Author: Edna Gunderson

Source: News-Leader/USA Today

http://www.news-leader.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061218/ENTERTAINMENT08/612180339/1005/ENTERTAINMENT

"There are 100 reasons I felt it right to leave the music business," Yusuf Islam says, "and 101 to come back in. A lot of those are songs."

Some landed on "An Other Cup," the first pop album in 28 years by the artist formerly...

Author: Julian Knight

Source: BBC News

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/6168800.stm

Emma Dellaway, 25, from south London, likes to know that the money sitting in her current account is not doing harm.

"I don't have much money, as I am just starting out on my career, but what I do have should not be used unethically," she says.

"I hate to think of arms going to some African country funded, however indirectly, from my account."...

Author: Randy Hall

Source: Crosswalk

http://www.crosswalk.com/news/1457569.html?view=print

(CNSNews.com) - A leading U.S. Islamic group Wednesday condemned an Iranian-hosted conference questioning the Holocaust - the day after it ended.

Although the statement came two days after Iran opened the controversial event, the move by the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) prompted a scholar on Islam and frequent CAIR critic to say he...

Source: Herald-Tribune

Wire Service: AP

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2006/12/17/asia/AS_FEA_REL_China_Muslim_Women_Imams.php

WUZHONG, China: At a tiny courtyard mosque tucked down a back alley in China's Muslim heartland, Wang Shouying leads other Muslim women in prayers and chants.

Every day, Wang dons a green velvet robe and white scarf and preaches to dozens of women at the Little White Mosque...

Author: Audrey Hudson

Source: The Washington Times

http://wpherald.com/articles/2489/1/Grounded-imams-seek-out-of-court-settlement/Federal-air-marshals-suspected-airport-security-probe.html

A group of Muslim imams is seeking an out-of-court settlement with US Airways, saying they should not have been removed from a Minnesota-to-Phoenix flight last month and were not...

Author: Ibrahim Ramey

Source: The American Muslim

http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/true_muslims_must_never_deny_the_european_holocaust/0012306

History will recall the tragedy of the genocide that slaughtered some six million European Jews between the rise of Adolph Hitler and the Nazi Party in 1933 and the culmination of the Second World War in Europe in May, 1945....

Author: U.S. Department of State

Source: News Blaze

http://newsblaze.com/story/20061213153721tsop.nb/newsblaze/TOPSTORY/Top-Stories.html

When Native Deen took hip-hop music to Jerusalem in fall 2006, the group of Muslim-American rappers was moved deeply by the holiness of the place and the energy of the hundreds of teens who attended their concerts. Yet nothing came close to the connection the performers felt to their...

Author: G. Jeffrey MacDonald

Source: The Christian Science Monitor

http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/1215/p02s01-ussc.html

Some in Congress may need a primer on Islamic extremists. Five years after 9/11, three members of the House Intelligence Committee in recent interviews couldn't answer basic questions about who's Sunni and who's Shiite in the Muslim world. But other American institutions are already boning up - especially when they have a stake in...

Author: Abdar Rahman Koya

Source: Media Monitors Network

http://usa.mediamonitors.net/content/view/full/38734

Malaysia’s multi-religious population, of whom 40 per cent are non-Muslim, offers a fertile ground for western agencies and missionaries to shift their focus from Indonesia. The failure of the Christianisation/de-Islamisation campaign during the Suharto era, in which western church groups played a major role, clearly failed to convince...

Author: Elaine Jarvik

Source: Deseret Morning News

https://www.deseret.com/2006/12/14/19991016/muslims-live-in-fear-panelist-says

Noor Ul-Hasan has never been reluctant to speak up on behalf of Muslims living in Utah....

Author: Martin Marty

Source: Sightings

http://marty-center.uchicago.edu/sightings/archive_2006/1211.shtml

Two events this season led me to go back to the Sightings archive, to a column dated October 29, 2001 ("Listening to Lactantius"). Giving evidence of our passion always to be current, we cited Lactantius from the years 302 and 303, because what he wrote then spoke so directly to current affairs. Incident one here is the flap over...

Author: Elizabeth Huff

Source: Battle Creek Enquirer

http://www.battlecreekenquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061202/LIFESTYLE08/612020306

Homes were once warmed by a fire in the hearth, and it was tradition to save the first log of the season to be burned in a Yule celebration.

Over time, fewer and fewer homes were built with a fireplace and the tradition faded. Yet in small pockets of the...

Source: BBC News

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6167695.stm

Iran's foreign minister has rejected criticism of a two-day conference being held in Iran to examine whether the Holocaust actually happened.

Manouchehr Mottaki told participants the event did not seek to confirm or deny the Holocaust, but rather to allow people to "express their views freely".

Israel's prime minister has condemned the gathering as "a sick phenomenon".

President...

Author: Tara Stanley

Source: The Katy Times

http://www.katytimes.com/articles/2006/12/04/news/01news.txt

The Katy Islamic Association (KIA) has come under fire this week as local homeowners in its Baker Rd. neighborhood voice concern over a proposed mosque and community center.

Located in an affluent residential area, the KIA's 11-acre property located at 1800 Baker Rd. has become a hot-button issue for homeowners who live nearby....

Source: The Indianapolis Star

http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061210/LOCAL/612100485

Ingrid Mattson's recent election as president of the Islamic Society of North America gave the organization headquartered in Plainfield a national spotlight it's never known.

The white, Canadian-born woman who grew up Catholic before converting to Islam in 1987 has appeared on CNN and NPR, been written up in The New York Times and was...