Author: Lee Keath

Source: The Washington Times

Wire Service: AP

http://www.washtimes.com/world/20070102-101731-2493r_page2.htm

More than 20,000 Americans took part in the most recent hajj, a higher number than usual because the pilgrimage, which began Thursday and ended Monday, coincided with Christmas and New Year's holidays.

At the hajj, Muslims seek forgiveness of their sins and meditate on...

Author: KATHY HANRAHAN

Source: The Buffalo News

Wire Service: AP

http://www.buffalonews.com/editorial/20070102/1005965.asp

JACKSON, Miss. - This mid-sized Southern city with its thriving Baptist, Methodist and Catholic churches may seem an unlikely home for one of the only museums in the United States devoted entirely to Muslim culture.

Still, the International Museum of Muslim Culture opened in April...

Author: MAYA KREMEN

Source: North Jersey Media Group

http://www.northjersey.com/page.php?qstr=eXJpcnk3ZjczN2Y3dnFlZUVFeXk0NSZmZ2JlbDdmN3ZxZWVFRXl5NzA0OTgzOCZ5cmlyeTdmNzE3Zjd2cWVlRUV5eTM=

PROSPECT PARK -- Mayor Mohamed Khairullah took office in Prospect Park Monday.

The mayor's voicemail is full of pleas. Two residents want handicapped parking permits. A man who's moved out of state is trying to pay parking tickets. And there's a woman facing eviction.

His cellphone buzzes. The office...

Author: Rob Faulkner

Source: The Hamilton Spectator

Author: Brynn Galindo

Source: KGET

http://www.kget.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=4153898d-6402-4f85-bb73-68088f320f9c

BAKERSFIELD - It was supposed to be a fun family reunion, but instead a Bakersfield family claims their Muslim father had a hard time getting to Bakersfield from Germany because of airport security.

This is familiar territory to the Islamic community where someone is allegedly subjected to discriminatory treatment while traveling.

Magidah Shehadeh was...

Author: David Mendell

Source: Chicago Tribune

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Author: Michael Paulson

Source: The Boston Globe

http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2006/12/30/schools_try_to_patch_rift_in_mosque_project/

The presidents of two prominent local religious institutions are calling on a Jewish advocacy organization and the backers of a Roxbury mosque project to drop their lawsuits in their contentious dispute over the mosque's construction.

Nick Carter ,...

Author: Daria Sito-Sucic

Source: The Washington Post

Wire Service: Reuters

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/29/AR2006122900336.html

SARAJEVO (Reuters) - Last week, Sarajevo's Jesus Heart cathedral was packed for Christmas mass. This week its King Fahd mosque is filled ahead of the Eid al-Adha, the Muslim festival of sacrifice.

The Bosnian capital is...

Source: Beliefnet

Wire Service: AP

http://www.beliefnet.com/story/208/story_20812_1.html

MOUNT ARAFAT, Saudi Arabia, Dec. 29 - Yassin Subhi, from Iraq's Sunni Muslim heartland, vowed that his prayers during the hajj pilgrimage on Friday would be a sword to fight his country's occupiers. Nearby, a procession of his fellow Iraqis marched to a holy site, waving a Shiite banner.

Iraqi pilgrims say the hajj unites them - Shiites and...

Author: CAROL EISENBERG

Source: Newsday

http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/nation/ny-ushajj295032520dec29,0,7228608.story?coll=ny-leadnationalnews-headlines

WASHINGTON - A month after the removal of six imams from a U.S. Airways flight spurred accusations of harassment, the federal government has given airport security trainers cultural awareness training about the Islamic...

Source: Blackanthem Military News

http://www.blackanthem.com/News/military_2005122802.html

On December 28, 2006 Blackanthem Military News reported, "December is a month of celebration for multiple faiths, making the holiday season an extra busy time for chaplains in Iraq. Between Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa and the Islamic Hajj, Navy Capt. Vince Arnold, 2nd Marine Logistics Group (Forward) group chaplain, knows the importance of providing for all service members, regardless of religious preferences... Arnold explained...

Source: BBC News

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6213665.stm

The Roman Catholic bishop of Cordoba in southern Spain has rejected an appeal from Muslims for the right to pray in the city's cathedral, a former mosque.

Juan Jose Asenjo rejected the request made by Spain's Islamic Board in a letter to the Pope.

It had asked that the cathedral become an ecumenical temple where believers from all faiths could worship.

The bishop said such a move would...

Source: The China Post

Wire Service: AP

http://www.chinapost.com.tw/latestnews/20061228/43357.htm

Pune, India: Muslim women wearing the head-to-toe Islamic robe, or burqa, could be banned from shopping at jewelry stores in this western Indian city after a series of thefts carried out by burqa-clad robbers, jewelers said Thursday.

The Pune Jewelers Association has applied to police for permission to bar people who cover their...

Author: Tsvetelia Ilieva

Source: The Washington Post

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/26/AR2006122600797.html

SMOLYAN, Bulgaria (Reuters) - Like most Bulgarians, Salikh Kutsov hopes joining the European Union will bring prosperity to his town. But the Muslim carpenter wonders if his future wife would be happy wearing a headscarf in the EU.

The 27-year-old carpenter has been told...

Author: Ali Kotarumalos

Source: The Philadelphia Inquirer

Wire Service: AP

http://www.philly.com/mld/philly/news/world/16309385.htm

JAKARTA, Indonesia - Tens of thousands of police deployed at churches across Indonesia Sunday amid warnings by Western nations that Islamic militants may be plotting Christmas bombings.

Indonesian officials downplayed the alerts, which have become something of a tradition...