Source: CAIR Press Release

Author: Christina M. Woods

Source: The Wichita Eagle

http://www.kansas.com/212/story/34441.html

Teaching Arabic is Yassin Shourbaji's method of building bridges between communities.

Shourbaji, a retired engineer and member of the Islamic Society of Wichita and the Islamic Association of Mid-Kansas, has been teaching Arabic to English-speakers for four years.

He expanded his course offerings in March to include an introductory course for...

Source: Spero Forum

Author: Sam Howe Verhovek

Source: Los Angeles Times

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-montanaislam1apr01,1,120048,full.story

PLENTYWOOD, MONT. — Dave Grimland spent nearly 30 years as a foreign service officer — "telling the U.S. side of the story," he says — in Bangladesh, India, Cyprus, Turkey and other nations with large Muslim populations. He wrote ambassadors' speeches,...

Source: Beliefnet

Wire Service: AP

http://www.beliefnet.com/story/214/story_21483_1.html

Saba Yoi, Thailand - Hundreds of Buddhists rallied in Thailand's restive south Monday in anger over a bloody Islamic insurgency amid fears it could erupt into a sectarian battle between religious communities, officials said.

Protesters demanded that civilians be allowed to carry guns to protect themselves, and urged authorities to resist...

Source: BBC News

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/bradford/6511393.stm

A Muslim classroom assistant sacked for refusing to remove her veil in lessons has lost an appeal against a ruling that she was not discriminated against.

Aishah Azmi, 24, was asked to remove the veil after Headfield Church of England School in Dewsbury, West Yorks, said pupils could not understand her.

Mrs Azmi refused and was sacked after an employment tribunal...

Author: FREDERIC J. FROMMER

Source: Examiner

Wire Service: AP

http://www.examiner.com/a-648239~Ellison_traveling_to_Israel_as_part_of_congressional_trip.html

WASHINGTON (Map, News) - Rep. Keith Ellison, the first Muslim member of Congress, arrived in Israel Friday as part of what his office called a "goodwill mission" to the Middle East.

The nine-day congressional...

Author: Abigail Lapin

Source: Washington Square News

http://media.www.nyunews.com/media/storage/paper869/news/2007/03/29/News/For-Islamic.Students.Questions.On.Prayer.Space-2812028.shtml

The Islamic Center at NYU, currently located in the basement of the Catholic Center, has raised enough money to rent its own prayer and gathering space for the upcoming three years....

Author: Alexandra Marks

Source: The Christian Science Monitor

http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0328/p01s02-usmi.html

NEW YORK - As soon as Abdel Salam Abdel Salam heard about the attack on the World Trade Center, he went to the supermarket in his Brooklyn neighborhood and bought enough cases of water to fill up his van. He then headed to ground zero and gave it out to anyone who needed it.

This week, the Egyptian-born Muslim-American is...

Author: Elizabeth Kelleher

Source: USINFO

http://usinfo.state.gov/xarchives/display.html?p=washfile-english&y=2007&m=March&x=20070307175643berehellek0.4109156

Washington – Houston City Councilman M.J. Khan, a Muslim American originally from Pakistan, answered questions sent from journalists and students in Morocco, India, Sri Lanka and Liberia about his political career and about...

Author: Ragini Kashyap

Source: The Gazette

Author: Stephanie Simon

Source: Los Angeles Times

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Author: Tom Heneghan

Source: Reuters

http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSL2652676520070326

ORSAY, France (Reuters) - With creationism now coming in Christian and Muslim versions, scientists, teachers and theologians in France are debating ways to counteract what they see as growing religious attacks on science.

Bible-based criticism of evolution, once limited to Protestant fundamentalists in the United States, has...

Source: The Times of India

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/NEWS/World/Pakistan/Paks_Hindu_CJ_took_oath_with_a_Quranic_prayer/RssArticleShow/articleshow/1811380.cms

ISLAMABAD: Justice Rana Bhagwan Das might be the first Hindu judge to take over as the Acting Chief Justice of the Pakistan Supreme Court, but took oath with a Quranic prayer as stipulated by a rule introduced by late military...

Author: Penny Schwartz

Source: JTA

http://www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/news/article/20060326InBostonmosquepr.html

BOSTON, March 26 (JTA) — What began more than three years ago as a momentous groundbreaking on a $22 million mosque and Islamic cultural center has turned into a bitter public controversy that has chilled relations between leaders of Boston’s Jewish and Muslim communities.

The most recent...