Author: GRACE ASSOUAD

Source: Columbia Missourian

http://columbiamissourian.com/news/story.php?ID=25281

For the past year, the Muslim community in mid-Missouri has been under more scrutiny than any other religious group.

Just last month, five men linked to a Columbia-based Islamic charity, the Islamic American Relief Agency-USA, were accused of illegally trafficking $1.4 million in funds to a Sudan-based organization with ties to a then-...

Author: Jane Lampman

Source: The Christian Science Monitor

http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0419/p13s02-lire.html

What do ordinary people in the Muslim world think about relations with the West? Where do they stand in the struggle within Islam? Who are the role models for young Muslims? How are their religious identities being shaped, and by whom?

With the future of the United States and the Muslim world linked more closely (and painfully)...

Author: Sally Quinn and Hadia Mubarak

Source: The Washington Post

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2007/04/17/DI2007041700627.html

On Faith Live explores What Does it Mean to be Muslim in America during a 90-minute symposium Thursday at Georgetown University. On Faith's first live event inaugurates Georgetown/On Faith -- "a new partnership aimed at providing On Faith readers a deeper and more...

Source: Electric News

http://newpaper.asia1.com.sg/news/story/0,4136,127899,00.html

THE new school has yet to enrol a single student. But its very existence is at the heart of a controversy in New York.

The Khalil Gibran International Academy was set up to teach students about Arab language and culture.

The school is only expected to open in September, but has already been called 'Jihadi' and 'segregationist'.

One opponent, 72-year-...

Author: Mark Hilditch

Source: This is Cheshire

http://www.thisischeshire.co.uk/mostpopular.var.1323519.mostviewed.painting_helps_break_down_barriers_between_police_and_young_muslims.php

A DRAMATIC spray-painted picture is helping to break down barriers between young Muslims and Police Officers in Crewe.

The picture is the work of a team of the youngsters...

Author: Tu Thanh Ha

Source: The Globe and Mail

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070417.wxhijab17/BNStory/National/home

MONTREAL — When news came that young Muslim girls had been turned away from a tae kwon do competition in Quebec because they wore Islamic head scarves, one of the people upset was the former dean of engineering of the University of Ottawa.

Aside from being an...

Source: The Washington Post

Wire Service: Reuters

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/16/AR2007041601563.html

Muslim cab drivers at Minnesota's biggest airport will face new penalties including a two-year revocation of their taxi permits if they refuse to give rides to travelers carrying liquor or accompanied by dogs, the board overseeing operations ruled Monday.

The...

Source: The Province

http://www.canada.com/theprovince/news/story.html?id=25816b08-f5a0-4d8a-91d2-ee5e73d1cc13

LONGUEUIL, Que. -- A taekwondo team of Muslim girls withdrew from a tournament yesterday after they were barred from taking part with their hijabs, threatening to re-ignite Quebec's contentious debate about accommodating religious minorities.

"I feel very sad because we practised so hard," said 11-year-old Bissan...

Author: Calvin Sims

Source: The New York Times

Author: Farish A. Noor

Source: The American Muslim

http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/where_are_malaysias_religious_authorities_heading/0013689

Since 2006 Malaysia has been rocked by a number of hugely controversial cases involving the fundamental right of belief and freedom of religion. Between 2005 to 2006 the country was a virtual battleground with opposing factions...

Source: BBC News

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6554851.stm

Some 300,000 people have demonstrated in Turkey's capital, Ankara, to demand that religion and politics should be kept separate in their country.

Protesters carried banners of Kemal Ataturk, the revered founder of the Turkish republic as a secular state.

The rally comes two days before the presidential election process begins and is intended to pressure current PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan not to stand...

Author: KEITH MORELLI

Source: The Tampa Tribune

http://www.tbo.com/news/metro/MGB2T611G0F.html

TOWN - 'N COUNTRY - Local, state and federal investigators sifted through the ashes of a deliberately set fire at the Islamic Education Center of Florida on Thursday morning and tried to allay fears the arson was a crime of hate. They couldn't say for sure, however.

Initial reports said there was an explosion, but responding firefighters said were...

Author: JOHN MORITZ

Source: Star-Telegram

http://www.star-telegram.com/226/story/58691.html

AUSTIN -- When the leader of the Islamic Association of North Texas stepped into the well of the Texas Senate to deliver the morning invocation Wednesday, Sen. Dan Patrick of Houston left his place on the chamber floor because he did not want it to appear that he endorsed the Dallas-area imam's message.

"It's important that we are tolerant as a people...