Author: John Chadwick

Source: The Herald

http://www.northjersey.com/page.php?qstr=eXJpcnk3ZjczN2Y3dnFlZUVFeXkzJmZnYmVsN2Y3dnFlZUVFeXk3MTU0MDcyJnlyaXJ5N2Y3MTdmN3ZxZWVFRXl5Mg==

The hundreds of Muslims who packed a Teaneck park on Sunday weren't celebrating an Islamic holy day.

They had a decidedly secular agenda: fun.

The first Muslim Family Fair in...

Author: Steve Bloomfield

Source: Belfast Telegraph

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/world-news/article2660588.ece

The ruins of the old sugar factory in Marere, in the southern interior of Somalia, tower over the wooden shacks and brick huts which shelter the 2,000 or so people still living here.

This used to be the second-largest sugar factory in the world, employing more than 20,000 people. Now, its rusting steel...

Author: Carole Mikita

Source: ksl.com

Author: Joseph A. Gambardello

Source: The Philadelphia Inquirer

http://www.philly.com/inquirer/local/20070614_Judge__Police_can_ban_religious_Muslim_garb.html

A Philadelphia police officer has no right to wear a head covering as required by her Muslim faith when she is in uniform, a federal judge ruled yesterday.

The Police Department's uniform code "has a compelling public purpose," Judge Harvey...

Author: Khalid Hasan

Source: Daily Times

http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2007%5C06%5C14%5Cstory_14-6-2007_pg7_59

WASHINGTON: The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has rejected a press report which said its membership has declined by more than 90 percent since the 2001 attacks.

The report published by the right-wing Washington Times said, “The number of reported members...

Author: Diane Haines

Source: The Herald News

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Aseel Najib promotes religious understanding. That's one of the qualities that resulted in her being picked as one of 25 future world leaders.

It means she sends e-cards for Hanukkah...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: BBC News

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6751909.stm

Suspected Shia Muslim militants have destroyed three Sunni mosques near the Iraqi capital, a day after a repeat attack on a major Shia pilgrimage site.

The overnight attacks bring to six the number of Sunni mosques targeted since suspected Sunni militants toppled the two minarets of the Samarra shrine.

Curfews appear to have prevented the same...

Author: Paul Brubaker

Source: The Herald

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GARFIELD – A resident who sued a local mosque after it tested a loudspeaker system for its Arabic call to prayer said his lawsuit was made moot when the City Council allowed such broadcasts...

Author: Tahira Muhammad

Source: Black Star News

Author: Andrea Shalal-Esa

Source: Reuters

Author: Andrea Shalal-Esa

Source: Reuters

http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSN1330890120070613

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The FBI has enlisted comedians in a drive to spruce up its image with Muslims and Arab-Americans damaged by a wave of arrests and searches since the September 11 attacks in 2001.

"It's so nice to be standing in front of the FBI and not be handcuffed," quipped Egyptian-American comedian Ahmed Ahmed...

Author: Kathleen Ridolfo

Source: Radio Free Europe

http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2007/06/17d2b680-9a26-464a-a742-1e88a562dbfc.html

Sunni insurgents have once again attacked the Al-Askari (Golden) Mosque in an apparent attempt to goad Shi'a into launching retalitory actions.

The attack comes just weeks after Shi'ite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr extended an olive branch to Sunni Arabs and called on his...

Author: Jose L. Medina

Source: Las Cruces Sun News

http://www.lcsun-news.com/news/ci_6126713

LAS CRUCES — Less than two weeks before trial, a settlement offer has been made to four former New Mexico State University football players to drop a religious discrimination lawsuit against head coach Hal Mumme.

Mumme's attorney said the offer was strategic and was not an admission of wrongdoing by the coach.

The offer was made Monday,...

Author: The office of Imam Hassan Al-Qazwini

Source: Islamic Center of America

http://www.icofa.com

The office of Imam Hassan Al-Qazwini, spiritual leader of the Islamic Center of America, issued the following statement today:

“Once again, terrorists have proven their cowardice by attacking the holy and magnificent shrine of Imam Ali Al –Hadi and Imam Hassan Al-Askari, may the peace and blessings of God be upon them.

"We express our deepest...

Author: Sarah DiLorenzo

Source: The Associated Press

http://www.amny.com/news/nationworld/nation/wire/sns-ap-iraq-religion,0,2902532.story?coll=ny-sports-utility

UNITED NATIONS -- Iraqi religious and political leaders met to reaffirm their commitment to building a tolerant, multiethnic nation, declaring that the ties that bind all Iraqis "will not be broken" in spite of the sectarian violence...