Author: Nathan Jeffay

Source: The Jewish Chronicle

http://www.thejc.com/node/36322

Israeli rabbis are set to ban the burka for a small group of radical Jewish women who have taken to wearing it.

Two years ago, it emerged that around 100 women in the city of Beit Shemesh had begun to cover their faces with a veil and wear numerous layers of clothing to obscure their body shape. When many rabbis criticised the trend, the women took no notice because they...

Author: Omar Sacirbey and Alfredo Garcia

Source: Pew Forum on Religion...

Author: Lauren Edelen

Source: WAVE

http://www.wave3.com/Global/story.asp?S=12847972

After not being allowed to wear their religious head scarf to work, four Somali women are now receiving compensation. The Louisville Marriott Downtown Hotel told the four women of Muslim faith they were not allowed to wear their hijabs while at work.

Author: Michael Cass

Source: USA Today/The Tennessean

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2010-07-28-islam-remarks-furor_N.htm

Comments by Tennessee Lt. Gov. Ron 
Ramsey suggesting that Islam might be a cult and 
that Muslims might not qualify for constitutionally 
guaranteed religious freedoms drew criticism from 
Islamic groups Tuesday and an eruption of national...

Author: Stephanie Rice

Source: The Christian Science Monitor

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/2010/0728/Anti-Islamic-bus-ads-appear-in-major-cities

The growing debate over Islam's place in America, which is escalating in light of plans to build a mosque near ground zero, is increasingly playing out on city streets across the country. On the sides of buses, to be precise.

Several groups are...

Author: Phil Willon

Source: The Los Angeles Times

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-mosque-protest-20100728,0,2461694.story

A loosely organized protest planned this week over a proposed new mosque in Temecula whose organizers urged demonstrators to bring their dogs was sharply denounced by a Southern California Islamic organization Tuesday.

Organizers of the rally, to be held outside the Islamic Center...

Author: Julia Zappei

Source: Alabama Live

Wire Service: AP

Author: Nicole Neroulias

Source: Pew Forum on Religion...

Author: Julia Love

Source: The Los Angeles Times

Author: Staff Writer

Source: Reuters

http://blogs.reuters.com/global/2010/07/23/religious-leaders-and-the-eu-take-tentative-first-steps/

Top European Union officials held talks this week with religious leaders, part of a policy of holding consultations with religious groups that was enshrined in the EU’s Lisbon reform treaty, which came into force last December. But not everyone...

Author: Bob von Sternberg

Source: The Star Tribune

http://www.startribune.com/local/99127539.html?page=1&c=y

An appliance manufacturer said Friday that it has changed policies at its freezer plant in St. Cloud that will make it possible for its Muslim employees to observe Ramadan, but a Muslim civil liberties group is questioning whether the changes go far enough.

Author: Aftab Gulzar

Source: BBC News

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-10712868

Halal meat has become a common part of life in the UK, but now a company has launched a range of halal make-up, which is free from alcohol and animal products.

But there has been a warning from some Muslim leaders who claim some other businesses are cashing in on halal products.

Author: Ian Sparks

Source: The Daily Mail

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1296821/Two-Muslim-women-marched-swimming-pool-French-holiday-village-wearing-burkinis.html?ito=feeds-newsxml#

Two Muslim women were ordered out of a swimming pool in France because they were wearing 'burkinis'. 

They jumped into the water...

Author: Paul Vitello

Source: The New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/23/nyregion/23mosque.html?_r=1&adxnnl=1&ref=religion_and_belief&adxnnlx=1279890041-owuf1RI4W6PDMF/By1IE2Q

The board of trustees of a Roman Catholic Church on Staten Island, whose members include Archbishop Timothy M. Dolan, has formally rejected a controversial proposal to sell a...

Author: Maggie Hyde

Source: St. Louis Today

Wire Service: RNS

http://www.stltoday.com/lifestyles/faith-and-values/article_ee43e11e-dea0-5771-979b-9b5e77b11a42.html

Ahmadi Muslims have been preaching peace since the movement was founded 121 years ago in India.

Now, they say they are just trying to get the rest of the world — including their fellow...