, received an urgent telephone call from Oklahoma City in April 1995.

It was just days after a truck bomb blew apart the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building....

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Imams Condemn Islamic Teacher

May 3, 2008

Author: Natalie O'Brien

Source: The Australian

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23637358-5006789,00.html

ANGRY Muslim groups have attacked the University of Western Sydney over an Islamic studies course they claim is too sexually explicit, promotes lesbianism and derides the Koran as misogynistic.

Students, community members and the Australian National Imams Council have complained about the content...

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Setback for Danish Koran Translator

May 2, 2008

Author: Rachid Sekkai

Source: BBC News

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7378115.stm

The Danish author who commissioned cartoons to illustrate his 2005 book on the Prophet Muhammad - sketches which sparked outrage across the Muslim world - is now struggling to find a publisher for his latest book.

Kaare Bluitgen has just finished two new versions of the Koran which he intends to publish side-by-side, in a single volume.

One text is a...

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Standing Room Only at Muslim Free Clinic

May 2, 2008

Author: Khalid Moss

Source: Journal News

http://www.journal-news.com/l/content/oh/story/living/religion-faith/2008/05/02/ddn050208clinicweb.html

Ten minutes before 5 p.m. on Thursday, May 1, the tiny waiting room of Reach Out Medical Clinic, 25 E. Foraker St., began to fill. By 5:15, only standing room was available to patients arriving for the five o'clock grand opening of Dayton Mercy Society's...

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The Ties That Bind: Muslim Americans Join Japanese Americans on Manzanar Pilgrimage

May 2, 2008

Author: Emily Leach

Source: Asian Week

http://www.asianweek.com/2008/05/02/the-ties-that-bind-muslim-americans-join-japanese-americans-on-manzanar-pilgrimage/

More than 100 Muslim Americans from across California joined Japanese Americans for the 39th annual Manzanar Pilgrimage on April 26.

Many in the Middle Eastern, Muslim and South Asian community have found steady...

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Eager to Vote, Muslims File Stack of Lawsuits over Citizenship Delays

May 2, 2008

Author: JOHN LANTIGUA

Source: The Palm Beach Post

http://www.palmbeachpost.com/localnews/content/local_news/epaper/2008/05/02/m1a_citizens_0503.html

Shadi Odeh has lived 17 of his 31 years in the United States.

He is a Palestinian, transplanted at age 14 to Texas, where he was a boisterous Dallas Cowboys fan. In 1999 he moved to South Florida, where he embraced basketball's Miami Heat, which he...

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