Author: Mark Hilditch

Source: This is Cheshire

http://www.thisischeshire.co.uk/mostpopular.var.1323519.mostviewed.painting_helps_break_down_barriers_between_police_and_young_muslims.php

A DRAMATIC spray-painted picture is helping to break down barriers between young Muslims and Police Officers in Crewe.

The picture is the work of a team of the youngsters...

Author: Tu Thanh Ha

Source: The Globe and Mail

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070417.wxhijab17/BNStory/National/home

MONTREAL — When news came that young Muslim girls had been turned away from a tae kwon do competition in Quebec because they wore Islamic head scarves, one of the people upset was the former dean of engineering of the University of Ottawa.

Aside from being an...

Source: The Province

http://www.canada.com/theprovince/news/story.html?id=25816b08-f5a0-4d8a-91d2-ee5e73d1cc13

LONGUEUIL, Que. -- A taekwondo team of Muslim girls withdrew from a tournament yesterday after they were barred from taking part with their hijabs, threatening to re-ignite Quebec's contentious debate about accommodating religious minorities.

"I feel very sad because we practised so hard," said 11-year-old Bissan...

Source: The Washington Post

Wire Service: Reuters

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/16/AR2007041601563.html

Muslim cab drivers at Minnesota's biggest airport will face new penalties including a two-year revocation of their taxi permits if they refuse to give rides to travelers carrying liquor or accompanied by dogs, the board overseeing operations ruled Monday.

The...

Author: Farish A. Noor

Source: The American Muslim

http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/where_are_malaysias_religious_authorities_heading/0013689

Since 2006 Malaysia has been rocked by a number of hugely controversial cases involving the fundamental right of belief and freedom of religion. Between 2005 to 2006 the country was a virtual battleground with opposing factions...

Author: Calvin Sims

Source: The New York Times

Source: BBC News

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6554851.stm

Some 300,000 people have demonstrated in Turkey's capital, Ankara, to demand that religion and politics should be kept separate in their country.

Protesters carried banners of Kemal Ataturk, the revered founder of the Turkish republic as a secular state.

The rally comes two days before the presidential election process begins and is intended to pressure current PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan not to stand...

Author: KEITH MORELLI

Source: The Tampa Tribune

http://www.tbo.com/news/metro/MGB2T611G0F.html

TOWN - 'N COUNTRY - Local, state and federal investigators sifted through the ashes of a deliberately set fire at the Islamic Education Center of Florida on Thursday morning and tried to allay fears the arson was a crime of hate. They couldn't say for sure, however.

Initial reports said there was an explosion, but responding firefighters said were...

Author: JOHN MORITZ

Source: Star-Telegram

http://www.star-telegram.com/226/story/58691.html

AUSTIN -- When the leader of the Islamic Association of North Texas stepped into the well of the Texas Senate to deliver the morning invocation Wednesday, Sen. Dan Patrick of Houston left his place on the chamber floor because he did not want it to appear that he endorsed the Dallas-area imam's message.

"It's important that we are tolerant as a people...

Author: Brendan O'Shaughnessy

Source: The Indianapolis Star

http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070413/BUSINESS/704130480/-1/LOCAL17

A developer planning to build a Convention Center hotel in Downtown Indianapolis has come under fire from local Islamic advocates concerned that the company will discriminate against Muslim women here.

White Lodging Services Corp., one of the two...

Author: Hazem Ibrahim Kira

Source: AltMuslim

http://www.altmuslim.com/perm.php?id=1899_0_25_0_M

In a 1937 Gallup poll, 47 percent of Americans said they would not support a Jewish candidate for President, regardless of a candidate's qualifications. During the past 70 years that number has dropped to a low of 15 percent, even prompting a Vice-Presidential hopeful in 2000 (Joe Lieberman).

The zenith of that anti-Semitic era was the "Red Scare...

Source: The Muslim News

http://www.muslimnews.co.uk/news/news.php?article=12584

Islamic associations in Germany have announced they have founded an umbrella organization. It is intended to represent the interests of all Muslims throughout Germany and be a contact point for politicians.

Rafet Öztürk of the Cologne-based Turkish-Islamic Union of the Institute for Religion (DiTiB) said four different Muslim associations had established the umbrella...

Author: Pamela Constable

Source: The Washington Post

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/10/AR2007041001509.html

Tariq Ramadan has a huge following in Europe but a controversial profile in the United States. The Islamic scholar has been barred from entering the country since 2004, when he was denied a visa he needed to accept a professorship at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana.
...

Source: Islam Online Network

http://www.islamonline.com/cgi-bin/news_service/world_full_story.asp?service_id=2919

Before an audience of more than 700 people, Muslim American scholars signed onto an “Intra-Faith Code of Honor” at the Muslim Unity Celebration of Prophet Muhammad’s (PBUH) birthday hosted by Islamic Educational Center of Orange County (CA).

The Code of Honor was drafted by Muslim American leaders who...

Author: NATE KARLIN

Source: The Tennessean

http://www.tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070410/NEWS06/704100349/1023

CLARKSVILLE — Jerome Heath hadn't even heard of a hate crime in Clarksville in the seven years he's lived here.

That changed Friday. That day, just two hours before the Islamic Center of Clarksville held its 1 p.m. prayer service, called Jummah, a Quran was found vandalized on...