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Rochdale Girl to Give Muslim Youth a Voice

August 22, 2007

Author: Staff Writer

Source: Asian News

http://www.theasiannews.co.uk/news/s/1014/1014208_rochdale_girl_to_give_muslim_youth_a_voice.html

A Rochdale student is to set up and chair the town's first Young Muslim Advisory Panel after taking part in a two-week intensive leadership programme.

Atifa Shah, a former member of the UK Youth Parliament, hopes the panel, which is being supported by her...

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Mosque Project Stirs Concerns About the Integration of Islam in Germany

August 22, 2007

Author: TOM HUNDLEY

Source: Chicago Tribune

http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070822/NEWS07/708220432/1001/NEWS#article_comments

COLOGNE, Germany -- Never mind that a local brothel claiming to be Europe's largest calls itself the Pasha and sports an ersatz arabesque theme.

Some residents of this ancient city on the banks of the Rhine see the brothel as a shining example of...

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Rome Halts Mosque Conversion Plan

August 22, 2007

Author: David Willey

Source: BBC News

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6958299.stm

Authorities in Rome have refused to allow a building next to a Catholic church to be converted into a mosque.

The planned mosque, in a densely populated and multi-ethnic quarter in the centre of the Italian capital, was supposed to open next month.

Municipal police said the community of Bengali Muslims who were carrying out the building works did not...

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Muslim Cemetery Plan Objections

August 22, 2007

Author: Staff Writer

Source: BBC News

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/glasgow_and_west/6957379.stm

Plans to create a 31-acre Muslim cemetery on land surrounding the conservation village of Carmunnock have been met with local opposition.

Villagers have launched a campaign to stop green belt land around the area being used for the new cemetery.

Glasgow Central Mosque insists the new site would be kept as a green...

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British Civics Class Asks, What Would Muhammad Do?

August 21, 2007

Author: JANE PERLEZ

Source: The New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/21/world/europe/21britain.html?ref=europe

BRADFORD, England — At the Jamia Mosque on Victor Street in this racially and religiously tense town, Idris Watts, a teacher and convert to Islam, tackled a seemingly mundane subject with a dozen teenage boys: why it is better to have a job than to be unemployed.

“The prophet said you...

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'Muslim Live 8' Show for Darfur

August 20, 2007

Author: Staff Writer

Source: BBC News

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6955341.stm

A Live 8-style concert to help tackle the humanitarian crisis in Darfur will be put on by British Muslims.

Organisers said that they hoped the event at Wembley Arena in London on 21 October would be a sell-out.

They added that it was "shameful" that Muslims were not as concerned about the conflict in Sudan as they were by bloodshed elsewhere, such as Iraq....

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Muslim School Targeted by Vandals

August 20, 2007

Author: Craig MacBride

Source: Mississauga News

http://www.mississauga.com/article/6061

For the second time in the past month, ISNA High School in Mississauga has been targeted by vandals. Last night's attack on the Muslim secondary school, which came at 9:55 p.m. with about 100 people inside the building's mosque for last prayer of the day, shattered a window. Students are set to return to the South Sheridan Way school in two weeks. According to reports, two...

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Two Charged in Defacing Mosque

August 20, 2007

Author: Karoun Demirjian

Source: Chicago Tribune

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-web_mosqueaug21,0,7915051.story

Chicago police have charged two teens in vandalism at a North Side mosque early Monday.

Idris Thomas, 17, of the 6200 block of North Talman Avenue, and a 16-year-old from the south suburbs were charged with burglary and defacing property at the Jame Masjid mosque in the 6300 block of North...

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Retraining Terrorists: A Bold New Program in Iraq Uses Islam to Teach Insurgents the Error of Their Murderous Ways

August 20, 2007

Author: Babak Dehghanpisheh

Source: Newsweek International

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20226573/site/newsweek/

Wiry and lean, Abdullah looks on with a glassy stare as the instructor explains the subject for the day: revenge. The case study is the first gulf war, and the instructor lists religious and moral reasons why it was wrong for Iraqi soldiers to loot and kill in Kuwait. Abdullah, 17, and the nine other teenagers sitting with him on wooden...

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Six-Year-Old Muslim Boy Denied Entry To U.S.

August 20, 2007

Author: Staff Writer

Source: MSNBC

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20360561/from/ET/

WOODBRIDGE, Va. - A 6-year-old Muslim boy is at the center of an international immigration fight. Moroccan-born Mustapha Zindinne came to the United States in 2001 and became a U.S. citizen last year. His wife joined him in Woodbridge six months ago as a permanent resident. The couple expected their son would soon follow.

"I am trying to get better life for my wife...

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