Author: Jeremy Page

Source: The Times

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article3234530.ece

At 21, Bilkis Bano was living quietly as the pregnant, uneducated wife of a Muslim cattle trader. Then a Hindu mob gang-raped her and burnt 13 relatives alive.

Six years on, the frail, softly spoken mother has become a symbol of courage for Muslims and women across India after battling the system to bring her attackers...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: BBC News

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7205668.stm

Egypt has said it will not use force to send back Palestinians who crossed from the Gaza Strip in large numbers after parts of the border were breached.

Foreign ministry spokesman Hossam Zaki said the border would be closed again when all the Palestinians had returned.

Tens of thousands have surged in to buy food and other supplies made scarce...

Author: Foo Yun Chee

Source: The New York Times

Wire Service: Reuters

Author: Staff Writer

Source: BBC News

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/surrey/7203509.stm

Four youths are being sought following what police have described as a racially aggravated criminal attack.

In an incident revealed on Tuesday, officers said five large windows were smashed at the Islamic Centre in London Road, Camberley, Surrey, on 4 January.

Witnesses said the attack happened at 2300 GMT after the four...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: DAWN

http://www.dawn.com/2008/01/22/ebr5.htm

The city of London is emerging as the key Western centre for Islamic finance against the backdrop of a three-fold growth of Islamic financial services over the past decade to $53bn in 2006.

Standard & Poor’s has estimated that the potential market for Islamic finance could be $4 trillion, over seven times its current size.

According to a new report by...

Author: Daniel Burke

Source: Religion News Service

http://pewforum.org/news/display.php?NewsID=14813

An inmate claiming widespread harassment of Muslims in U.S. prisons cannot sue prison guards who he says took his Qurans and prayer rug, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Tuesday (Jan. 22).

Abdus-Shahid M.S. Ali, a convicted murderer serving a sentence of 20 years to life, said the alleged confiscation of his religious items is part of a campaign...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: BBC News

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7200514.stm

Most people in Muslim countries and the West believe divisions between them are worsening, a Gallup poll for the World Economic Forum (WEF) suggests.

The poll also suggested that most Europeans thought more interaction with Islam would be a threat - though most Americans disagreed.

WEF chairman Klaus Schwab said the poll pointed to "an...

Author: James Carroll

Source: International Herald Tribune

https://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/21/opinion/21iht-edcarroll.1.9374931.html?searchResultPosition=1

The...

Author: Richard Kerbaj

Source: The Australian

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23082214-5013404,00.html

MUSLIM leaders have urged Kevin Rudd to revive an Islamic taskforce to advise his fledgling regime on Islam and community-related problems.

But the nation's most senior Islamic leaders, who headed John Howard's now disbanded Muslim Community Reference Group, are already divided about the proposed...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: Gulf Daily News

Author: Staff Writer

Source: Press TV

Author: Staff Writer

Source: Mail...

Author: Clare Dwyer Hogg and Jonathan Wynne-Jones

Source: Telegraph

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/global/main.jhtml;jsessionid=FIMC0UPUMARHVQFIQMFSFFWAVCBQ0IV0?xml=/global/2008/01/21/noindex/nsharia_120.xml

Islamic courts meet every week in the UK to rule on divorces and financial disputes. Clare Dwyer Hogg and Jonathan Wynne-Jones report on demands by senior Muslims that...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: BBC News

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/south_yorkshire/7198936.stm

Non-Muslims are being invited to visit the mosque at the Muslim Welfare House in the Broomhill area of Sheffield.

The move follows the success of the annual mosque open day in 2006 which attracted dozens of people.

Mosque officials said it was a chance to ask questions about the Islamic religion or get a...

Author: Sylvia Poggioli

Source: NPR

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=18234876

As immigrants from the Muslim world continue to settle in Europe, governments are beginning to question the notion of multiculturalism, the immigration model that has prevailed for decades on most of the continent.

This model has often led to the creation of separate, parallel societies ignorant of one another, and also to a large...