Author: JOHN ELIGON

Source: The New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/26/nyregion/26visa.html

A lawyer for the American Civil Liberties Union asked a federal judge yesterday to declare unconstitutional a part of the Patriot Act that he says allowed a prominent Muslim scholar to be denied a visa.

The lawyer, Jameel Jaffer, told Judge Paul A. Crotty of Federal District Court in Manhattan that the provision, allowing the federal...

Author: Louise Fenner

Source: USINFO

Author: Staff Writer

Source: CBS News

Wire Service: AP

[cbsnews.com/stories/2007/10/24/ap/europe/main3402747.shtml]

Spanish police broke up an Islamic cell suspected of using the Internet to recruit fighters for the Iraq insurgency, arresting six people Wednesday in raids in northern Spain, authorities said.

The five men and a woman, all from Algeria or Morocco, were arrested in or near the city of Burgos, the Interior Ministry said. The cell is unrelated...

Author: Matt Gunderson

Source: The Boston Globe

http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2007/10/21/in_search_of_truth_over_fear/

Anti-Islamic sentiment in the country swelled in the aftermath of the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. But for Mary Lahaj, Muslim chaplain at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, those energies had been taking root on US soil for decades prior.

She remembers the telephone calls...

Author: Hadas Gold

Source: GW Hatchet

[gwhatchet.com/media/storage/paper332/news/2007/10/22/News/All-Sides.Holding.Events.On.Islam-3046534.shtml]

Students supporting and opposing Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week will hold coinciding events in the next several days - leading up to a speech from conservative author David Horowitz Thursday night.

Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week is a nationwide event that organizers say is meant to combat violent, radical Muslim ideologies. It is being hosted on...

Author: Ravi S. Jha

Source: Khaleej Times

http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticleNew.asp?xfile=data/subcontinent/2007/October/subcontinent_October750.xml&section=subcontinent&col=

More and more Muslim students enrolled in madrassas across India are learning to read, write and speak Sanskrit — a traditional Hindu language. Despite its ancient origin,...

Author: Aria Miran

Source: UCSB Daily Nexus

[.dailynexus.com/article.php?a=14817]

The controversy on campus all began with a warning from an ex-Marxist turned right-wing commentator.

David Horowitz, an occasional Fox News analyst and conservative writer, bills “Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week” as the largest demonstration ever by conservative college students. Horowitz said the week highlights the dangers radical Islamic terrorism poses to America. The nationwide event, which begins today, will...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: AFP

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The Maldives has begun a crackdown on Islamic militant groups in an effort to prevent international terror networks from setting up cells here, President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom told AFP.

The president said a small minority of the Indian Ocean archipelago's 330,000 Sunni Muslims had begun preaching an extremist form of Islam that could affect the peaceful image of the popular tourist destination.

...

Author: BRETT LIEBERMAN

Source: The Patriot-News

[pennlive.com/politics/national/article251694.ece]

Ten months after leaving office, former Sen. Rick Santorum is back in the thick of controversy over whether he and other conservatives’ “hate speech” is stirring up anti-Muslim sentiments.

Santorum is headlining an event on the campus of Penn State University Tuesday night that is part of a controversial line-up of conservative speakers in Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week.

Author: Staff Writer

Source: BBC News

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7054948.stm

Thousands of people attended a charity concert in London to raise money for war-torn Darfur.

The event on Sunday at Wembley Arena was to highlight the crisis in the Sudanese region and featured some of the Muslim world's biggest stars.

Among them was Sami Yusuf - dubbed the Islamic Bono - and Texan country and western singer Kareem Salama.

The...

Author: GREGG L. PARKER

Source: The Huntsville Times

Author: REBECCA CATALANELLO and ABBIE VANSICKLE

Source: St. Petersburg Times

[sptimes.com/2007/10/20/Hillsborough/After_seven_months__m.shtml]

TAMPA -- Iyad Abuhajjaj walked out of jail last week with as many questions as he had when he went in 7-1/2 months earlier.

Over those weeks, he had been questioned by police detectives, FBI agents, newspaper reporters and attorneys. Every part of his life from birth to now was spilled and discussed in detail with strangers. And yet, he says, he never...

Source: Star-Telegram

http://www.star-telegram.com/religion/story/274522.html

After years of watching non-Muslims warily eye her religious attire, Hend El-Buri joked with some veiled friends that it might finally break the ice if they all wore bright pink hijabs to their University of Missouri classes one day.

The wardrobe whim has evolved into a national campaign involving thousands of other Muslim students, aiming to tear down social barriers and raise money...

Author: Linda Lou

Source: The San Diego Union-Tribune

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/northcounty/20071020-9999-1mi20muslim.html

SAN MARCOS – In the spring of 2004, Dr. Waheeda Samady decided to wear a black head scarf, or a hijab, for the first time in her life, even though she has always been a practicing Muslim.

It prompted lots of assumptions, Samady said.

Her classmates in medical school...

Author: Janet I. Tu

Source: The Seattle Times

[seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2003963479_islam20m.html]

A controversial week of events, billed as Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week, launches at the University of Washington and some 100 other colleges next week — drawing condemnations from Muslim groups here and across the country.

The UW College Republicans, organizer of the local events, say the week is intended to foster awareness of the terrorist threat posed by a small number of...