Author: Minhaj Hassan

Source: Daily Record

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A "Muslims Serve Day" will take place at the Community Soup Kitchen next month.

Serving at the soup kitchen gives the Muslim community an opportunity to participate in an "act of righteousness" and show the community at large the true and compassionate face of Muslims and Islam, said Zamir Hassan, a coordinator with Muslims Against Hunger.

Author: Michael Heath

Source: Bloomberg

Author: Jason Leopold

Source: Online Journal

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A top Navy chaplain who wrote a book several years ago attacking Islam, calling the religion “evil,” and urging the United States to launch a “jihad” against the faith, has been fired from a prestigious theological institute after officials at the school recently became aware of the chaplain’s controversial book.

The chaplain’s dismissal comes nine days after an investigative story I wrote...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: Yahoo! News

Wire Service: AFP

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Turkey's top court decided Monday to put the Islamist-rooted ruling party on trial for alleged anti-secular activity, in a case that could threaten national stability and Ankara's bid to join the European Union.

The 11 judges of the Constitutional Court agreed unanimously to accept the indictment against the Justice and...

Source: Courier News

http://www.suburbanchicagonews.com/couriernews/lifestyles/866504,3_5_EL30_FAITH_S1.article

The building retains its classically American-Protestant design outside, right up to the steeple pointing heavenward. Inside, the pews have been removed to accommodate Eastern worshippers, and the former pulpit focal point has given way to a 6-foot-tall white marble statue of Sai Baba.

This is the Shirdi Sai Temple, a...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: The Australian

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AUSTRALIA has added its voice to the international chorus of outrage over an anti-Islam film posted on the internet by a right wing Dutch politician.

Foreign Minister Stephen Smith today said Geert Wilders' film Fitna equated Islam with acts of terror and violence and was "highly offensive".

"It is an obvious attempt to generate discord between faith communities," Mr Smith said...

Author: ALESSANDRA RIZZO

Source: ABC News

Wire Service: AP

[abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=4553209]

Islam has surpassed Roman Catholicism as the world's largest religion, the Vatican newspaper said Sunday.

"For the first time in history, we are no longer at the top: Muslims have overtaken us," Monsignor Vittorio Formenti said in an interview with the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano. Formenti compiles the Vatican's yearbook.

He said...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: Deutsche Welle/DPA News

http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,2144,3226860,00.html

Police kept guard on Sunday as the curtain went up in a German theater premiere of a play based on "The Satanic Verses," a controversial novel by Indian-born author Salman Rushdie.

The stage adaptation, the first of Rushdie's 1988 novel, was premiered at the Hans Otto Theatre, known by the acronym HOT, in the city of Potsdam,...

Author: NIRAJ WARIKOO

Source: Detroit Free Press

http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080330/NEWS02/803300590

Growing up in Dearborn, Zeinab Chami often was tempted by ads for Col. Sanders' original recipe, the finger-lickin' meal sold by fast-food giant KFC.

However, Chami was an observant Muslim, and the restaurant's chicken was not halal, meaning it wasn't prepared according to Islamic law. Her choices...

Author: Dipankar De Sarkar

Source: Thaindian News

Wire Service: IANS

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Sikh and Muslim leaders in Britain are to be taken to Northern Ireland - a province that is just emerging from decades of sectarian violence - to help ease religious tensions said to be rooted in events surrounding India’s independence. Faith Matters, a charity run by Fiyaz Mughal...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: The Times

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article3641534.ece

Of the 1,300 mosques in Britain, the Shah Jahan Mosque stands out. That northern Europe's first purpose-built mosque is to be found in Woking will surprise many; that it is still flourishing today would once have seemed equally improbable.

The mosque's 120-year history mirrors some of the complexities in the variable...

Author: KAREN VANCE

Source: The Enquirer

http://news.nky.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/AB/20080328/NEWS0103/803280387

At first glance, Northern Kentucky doesn't appear religiously diverse, with most of the area's non-Christian residents attending worship at synagogues, Hindu temples, Buddhist adherents and other houses of worship on the Ohio side of the river.

But some Northern Kentucky residents want to make...

Author: Molly Moore

Source: Washington Post News Service

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/27/AR2008032703722.html

A Dutch lawmaker known for his outspoken opposition to immigration posted a graphic film depicting Islam as a religion of violence on a maverick video-sharing Web site Thursday night after government and religious officials spent weeks trying to prevent its release.

...

Author: Charles Hutzler

Source: The Pew Forum

Wire Service: AP

http://pewforum.org/news/rss.php?NewsID=15267

Police closed off Lhasa's Muslim quarter on Friday, two weeks after Tibetan rioters burned down the city's mosque during the largest anti-Chinese protests in nearly two decades.

Officers blockaded streets into the area, allowing in only area residents and worshippers observing the Muslim day of prayer. A...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: CAIR

Wire Service: AP

http://www.cair.com/ArticleDetails.aspx?mid1=676&&ArticleID=24494&&name=n&&currPage=1

Three men accused of burning down a Tennessee mosque have been indicted on federal civil rights charges.