Author: Susanne Fowler

Source: The New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/25/arts/25iht-M25CART.html?_r=1&ref=religion_and_belief

A quiet evolution is taking place here inside a vast warehouse near the Bosporus and at an inland convention center where rarely seen Saudi Arabian art — including some with feminist themes — is on display.

Author: Lamine Chikhi

Source: Reuters Africa

http://af.reuters.com/article/algeriaNews/idAFCHI44906820101124?pageNumber=1&virtualBrandChannel=0

Algeria is cracking down on imports of books preaching the ultra-conservative Salafist branch of Islam, officials and industry insiders say, in a step aimed at reining in the ideology's growing influence.

Salafism is a school of Islam that...

Author: Robert F. Worth

Source: The New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/22/world/africa/22egypt.html?_r=2&ref=religion_and_belief

It is never easy to be an animal rights activist in the Arab world. But on Id al-Adha, the annual Muslim religious holiday when the streets run red with the blood of slaughtered sheep, cows and camels, it is a nightmare.

Author: Barry Neild

Source: CNN News

http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/meast/11/11/mecca.hajj.snouck/

He was an adventurer, a scholar, and possibly a spy -- but as Dutchman Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje proved with his rare 1885 photographs and sound recordings of Mecca, he was also a pioneering multimedia journalist.

Snouck's extraordinary collection of sepia-tinted images of Mecca in a bygone age have gone on display in...

Author: Sarah el Deeb

Source: The Washington Post

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/18/AR2010111800956.html

Rain soaked crowds of Muslim pilgrims and lightning flashed Thursday as they performed some of the final rituals of the annual hajj, stoning symbols of the devil and circling the Kaaba, Islam's holiest site.

Some 2.8 million Muslims from all over the world were...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: AZ Central

http://www.azcentral.com/video/#/Church+building+causes+uproar/673616933001

A new Phoenix church under construction is being mistaken for a Muslim mosque.

Author: Ricky Maranon

Source: The Tulsa World

Author: Lucas L. Johnson II

Source: The Washington Post

Wire Service: AP

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/17/AR2010111705186.html

A judge refused Wednesday to stop construction of a proposed mosque in Tennessee that was opposed by some local residents who tried to argue that there was a conspiracy by Muslims to impose extremist law on the United States....

Author: Barney Zwartz

Source: The Sydney Morning Herald

http://www.smh.com.au/national/melbourne-life/a-focus-on-faith-20101115-17ugo.html

A scrubby bush in the desert may seem an odd candidate for a sacred space, but so it was - according to the biblical account - when Moses approached the burning bush that fire did not consume. ''Take off your sandals, for the place where you are standing is holy ground,'' he was...

Author: Zain Shauk

Source: The Houston Chronicle

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/life/religion/new/7296344.html

Forty years ago, the thought of granite counter tops, marble floors and indoor basketball gyms at Houston mosques seemed unthinkable.

But after decades of growth, the Muslim community is expanding and building new facilities at an unprecedented pace, with features and amenities that rival five-star...

Source: The Hindustan Times

http://www.hindustantimes.com/audio-news-video/Hindus-and-Muslims-seek-blessings-at-the-mausoleum-of-Sufi-Saint/Article2-626651.aspx

The culture of Kashmir or Kashmiriyat " as it is known as, is a synthesis of the great traditions of Hinduism, the compassion of Buddhism and the liberalism of Sufi Islam. And Kashmiri society has been a microcosm, reflecting the...

Author: Robert Pigott

Source: The BBC News

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11749511

In the town's Central Mosque, Muslims turn to face in the direction of Mecca, kneel and touch their faces to the floor in prayer.

Dominating the wall in front of them are two large photographs, showing teeming crowds of pilgrims swirling in a broad river of people around the al-Haram mosque at the spot where their religion was founded.

Author: Muhammad Lila

Source: The Toronto Star

http://www.thestar.com/article/891147

They say the road to Mecca is filled with obstacles. This year, they’re as easy to overcome as hopping on the train.

It’s called the Mashair Railway, or the Mecca Metro, the latest high tech deployment in a city where buses, cars and camels have all had their heyday.

Author: Alex Horkay

Source: The Toronto Star

http://www.thestar.com/news/article/891265--muslim-sacrifice-helps-needy-families

As Muslims begin to celebrate Eid al-Adha, or the Festival of Sacrifice, a Toronto group believes it’s the perfect time to reach out to the community by providing fresh halal meat for those less fortunate.

The Qurbani Project, an initiative of the Toronto chapter of...

Author: Tom Heneghan

Source: Reuters Blog

http://in.reuters.com/article/idINTRE6AE3K520101115

Chancellor Angela Merkel urged Germans debating Muslim integration to stand up more for Christian values, saying Monday the country suffered not from “too much Islam” but “too little Christianity.”

Addressing her Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party, she said she took the current public debate in Germany on...