Author: Lindsay Wise

Source: The Houston Chronicle

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/life/religion/6078485.html

Shariq Abdul Ghani was watching Meet the Press at his Richmond home Sunday morning when he suddenly froze with a cup of Nescafe halfway to his lips.

On the TV screen, former Secretary of State Colin Powell was telling host Tom Brokaw he was disturbed that some Republicans have been spreading rumors that Barack Obama...

Author: Matthew Weaver

Source: The Guardian

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/oct/24/turkey-islam

Turkey's prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's attempt to lift a ban on wearing headscarves in universities was anti-secular, the country's highest court said today in a ruling that could reignite tensions between the country's secular and pro-Islamic factions.

In July the Guardian reported that the constitutional court stopped short of...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: Muslim Public Affairs Council

http://www.mpac.org/article.php?id=724

The Muslim Public Affairs Council commends the Department of Justice for cracking down on hate crimes against members of the Muslim community. Today the Justice Department announced that a third man pleaded guilty to a hate crime for anti-Muslim vandalism in Massachusetts.

Adam J. Bonito is the third co-conspirator to plead guilty to the bias-motivated...

Author: Christopher Burbach

Source: The World-Herald

Author: Staff Writer

Source: World Faith News

http://www.wfn.org/2008/10/msg00124.html

Christian communities should improve their knowledge of Islam, be good neighbours to Muslims and bear witness to their faith in an appropriate manner, according to an international group of church leaders and experts on Christian-Muslim dialogue.

These were some of the recommendations put forward at an 18 to 20 October consultation aimed at developing an ecumenical...

Author: Anil Mundra

Source: NPR

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=95985609

Muslim-Americans are twice as likely as most Americans to be independents according to polls. Most will vote for Barack Obama, but even supporters of the Democratic candidate express frustration at the rampant Islamophobia popping up throughout all sides of the presidential election.

Author: Michael Conlon

Source: Reuters

http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE49K6LW20081021

These are uneasy times for America's Muslims, caught in a backwash from a presidential election campaign where the false notion that Barack Obama is Muslim has been seized on by some who link Islam with terrorism.

The Democratic White House candidate, who would be the first black U.S. president and whose middle name is Hussein, is a...

Author: Umar Lee

Source: Islam Online

Author: Tim Korte

Source: The Associated Press

http://www.santafenewmexican.com/Local%20News/Republican-s--anti-Muslim-letter-sparks-outrage

The chairwoman of an Otero County Republican women's group on Tuesday defended a letter to the editor in which she wrote, "I believe Muslims are our enemies."

Marcia Stirman, a 56-year-old interior decorator, also called Democratic presidential candidate...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: MSNBC

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/27265490#27265490

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/27265490#27265490

Author: Staff Writer

Source: The Huffington Post/ANP

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/20/muslim-mccain-fans-confro_n_136203.html

At a John McCain rally in Woodbridge, Virginia, three people handed out "Obama for Change" bumper stickers with the Communist sickle and hammer and the Islamic crescent, saying Obama was a socialist with ties to radical Islam. Several moderate McCain supporters, Muslim and Christian alike,...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: BBC News

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7679151.stm

Sony has postponed the global release of a much-anticipated video game due to concerns that it may offend Muslims.

Copies of LittleBigPlanet are being recalled from shops worldwide after it emerged that a background music track contained two phrases from the Koran.

Sony issued an apology for any offence that its use of the backing track might...

Author: I P Singh

Source: Times of India/TNN

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/India/Tercentenary_of_Guru_Granth_Sahib_coronation/articleshow/3616597.cms

Lakhs of Sikhs as well as people from other faiths participated in the celebrations in connection with the tercentenary — 300 years — of Guruta Gadi Diwas (coronation) of Guru Granth Sahib on Sunday. The Guru Manyo Granth Jagriti...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: Muslim Public Affairs Council

http://www.mpac.org/article.php?id=720

The Muslim Public Affairs Council today commended Former Secretary of State Colin Powell, who addressed the issue of Islamophobia in the current election cycle on NBC's "Meet the Press" this morning. Secretary Powell, who served both as the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff under President George H.W. Bush and Secretary of State under President...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: The Analyst

http://allafrica.com/stories/200810220870.html

The Ministry of Education is under pressure to put an end to the teaching of Bible in public schools across the country as evidence[d] by a call from a religious advocacy institution which has been praying for religious tolerance.

The group, Muslim and Christian United for Peace and Reconciliation in Liberia (MUCUL) says it has written the authorities of the...