Source: Reuters

Source: BBC News

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/this_world/4347061.stm

On March 14, 2005 BBC News reported, "there is a stirring in Muslim communities. A new breed of activists driven by anger and injustice against Muslims, both at home and abroad, is on the move. The US election in 2004 captured the attention of Muslim Americans like never before and brought them back into politics The war on terror at home, the invasion of Iraq and the Abu...

Source: The Detroit News

http://www.detnews.com/2005/schools/0503/14/A01-116550.htm

On March 14, 2005 The Detroit News reported, "enrollments at Islamic schools in Metro Detroit and Michigan are booming. Parents say they are attracted by the discipline, the values-based religious instruction and the stress on academic achievement that includes individual attention and smaller class sizes. The local communities of Arab and south Asian descent -- which comprise...

Source: MSNBC.com/Newsweek

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/7101281/site/newsweek/

On March 14, 2005 MSNBC.com/Newsweek reported, "A year ago Madrid's cavernous Atocha train station was filled with twisted steel and mangled bodies, killed by suspected Islamist terrorists. Spain is an ancient battleground between Christians and Muslims. The bombings of March 11, 2004, posed the question: would it be so again? The answer—no—is clear from an inconspicuous memorial at Atocha. It's a...

Source: Minot Daily News

http://www.grandforks.com/mld/grandforks/news/state/11127828.htm

On March 13, 2005 the Minot Daily News reported, "work to reconstruct a Muslim mosque here is nearing completion. Zinie Peterson of Bismarck said the mosque, which was dismantled in the 1970s, was the oldest Muslim mosque constructed in North America. The building located on the Muslim cemetery near Ross will include a dome and minarets once completed this summer....

Source: New Kerala News

Wire Service: PTI

Source: Mercury News

http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/11125411.htm

On March 13, 2005 the Mercury News reported, "The crowd at a recent tsunami fundraiser represented a swath of the Bay Area's Indo-American community...But if the turnout was typical of Silicon Valley's easygoing diversity, some critics say the event at the Sunnyvale Hindu Temple was tainted by episodes of sectarian violence half a world away. The two U.S.-based non-...

Source: The Miami Herald

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/business/personal_finance/11116300.htm

On March 13, 2005 The Miami Herald reported, "What do Anheuser-Busch, Playboy and Bank of America have in common? They are forbidden -- or haraam -- stocks for the Amana Funds, an $81 million-asset mutual-fund family in Bellingham, Wash., that invests according to Islamic principles. The funds stay away from alcohol, pornography, tobacco and...

Source: Arab News/The Washington Post

http://www.arabnews.com/?page=7&section=0&article=60359&d=13&m=3&y=2005

On March 13, 2005 The Washington Post ran an opinion piece by Mustafa Malik about growing Islamophobia in Europe. He writes, "During my two most recent research trips to Europe, I saw how a story like this could capture people’s imaginations. It represents one of the most radical cases of what Germany’s newspaper the Sueddeutsche...

Source: Dawn

http://www.dawn.com/2005/03/13/int1.htm

On March 12, 2005 Dawn reported, "the US Justice Department has 'found a disturbing pattern' of discriminatory and retaliatory actions against Muslim inmates by wardens and guards at American prisons. A report by the department's Office of the Inspector General, made available to the media on Friday afternoon, singles out an unnamed federal prison where the treatment of Muslim inmates was 'particularly bad'. Inspector General...

Source: Daily Nebraskan

http://www.dailynebraskan.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2005/03/11/42312dc128b67

On March 11, 2005 the Daily Nebraskan reported, "the fourth day of the [University of Nebraska] Islamic Book Sale continued to draw curious students, faculty and staff, their hands and minds eager to explore the contents of the books... The book sale is in its fifth year, said association president Ahmed Makkawy. 'Basically, we started the book sale...

Source: Montreal Gazette

http://www.canada.com/montreal/montrealgazette/news/story.html?id=3934ac7a-d844-4318-a19d-d1d65110c8bc

On March 11, 2005 the Montreal Gazette reported, "Islamic law has no place in Quebec or the rest of Canada, a provincial cabinet minister and several MNAs said yesterday.

With the Ontario government expected to decide shortly on whether to allow the Islamic legal code, known as...

Source: World Peace Herald

http://www.wpherald.com/storyview.php?StoryID=20050311-102201-8638r

On March 11, 2005 the World Peace Herald reported, "Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice Friday appointed a Muslim woman her senior adviser on U.N. reforms. Shirin Tahir-Kheli is a U.S. citizen of Pakistani origin. She will serve as the secretary's senior advisor and chief interlocutor on United Nations reform, the State Department announced Friday. Tahir-Kheli...

Source: Hindustan Times

Wire Service: Reuters

http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_1275038,00110001.htm

On March 11, 2005 Reuters reported, "A reformist Islamic movement launched a new Dutch translation of the Koran on Thursday amid efforts to boost integration of the country's growing Muslim community, despite suggestions few would actually use it. The Lahore Ahmadiyya Movement, which was founded in British-ruled India in the...

Source: The Indian Express

Wire Service: PTI

http://www.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=43082

On March 11, 2005 the Press Trust of India reported, "The RSS on Friday said Muslims and Christians in India could not be treated as minorities as they have not come from outside the country and called for an early end to ‘minorityism’. Addressing the Akhil Bharat Pratinidhi Sabha, the highest policy making body of RSS...