Source: Muslim WakeUp!

http://www.muslimwakeup.com/mainarchive/000970.php

On July 25, 2004 Muslim WakeUp! posted an opinion piece (originally published in the Globe and Mail) by Tarek Fatah, host of The Muslim Chronicle, a weekly program on Canadian TV, and a founding member of the Muslim Canadian Congress, on the lack of media coverage on the election of Canada's first Muslim woman member of Parliament, Yasmin Ratansi. Fatah writes, "The question is this: How...

Source: The Tennessean

http://www.tennessean.com/local/archives/04/07/54854891.shtml?Element_ID=548

On July 25, 2004 The Tennessean reported that, "at the fourth annual International Yard Sale at the Islamic Center of Nashville... [Muslims] have laid out their world, heritage and culture to share with others... In the back parking lot, there were heaps of clothing and toys, tables with jewelry and appliances, and racks of Middle Eastern clothing...

Source: The First Amendment Center

http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/commentary.aspx?id=13763

On July 25, 2004 The First Amendment Center reported, "Disputes over the denial of kosher meals have flared up in a number of states, including Virginia, where an inmate filed a lawsuit in April. Keeping kosher in prison is just one of many religious-freedom claims being raised by prisoners throughout the nation. The cases cover the religious waterfront from the...

Source: Muslim American Society

http://www.masnet.org/news.asp?id=300

On July 25, 2004 Muslim American Society reported, "The Center for Theological and Spiritual Development at the College of Saint Elizabeth (CSE) [Morristown, NJ] hosted a Special Assembly, entitled: 'Children of Abraham: Journeys to God.'   The milestone event, attended by more than 700 people, featured renowned leaders of the Christian, Jewish and Muslim faiths promoting the need for peace and solidarity among the...

Source: The Washington Post

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10096-2004Jul23.html

On July 24, 2004 The Washington Post reported, "One recent evening, the band at the Thousand and One Nights Restaurant played hand-held drums and stringed instruments on a platform ringed with Oriental rugs and pillows, and a singer warbled Arabic love songs. It could have been a festive scene in Damascus, Cairo or Rabat. In fact the brightly lit establishment...

Source: The Daily Star

Source: San Francisco Chronicle

https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Militant-Muslims-find-a-haven-in-Londonistan-2739368.php

On July 24, 2004 the San Francisco Chronicle reported, "The presence of...

Source: Journal Sentinel

http://www.jsonline.com/news/metro/jul04/246311.asp

On July 24, 2004 The Journal Sentinel reported, "In less than a decade, a river of refugees from Somalia has flowed into Barron [Wisconsin], lured by good-paying meat packing jobs at the Jennie-O Turkey plant, the city's largest employer. Today, 12% of Barron's population is from Somalia... The first Somali refugees began showing up in Barron about eight years ago to fill jobs at Jennie-O....

Source: The Boston Globe

http://www.boston.com/news/world/europe/articles/2004/07/23/old_bridge_seen_as_new_symbol_of_ethnic_tolerance/

On July 23, 2004 The Boston Globe reported, "When Nedzad Kasumovic filmed Croatian tank shells pounding into Mostar's Old Bridge until its 400-year-old white marble stones plunged deep into the Neretva River's emerald waters a decade ago, he did so through tear-filled eyes. And...

Source: The New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/23/nyregion/23train.html

On July 23, 2004 The New York Times reported, "For 90 minutes on Thursday morning, passengers aboard an Amtrak train headed to New York and Boston were questioned and videotaped as the seven cars were searched after a note containing Muslim and anti-Semitic phrases was found in a bathroom. No arrests were made at Pennsylvania Station in Newark, where the train was stopped just before...

Source: The Salt Lake Tribune

http://www.sltrib.com/features/ci_2380693

On July 23, 2004 The Salt Lake Tribune reported, "The 2004 Salt Lake American Muslim Cultural Festival is scheduled to begin at 11 a.m. on July 31 at the Gallivan Center, 239 S. Main St., Salt Lake City. This year's festival, to be inaugurated by Utah State Attorney General Mark Shurtleff, celebrates the American ideals of diversity, inclusion, and tolerance by presenting a diverse set of talented...

Source: Chicago Tribune

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Source: The Journal Gazette

Wire Service: AP

http://www.fortwayne.com/mld/journalgazette/9225588.htm

On July 23, 2004 the Associated Press reported, " Pastor Pavel Fedotov was in church leading services when the bulldozers and wrecking balls showed up. Over the next week, they razed his house of worship as part of the authoritarian Turkmen government's crackdown on minority religions. That was November 1999. Now, Fedotov's small group...

Source: The Times-Picayune

http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/frontpage/index.ssf?/base/news-1/10904866642540

On July 22, 2004 The Times-Picayune reported that, "The Jefferson Parish school system has fired a West Jefferson High School teacher accused of using religious slurs against a Muslim student and pulling off her head scarf, a school system source said this week.

Superintendent Diane Roussel would not confirm that teacher Wes Mix...