Author: Babak Dehghanpisheh

Source: Newsweek International

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20226573/site/newsweek/

Wiry and lean, Abdullah looks on with a glassy stare as the instructor explains the subject for the day: revenge. The case study is the first gulf war, and the instructor lists religious and moral reasons why it was wrong for Iraqi soldiers to loot and kill in Kuwait. Abdullah, 17, and the nine other teenagers sitting with him on wooden...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: MSNBC

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20360561/from/ET/

WOODBRIDGE, Va. - A 6-year-old Muslim boy is at the center of an international immigration fight. Moroccan-born Mustapha Zindinne came to the United States in 2001 and became a U.S. citizen last year. His wife joined him in Woodbridge six months ago as a permanent resident. The couple expected their son would soon follow.

"I am trying to get better life for my wife...

Author: Emily Anthes

Source: The Boston Globe

http://www.boston.com/news/globe/health_science/articles/2007/08/20/labs_explore_health_effects_of_ramadan/

Next month, observers of the Muslim holiday of Ramadan will fast daily between sunrise and sunset, and feast thereafter, while scientists in a handful of labs around the world will examine what's happening inside their bodies.

Ramadan...

Author: TOM MEAGHER

Source: Herald News

http://www.northjersey.com/page.php?qstr=eXJpcnk3ZjczN2Y3dnFlZUVFeXkzNTcmZmdiZWw3Zjd2cWVlRUV5eTcxODQzMjYmeXJpcnk3ZjcxN2Y3dnFlZUVFeXkz

TEANECK -- In most cases in recent years, when a community event for Muslims happened, it would be held by Arabs for Arabs. Or by Pakistanis for Pakistanis. Or by African-Americans for African-...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: BBC News

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6955341.stm

A Live 8-style concert to help tackle the humanitarian crisis in Darfur will be put on by British Muslims.

Organisers said that they hoped the event at Wembley Arena in London on 21 October would be a sell-out.

They added that it was "shameful" that Muslims were not as concerned about the conflict in Sudan as they were by bloodshed elsewhere, such as Iraq....

Author: Craig MacBride

Source: Mississauga News

http://www.mississauga.com/article/6061

For the second time in the past month, ISNA High School in Mississauga has been targeted by vandals. Last night's attack on the Muslim secondary school, which came at 9:55 p.m. with about 100 people inside the building's mosque for last prayer of the day, shattered a window. Students are set to return to the South Sheridan Way school in two weeks. According to reports, two...

Author: Kalpit Parajuli

Source: AsiaNews

http://www.asianews.it/index.php?l=en&art=10346

Nepali Police regained control in Kapilvastu district, some 200 kilometres west of the capital of Kathmandu, after two days of sectarian violence between Muslims and Hindus. A ceasefire remains in place. But in nearby fields five headless and mutilated bodies were found yesterday; the likely victims Hindus. Residents who could fled to bordering districts despite the...

Author: PARADISE AFSHAR

Source: The Miami Herald

http://www.miamiherald.com/494/story/206247.html

Altaf Ali had a vision that one day he would organize the Muslim community to join in an end-of-summer tradition: distributing school supplies to needy children.

''I was a student once and noticed a lot of students did not have supplies, and I said one day I'd have to have the Muslim community help out in this,'' said Ali. "It is our moral...

Author: Sandy Mazza

Source: DailyBreeze.com

http://www.dailybreeze.com/news/articles/9234236.html

Hundreds of men and women left their shoes at the door and bowed for the weekly Friday afternoon prayer at the Islamic Center of Hawthorne.

The service was a typical one - adults and children were consumed in prayer for about an hour. Some teens hung around outside the mosque, discussing basketball and the popular reality TV show, "American...

Author: AL BAKER

Source: New York Times

Author: JOHN THORNE

Source: ABC News

Wire Service: AP

http://www.abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=3489657

The U.S. State Department chose a novel way to publicize baseball legend Cal Ripken Jr.'s appointment this week as its special sports envoy. It went on YouTube.

Undersecretary of State for Public Diplomacy Karen Hughes, who appears in the video, said Thursday it was part of her campaign...

Author: Christine Morente

Source: Inside Bay Area

http://www.insidebayarea.com/ci_6637618

MENLO PARK — Your Black Muslim Bakery was once an establishment that symbolized self-reliance and black empowerment in Oakland.

Now, it's a skeleton of what it once was and has lost its level of contribution in society many years ago, said Imam Ben Ahmad of Menlo Park.

"Something obviously happened," said Ahmad, who once bought a bean pie at the...

Author: ERIKA BOLSTAD

Source: TwinCities.com-Pioneer Press

http://www.twincities.com/ci_6643124?nclick_check=1

WASHINGTON - U.S. Rep. Bill Sali has apologized to the nation's first Muslim congressman, whose election Sali deemed in an interview as "not what was envisioned by the Founding Fathers."

The Idaho Republican has exchanged conciliatory e-mails with U.S. Rep. Keith Ellison, a Minnesota Democrat who became the first Muslim in Congress...

Author: NEIL MacFARQUHAR

Source: The New York Times

Author: Staff Writer

Source: Media Matters

[www. mediamatters.org/items/200708150002?f=h_latest]

On the August 14 broadcast of his nationally syndicated radio show, while discussing the alleged "Islamization of Western Europe," Neal Boortz claimed that because "Muslims don't eat during the day during Ramadan" and "fast during the day and eat at night," they are "sort of like cockroaches." Boortz was discussing reports that a group of government-run hospitals in Scotland had instructed employees to...