Source: IslamOnline.net

http://www.islam-online.net/English/News/2004-05/12/article08.shtml

On May 12, 2004 IslamOnline.net reported, "Several scholars from Al-Azhar, the world's highest Sunni religious authority, condemned the decapitation of an American civilian by unknown people in Iraq, saying Islam stands against such acts. 'Islam respects the human being, dead or alive, and cutting off the American's head was an act of mutilation forbidden by...

Source: CNN.com

http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/africa/05/11/nigeria.religion.ap/index.html

On May 11, 2004 CNN.com posted an Associated Press article that reported, "Thousands of Muslim demonstrators marched and some burned U.S. and Israeli flags Tuesday to protest the killings of hundreds of Muslims by gunmen from a predominantly Christian group last week. Businesses closed and school children hurried home in the heavily Muslim northern city...

Source: Reuters

Source: The Post-Gazette

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/04132/314380.stm

On May 11, 2004 The Post-Gazette reported on Asra Nomani, an American Muslim reporter at the Wall Street Journal, and "her moral jihad against the leadership of the Islamic Center of Morgantown, which she has taken to the editorial pages of The Washington Post and The New York Times. By her account, puritanical Arabs, whom she labels Wahhabis, a disputed and pejorative term for the strict strain of...

Source: Yahoo! News

Source: The Guardian

http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1213031,00.html

On May 10, 2004 The Guardian ran an opinion piece by Madeleine Bunting on Muslim immigrants' need for allies in their the establishment of their identity in a new society. She writes, "The struggle by Muslims to establish their own institutions and identity in this country, in the face of hostility and suspicion, is comparable to that of the Catholics at the time of the Irish...

Source: The Oregonian

http://www.oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/news/1084190134254120.xml

On May 10, 2004 The Oregonian reported, "The question took Shahriar Ahmed by surprise. The president of Bilal Mosque in Beaverton was looking for an elevator at Providence St. Vincent Medical Center when a security guard approached him: 'Aren't you the guy who was disinvited from the prayer breakfast?' A week earlier, organizers of...

Source: The Associated Press

http://www.accessnorthga.com/news/ap_newfullstory.asp?ID=37431

On May 9, 2004 The Associated Press reported, "Two signs have hung in front of the Islamic Center of Savannah since a fire destroyed the building last August with an optimistic message for the community: 'God Bless America. We will rebuild.' And members of the mosque have been working hard to do that and also rebound from reports that an arsonist was responsible for...

Source: The Times-Picayne

http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/index.ssf?/base/news-4/1084094857180320.xml

On May 9, 2004 The Times-Picayne reported, "A new, larger mosque in Kenner will soon be a reality for the nonprofit Jefferson Muslim Association. On Saturday, ground will be broken on a seven-acre site at 25th and Iowa Streets in Kenner that will house a new school, mosque and gymnasium... The new mosque will accommodate 1,500 people: 1,000 men...

Source: Chicago Tribune

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0405090408may09,1,7819440.story?coll=chi-newsnationworld-hed

On May 9, 2004 the Chicago Tribune reported, "Turkey's young governing party, with roots in political Islam, has confounded critics and some supporters alike by transforming the nation's 70,000 mosques into bully pulpits from which preachers advocate women's rights and other...

Source: The Week

http://www.the-week.com/24may09/lastword_home.htm

On May 9, 2004 The Week ran an opinion piece by Jon Stock. He writes, "At a time of growing international tension between Islamic and Christian faiths, last month's news that Eton College, arguably the most traditional school in the West, has appointed its own Imam should have its 1300 pupils tossing their summer boaters into the air with joy. It certainly gave me hope in these troubled times. Monawar...

Source: The First Amendment Center

http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/commentary.aspx?id=13311

On May 9, 2004 The First Amendment Center reported, "It isn’t easy being a Muslim in America these days. The statistics are chilling. Last year anti-Muslim violence, discrimination and harassment in the United States increased by nearly 70%, according to a report released last week by the Council on American-Islamic Relations. That’s why Muslim students...

Source: The International Herald Tribune

http://www.iht.com/articles/518546.html

On May 9, 2004 The International Herald Tribune reported, "For the population of Hamtramck, a city of 23,000 near Detroit, the battle of the loudspeaker, which the City Council approved Tuesday, has revealed a crossfire of religious, ethnic and lifestyle grievances, aggravated by the lingering memories of Sept. 11, 2001, which left many Muslims here feeling they were under suspicion. . Once an enclave...

Source: The Daily Sentinel

http://www.dailysentinel.com/hp/content/gen/ap/TX_Mosque_Vandalism.html

On May 9, 2004 The Daily Sentinel reported, "Two of three teenagers who desecrated a mosque in this West Texas city have been sentenced to probation and will pay a portion of $12,000 in restitution to the Islamic Center of the South Plains. The boys, 14 and 15, are considered the least culpable suspects, said Matt Powell, Lubbock County's assistant...

Source: The Detroit Free Press

http://www.freep.com/news/locway/call8_20040508.htm

On May 8, 2004 The Detroit Free Press reported, "A petition drive began Friday to stop a new law that will allow mosques in Hamtramck to broadcast the Muslim call to prayer over loudspeakers. Organizers say they are certain they'll get the required 552 signatures to force the City Council to reverse its April 27 decision. 'There are some people, including Muslims, who don't want the...