Source: Waukesha Freeman

http://www.gmtoday.com/news/local_stories/2004/April_04/04022004_02.asp

On April 2, 2004 Waukesha Freeman reported, "Abqure Humbaq turned lots of heads at school earlier this month. The 16-year-old Oconomowoc High School junior, whose real name is Katie Rather, attended Hartford Union High School on March 18 wearing a hijab, a traditional headdress worn by Arab and Muslim women. 'Everyone was staring at me; watching me as I...

Source: The Washington Times

http://www.washingtontimes.com/world/20040401-104946-9718r.htm

On April 2, 2004 The Washington Times reported, "A series of suicide bombings and attacks on security forces that have rocked Uzbekistan this week has focused new attention on a secretive, anti-American Islamic fundamentalist party that aims to create a Muslim superstate based on strict Koranic law. But the crackdown on Hizb ut-Tahrir al-Islami by the authoritarian...

Source: Religion...

Source: AllAfrica.com

http://allafrica.com/stories/200404020775.html

On April 2, 2004 AllAfrica.com posted an article from The Independent that reported, "Deacon Jah, the travelling secretary of the Scripture Union has expressed satisfaction over the religious tolerance that prevails in the country. Speaking at a Bible quiz competition held recently at Saint Augustine's Senior Secondary School, Jah stated that the manner Christians and Muslims live with each other is...

Source: International Herald Tribune

http://www.iht.com/articles/513035.html

On April 2, 2004 the International Herald Tribune reported, "The hallways of Benjamin Franklin Science Academy in quiet Muskogee, Oklahoma, are far from those of the tough, lower-class Paris suburbs where the battle was fought on the right of Muslim girls to wear religiously mandated head scarves...The Justice Department is intervening on the side of a sixth-grade Muslim girl, Nashala Hearn, who has been...

Source: The Kansas City Star

http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/nation/8343536.htm?1c

On April 2, 2004 The Kansas City Star reported, "Flanked by a "Street Fighter II" video game and pingpong tables, Muslim students from San Jose High Academy knelt and bowed Friday during their holy juma'a prayer. The service was held at a nearby youth center, which one student vacuumed while others laid bed sheets on the ground. Praising Allah at the...

Source: CNN

http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/Midwest/04/01/us.deportation.ap/

On April 1, 2004 CNN reported, "A Muslim woman fighting to remain in the United States was deported to her native Venezuela without her three American-born children. Immigration officials put Amina Silmi on a flight to Caracas on Wednesday. Silmi, of the Cleveland suburb of Lakewood, Ohio, was born in Venezuela to Palestinian parents. She came to the United States in 1990, married twice...

Source: The Boston Globe

http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2004/04/01/islamic_high_school_opens_in_renovated_catholic_church/

On April 1, 2004 The Boston Globe reported, "For nearly three quarters of a century, it served the Catholic community in Mansfield, first as a church and later as a place for religious education. Now, after sitting idle for nearly two decades, the former St. Mary's church is again...

Source: The Christian Science Monitor

http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0401/p09s01-coop.html

On April 1, 2004 The Christian Science Monitor ran an opinion piece by Amitai Etzioni, the founder of the communitarian movement, on how to curb anarchical tendancies in post-war Afghanistan and Iraq. Etzioni writes, "A typical Western response [to the social disorder] is to focus on law and order, fostering police forces, retrained and under new command. When the police don't...

Source: The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

http://www.ajc.com/news/content/news/ap/ap_story.html/Intl/AP.V7175.AP-Germany-Headsca.html

On April 1, 2004 The Atlanta Journal-Constitution ran an Associated Press article that reported, "A conservative German state on Thursday became the nation's first to ban Muslim teachers from wearing headscarves in public schools, taking a stand in a debate that has split public and political...

Source: Expatica

Source: Muslim American Society

http://www.masnet.org/news.asp?id=1098

On March 31, 2004 Muslim American Society reported, "Imams from across the United States gathered over the weekend in northern Virginia to initiate discussions on the development of a council designed to foster better communication between mosques, Islamic centers and the American Muslim community. Recognizing the lack of unity among American Muslims, the Muslim American Society (MAS) sponsored a conference aimed...

Source: The Guardian

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uklatest/story/0,1271,-3923154,00.html

On March 31, 2004 The Guardian ran a Press Association article that reported, "Britain's leading Muslim organisation is to write to mosques across the country urging them to help police fight terrorism. The Muslim Council of Britain wants imams and community leaders to be alert for possible illegal activities. Iqbal Sacranie, Secretary General of the council, said...

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