Source: The Washington Post

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17037-2004Jun4.html

On June 6, 2004 The Washington Post ran an opinion piece on the "Wahhabi threat to Islam" by Mona Eltahawy, managing editor of Arabic Women's eNews and a columnist for the London-based newspaper Asharq al-Awsat. Eltahawy writes, "When gunmen killed 22 people in the city of Khobar in Saudi Arabia's oil-rich eastern province last weekend, they set off alarm bells...

Source: The Washington Post

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18646-2004Jun5.html

On June 6, 2004 The Washington Post reported that Muslim men and women are using the internet to court one another online."Like other online dating services, the Muslim Web sites ask their members to post photos, biographical profiles and descriptions of what they are looking for in a spouse. But instead of moving quickly to the dating stage, the user of a...

Source: Daily Southtown

http://www.dailysouthtown.com/southtown/dsedit/x06-ed1.htm

On June 6, 2004 the Daily Southtown reported, "Frustrated because the mayor and village board "are not listening" to opponents of a proposed mosque in Orland Park, some residents of the village are calling for a referendum on the subject. One resident told the Daily Southtown he hoped to get enough petition signatures to force the village to hold a non-binding referendum Nov. 2 on...

Source: Leicester Mercury

Source: IndyStar

http://www.indystar.com/articles/9/152398-3719-047.html

On June 5, 2004 IndyStar reported, "Indianapolis firefighter Michael Saahir prays five times a day at work, finding quiet time by his bed at the fire station. Bernie Lacy's family printing business hires a chaplain to talk to employees about their lives. Rachel McDuffee tries to follow Christ's way of caring for others in her treatment of employees at her Broad Ripple hair salon. Then there is...

Source: BBC News

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/3777441.stm

On June 4, 2004 the BBC News reported, "The Nigerian authorities have banned a procession by Muslims in the northern city of Kano, after appeals from Christian leaders. The police outlawed Saturday's march by the Qadiriyya Sufi sect. It has been held annually for 59 years. Dozens of Christians were killed in communal clashes last month in Kano. The Christian Association of Nigeria said it had received information...

Source: The Oregonian

http://www.oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/front_page/1086350700285980.xml

On June 4, 2004 The Oregonian reported, "In the search for terrorist 'sleepers' hiding among ordinary Americans, Pete Seda seems a most unlikely suspect. Nearly everyone in this small Southern Oregon town has a story about Seda's advocacy for Islamic causes. Crowds waved to him from downtown sidewalks each Fourth of July...

Source: Slate

http://slate.msn.com/id/2101698/

On June 4, 2004 Slate reported that, "'In What's Right With Islam: A New Vision for Muslims and the West', Feisal Abdul Rauf explains how both the American government and private citizens, non-Muslim and Muslim, can take the initiative. 'It is time,' writes Abdul Rauf, 'for an American Islam that will translate into the Islamic vernacular, for the Muslim and non-Muslim worlds, the best of the American dream.' As Americans helped shape and...

Source: BBC News

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/3773667.stm

On June 3, 2004 the BBC News reported, "The president of Turkmenistan, Saparmurat Niyazov, has ordered that his own words be inscribed alongside verses of the Koran on a new mosque being built just outside the capital Ashgabat, intended to be the biggest in all Asia. The president announced that craftsmen would add lines from his book called 'the Ruhnama' on the immense façade. Mr. Niyazov, known...

Source: Sacramento News Review

http://www.newsreview.com/issues/sacto/2004-06-03/News.asp

On June 3, 2004 the Sacramento News Review reported, "Muslim women are viewed in one of two ways, said a panelist at UC Davis’ Muslim Women’s Panel: They’re considered oppressed and depressed, she said, or they’re considered, especially by men in the West, to be sexually exotic, 'hiding unusual, bizarre sexual fantasies.' Neither assessment, argued...

Source: Beliefnet.com

http://www.beliefnet.com/story/146/story_14693_1.html

On June 3, 2004 Beliefnet.com posted an Associated Press article that reported, "Muslims must be at the forefront of the fight against militant groups who cast a shadow over Islam through violence, participants at a conference on Islam and terrorism said Thursday. The conference 'Islam Against Terrorism' opened in the Russian capital with the aim of determining the prospects for...

Source: The Boston Globe

http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2004/06/03/muslims_lease_site_in_cambridge_for_school/

On June 3, 2004 The Boston Globe reported, "An Islamic school is expected to open next school year in the Boston area, but not in Medford, one of the sites that had been considered for the school. The Muslim American Society, which had proposed converting the former Hervey School in Medford into a pre-...

Source: Muslim Wake Up

http://www.muslimwakeup.com/mainarchive/000846.php#more

On June 3, 2004 Muslim Wake Up ran an editorial piece by Dr. Pete Lentini, Co-Convenor of the Global Terrorism Research Unit and Head of the School of Political and Social Inquiry, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia, on the relationship between the Australian government and the country's Muslims. He writes, "In both circumstances [that Lentini describes in his article]...

Source: Xinhuanet

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-06/02/content_1504671.htm

On June 2, 2004 Xinhuanet reported, "The Hui Autonomous Prefecture of Linxia in northwest China's Gansu Province is known as the 'little Mecca' in China for the existence in peace and harmony of residents of different ethnic groups and different faiths. The prefecture has a population of 1.92 million. People of Hui ethnicity constitute 56 percent of the total population....

Source: Daily Southtown

http://www.dailysouthtown.com/southtown/yrtwn/south/021syt4.htm

On June 2, 2004 the Daily Southtown reported, "Opponents of a planned Orland Park mosque want village trustees to delay a final decision until after a non-binding referendum on the issue in November. An organized petition drive for a referendum has not yet begun, but mosque foes contend that trustees have not heeded the concerns of many residents who have attended two...