Source: BBC News

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/6262919.stm

A court in Casablanca has given two Moroccan journalists suspended sentences of three years for defaming Islam and breaching public morality.

The journalists' weekly magazine, Nichane, had published an article entitled How Moroccans laugh at religion, sex and politics.

The court banned publication of the magazine for two months and fined Driss Ksikes and Sanaa al-Aji about $8,000.

The...

Author: JOE MILICIA

Source: Canton Repository

Wire Service: AP

http://www.cantonrep.com/index.php?ID=330241&Category=13&subCategoryID=&surveyDone=yes

PARMA The former imam of Ohio’s largest mosque became a man without a country.

Fawaz Damra, now jailed by Israeli authorities, for months sought a nation to accept him following his 2004 conviction for concealing ties to...

Source: International Herald Tribune

Wire Service: AP

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/01/15/europe/EU-GEN-Germany-Head-Scarf-Ban.php

MUNICH, Germany: A court on Monday upheld a ban on Muslim teachers wearing head scarves in the schools of a German state under a law that says teachers' attire must be in line with "western Christian" values.

A Berlin-based Islamic association had complained about the...

Author: D. Craig MacCormack

Source: Framingham Tab

http://www.townonline.com/framingham/homepage/8999004267910004735

FRAMINGHAM - Officials from the Islamic Society of Framingham say the size of their congregation has grown far too big for their rented space on South Street, so they need to move to bigger digs to continue to flourish.

Society officials bought the former Friendly's Ice Cream shop on Union Avenue in May and hope...

Author: Elizabeth Nash

Source: Muslim Observer/New American Media

http://news.newamericamedia.org/news/view_article.html?article_id=564d6b9d4054574c223765c363ff7bde

Spain’s bishops are alarmed by ambitious plans to recreate the city of Cordoba -- once the heart of the ancient Islamic kingdom of al-Andalus -- as a pilgrimage site for Muslims throughout Europe. Plans include the construction of a half...

Source: BBC News

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/6253409.stm

The NHS should provide more faith-based care for Muslims, an expert says.

Muslims are about twice as likely to report poor health and disability than the general population, says Edinburgh University's Professor Aziz Sheikh.

Writing in the British Medical Journal, he called for male circumcision on the NHS and more details over alcohol derived drugs.

But Manchester University health...

Source: International Herald Tribune

Wire Service: AP

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/01/12/africa/AF-POL-Nigeria-Muslim-President.php

ABUJA, Nigeria: The minarets of the national mosque and the main cathedral's tower soar to equal heights over Nigeria's capital, neither eclipsing the other.

Religious leaders engineered the parity of spires to promote unity amid sectarian violence unleashed at the...

Source: BBC News

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6256357.stm

Germany's interior minister has called for an EU-wide dialogue with Muslims in an effort to integrate them better.

Wolfgang Schaeuble suggested that the EU should promote the training of imams to encourage Muslim leaders who were comfortable with European values.

He compared parts of the Islamic world to pre-Enlightenment Europe, and criticised both the burka veil and traditional Muslim attitudes to...

Author: Kamil Zaheer

Source: Reuters

Author: Omar Sacirbey

Source: Pew Forum

http://pewforum.org/news/display.php?NewsID=12377

Raise a million dollars and get Rep. Virgil Goode voted out office. That was the challenge Salman Tajuddin, an investment manager from Arlington, Va., issued recently to fellow Muslims and the Democratic Party, posting it on Naseeb.com, a Muslim networking Web site.

"Virgil Goode has it out for Muslims. So I've got it out for him," Tajuddin wrote,...

Source: World Music Central

http://www.worldmusiccentral.org/article.php/20070110065315266

Grand Blanc (Michigan), USA – Unity One Investments LLC, a Michigan-based investments Company, announced yesterday the official launch of its new World Music record label: Global One Records.

When the Muslim owned record label first emerged in the summer of 2006, its founders made it their goal not just to oppose the acts of the terrorists, but to open a new...

Source: Islamic Society of North America Release

Author: Gina Davis

Source: The Baltimore Sun

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/education/bal-md.co.board09jan09,0,6308888.story

Area Muslim leaders are protesting a change in the Baltimore County school board's policy on public comments at board meetings, saying that using a lottery system to determine who can address the panel stifles their criticism of education policies.

Leaders of the Baltimore-based...

Source: Beliefnet

http://www.beliefnet.com/story/209/story_20919_1.html

JERUSALEM, Jan. 9 - Israel arrested the former imam of Ohio's largest mosque after he was deported from the United States last week, the Shin Bet internal security service said Tuesday, ending a four-day mystery about his whereabouts.

Fawaz Damra, 46, was arrested because of his ties to Islamic Jihad, a Palestinian group classified by Israel and the U.S. as a terror organization, the Shin Bet...

Author: Cecil Angel

Source: Detroit Free Press

http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070109/NEWS01/701090400/1003/NEWS01

As they repaired the broken windows of at least a dozen businesses and mosques along Warren Avenue in Detroit, many Iraqi Shi'ite Muslims wondered Monday if the vandalism was retaliation by local supporters of Saddam Hussein who resented that they celebrated the hanging of the Iraqi...