Author: Sarah Lemagie

Source: Minneapolis Star Tribune

http://www.startribune.com/local/south/87419902.html?elr=KArks:DCiUHc3E7_V_nDaycUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aUUr

In a formal move to join the legal battle over religion at their school, several families at Tarek ibn Ziyad Academy (TiZA) have asked a judge to let them intervene as parties in a lawsuit brought by the American Civil Liberties Union of Minnesota....

Author: Andrea Elliot

Source: The New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/13/nyregion/13principal.html

A federal commission has determined that New York City’s Department of Education discriminated against the founding principal of an Arabic-language public school by forcing her to resign in 2007 following a storm of controversy driven by opponents of the school.

Acting on a complaint filed last year by the...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: NPR

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=124623737

Recently a group of Muslim women in Washington, D.C. sought to protest what they considered to be an injustice — being confined to a separate prayer space from their male counterparts. The issue of gender segregation is one that many Muslims are talking about and to get some perspective host Michel Martin speaks with Asra Nomani who...

Author: Adelle M. Banks

Source: Beliefnet/Religion News Service

https://www.beliefnet.com/columnists/news/2010/03/state-dept-highlights-religiou

The State Department issued its annual human...

Author: Joyce Kelly

Source: The Daily News Tribune/GateHouse News Service

http://www.dailynewstribune.com/news/state/x1664755310/After-vandalism-Brandeis-Imam-asks-for-return-of-Quran

After vandals wreaked havoc on the Muslim Student Association suite last week, Imam Talal Eid, Brandeis University's Muslim chaplain, said the theft of his Quran "is what keeps me upset."

"I use it for...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: TREND

http://en.trend.az/regions/met/iraq/1652588.html

Some 122 Christian families have returned to the troubled northern Iraqi city of Mosul since the March 7 parliamentary elections, a local official said Thursday.

Representatives of the city's Christian population had earlier told the German Press Agency dpa that some 250 Christian families had fled following a string of deadly attacks targeting the...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: WTOP

Wire Service: AP

Author: Andrew Ward

Source: Financial Times

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/caa3ca58-2cac-11df-8abb-00144feabdc0.html?nclick_check=1

Leading Swedish newspapers yesterday published a cartoon depicting the Prophet Mohammed with the body of a dog after the foiling of an alleged plot to kill the artist responsible for the drawing.

Seven people were detained in Ireland on Tuesday in connection with the alleged plan to...

Author: Matt Sutkoski

Source: Burlington Free Press

[burlingtonfreepress.com/article/20100311/NEWS02/100310036/One-Jewish-and-one-Muslim-holiday-to-be-added-to-school-calendar]

The Burlington School Board has voted to add two holidays to future school calendars to give students time off on Jewish and Muslim holy days, but board members say the changes won’t lengthen the school year.

The board approved the chances Tuesday by an 8-1 vote.

The additions will give...

Author: Eileen Ng

Source: Connecticut Post

Wire Service: AP

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A Malaysian court Thursday granted an ethnic Indian woman custody of her child in a bitter dispute with her Muslim-convert husband, in a ruling that could ease religious minorities' worries about their legal rights.

Malaysia has a two-tier court system for family matters — secular...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: BBC News

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/surrey/8561342.stm

Controversial plans to build a mosque in Camberley have been thrown out by councillors at a heated meeting.

The local Bengali Association's bid to knock down a listed building and build a domed mosque was rejected by Surrey Heath Borough Council.

Local historians and residents had argued the town's heritage must be protected...

Author: Dan Benson

Source: Sheboygan Press

http://www.sheboyganpress.com/article/20100311/SHE0101/3110451/1062/SHE01

Erion Buza has come a long way from 1999 when he ran for his life from his home country of Kosovo to escape Serbian soldiers seeking to eradicate Muslim Albanians, like Buza, living there.

"Their objective was to 'cleanse' the country of Muslims. It was genocide, of biblical proportions," said Buza, 33....

Author: Staff Writer

Source: The Times of India

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Where-Hindus-and-Muslims-pray-together/articleshow/5670584.cms

When Hindus visit a temple in Gaddeajijpur village of Uttar Pradesh, they also make it a point to pray at the adjacent mausoleum. It is no different for Muslims. For, the villagers believe their prayers will not be answered...

Author: Leanne Larmondin

Source: The Pew Forum/Religion News Service

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A Muslim woman has filed a human rights complaint after she was expelled from a Canadian college for refusing to remove her face veil.

The Egyptian-born woman, who is a permanent resident of Canada, was enrolled in a government-sponsored French language class for new immigrants in Montreal, Quebec.

The school, CGEP St. Laurent, expelled her last November...

Author: Tara Bahrampour

Source: The Washington Post

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/09/AR2010030901688.html

The millions of blue forms being mailed this month in the first census count since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, do not ask about religion. But the idea of answering any questions posed by the government makes some Muslims uneasy, and community leaders are...