Source: The Buffalo News

On September 21, 2002 The Buffalo News reported that "an Islamic group that owns the former Masten Park detention center [in NY] is seeking city permits to convert the cavernous facility into a religious campus. Tentative plans call for the complex near Timon Street to be transformed into a mosque, school and boarding school. The application was submitted Sept. 12 and will be reviewed by city permit and inspection officials over the next two weeks, said David Krug, a city planning coordinator."

Source: The San Francisco Chronicle

On September 21, 2002, The San Francisco Chronicle featured an article on the Glenmary study. "Nationally, the study reflected growing spiritual diversity in the United States by including such once-exotic faiths as Islam, Buddhism and Zorastrianism for the first time...     But the way the study counted American Muslims - and did not include millions of African American Christians - has sparked a statistical brouhaha... Researchers estimated Friday that the report, titled 'Religious Congregations and Membership in the...

Source: The New York Times

On September 21, 2002 The New York Times reported that "since Sept. 11, more prisoners than usual have been stepping into the mosque... At... the Eastern New York Correctional Facility... about a quarter of the 1,000 inmates are Muslims. Most of the prison's Muslims are African-Americans who are converts to the religion, and almost all of them converted in prison. Islam has grown significantly as a factor in prison life in the past generation, said Robert Johnson, chairman of the department of justice, law and society at...

Source: The Beacon Journal

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On September 21, 2002 The Beacon Journal reported that "In the early morning hours, possibly between 4 and 6 a.m., someone rammed the main entrance... to the Kent Mosque... with a piece of wood, leaving a sizable hole in the glass door. It was the second time in less than a week that an [Kent, OH] area mosque has been the target of vandalism. Kent police said a preliminary investigation...

Source: St. Louis Post-Dispatch

On September 20, 2002, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported on the inclusion of statistics on Muslims in America in the new Glenmary study. "Muslim leadership across the country provided an estimation of what non-Muslims would call 'mosque membership' county by county across the nation...    'It is good they are counting us, but we don't even have memberships, all are welcome at the mosques,' said Imam Waheed Rana, a founder of the Islamic Foundation of St. Louis.    So, Muslim figures are labeled estimates throughout the...

Source: The Detroit Free Press

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On September 20, 2002 The Detroit Free Press reported that "a lawsuit accuses Waterford [IL] Police Department officers of using their power to 'attack and terrorize' three Arab brothers who were operating a neighborhood ice-cream truck. The federal lawsuit filed Wednesday alleges constitutional rights violations, ethnic intimidation, assault, false imprisonment and negligence."

Source: The San Francisco Chronicle

On September 19, 2002 The San Francisco Chronicle reported that "the number of hate crimes reported in California jumped 15.5 percent to a record high last year, fueled by anti-Arab sentiment after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, Attorney General Bill Lockyer said Wednesday. 'Hate crimes based on religion declined or remained nearly steady in all categories except anti-Islamic hate-crimes, which soared,' Lockyer said as he released his report, 'Hate Crime in California 2001.' Arabs and Muslims bore the brunt of the...

Source: The Washington Post

On September 19, 2002 The Washington Post reported that "local Muslim leaders said that weekend vandalism in which racial obscenities and swastikas were spray-painted on a wall of a new mosque in Sterling [Virginia] would not delay its opening in October. Adams Center leaders had increased security at the nearly completed mosque... around Sept. 11[2002]... [but] when nothing had happened by Friday, they relaxed security measures. On Sept. 11, 2001, vandals spray-painted violent messages on walls, carpets and doors of another...

Source: The Associated Press

On September 18, 2002 The Associated Press reported that "about 100 Houston-area Muslims peacefully protested an adult cinema Wednesday, upset over a film advertised as Sex Life of the Prophet Muhammad in a weekly newspaper. Several of the protesters acknowledged they had not seen the film, citing religious beliefs that prevented them from entering the building. The theater's manager, who declined to give his name, said the owner contracted an exclusive run of the film. Some protesters agreed the theater had a right to...

Source: The New York Times

On September 18, 2002, The New York Times reported on "the study, 'Religious Congregations and Membership: 2000'... Because the Census Bureau does not ask about religion, some scholars regard this study, first done in 1971, as the most comprehensive assessment available of the changes in American religious affiliation. The study is based on self-reporting by religious groups, a method that the study's authors acknowledge is imprecise because religious groups can inflate their numbers. The study was conducted by Glenmary...

Source: The Columbus Dispatch

On September 18, 2002 The Columbus Dispatch reported that "the survey, 'Religious Congregations...

Source: The Washington Post

September 17, 2002 The Washington Post reported that "according to 'Religious Congregations...

Source: The Plain Dealer

On September 16, 2002 The Plain Dealer reported that "someone pumped seven bullets into the front of an unoccupied [Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio] mosque early yesterday - including one that pierced a plate-glass window and went into a prayer hall. The president of the Islamic congregation that worships there said it could have been worse. 'A few hours earlier we had probably 10 people praying there before sunrise, and hundreds of people back at 10 a.m. for Sunday school, so someone could have been hurt badly,' said Ihsfan Ul Haque,...

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Source: St. Louis Post-Dispatch

On September 16, 2002 the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported that "about a hundred people... gathered Sunday at the Islamic Foundation of Greater St. Louis... for an interfaith prayer service to honor the Sept. 11 victims and express religious solidarity against terrorism. While St. Louis-area Muslims say they have generally been treated well, several people who attended the service expressed dismay at what they say is a growing backlash against Islamic communities across the country. According to a USA Today-CNN-Gallup...