Author: Robert Kolker

Source: The New York Magazine

http://nymag.com/news/articles/reasonstoloveny/2010/70056/

The Anti-Defamation League called the plan to build a Muslim community and prayer center two blocks from ground zero “counterproductive to the healing process.” Catholic Archbishop Timothy Dolan suggested the mosque’s developers find another site. But while some in the religious world equivocated, the leaders...

Author: Jennifer Peltz

Source: The Washington Post

Wire Service: AP

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/09/AR2010120905779.html

Two men attacked a Muslim religious leader in a hate-fueled assault in a subway station, with one hurling slurs along with a fist, prosecutors and Muslim advocates said Thursday.

But defense lawyers said the incident was a...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: USA Today

Wire Service: AP

Author: David Caruso

Source: The Washington Post

Wire Service: AP

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/09/AR2010120901079.html

Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf saw his plans for an Islamic center near ground zero derided as a victory mosque for terrorists, exploited as campaign fodder and used as a bargaining chip by a Florida pastor who vowed to burn the Quran.

...

Author: Spencer S. Hsu

Source: The Washington Post

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/crime-scene/spencer-s-hsu/rabbi-sues-army-over-beard-rul.html

An Orthodox Jewish rabbi from Brooklyn sued the U.S. Army Wednesday for denying him a commission to serve as an Army chaplain because his faith prohibits him from shaving his beard.

Author: Matt Prodger

Source: BBC News

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/newsnight/9264357.stm

President Ali Abdullah Saleh does not give many interviews at the moment. The man who has governed Yemen for 32 years is fed up with the press characterising the country as a "cradle of terrorism".

But for Amr Khaled he was willing to make an exception. The Egyptian Muslim televangelist is, in the words of the president a "...

Author: Emily Wax

Source: The Washington Post

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/07/AR2010120701908.html

A bomb blast in the Hindu holy city of Varanasi, during the height of the daily sunset prayer ceremony Tuesday, injured at least 32 people and killed a 2-year-old child, officials said. Authorities said the blast was a terrorist attack.

Author: Slim Allagui

Source: Google News

Wire Service: AFP

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5g1ZnsEhJjI-UqZmSAOI_FxTWnT0Q?docId=CNG.e49d8f7446a37c4bd9b779af911a7e43.3a1

Children skip across the roof of a mosque and play hide and seek in a Hindu temple: this unusual playground is designed to...

Author: Clyde Haberman

Source: The New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/07/nyregion/07nyc.html?_r=1&ref=religion_and_belief

In David Lean’s majestic film “Lawrence of Arabia,” the beleaguered Arab leader Prince Feisal reminds his British Army adviser, T. E. Lawrence, of a glory that once was.

“You know, Lieutenant,” he says, “in the Arab city of C...

Author: Jerry Markon

Source: The Washington Post

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/04/AR2010120403710.html?nav=rss_religion

Before the sun rose, the informant donned a white Islamic robe. A tiny camera was sewn into a button, and a microphone was buried in a device attached to his keys.

Author: Kirsten Grieshaber

Source: The Washington Post

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/05/AR2010120500060.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 the group that calls itself "Invitation to Paradise...

Author: Bart Jones

Source: The New York Newsday

http://www.newsday.com/long-island/li-life/learning-with-a-focus-on-faith-1.2518081

The fourth-graders at the Masjid Darul Qur'an Academy in Bay Shore sat at their desks trying to memorize the Quran in Arabic.

Each of the 10 students, the girls with white scarves around their heads, the boys in blue shirts and pants, took turns reciting passages as...

Author: Jeff Horseman

Source: The Press-Enterprise

http://www.pe.com/localnews/inland/stories/PE_News_Local_D_mosque02.48a1845.html

The Temecula Planning Commission voted unanimously late Wednesday to approve a plan to build a mosque on the city's outskirts.

The 5-0 vote followed a 5 ½-hour public hearing in which more than 80 speakers testified for and against the Islamic Center of Temecula Valley mosque...

Author: Tia Mitchell

Source: The Florida Times-Union

http://jacksonville.com/news/metro/2010-12-02/story/ahmed-remain-jacksonville-commission-officials-say

Jacksonville City Council President Jack Webb no longer believes the council should look into recent accusations about Parvez Ahmed, the Muslim professor serving on the city...

Author: Joshua Stanton

Source: State of Formation/ Common Ground News Service

https://stateofformation.org/2010/12/muslims-integral-to-american-seminaries/

Seminaries, higher education institutions where professors of religion and religious leaders train students to become clergy, have been present in the United States for centuries. Because seminary students are generally being trained as religious leaders who will oversee...