Author: KHALIL E. HACHEM

Source: The Ann-Arbor News

Author: SAEED AHMED

Source: The Journal Constitution

http://www.ajc.com/services/content/metro/dekalb/stories/2007/07/24/mosque_0725.html

DeKalb County officials said late Tuesday night that further investigation is required to determine what what caused the fire that damaged a mosque in Scottdale.

Author: NIRAJ WARIKOO

Source: Detroit Free Press

http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070724/NEWS02/70724034/1001/NEWS

Federal agents are raiding today the Dearborn offices of two charities suspected of having ties to terrorist groups in the Middle East.

A Dearborn police officer guarded the entrance to the office of the Goodwill Charitable Organization, a fund-raising office established by the...

Author: Moushumi Khan

Source: Slate

http://www.slate.com/id/2171071/nav/tap1/

The two terrorist attacks known worldwide by their dates—9/11 and 7/7—inspired suspicion of Muslims in communities in both Europe and America. But each one also symbolizes the different relations each continent has with their Muslim populations. On 9/11, America was attacked by Muslims who came here solely for the purpose of attacking it. On 7/7, London was bombed by...

Author: David Morgan

Source: Reuters

Author: Shelley Murphy

Source: The Boston Globe

http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2007/07/24/mosque_leader_accused_of_immigration_fraud/

The spiritual leader of a mosque in Sharon was arrested yesterday on federal immigration fraud charges, sparking a protest outside the courthouse in Boston by a group of religious leaders and civil rights advocates who called the case a witch hunt.

...

Source: ContactMusic.com

http://www.contactmusic.com/news.nsf/article/chappelle%20produces%20muslim%20comedy%20film_1038529

Cult comic DAVE CHAPPELLE is to produce a new movie which will introduce comedy fans to the world's funniest Muslims. Allah Made Me Funny - The Official Muslim Comedy Tour features America's top Muslim comics Preacher Moss, Azhar Usman and Mohammed Amer. Chappelle says, "Allah Made Me Funny is one of the...

Author: GARY STERN AND ELIZABETH GANGA

Source: The Journal News

http://www.nynews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070723/NEWS02/707230341

NEW CASTLE - It was 10 years ago that a group of highly educated, affluent Muslims who had been drawn to the comfortable lifestyle and top-ranked schools of northern Westchester began to pursue a vision of a new community.

They would set up a temporary mosque, begin to meet their...

Author: Greg Krikorian

Source: Los Angeles Times, the

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-holyland23jul23,1,3430059.story?coll=la-headlines-nation&ctrack=5&cset=true

DALLAS — Nearly six years after it shut down the nation's largest Islamic charity for alleged ties to terrorism, the U.S. government begins the high-stakes prosecution this week of five...

Author: Mohamed Elshinnawi

Source: VOA News

https://www.voanews.com/archive/muslim-women-around-world-join-leadership-program-washington

A group of Muslim women from around the...

Author: OSKAR GARCIA

Source: The Detroit News

http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070723/NATION/707230381/1041/LIFESTYLE04

OMAHA, Neb. -- Supervisors at a meatpacking plant have fired or harassed dozens of Somali Muslim employees for trying to pray at sunset, violating civil rights laws, the workers and their advocates say.

The five- to 10-minute prayer, known as the maghrib, must be...

Author: CHRIS MARTELL

Source: Wisconsin State Journal

http://www.madison.com/wsj/home/local/index.php?ntid=202188

Among the complications of being a strict Muslim in the United States is finding food that complies with the religion's dietary laws.

But that might change soon, according to a recent Marketing to Muslim study by JWT, a prominent New York trend-spotting agency.

Author: LISA LEFF

Origianl Source: San Francisco Chronicle

https://www.cair.com/cair_in_the_news/giuliani-to-dems-use-the-words-islamic-terrorists/

Republican presidential candidate Rudy...

Author: Karen Armstrong

Source: The Guardian

http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,2131444,00.html

In the 17th century, when some Iranian mullahs were trying to limit freedom of expression, Mulla Sadra, the great mystical philosopher of Isfahan, insisted that all Muslims were perfectly capable of thinking for themselves and that any religiosity based on intellectual repression and inquisitorial coercion was "polluted". Mulla Sadra exerted...

Author: Stephanie Holmes

Source: BBC News

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6902755.stm

A new exhibition of Islamic art from across the Muslim world aims to do far more than unite unusual, luxurious and rarely-seen objects.

Organisers of the London event say that they hope the illuminated Korans, the perfume bottle carved from rock crystal and the leaf skeleton decorated with sacred text will change the way people think about Islam...