Author: Tarice Gray

Source: Change.Org

http://education.change.org/blog/view/muslim_american_girls_taunted_assaulted_at_school_for_wearing_hijab

Some California schools get a "F" for teaching tolerance, an Islamic civil liberties group is saying. The Greater Los Angeles office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-LA) says it's hearing from students and their parents saying that...

Author: Oralandar Brand-Williams

Source: The Detroit News

http://www.detnews.com/article/20101220/METRO/12200398/1041/LIFESTYLE04/Hate-mail-to-mosques-under-investigation

The local office of a national Muslim civil rights group says they have met with postal investigators about several anti-Muslim hate mailings that were sent recently to area mosques, Islamic centers and Muslim...

Author: Raja Abdulrahim

Source: The Los Angeles Times

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-muslim-conference-20101219,0,167964.story

Sitting before an audience of hundreds of Muslims at the annual conference of the Muslim Public Affairs Council on Saturday, Edina Lekovic raised her microphone and began asking pointed questions about where American Muslims have stumbled in reaching out to the broader American...

Author: Wendy Stueck

Source: The Globe and Mail

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/highway-to-heavens-many-paths-to-salvation/article587274/...

Author: Ali Khan Mahmudabad

Source: The Times of India

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/7115308.cms?frm=mailtofriend

Headlines around the world often announce the arrival of Muharram with stories of bloodshed. Iraq and Pakistan are two particularly dangerous places where participating in processions to commemorate the martyrdom of Imam Hussain is tantamount to walking into a battle zone. Yet, people still come...

Author: Thalia Gigerenza

Source: The New York Times/The Bay Citizen

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/17/us/17bcarts.html?_r=1&ref=religionandbelief

When Wajahat Ali, a young Muslim American playwright from Fremont, needed to build an audience for his work, he produced his plays in cramped Pakistani restaurants in the East Bay and used Facebook to get the word out.

His play “The Domestic Crusaders...

Author: Borzou Daragahi

Source: The Los Angeles Times

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-afghanistan-sects-20101216,0,6884868.story

Along rutted streets in newly revitalized neighborhoods hang green, red, yellow and black banners commemorating Imam Hussein, the prophet Muhammad's grandson, whose death more than 1,300 years ago continues to forge the identity and fuel the grievances of...

Author: Sara Webb

Source: Reuters

http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKTRE6BF45W20101216

The Netherlands could ban the burqa, the full-body covering worn by some Muslim women, as soon as next year, Dutch anti-Islam politician Geert Wilders told Reuters in an interview Thursday.

Wilders' populist Freedom Party is the third largest in parliament and provides crucial support to the minority ruling coalition in exchange for the...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: BBC News

http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/manchester/hi/people_and_places/religion_and_ethics/newsid_9291000/9291630.stm

Muharram is a period of mourning to commemorate the death of Imam Hussein, grandson of the prophet Muhammad.

In an extreme demonstration of their faith, devout Shi'a Muslims makes themselves bleed on the festival day of Ashura.

But the...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC)

http://www.mpac.org/programs/government-relations/mpac-commends-l.a.-city-council-for-unanimous-passage-of-resolution-on-religious-pluralism-islamophobia.php

The Muslim Public Affairs Council congratulates the City of Los Angeles for standing up against the nationwide spread of...

Author: John F. Burns

Source: The New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/16/world/europe/16sweden.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss

As they consider the suicide bombing that recently rocked their country, many Swedes have taken comfort from the attack’s most enduring image, as captured by a security camera: a man in a red jacket kneeling by the dying bomber, asking if there was anything he could do for the man...

Author: Bahrampour

Source: The Washington Post

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/14/AR2010121407206.html

Muslim employees of the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in Washington said they felt discriminated against after being barred over the weekend from floors where an Israeli delegation was staying, a Muslim advocacy group said.

One hotel worker whose duties involve going to...

Author: Andria Simmons

Source: The Atlanta Journal Constitution

http://www.ajc.com/news/gwinnett/muslim-womans-headscarf-incident-776839.html

Two years ago at the Douglasville Municipal Court, Lisa Valentine was jailed after refusing to remove a headscarf she wore as an expression of her Islamic beliefs.

On Tuesday, Valentine returned to the courthouse to announce she was filing a federal lawsuit...

Author: Heather Guenther

Source: University of Michigan Health System

http://www2.med.umich.edu/prmc/media/newsroom/details.cfm?ID=1866

Physicians may be able to improve American Muslims’ health by building and strengthening partnerships with Muslim religious leaders, according to a new study led by the University of Michigan Health System.

Author: Helen O'Neill

Source: The Washington Post

Wire Service: AP

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/13/AR2010121300292.html

On a crisp November day in 2009, the cemetery on the hill received its first guest - a 28-year-old stonemason killed in a car accident two days earlier.

Solemnly his Sufi Muslim brethren buried him beneath a...