Author: Richard Winton, Teresa Watanabe and Greg Krikoria

Source: Los Angeles Times

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-lapd10nov10,0,3960843.story?coll=la-home-center

The LAPD's plan to map Muslim communities in an effort to identify potential hotbeds of extremism departs from the way law enforcement has dealt with local anti-terrorism since 9/11 and prompted widespread skepticism Friday.

In a...

Author: Marleen Shepherd

Source: The Southern

http://www.southernillinoisan.com/articles/2007/11/10/lifestyles/faith_and_values/22116464.txt

CARBONDALE - Anad Salem's Muslim faith makes reaching out to those in need a priority for the Carbondale physician.

"Our faith is littered with commandments to feed the hungry, to help the unfortunate, the sick, the orphans," said Salem, a member of Masjid An-...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: Daily Mail

Author: Mimi Hall

Source: USA Today

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2007-11-06-watchlist_N.htm

WASHINGTON — More than 15,000 people have appealed to the government since February to have their names removed from the terrorist watch list that delayed their travel at U.S. airports and border crossings, the Homeland Security Department says.

The complaints have created such a backlog that members of Congress are...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: The International Herald Tribune

Wire Service: AP

https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna21717130

The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a government order to expel the founder of Ansar al-Islam, a suspected Islamic terror group in Iraq, as a threat to Norwegian national...

Author: Nopporn Wong-Anan

Source: Reuters

http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSBKK9380

Suspected separatist rebels launched two bomb attacks in Thailand's rebellious Muslim south, killing four people and wounding five, including a Muslim boy, police said on Wednesday.

Three members of a bomb squad were killed and one wounded when they went to check out what turned out to be a remote-controlled bomb on a bridge in Pattani, one...

Author: SEAN O’SULLIVAN,

Source: The News Journal

http://www.delawareonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071107/NEWS/71107021

WILMINGTON – Three Muslim former employees of the Exxon Mobil gas station on I-95 in Delaware have filed a $12 million federal civil rights suit against the petroleum giant, alleging discrimination, harassment and retaliation.

The suit charges that the three Delaware...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: Haaretz

Wire Service: AP

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/921402.html

A funeral for a dead militant turned violent in Gaza on Wednesday when Hamas men opened fire at supporters of the rival Islamic Jihad faction, leaving one person dead, medical officials said.

The Hamas men began shooting after Islamic Jihad members threw stones at a Hamas police station during the funeral of an...

Source: The Associated Press

http://www.wlwt.com/news/14537538/detail.html

CINCINNATI -- Three men who sought permits to burn ceremonial items in public, including the rainbow-colored flag of the gay rights movement, can continue with a lawsuit against the city of Columbus, a federal appeals court ruled. The plaintiffs include Charles Spingola and Thomas Meyer, who were convicted in Franklin County Environmental Court and fined $100 each for the misdemeanor charge of open burning...

Author: Kim Vo

Source: CAIR Press Release

Author: NEIL MACFARQUHAR

Source: The New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/07/us/07gaymuslim.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

SAN FRANCISCO — About 15 people marched alongside the Muslim float in this city’s notoriously fleshy Gay Pride Parade earlier this year, with various men carrying the flags of Egypt, Lebanon, Palestine and Turkey and even Iran’s old imperial banner.

While other floats featured men...

Author: Fariz Ismailzade

Source: Eurasia Daily

http://jamestown.org/edm/article.php?article_id=2372570

On October 27 Azerbaijani law-enforcement agencies announced they had foiled a terrorist plot targeting the U.S. and British embassies, as well as the Baku offices of several major oil companies.

The plot was discovered following a theft in a Defense Ministry military unit. Lieutenant Kamran Asadov allegedly stole four guns, 20 hand...

Author: Sameen Tahir-Khan

Source: Arab News

http://arabnews.com/?page=4&section=0&article=103284&d=7&m=11&y=2007&pix=world.jpg&category=World

COLUMBUS, Ohio, 7 November 2007 — The Interfaith Association of Central Ohio held a public forum on the “Many faces of Islam” at the Ohio State House. A large number of people from different religions attended. Four panelists shared their...

Author: WES FERGUSON

Source: Longview News-Journal

http://www.news-journal.com/news/content/news/stories/2007/11/06/11062007_veterans_ceremony.html

BIG SANDY — Islamic extremists have a 100-year plan for world domination, and Americans must be prepared for the long fight, a U.S. Air Force general told East Texans on Monday.

Speaking during a Veterans Day banquet in Big Sandy, Mike McClendon...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: Independent Online