Author: Leslie Wines

Source: San Diego Union-Tribune

Wire Service: AP

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/business/20080206-1304-islamicbond.html

Morgan Stanley plans to bring to market what it believes will be the first sale of an Islamic bond by a multinational corporation, a spokesman for the firm said Wednesday.

The bond sale is being coordinated by Morgan Stanley's Dubai office....

Author: Simon Montlake

Source: The Christian Science Monitor

http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0205/p99s01-duts.html

Britain has launched an official inquiry into allegations that police officers eavesdropped on meetings between a Muslim member of Parliament and a detained suspect sought by US prosecutors on terror-related charges. A former police officer has admitted bugging Sadiq Khan, a member of the ruling center-left Labour Party, during a prison...

Author: Michael McFall

Source: The Daily Utah Chronicle

http://media.www.dailyutahchronicle.com/media/storage/paper244/news/2008/02/06/News/Religion.At.The.U.Islamic.Students.At.U.Keep.The.Faith-3190953.shtml

Loui Ismaeel, a sophomore in pre-med, leaned over, picked up a little black clock from his desk and watched the digital seconds tick away. There...

Author: Jim DeBrosse

Source: Dayton Daily News

http://www.daytondailynews.com/n/content/oh/story/news/local/2008/02/06/ddn020608mosqueweb.html

Attorneys for the Islamic Society of Greater Dayton are appealing in court a zoning appeals board decision to disallow the construction of a mosque on South Alpha-Bellbrook Road in Sugarcreek Twp.

The Sugarcreek Twp. Zoning Board of Appeals voted 5-0 on Jan...

Author: Nicola Berkovic

Source: The Australian/AAP

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23167127-2702,00.html

A SURVIVOR of the first Bali bombing said the "star" of last night's ABC documentary Jihad Sheilas would be hunted down after her hardline comments about the victims.

Peter Hughes said Rabiah Hutchinson, the so-called matriarch of radical Islam in Australia, was uninformed and utterly insensitive....

Author: Peter Lamprecht

Source: Christian News Today

http://www.christiannewstoday.com/Christian_News_Report_305.html

In a blow to religious freedom in Egypt, a Cairo court has ruled against a Muslim convert to Christianity who requested that his religious affiliation be changed.

Judge Muhammad Husseini said in a verdict on Tuesday (January 29) that it was against Islamic law for a Muslim to leave Islam, a legal representative...

Author: NIRAJ WARIKOO

Source: Detroit Free Press

http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080205/NEWS02/80205020/1004#articlecomments

Ava Muhammad, the first woman to head a mosque in the Nation of Islam, is scheduled to speak today about the presidential election at Wayne County Community College District in Detroit.

Muhammad is the national spokeswoman for the Nation of Islam and its...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: Haaretz

Wire Service: AP

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/951436.html

Israel has shut down a religious and educational center in East Jerusalem, saying Tuesday it served as a front for the violently anti-Israel Islamic Hamas group.

According to a police statement Tuesday, the Education Club in the Zur Baher village is run by Hamas activists, financed by the Islamic group, and...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: Newsday

Wire Service: AP

http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/world/ny-wonorw055564874feb05,0,4121998.story

Islamic terror networks tried to recruit young Muslims in Norway to launch attacks in other countries, the head of police intelligence was quoted as saying in an interview published yesterday.

"We have some worrisome reports of older,...

Source: PRNewswire/U.S. Commission on Civil Rights

Author: Staff Writer

Source: Calgary Herald

http://www.canada.com/calgaryherald/news/city/story.html?id=729f8368-5156-440c-85a3-ad3dc8ff1c38

A human rights complaint filed against a local Muslim leader is just the latest salvo in an ongoing dispute involving a northeast Islamic centre and the families of the three women who launched the complaint.

Qasira Shaheen, Robina Butt and Shugufta Iftikhar...

Author: John M. Glionna

Source: Los Angeles Times

Author: Stephanie Condron

Source: The Times

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article3301164.ece

Hundreds of guides telling town hall officials and police how to talk about terrorism without causing offence to Muslims have been distributed in the past few weeks.

The guide, written by Home Office civil servants, suggest that instead of talking about Muslim or Islamic extremism, officials should instead say “...

Author: CHRISTINA M. WOODS

Source: The Wichita Eagle

http://www.kansas.com/news/local/story/301275.html

After serving apple-chicken salad in pastry shells, cucumber tea sandwiches, smoked salmon and asparagus crustini, summer berry tarts, pink lemonade with kiwi, and tea, members of Danah Salem's Girl Scout troop did a lively rendition of the Macarena dance.

There was a purpose to this dance, the grand finale of the troop's mother-daughter...

Author: Marie Woolf

Source: The Times

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article3295369.ece

BRITISH schools are to be twinned with madrasahs in Pakistan to show pupils there how much they have in common with children in the West and to combat extreme Islamist ideology.

The British Council is to put £6m into linking British schools with classrooms in countries where children may be at risk of being groomed by...