Author: Staff Writer

Source: MPAC

http://www.mpac.org/article.php?id=825

After President Obama’s speech in Cairo, Attorney General Eric Holder issued a statement on the Department of Justice’s outreach and enforcement efforts to protect American Muslim Civil Liberties. This bold and significant statement is a strong testament of the integrity of the Obama Administration. It clearly indicates commitment to keeping the president’s promises to the...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: Hindu American Foundation

http://www.hinduamericanfoundation.org/?q=node/292

The Hindu American Foundation (HAF) welcomed President Obama's much heralded speech in Cairo, Egypt, that was billed by the White House as an address to the global Muslim community. In a nearly hour long speech, President Obama condemned Islamic extremism while also calling for increased tolerance and pluralism in many officially Muslim countries...

Author: Ana McKenzie

Source: The Daily Texan

[dailytexanonline.com/top-stories/covered-life-gives-new-perspective-1.1760128]

I first noticed Spencer Wall in my religion and society class toward the end of last semester. She wasn’t particularly outspoken, but the shawl that covered her hair, neck and shoulders made her stand out in the large class.

I usually gave her nothing more than a completely unconscious glance. But when she revealed to the class the decision that she made on April 27, I...

Author: Lisa Goh and Rashita A. Hamid

Source: The Star

[thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2009/6/5/courts/4055243&sec=courts]

The Syariah High Court has ruled that deceased art director Mohan Singh was a Muslim at the time of his death on May 25 and should be buried according to Muslim rites.

Syariah High Court judge Justice Mohamad Khalid Shaee @ Shaii ruled that Mohan Singh’s conversion was valid after hearing testimony from five witnesses and examining the documents brought before...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: KTLA News

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A Southern California mosque has been vandalized with racial slurs and spray painted threats.

Police Sgt. Tom Bruce said an officer spotted the slurs and expletives painted on the Islamic Center of Cypress on the 5000 block of Ball Road,at 4 a.m. Thursday and the graffiti was still wet to the touch.

The painted lettering was about 4 or 5 feet tall and read, in part: "We will kill you all...

Author: Gregg Krupa

Source: The Detroit News

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Across Metro Detroit and elsewhere people responded positively to what President Obama said in Cairo today, in a major speech on Islam and resolving problems in the Middle East and South Asia.

But, also with unanimity, those who heard the speech said the most important thing is what happens next.

"I've come here to Cairo to...

Author: Felicia R. Lee

Source: The New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/05/arts/05musl.html?_r=1&emc=tnt&tntemail0=y

The hookahs looked like exotic animals lurking in Hookahnuts, a shop for gifts and food in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. In various shades of red, blue and green, these water pipes, used to smoke flavored tobacco, were the most vivid sign of the shop’s Middle Eastern culture, presented among an eye-catching...

Author: Tiffany Stanley

Source: Religion News Service

http://www.religionnews.com/index.php?/rnstext/obama_once_fearful_of_muslim_ties_now_embraces_them/

Dogged by persistent but untrue rumors that he was a closet Muslim, Barack Obama’s presidential campaign carefully sidestepped questions about his Muslim ancestry and asked two Muslim women in headscarves to take seats away from the cameras....

Author: Staff Writer

Source: The Star

[thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2009/6/3/nation/4034729&sec=nation]

The Malaysian Gurdwaras Council is appealing to the Government to issue proper directives to the Islamic religious authorities to prevent any controversy involving a person’s final rites.

The council was referring to the case of Mohan Singh, who died of a heart attack on May 25 but his remains were not released by the Sungai Buloh Hospital to his family as he was believed to have...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: The Boston Herald

Wire Service: AP

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President Barack Obama began his latest bid to repair ties with the Muslim world by paying a call Wednesday on King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, home to Islam’s two holiest sites in Mecca and Medina.

Saudi Arabia’s monarch greeted Obama at...

Author: Michael Schwirtz

Source: The New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/03/world/europe/03kazan.html?_r=1&ref=world

Almaz Khasanov stood up to a microphone in the green-painted cage where he and his co-defendants sit and made a statement that sent a wave of anxiety through the cramped courtroom here.

“I am a member of the political party, Hizbut Tahrir,” he said in prepared testimony. “The...

Author: Eli Saslow

Source: NJ.com

Wire Service: AP

Author: Robert Pigott

Source: BBC News

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8078344.stm

A telephone and internet helpline offering advice about the true teaching of Islam is being launched in the UK today.

Callers to the Islamic Hotline will get answers to their questions within 48 hours, from scholars trained at one of the world's principal Islamic universities. Users are also able to email their enquiries through the service's website.
...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: CBS News

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A Muslim convert who already was under federal investigation pleaded not guilty Tuesday in what police called a likely "political and religious" attack that killed a young soldier at a military recruiting center.

Abdulhakim Muhammad, 23, of Little Rock, was charged in Monday's death of Pvt. William Long, 23, of Conway outside an Army-Navy Career Center in a west Little Rock shopping center. He...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: Islam Online