Author: Brian Murphy

Source: The Washington Post

Wire Service: AP

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/11/AR2006111100600.html

The death threat came on simple white fliers blowing down the streets at dawn. A group calling itself "Friends of Muhammad" accused a local Palestinian Christian of selling mobile phones carrying offensive sketches of the Muslim prophet....

Author: Peter Skerry

Source: TIME Magazine

http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1558227,00.html

The victory party for Minnesota's first African-American congressman, Keith Ellison, took place at a trendy nightclub in Minneapolis's downtown warehouse district. Down the block from a glitzy sex shop, Trocaderos is the kind of place where both gays and straights look to get picked up, either at the bar or on the dance floor. But on...

Author: Sandy Naiman

Source: Toronto Sun

http://torontosun.com/News/World/2006/11/06/2253210-sun.html

On the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, Azhar Qureshi and his wife sat in the Credit Valley Hospital waiting room, their daughter in surgery, watching as the World Trade Center was hit.

"I remember the shock and thinking to myself, 'Don't let it be a Muslim name,'" the 45-year-old information technologist said.

When it was, he...

Author: Neil MacFarquhar

Source: The New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/10/us/politics/10muslims.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

Keith Ellison wore his religion lightly on the campaign trail, mentioning it only when asked.

Keith Ellison, speaking in Minneapolis, said Thursday that he would serve “from a standpoint of improving the quality of civil and human rights for all people in America.” Mr....

Author: Nathaniel Popper

Source: Independent Press Association

http://www.indypressny.org/article.php3?ArticleID=3006

The Voice of America recently beamed a story around the world about the Midwood section of Brooklyn, presenting the neighborhood as a model of ethnic harmony where Orthodox Jews rub shoulders with Pakistani Muslims. Until recently, one shining example of the inter-ethnic cooperation was the Dunkin’ Donuts/Baskin-Robbins under...

Source: KCEN-TV/NBC 6 News

Author: RUNGRAWEE C. PINYORAT

Source: Houston Chronicle

Wire Service: AP

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/world/4325079.html

Tears flowed as the poor Muslim farmer recalled the day one of her seven children disappeared after evening prayers.

Now, a year later, Rosamoh Sulong simply wants to know if her son, the family breadwinner, is alive.

"I'm hopeful that the prime minister will help...

Author: Robert L. Jamieson, Jr.

Source: Seattle Post-Intelligencer

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/jamieson/291720_robert09.html

The quest to find a place in Seattle where Election Day counts took me south on Rainier Avenue.

I headed through Columbia City to South Brandon Street and hung a left.

There it was on the right, a white clapboard building with a sign in red letters: Maka Mini Market.

Inside, the man...

Author: Katya Cengel

Source: The Courier-Journal

http://www.courier-journal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061109/NEWS01/61109028

As traffic swirled past the little park on the corner of Fifth Street and Muhammad Ali Boulevard Thursday morning, Chief Arvol Looking Horse prayed.

Outfitted with a feather headdress "an offering of tobacco in one hand, a smoldering cedar smudge bundle, used for purification, in...

Author: Dan Murphy

Source: The Christian Science Monitor

http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/1108/p01s04-wome.html

CAIRO - When former British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw insisted last month that female Muslim constituents show their faces when meeting with him, he set off a fiery debate about whether the face-covering niqab should be allowed in Britain's multicultural society.

But often forgotten amid such controversies in Europe - which tend...

Author: Aron Kahn

Source: Pioneer Press

http://www.twincities.com/mld/twincities/15957666.htm

Keith Ellison was a minor figure as a two-term state representative from Minneapolis. Now, across the nation and the world, he might become Minnesota's best-known voice.

The 43-year-old fiery stump speaker, an easy winner Tuesday in the 5th Congressional District, becomes Minnesota's first black congressman and America's first Muslim on Capitol...

Source: BBC News

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/bradford/6129820.stm

The leader of the British National Party has told a court the idea Islam has a tolerant and moderate strand is "a politically correct nonsense".

Nick Griffin, 47, denies two charges of stirring racial hatred.

The charges arose from speeches made in Keighley which were secretly filmed for a BBC documentary on the party in 2004.

Mr Griffin, of Powys, mid...

Author: Daisy Khan

Source: The American Muslim

http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/muslim_women_leaders_launch_global_movement_to_empower_muslim_women/0011550

Manhattan, New York - Over one hundred Muslim women religious leaders, human rights activists, scholars and artists from around the world will meet in New York City on November 17th to 19th to...

Source: BBC News

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6127234.stm

Keith Ellison, a Democrat, has become the first Muslim to be elected to the US Congress by winning a Minnesota seat in the House of Representatives.

He overcame personal attacks emphasising his past association with Louis Farrakhan, leader of the radical Nation of Islam group.

The 43-year-old lawyer sought to play down the issue of his religion and ran on a populist platform.

He has...

Author: Geoff Pingree and Lisa Abend

Source: The Christian Science Monitor

http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/1107/p04s01-woeu.html

MADRID - When Abdennur Prado adopted Islam in 1998, he had no idea that he would become a spokesperson for the Spanish Muslim community. As a young writer, Mr. Prado, whose parents were non-practicing Catholics, was a confirmed atheist. But during a spiritual crisis in his early 20s, he came across the Koran.

"I was...