Author: Subir Bhaumik

Source: BBC News

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7126217.stm

A minister in India's West Bengal state has called for a ban on a book carrying a picture the Prophet Muhammad.

Minority affairs minister Abdus Sattar said the picture on the cover could lead to "religious tensions".

The book, published six months ago, is on former Indian president and philosopher S Radhakrishnan.

The demand to ban...

Author: Omar Sacirbey

Source: The Christian Science Monitor

http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/1204/p02s02-usgn.html

Lu Gronseth listens regularly to WWTC, a conservative talk-radio station in Minneapolis, and even advertises his mortgage-loan business on the station. But when he learned that a nationally syndicated radio show host had told WWTC listeners that Muslims should be deported and made rude comments about what they could do with their religion,...

Author: Jane M. Von Bergen

Source: The Philadelphia Inquirer

http://www.philly.com/inquirer/breaking/business_breaking/20071203_Burger_King_settles_suit_over_workers_beard.html

The owner of a Burger King in Brookhaven will pay $15,800 to settle a federal lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Opportunity Commission on behalf of a Muslim employee who was fired in November 2004 after he refused...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: ABC News

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/12/03/2107761.htm?section=justin

Senior Australian Muslim leader Dr Ameer Ali says it is time for the head cleric or Mufti of Australia to be either replaced or the position abolished altogether.

Dr Ali is the former chairman of the Prime Minister's Muslim Reference Group and current vice-president of the regional Islamic council of South-East...

Author: KIM CURTIS

Source: Herald Tribune

Wire Service: AP

http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20071203/APN/712030750

SAN FRANCISCO -- Conservative radio talk show host Michael Savage sued an Islamic civil rights group on Monday for copyright infringement over the organization's use of a 4-minute segment of his show in which he called the Quran a "book of hate."

Savage said the Washington, D.C.-based...

Source: The New York Times

Wire Service: AP

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Security-Guard-Charged.html

GREENBELT, Md. (AP) -- A federal judge declared a mistrial Monday in the case of a former Andrews Air Force Base security guard accused of failing to include his Muslim name on a background check to hide his ties to an outspoken Washington imam and mosque.

Author: Ed Pilkington

Source: Guardian Unlimited

http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,,2220866,00.html

A highly decorated Arab-American sergeant in the US army, who is currently serving as a paratrooper in Afghanistan, faces deportation on his return to the United States because of an irregularity in his immigration papers.

Sgt Hicham Benkabbou has been served with an order to stand trial for deportation as soon as he arrives home,...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: Associated Foreign Press

http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5jb4mVsFss9vtxY5Wz18nu91fvxHA

Four Muslim men, including a village chief, were shot dead by suspected rebels in separate attacks in Thailand's insurgency-torn south, police said Sunday.

The latest attacks followed last week's gruesome killings of a Muslim military informant and two Buddhist men in the region, which has been rocked by...

Author: Heath Gilmore

Source: The Sydney Morning Herald

http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/rejection-for-islamic-school/2007/12/01/1196394682295.html

A SYDNEY council is set to reject a proposed Islamic college as tension about religious educational facilities escalates across the city.

Bankstown City Council will determine the development application for the 1200-student Al Amanah Islamic College...

Source: azfamily.com

http://www.azfamily.com/news/local/stories/KTVKLNews20071202_mosque-shooting.5f65939a.html

PHOENIX -- Michael Cook, 39, was sentenced to 40 years in prison for the 2005 shooting at a South Phoenix mosque, Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas announced Sunday.

Author: Kevin Sullivan

Source: Washington Post

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/01/AR2007120101803.html

Muna el-Leboudy, a 22-year-old medical student, had a terrible secret: She wanted to be a filmmaker. The way she understood her Muslim faith, it was haram -- forbidden -- to dabble in movies, music or any art that might pique sexual desires.

Then one day in September, she...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: Associated Foreign press

http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5hmd9YrmySJ0idV1WmZeF9fzpCZJg

Hardline Indian Muslim groups said they would meet on Sunday to decide whether to keep up demands for the expulsion of Bangladesh author Taslima Nasreen, hounded into hiding by protests against her.

The Milli Ittehad Parishad, an umbrella alliance of 12 Muslim groups, on Saturday announced the meeting, a day...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: Sky News

http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30000-1295080,00.html

The British teacher jailed in Sudan for insulting Islam by allowing her class to name a teddy bear Mohammed is in good spirits and not too distressed, her son has said.

John Gibbons was able to chat to his mother Gillian for a "reasonable length of time".

"She said she doesn't want anyone using her as something to stoke up...

Author: MANDY BURTON

Source: Detroit Free Press

http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071130/NEWS02/71130013/1048/SPORTS01

A panel discussion on Wayne State University's campus this evening will share the findings of a task force on Muslim involvement in American political and civic life.

The study, called "Strengthening America: The Civic and Political Integration of Muslim Americans," was...

Author: WILLIAM McCALL

Source: Boston Examiner

Wire Service: AP

http://www.examiner.com/a-1079200~Islamic_Charity_Co_Founder_Released.html

The co-founder of an Islamic charity was released from jail Friday while he awaits trial on federal tax and conspiracy charges.

Pirouz Sedaghaty, known as Pete Seda, had been held at the Lane County Jail in Eugene while federal prosecutors argued...