Source: Dawn

Wire Service: Reuters

http://www.dawn.com/2008/01/13/int9.htm

BOSTON, Jan 12: Three Arabs who raised nearly $2 million for an Islamic charity were convicted of defrauding the US government by using the tax-free donations to support holy war and holy warriors, prosecutors said on Friday.

A federal jury in Boston on Friday found Libyan-born Emadeddin Muntasser, Muhamed Mubayyid, a Lebanon native and Samir Al-Monla, an immigrant from...

Author: ERIC AASEN and SAM HODGES

Source: The Dallas Morning News

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/religion/stories/011208dnmethonorkillings.224909b.html

IRVING – The leader of an Irving mosque denounced honor killings Friday, saying they have no place in Islam.

Imam Zia Sheikh's comments came after speculation that two teenage sisters were victims of such a killing....

Author: NIRAJ WARIKOO

Source: Detroit Free Press

http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080111/NEWS15/80111030

Democratic presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich is planning to speak today to Muslims after Friday prayers at the Islamic Center of America in Dearborn.

The mosque is one of the biggest in the country and usually attracts about 1,000 worshippers for Friday afternoon prayers.

Author: DAFNEY TALES

Source: The Philadelphia Daily News

http://www.philly.com/dailynews/local/20080111_Muslim_officer_appeals_ruling.html

Kimberlie Webb has been a Philadelphia police officer since 1995 and a follower of the Islamic faith for just as long.

But since 2003, the 35th District officer has been embroiled in a legal battle over her right to wear a khimar, a traditional head scarf worn by Muslim...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: The Economist

http://www.economist.com/world/asia/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10497396

IS INDONESIA, the most populous Muslim-majority country, undergoing creeping Islamisation? It is not hard to assemble enough recent evidence to give Western Islamophobes goosebumps. In late December a mob attacked and burned a prayer house in West Java belonging to Ahmadiyah, a sect deemed heretical by some mainstream...

Author: Shauna Staveley

Source: Arlington Advocate

http://www.wickedlocal.com/arlington/homepage/x1925658856

ARLINGTON, MASS. - Ali S. Asani, Harvard professor of the practice of Indo-Muslim languages and culture, said he knows how to end dehumanization in society — particularly of Muslims.

The solution is death of cultural and religious illiteracy, and the birth of a truly pluralistic society, he said on Nov. 5 at the Dialogue...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: The Economist

http://www.economist.com/world/international/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10499167

“TURKEY sets a fantastic example for nations around the world to see where it's possible to have a democracy coexist with a great religion like Islam.” Those were George Bush's words of welcome, this week, to Turkey's President Abdullah Gul.

In decades past, a Turkish leader might...

Author: Eric Klamut

Source: The Rocky Mountain Telegram

http://www.rockymounttelegram.com/news/content/news/stories/2008/01/10/city.html

Mousa Shehadeh is a good-natured fellow.

But in recent years, world events have hit home in his daily life in Rocky Mount.

Terrorist attacks, war in the Middle East and suicide bombing abroad has left him feeling stereotyped locally.

"I am a human just...

Author: Stewart Bell

Source: National Post

http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=224337

A Federal Court judge has refused to allow an Egyptian man linked to the deadly 1998 bombings of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania to teach at the Toronto Islamic school he founded.

The judge also prohibited Mahmoud Jaballah, believed to be a member of the Egyptian Al-Jihad terrorist group, from holding Arabic and Koranic classes in the...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: The International Herald Tribune

Wire Service: AP

https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna22552742

President Bush gave Turkey's bid to join the European Union a glowing endorsement on Tuesday and called the Islamic nation a "constructive bridge" between the West and the Muslim...

Author: Ian Wilhelm

Source: Pew Forum for Religion...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: The New York Times

Wire Service: AP

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/world/AP-Kosovo-Government.html

Kosovo's rival parties struck a power-sharing deal Monday to form a government that is expected to declare independence from Serbia this year.

Former rebel leader Hashim Thaci said his Democratic Party of Kosovo would govern alongside its key opponent, President Fatmir...

Author: WILLIAM NEUMAN

Source: The New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/07/nyregion/07see.html?_r=1&scp=6&sq=muslims&oref=slogin

After 9/11, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority coined the slogan, “If you see something, say something,” and put it on posters encouraging subway and bus riders to call a police counterterrorism hot line if they encountered anything suspicious. Then, last July,...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: BBC News

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/suffolk/7174942.stm

Permission has been given for a mosque in Suffolk to be extended.

The Ipswich mosque, which has occupied a former fire station in Bond Street since the 1980s, is to be extended into neighbouring Upper Orwell Street.

With the mosque full, the community had been forced to pray in a car park at Friday prayers, said Mahbub...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: The Sydney Morning Herald

Wire Service: Reuters

http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/bishop-says-islamic-extremism-creates-uk-nogo-areas/2008/01/07/1199554522464.html

A Church of England bishop has said Islamic extremism has turned some areas of Britain into "no-go areas" for non-Muslims, drawing ire from the Muslim community, which...