Source: www.wsbtv.com

http://www.wsbtv.com/news/14959495/detail.html

DALTON, Ga. -- Fire officials are investigating a "suspicious" Christmas morning blaze that destroyed a vacant home on the property of a mosque in Dalton.

Author: KASS STONE

Source: The Northwest Indiana Times

http://www.thetimesonline.com/articles/2008/01/02/news/top_news/doc541b4b60b478d58a862573c40010777d.txt

GARY | Iman W.D. Mohammed, a leader in the African-American Muslim community, offered a message of unity among Christians, Jews and Muslims at the 47th annual Emancipation Proclamation Program of Freedom on Tuesday at Western Christian...

Author: SAMUEL G. FREEDMAN

Source: The New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/02/education/02education.html

Zahra Al-Attar drove down the two-lane highway from Iowa City to her morning classes here. As she entered Kalona, population 2,200 and change, she rolled past the harness shop and the veterinary clinic, those reminders of her dislocation. She noticed, too, a horse-drawn buggy on the shoulder, an unexpected cue for memory.
...

Author: NICHOLAS KULISH

Source: The New York Times/Berlin Journal

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/01/world/europe/01berlin.html

Six men whirled faster and faster in the center of the nightclub, arms slung over one another’s shoulders, performing a traditional circle dance popular in Turkey and the Middle East. Nothing unusual given the German capital’s large Muslim population.

But most of the people filling the dance...

Author: Barry Brown

Source: The Washington Times

http://www.washingtontimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071231/FOREIGN/971280818/1001

A Muslim group is suing Canada's leading national newsweekly for the right of rebuttal because it published excerpts warning of high Muslim birthrates in the book "America Alone," by syndicated columnist Mark Steyn.

The Canadian Islamic Congress filed complaints...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: BBC News

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7166042.stm

More than 1,000 Palestinian pilgrims stranded in Egypt have held protests after they were blocked from travelling through a border crossing to Gaza. The pilgrims broke windows and started fires to protest against the decision to move them to a temporary camp.

Israel has insisted that the pilgrims must return to the Gaza Strip through a crossing that it...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: Yahoo! News

Wire Service: Reuters

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071231/media_nm/malaysia_religion_dc

Malaysia has renewed the publishing permit of a Catholic newspaper, reversing an earlier ban forbidding non-Muslims from using the word Allah after the move stoked fears of a rise in hardline Islam.

The government had earlier ruled that the term Allah -- long used...

Author: Gregg Krupa

Source: The Detroit News

http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071229/LIFESTYLE04/712290334/1041/LIFESTYLE04

At a time of acute need, local food banks and soup kitchens say the tradition of Muslims donating meat from sheep or lambs sacrificed for the holy day Eid al-Adha -- the Feast of Sacrifice -- is particularly welcome this year.

Muslims in Metro Detroit...

Author: Marc Perelman

Source: The Christian Science Monitor

http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/1228/p06s02-wome.html

With a greeting that was as telling as it was macabre, Imane Laghriss dropped her satchel on the table of a trendy coffee shop here recently.

"It's stuffed with explosives, watch out!" snapped the young woman, echoing the grim humor commonly heard among Moroccan teenagers. But Ms. Laghriss's remark carried with it a degree of...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: CBS News

Wire Service: AP

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/12/25/ap/world/main3645439.shtml

Indian forces killed three suspected Islamic militants holed up in a mosque in Indian-controlled Kashmir, ending a two-day hostage standoff and sparking angry protests that injured dozens of people, police said Tuesday.

"The siege is over. We have killed the three...

Author: Catherine Jun

Source: The Detroit News

http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071224/LIFESTYLE04/712240346/1041/LIFESTYLE04

NORTHVILLE -- For years, Malik Ankouny's parents took great pains to make it look as if Santa had descended on their house on Christmas Eve. They took bites out of carrots set out for Santa's reindeer and drew sleigh tracks in the snow with a hockey stick. In this...

Author: Abdul Malik Mujahid

Source: The American Muslim

http://www.theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/treating_christmas_with_respect1/0015318

Christmas is an annual Christian religious holiday commemorating the birth of Prophet Jesus, peace be upon him. For many Muslims who even do not celebrate the birthday of the Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, it becomes an issue of what stand they...

Author: Mark Schwanhausser

Source: The Mercury News

https://register.medianewsgroup.com/reg/login.htm?url=http://www.mercurynews.com/markets/ci_7792520?nclick_check=1

Nicholas Kaiser founded Saturna Capital in 1984 after being approached by Muslim investors looking to invest without violating Islamic teachings.

It's probably hard for most Americans to imagine a financial world...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: ISA Consulting

http://www.isaintel.com/site/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=111

Under intensifying pressure from the international community, Bosnian authorities on 16 December deported the first of nearly 600 naturalized Bosnian citizens from Islamic countries.

Since early 2006, the some 600 citizenships have been revoked; however, authorities have been slow to act on...

Author: ANN MARIE SOMMA

Source: The Courant

http://www.courant.com/news/local/hc-ctislam1223.artdec23,0,929090.story

Drivers traveling west on I-84 are invited to turn east — toward Mecca.

A billboard promoting Islam near the Cheshire exit, and only a short distance from the construction of what will be the largest mosque in the state, encourages drivers to call a toll-free number to learn about the world's second...