Author: Cheryl Conner

Source: ABC News

http://www.abc2news.com/dpp/news/state/muslim-girl-benched-during-a-basketball-game-for-wearing-a-headscarf

On the court, the Lady Leopards of Smithsburg Middle School suit up in their shorts, tank top, and pony tail. But one member, a 12-year-old Muslim girl, has added apparel, a headscarf.

Author: Erin Quinn

Source: The Tennesean

http://www.tennessean.com/article/20110117/NEWS01/101170326/Nashville+Red+Cross+to+cater+to+religious+dietary+needs

The American Red Cross learned a few lessons from last year's catastrophic flood, including the growing religious diversity of Middle Tennessee and the food needed to honor those different ways of worship.

Author: Corey Williams

Source: The Washington Post

Wire Service: AP

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/16/AR2011011600143.html

The cleric who became the public face of efforts to build an Islamic center near ground zero in New York began a national speaking tour Saturday night by urging Muslims to help "depoliticize" their faith and play a role in shaping...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: The Bahai World News Service

http://news.bahai.org/story/805

A recent wave of arson attacks on Baha'i-owned businesses in Rafsanjan, Iran, appears to be part of a campaign to fracture relationships between Baha'is and Muslims in the city.

After around a dozen attacks on shops - carried out since 25 October 2010 - some 20 Baha'i homes and businesses have been sent a warning letter addressed to "members of the misguided...

Author: Paul Vitello

Source: The New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/15/nyregion/15mosque.html?ref=religionandbelief

Long-simmering tensions between co-founders of the proposed Islamic center and mosque near ground zero led to a parting of the ways on Friday that sharply reduced the role of one: the imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, long the project’s public face.

Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf will...

Author: Helen Gray

Source: The Kansas City Star

http://www.kansascity.com/2011/01/14/2584481/kcs-faith-leaders-expect-challenges.html

The Rev. Canon Susan Sommer of Grace & Holy Trinity Episcopal Cathedral recalls arriving in downtown Chicago on a commuter train on Sept. 11, 2001.

Police turned the train back, fearing the Sears Tower would be next after the New York tragedy earlier that day...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: Google News

Wire Service: AP

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gaQpoZKMwW0Ga11CHNXhsvS4kcjw?docId=681e18aff069448ab6c2d28233982eef

In this Muslim-majority country, it's OK to be Christian, Buddhist or Hindu. But not Shiite.

Malaysian religious police raided a three-story shop-house last...

Author: Kate Shellnut

Source: The Houston Chronicle

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/life/religion/7380511.html

Decades after Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination, his message of equality, freedom and liberation for the oppressed continues to inspire Americans across religious traditions, including Muslims, who will join in this year's parade Monday in Houston.

Author: Kirk Semple

Source: The New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/12/nyregion/12mosque.html?_r=1&ref=religionandbelief

Lawyers representing a firefighter who is suing to block the development of a Muslim community center and mosque in Lower Manhattan filed a motion on Tuesday seeking to block the developers from doing any construction on the site.

The motion, filed in State Supreme...

Author: Kirsten Grieshaber

Source: The Washington Post

Wire Service: AP

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/08/AR2011010800335.html

The 200 robed and bearded men gathered at dusk on the market square, rolled out their prayer rugs and intoned Allah's praises as dismayed townspeople looked on.

It was Ramadan, the Muslim fasting month, and...

Author: Kevin Schwaller

Source: Ozarks First

http://ozarksfirst.com/fulltext/?nxd_id=383566

Vandals spread messages of intolerance at one of the only places for Muslims to worship in the immediate Springfield area.

Members of the Islamic Center of Springfield say they attended evening prayer Friday. When they returned on Saturday morning, they found graffiti on three of the four walls of the structure.

Author: Staff Writer

Source: The New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/09/nyregion/09muslims.html?ref=religionandbelief

At the North Hudson Islamic Educational Center in Union City, N.J., there are Spanish-language classes on the Koran and an annual Latino Muslim Day. About 35 percent of the center’s congregation is Hispanic, and there are frequent conversions in which Puerto Ricans, Dominicans, Mexicans,...

Author: Yasmine El-Rashidi

Source: Ahram Online

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/1/95/3365/Egypt/Attack-on-Egypt-Copts/Egypts-Muslims-attend-Christian-Coptic-mass,-servi.aspx

Egypt’s majority Muslim population stuck to its word Thursday night. What had a been a promise of solidarity to the weary Coptic community, was honoured, when thousands of Muslims...

Author: Jerome Taylor and Sarah Morrison

Source: The Independent

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/the-islamification-of-britain-record-numbers-embrace-muslim-faith-2175178.html

The number of Britons choosing to become Muslims has nearly doubled in the past decade, according to one of the most comprehensive attempts to estimate how many people have embraced Islam...

Author: Sarah Dopson

Source: The Montgomery Village Patch

http://montgomeryvillage.patch.com/articles/church-pushes-for-tolerance-understanding-among-muslims-and-christians

With religious differences at the root of so many worldly conflicts, members of Christ the Servant Lutheran Church are promoting tolerance at home and trying to bridge the gap in interfaith understanding.

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