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Multifaith Picnic Feasts On Diversity

July 13, 2009

Author: Florence Dethy

Source: The Toledo Blade

http://toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090713/NEWS16/907130334

Joseph Zielinski is proud to be an American.

In America, he said, if you choose to be open to new ideas, to be open to new cultures, "we'll give you all you can handle."

And yesterday evening, in the spirit of camaraderie and brotherly love, almost 100 people of myriad faith...

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Local Imam's Life In Limbo As He Faces Deportation to Iran

July 13, 2009

Author: Jared Goyette

Source: The Miami Herald

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/breaking-news/story/1140140.html

As the political crisis in Iran turns toward a slow boil, a North Miami Beach imam is closely watching events unfold there. U.S. authorities could deport him at any moment to the Islamic republic, a country he has never visited.

Foad Farahi, 34, a doctoral student at Florida International University, will be part of a...

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Muslim Americans Encouraged, Hopeful After Obama

July 12, 2009

Author: Wendell Marsh

Source: Reuters

http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSTRE56C00D20090713

Iraqi Americans Wasan Alqaisi and Sumer Majid made a Fourth of July family picnic of kebab -- served on hamburger buns with slices of American cheese.

Celebrating Independence Day in the U.S. capital, the two Muslim women were doing what generations of Americans have done before them: blending their faith and lifestyle with...

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A Call to Jihad, Answered In America

July 11, 2009

Author: Andrea Elliott

Source: The New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/12/us/12somalis.html?_r=1&emc=tnt&tntemail0=y

The Carlson School of Management rises from the asphalt like a monument to capitalist ambition. Stock prices race across an electronic ticker near a sleek entrance and the atrium soars skyward, as if lifting the aspirations of its students. The school’s plucky motto is “Nowhere but here....

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Arrests Raise Concerns Over Egypt’s Tolerance

July 11, 2009

Author: Matt Bradley

Source: The National

http://www.thenational.ae/article/20090712/FOREIGN/707119872/1002

More than 300 Shiite Muslims are believed to still be in the custody of Egyptian security forces more than two weeks after they were detained last month.

Since the arrests on June 23 and 24, few among Egypt’s small community of Shiite Muslims know the identities or whereabouts of those who have been arrested, nor...

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Muslim Women Lead Protests In Restive West China

July 10, 2009

Author: Staff Writer

Source: Beliefnet

Wire Service: AP

http://blog.beliefnet.com/news/2009/07/muslim-women-lead-protests-in.php

The petite Muslim woman with the sky blue head scarf began by complaining that the public washrooms were closed at a crowded mosque on Friday - the most important day of the week for Islamic worship.

When a group gathered around her on the sidewalk, Madina Ahtam...

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Some Urumqi Mosques Defy Shutdown

July 10, 2009

Author: Staff Writer

Source: BBC News

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8143554.stm

Some mosques in the western Chinese city of Urumqi have opened their doors to worshippers, in spite of an earlier order for them to stay closed.

At least two mosques opened after crowds gathered outside. It was not immediately clear if the authorities had sanctioned the move.

Urumqi, capital of the Xinjiang region, remains tense after days...

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Iraq to Host Conference On Religious Tolerance

July 8, 2009

Author: Staff Writer

Source: Earth Times

http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/276606,iraq-to-host-conference-on-religious-tolerance.html

Iraq will host a conference on religious tolerance and dialogue in October, a leading Baghdad daily reported Wednesday. Religious leaders of all faiths from around Iraq and the world would gather in Baghdad for a conference on religious dialogue organized by the US...

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