Author: Staff Writer

Source: BBC News

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6751909.stm

Suspected Shia Muslim militants have destroyed three Sunni mosques near the Iraqi capital, a day after a repeat attack on a major Shia pilgrimage site.

The overnight attacks bring to six the number of Sunni mosques targeted since suspected Sunni militants toppled the two minarets of the Samarra shrine.

Curfews appear to have prevented the same...

Author: Paul Brubaker

Source: The Herald

http://www.northjersey.com/page.php?qstr=eXJpcnk3ZjczN2Y3dnFlZUVFeXk0NyZmZ2JlbDdmN3ZxZWVFRXl5NzE1MTAwMiZ5cmlyeTdmNzE3Zjd2cWVlRUV5eTM=

GARFIELD – A resident who sued a local mosque after it tested a loudspeaker system for its Arabic call to prayer said his lawsuit was made moot when the City Council allowed such broadcasts...

Author: Tahira Muhammad

Source: Black Star News

Author: Andrea Shalal-Esa

Source: Reuters

Author: Andrea Shalal-Esa

Source: Reuters

http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSN1330890120070613

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The FBI has enlisted comedians in a drive to spruce up its image with Muslims and Arab-Americans damaged by a wave of arrests and searches since the September 11 attacks in 2001.

"It's so nice to be standing in front of the FBI and not be handcuffed," quipped Egyptian-American comedian Ahmed Ahmed...

Author: Kathleen Ridolfo

Source: Radio Free Europe

http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2007/06/17d2b680-9a26-464a-a742-1e88a562dbfc.html

Sunni insurgents have once again attacked the Al-Askari (Golden) Mosque in an apparent attempt to goad Shi'a into launching retalitory actions.

The attack comes just weeks after Shi'ite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr extended an olive branch to Sunni Arabs and called on his...

Author: Jose L. Medina

Source: Las Cruces Sun News

http://www.lcsun-news.com/news/ci_6126713

LAS CRUCES — Less than two weeks before trial, a settlement offer has been made to four former New Mexico State University football players to drop a religious discrimination lawsuit against head coach Hal Mumme.

Mumme's attorney said the offer was strategic and was not an admission of wrongdoing by the coach.

The offer was made Monday,...

Author: The office of Imam Hassan Al-Qazwini

Source: Islamic Center of America

http://www.icofa.com

The office of Imam Hassan Al-Qazwini, spiritual leader of the Islamic Center of America, issued the following statement today:

“Once again, terrorists have proven their cowardice by attacking the holy and magnificent shrine of Imam Ali Al –Hadi and Imam Hassan Al-Askari, may the peace and blessings of God be upon them.

"We express our deepest...

Author: Niraj Warikoo

Source: Detroit Free Press

http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070612/NEWS05/706120343/0/SPORTS18

At 19, Sandra Jawad decided she wanted to wear an Islamic head scarf. Her mother's response: a long lecture on how that could draw prejudice and limit her career options. "She told me, it's going to be hard. ... It'll make things difficult," Jawad said, recalling a four-hour talk with...

Author: Sarah DiLorenzo

Source: The Associated Press

http://www.amny.com/news/nationworld/nation/wire/sns-ap-iraq-religion,0,2902532.story?coll=ny-sports-utility

UNITED NATIONS -- Iraqi religious and political leaders met to reaffirm their commitment to building a tolerant, multiethnic nation, declaring that the ties that bind all Iraqis "will not be broken" in spite of the sectarian violence...

Author: Dr. Sami Alrabaa

Source: World Tribune

http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/WTARC/2007/ss_terror_06_12.asp

The majority of Westerners, mostly Europeans, the mainstream media, and think-tanks, on the one hand, and Islamists, a minority of radical Muslims, on the other, are exaggerating the impact and clout of Islam and Muslims. The "Westerners", are convinced that they are waging a great "war on terror", in self-defense...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: Canberra

http://canberra.yourguide.com.au/detail.asp?story_id=594972

Australia's newly appointed Mufti Sheik Fehmi Naji El-Imam will not be as high profile as his outspoken predecessor, director of the Islamic Council of Victoria says.

Controversial Muslim leader Sheik Taj Aldin Alhilali on Sunday declined to accept another term in the top Islamic post.

Australia's imams elected 79-year-old...

Author: Duaa Eldeib

Source: Daily Southtown

http://www.dailysouthtown.com/news/422423,112NWS2.article

While best friends Henna Eassa and Melanie Fernando share almost everything, there is one distinct aspect of their lives that they don't have in common: their faith.

But on Sunday, Henna, a 16-year-old Muslim, and Melanie, a 17-year-old Christian, spent the day together, munching on Indian and Pakistani cuisine, admiring their...

Author: Brian R. Ballou

Source: The Boston Globe

http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2007/06/10/canopys_rise_signals_end_of_mosques_plight/

As a crane hoisted a 5,000-pound, copper canopy toward the top of a red brick tower in Roxbury yesterday afternoon, thousands of area Muslims looked upward, some with tears running down their cheeks.

"This is the moment we have been waiting for for two...

Author: Dwight Ott

Source: The Philadelphia Inquirer

http://www.philly.com/inquirer/local/philadelphia/7923962.html

They came from far: Pakistan, Lebanon and India, organizers said. And from near: 80 percent were African Americans from Philadelphia, they added.

With the Delaware River flowing serenely in the background and strains of Middle Eastern music rising from red-capped singers on a bright and warm late spring day, an...