Author: OSKAR GARCIA

Source: Houston Chronicle

Wire Service: AP

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/fn/4837515.html

OMAHA, Neb. — Dozens of Somali meatpacking workers who quit their jobs because they were not given enough time off for Muslim prayers have returned to work, but the issue could resurface as sundown inches later through the spring, a union official said Friday.

About 70 of 120 Somali...

Author: Paul Farhi

Source: The Washington Post

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/24/AR2007052402571.html

In an uprecedented move, the agency that oversees public broadcasting has stepped in to arrange distribution for a TV documentary on Islam that PBS had rejected as unworthy.

The federally funded Corporation for Public Broadcasting helped find a new distributor for "Islam vs....

Source: The Birmingham News

Wire Service: AP

http://www.al.com/newsflash/regional/index.ssf?/base/news-29/1180028970141200.xml&storylist=alabamanews

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A Muslim minister gave the opening prayer Thursday in the Alabama House.

Kareem Abdullah, imam of the Birmingham Islamic Center, prayed for Alabama to prosper as the House was coming into session. Ministers...

Author: Gregg Krupa

Source: The Detroit News

http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070524/LIFESTYLE04/705240342/1041/LIFESTYLE04

WARREN -- By dint of persistence by Muslims, activists and clergy of other faiths, the city's first mosque opens Friday after years of fits and starts.

Leaders for the Islamic Organization of America faced a no vote at their first hearing last year before...

Author: Yonat Shimron

Source: News...

Author: Lorraine Ali

Source: Newsweek

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18853924/site/newsweek/

May 24, 2007 - According to a Pew Research Center poll released earlier this week, Muslim-Americans are “largely assimilated, happy with their lives, and moderate with respect to many of the issues that have divided Muslims and Westerners around the world.” The poll showed the majority surveyed have close non-Muslim friends, believe in a strong...

Author: Mary Robbins

Source: The Catonsville Times

Source: U.S. Info

Source: News Blaze

http://newsblaze.com/story/20070524084932leon.nb/newsblaze/TOPSTORY/Top-Stories.html

Muslims living in the United States tend to be happy with their lives and moderate in their political views, according to a new, independent survey.

American Muslims largely are assimilated into society, and income and education levels among Muslims mirror those of the general U.S. population, according to a nationwide poll...

Source: Middle East /times

http://www.metimes.com/storyview.php?StoryID=20070523-081419-7328r

LONDON -- Women have become key victims of growing religious intolerance fueled by a growing clash between the West and the Muslim world, human rights group Amnesty International said Wednesday.

"In an environment of fear and religious fundamentalism, governments have backtracked on their promise to promote gender equality," said Amnesty chief Irene Khan in...

Source: The New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Poll-Muslim-Americans.html

WASHINGTON (AP) -- One in four younger U.S. Muslims said in a poll that suicide bombings to defend their religion are acceptable at least in some circumstances, though most Muslim Americans overwhelmingly reject the tactic and are critical of Islamic extremism and al-Qaida.

The survey by the Pew Research Center, one of the most exhaustive ever of the country's...

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http://www.mpac.org/programs/hollywood-bureau/little-mosque-on-the-prairie-making-history-on-north-american-tv.php

Author: G. Jeffrey MacDonald

Source: The Christian Science Monitor

http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0521/p13s01-wmgn.htm

The strategy is almost heresy on Wall Street: Find a top-performing investment by seeking out a mutual fund with some of the industry's strictest ethical screening requirements.

Yet that approach, if adopted, would work in at least one case. The Amana Income Fund, which avoids not only alcohol, tobacco, and gambling stocks...

Author: ART AISNER

Source: Ann Arbor News

Author: W. WINSTON SKINNER

Source: The Times-Herald

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With robes, tassels, Bible passages, music and words of challenge and inspiration, Coweta County seniors moved into the last week of their final year of public school education with baccalaureate services on Sunday.

Northgate High students heard a baccalaureate message from John Orr, high school pastor at Crossroads Church. Crossroads — probably the county's largest congregation in terms of...