Author: Ingrid Tharasook

Source: CNN News

http://money.cnn.com/2007/10/16/smbusiness/ramadan.fsb/

(FSB Magazine) -- The Muslim holy month of Ramadan drew to a close last Friday when observers broke their fast on Eid-ul-Fitr, a three-day-long period of prayers and festivities. But while the Islamic world allows time off for the entirety of Eid and shortened work hours throughout Ramadan, the roughly120,000 Muslims here in the United States enjoy no...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: Pravda

Wire Service: AP

http://english.pravda.ru/news/world/16-10-2007/98922-germany_islam-0

Authorities are investigating whether an Islamic center in the southwestern city of Ulm has been attempting to smuggle people into Germany. Meanwhile, the center closed on.

Ulm's Islamic Information Center has been under observation for years, amid suspicion it has...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: The Herald Tribune

Wire Service: AP

https://www.jpost.com/international/muslim-mayors-urge-muslims-to-visit-jerusalem

After praying at...

Author: JASON GEARY

Source: The Tampa Tribune

http://news.tbo.com/news/metro/MGB7V2AGS7F.html

PALM HARBOR - Iman Khalil was just another girl taking the soccer field Sunday, running alongside teammates and keeping a close eye on the ball. Occasionally, the 15-year-old tucked the back of her white head scarf into her red and white jersey.

A day earlier, teammates, parents and even members of an opposing team had lobbied a referee to let Khalil...

Author: Diana Balazs

Source: The Arizona Republic

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Author: Staff Writer

Source: AFP

http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5hIIlLYZuw9R77ob_kfQ6WGqdcScA

Investigators have sent burnt pages of a Koran to Kabul for tests to verify when they were set ablaze after allegations they were torched by US soldiers, Afghan police said.

The US military has rejected that its soldiers burnt the Muslim holy book during a raid in the eastern province of Kunar early Saturday but said it would...

Author: SCOTT FARWELL

Source: The Dallas Morning News

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/localnews/stories/DN-protest_15met.ART.State.Edition1.426945d.html

ARLINGTON – Ten anti-terrorism protesters confronted thousands of cars streaming into Six Flags Over Texas on Sunday for a Muslim Family Day.

Demonstrators said the sponsor of the event – the...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: Yahoo! News

Wire Service: AFP

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20071015/ts_afp/indiablastbomb

Indian police said on Monday that an explosion that killed six people and injured 32 in a packed cinema hall in northern India was a "terrorist" bombing.

Hundreds of people -- mainly poor migrant workers -- were crammed into the theatre in the industrial city of Ludhiana in Punjab state...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: VOA News

https://www.voanews.com/archive/egyptian-police-break-muslim-brotherhood-prayer-meeting

Egyptian security sources say police fired tear gas and arrested...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: Indian Muslims

Wire Service: IANS

http://www.indianmuslims.info/news/2007/oct/14/muslims_organise_durga_puja_dhanbad.html_0

A group of Muslims is organising Durga Puja in this coal city in Jharkhand in a bid to promote inter-religious harmony.

The Bhuli colony in Dhanbad, about 240 km from state capital Ranchi, celebrates the Durga Puja...

Author: LARA JAKES JORDAN

Source: YahooNews

Wire Service: AP

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071014/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/attorney_general;_ylt=AqWv.HBulGIJl.26h1q5DGys0NUE

WASHINGTON - As the chief federal trial judge in Manhattan, Michael Mukasey approved secret warrants allowing government roundups of Muslims in the days after the Sept. 11 attacks.

Six years...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: Dawn

http://www.dawn.com/2007/10/14/top10.htm

Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has urged Muslim nations to boycott a Middle East peace meeting in the US.

“The United States took the initiative for this meeting to save the Zionist regime, which received a beating at the hands of Hezbollah,” he told a crowd of hundreds of thousands at Iran’s Grand Mosque on Saturday.

“...

Author: Kim Vo

Source: The Mercury News

http://www.mercurynews.com/religion/ci_7168704?nclick_check=1

Chatting with visitors to her mosque during Ramadan, Bushra Burney mentioned to a married couple that her annual charitable donation - or zakat - went to the Islamic Relief Fund.

It's a respectable group, the Fremont woman hastened to add. "There's nothing fishy about it."

Such defensiveness reflects the quandary facing...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: BBC News

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/norfolk/7042684.stm

The Muslim population of a growing town has increased from several hundred to 10,000 from 28 different countries in the last 10 years.

Muslims celebrating the end of Ramadan on Friday in Northampton filled their four make-shift mosques.

Imams are asking the borough council for land to build a central mosque.

The Muslim...

Source: Media-Newswire

http://media-newswire.com/release_1055501.html

(Media-Newswire.com) - Washington – A resolution recognizing the Muslim holy month of Ramadan and expressing the "deepest respect to Muslims in the United States and throughout the world" was adopted in the U.S. House of Representatives October 2 by a vote of 376-0.

The resolution acknowledging the importance of Muslims in America, the first of its kind, was introduced by Texas Representative...