Author: Elaine Jarvik

Source: Deseret Morning News

https://www.deseret.com/2006/12/14/19991016/muslims-live-in-fear-panelist-says

Noor Ul-Hasan has never been reluctant to speak up on behalf of Muslims living in Utah....

Author: Tara Stanley

Source: The Katy Times

http://www.katytimes.com/articles/2006/12/04/news/01news.txt

The Katy Islamic Association (KIA) has come under fire this week as local homeowners in its Baker Rd. neighborhood voice concern over a proposed mosque and community center.

Located in an affluent residential area, the KIA's 11-acre property located at 1800 Baker Rd. has become a hot-button issue for homeowners who live nearby....

Author: Martin Marty

Source: Sightings

http://marty-center.uchicago.edu/sightings/archive_2006/1211.shtml

Two events this season led me to go back to the Sightings archive, to a column dated October 29, 2001 ("Listening to Lactantius"). Giving evidence of our passion always to be current, we cited Lactantius from the years 302 and 303, because what he wrote then spoke so directly to current affairs. Incident one here is the flap over...

Author: Elizabeth Huff

Source: Battle Creek Enquirer

http://www.battlecreekenquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061202/LIFESTYLE08/612020306

Homes were once warmed by a fire in the hearth, and it was tradition to save the first log of the season to be burned in a Yule celebration.

Over time, fewer and fewer homes were built with a fireplace and the tradition faded. Yet in small pockets of the...

Source: BBC News

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6167695.stm

Iran's foreign minister has rejected criticism of a two-day conference being held in Iran to examine whether the Holocaust actually happened.

Manouchehr Mottaki told participants the event did not seek to confirm or deny the Holocaust, but rather to allow people to "express their views freely".

Israel's prime minister has condemned the gathering as "a sick phenomenon".

President...

Source: The Indianapolis Star

http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061210/LOCAL/612100485

Ingrid Mattson's recent election as president of the Islamic Society of North America gave the organization headquartered in Plainfield a national spotlight it's never known.

The white, Canadian-born woman who grew up Catholic before converting to Islam in 1987 has appeared on CNN and NPR, been written up in The New York Times and was...

Author: Pamela K. Taylor

Source: The American Muslim

http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/the_elephant_in_the_room_at_the_wise_conference/0012228

Attending the WISE conference organized by the ASMA society in late November was a tremendous experience. It was humbling to be sitting next to women from around the globe who had done so much, spoken out so fearlessly, and risked...

Author: NANCY HAUGHT

Source: The Oregonian

Author: Cameron Stewart

Source: The Australian

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,20896885-5001561,00.html

EVEN before Muslim schoolboys desecrated a Bible with urine, spit and fire last week, a civil war was brewing inside the corridors of the East Preston Islamic College.

For months, a small group of teachers - Muslim and non-Muslim - were increasingly alarmed by what they saw as a radical stream of...

MPAC

http://www.mpac.org/programs/interfaith/muslims-jews-partner-to-improve-relations-improve-the-city-of-la.php

Source: Houston Chronicle

Wire Service: AP

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/life/religion/4389638.html

SRINAGAR, INDIA — Public health authorities in the Indian-controlled portion of Kashmir have found an unexpected ally in their battle against HIV/AIDS in the deeply conservative region.

The Jammu-Kashmir state AIDS prevention and control agency has enlisted hundreds of Islamic clerics to carry the message of safe...

Author: Matthew Borghese

Source: All Headline News

http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7005798707

Washington, D.C. (AHN) - Columnist and radio talk show host Dennis Prager is at the center of a religious controversy, and is being accused of spouting anti-Islamic comments when he said a Congressman should have used both a Koran and a Bible when they were sworn in to the legislature.

Prager said that Muslim Congressman-elect Keith Ellison'...

Author: MARK LANDLER

Source: The New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/08/world/europe/08mosque.html?ref=europe

MUNICH — Helga Schandl says she has nothing against Muslims. For three decades, she worked in Munich’s wholesale food market, where many of her colleagues were immigrants from Turkey. “I have experienced integration firsthand,” she said.

Yet Mrs. Schandl, a 67-year-old Bavarian,...

Source: Mainichi News

http://mdn.mainichi-msn.co.jp/international/news/20061208p2g00m0in003000c.html

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia -- Malaysia's Islamic authorities have dropped their claim over the body of a man whose family maintained he died a Christian, ending a religious row that has strained fragile race relations.

The Selangor state's Islamic Religious Council said late Thursday that its investigations showed there was "overwhelming"...

Author: Sandra Oey

Source: Ottawa Citizen

http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=e4ce9800-7588-4d84-b1d9-9680ff7cbf3e&k=92474

This is not the first time the Ottawa Muslim Women’s Organization is having a food drive, but it is the first time they’re doing it for Christmas.

The organization has purposely chosen to hold the event during the Christian holiday season,...