Source: The Final Call

http://news.ncmonline.com/news/view_article.html?article_id=dac733c5112b36e6ac7271fabaee5c79

On March 14, 2003 The Final Call reported that "according to the Islamic Society of Frederick, Md., FBI agents who recently requested a meeting with their leadership 'mentioned casually' they would be asking for a list of the society’s members... This sent red flags up for the Islamic Society, who immediately...

Source: IViews

http://iviews.com/Articles/articles.asp?ref=IV0303-1888

On March 14, 2003 IViews reported that "according to a recent US State Department report, Patterns of Global Terrorism, issued for the year 2001 - There were a total of 348 terrorist attacks throughout the world. The majority of these attacks were carried out against US interests in Latin America. These numbers represent the terrorist trend and not an anomaly, whereby the majority of perpetrators...

Source: The Sun

http://www.sunspot.net/bal-md.muslims13mar13.story

On March 13, 2003 The Sun reported that "members of the Islamic Society of Western Maryland... closed its 5-year-old day care center, which once tended to as many as 25 children, because of lingering concerns by parents and staff about a telephoned threat last year... The incidents, under FBI investigation, have occurred as other Muslim communities in the state have reported problems that they believe are...

Source: CAIR

On March 12, 2003 CAIR reported that "[CAIR] will hold a news conference today to call for an FBI investigation of an attack last night on a Chicago-area mosque that occurred while more than 100 Muslims prayed inside... Police investigators, witnesses and mosque officials told the Washington-based Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) that worshipers heard two loud bangs just after the evening prayer at the Islamic Foundation in Villa Park, one of the largest mosques and Islamic...

Source: Chicago Tribune

On March 12, 2003 The Chicago Tribune reported that "Villa Park [IL] police today were investigating what appeared to be the latest act of vandalism at the Islamic Foundation, a mosque in the west suburb... About 150 people were finishing prayers at 8:15 p.m. Tuesday when they heard two loud bangs and saw two indentations and a web of cracked glass appear on a window on the northwest side of the building, said Saqib Qureshi, 25, who was among the worshippers... Villa Park Police Det. John Szkolka said police from Villa Park and...

Source: The Associated Press

Source: The Harvard Crimson

On March 12, 2003 The Harvard Crimson reported that "three civil rights leaders urged Muslim Americans and others to speak out against government encroachment on civil liberties at panel at the [Harvard] Divinity School yesterday morning... The discussion, which was part of the two-day Islam in America 2003 conference, focused on violations of American Muslims' civil rights since the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks... Panelists said ethnic profiling stemming from restrictive national security measures has become a prominent...

Source: Daily News

On March 11, 2003 the Daily News reported that "in an office in lower Manhattan yesterday blocks from Ground Zero, Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf talked about his Muslim beliefs to an unusual audience - a roomful of FBI agents... 'Islamic extremism for the majority of Muslims is an oxymoron,' he explained to the agents... Rauf - imam of the Masjid al-Farah mosque of Tribeca - was speaking as part of an FBI effort to present agents who are the ground troops in the war against terrorism with a view of Islam that avoids stereotypes... It comes as...

Source: Newsday

http://www.newsday.com/news/local/longisland/ny-limusl103166000mar10,0,2788189.story

On March 10, 2003 Newsday reported that "they hail from Afghanistan, India, Pakistan, Nigeria, Egypt and other nations. They share the same religion: Islam... They gathered yesterday at the Islamic Center of Long Island in Westbury to celebrate International Women's Day and to talk in part about what it is like to be a Muslim woman in the...

Source: San Francisco Chronicle

https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Federal-raid-in-Idaho-town-creates-anxiety-for-2629548.php

On March 10, 2003 San Francisco Chronicle reported that "a recent...

Source: Des Moines Register

http://desmoinesregister.com/news/stories/c4780934/20691905.html

On March 10, 2003 the Des Moines Register reported that "Muslim Youth Camps of America wants to lease the wooded 106 acres and turn it into Camp Heritage, the nation's first summer camp for Muslim youth. The Cedar Rapids-based nonprofit group envisions a conference center with spectacular views, 10 cabins, a boat dock and a 36-foot prayer tower... Some people hear...

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Source: Newsday

http://www.nynewsday.com/news/local/brooklyn/nyc-nymosq063159183mar06,0,7217083.story

On March 6, 2003 Newsday reported that "a day after allegations that members of a Brooklyn mosque contributed money to terrorists, a Muslim leader said he was happy to report there were no bias incidents against places of worship... But the leader said he was afraid that could quickly change if officials such as U.S. Attorney General...

Source: The Seattle Post-Intelligencer

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/111090_mcmahan05.shtml

On March 5, 2003 The Seattle Post-Intelligencer reported that "Rep. Lois McMahan will apologize on the state House floor today for comments she made about her decision to sit out a prayer delivered Monday by a Muslim cleric that opened the session, legislative staff members said... McMahan, a Republican from Gig Harbor, did not mean to offend anyone when she...