Source: CAIR-CAN

On March 19, 2004 CAIR-CAN issued a press release that stated, "The Canadian Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-CAN) today condemned the recent vandalism that targeted Jewish homes in Toronto. In a statement issued today, CAIR-CAN wrote: 'The recent vandalism of Jewish homes in Toronto is horrifying and unacceptable. We view with profound concern any attempt to stigmatize and spread hate against any community and, in this case, Jewish residents of Toronto. We call on local police to investigate the vandalism and to bring the...

Source: The Boston Globe

http://www.boston.com/ae/music/articles/2004/03/19/tour_blends_a_world_of_sacred_sounds_into_a_message_of_unity/

On March 19, 2004 The Boston Globe reported on "the Fes Festival of World Sacred Music, now in its 10th year. Founded after the Gulf War to encourage peace-building through music that crosses religious lines, the weeklong event has attracted growing international crowds. But...

Source: Transitions Online

http://www.tol.cz/look/BRR/article.tpl?IdLanguage=1&IdPublication=9&NrIssue=1&NrSection=4&NrArticle=11745

On March 19, 2004 Transitions Online reported, "Just before midnight on 17 March, Belgrade’s 17th-century Barjakli mosque became the target of an hours-long attack by hooligans incited by Albanian assaults on Serbs and Serbian churches and monasteries in Kosovo. The Belgrade...

Source: BBC News

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/south_east/3523324.stm

On March 18, 2004 the BBC News reported, "A Muslim Imam has been taken on as a chaplain at a Welsh hospital for the first time. Imam Farid Ahmed Khan has been hired by the Royal Gwent Hospital in Newport to look after the needs of Muslim staff and patients. It is the first time that a Muslim spiritual leader has taken up a post like this in Wales. Imam Khan had already spent a...

Source: Institute for War and Peace Reporting

http://www.iwpr.net/index.pl?archive/bcr3/bcr3_200403_486_2_eng.txt

On March 18, 2004 the Institute for War and Peace Reporting reported, "As the flames flickered through the stone walls of the 17th-century Bajrakli mosque in Belgrade, the sound of Orthodox church music played surreally from a nearby car. A man appeared out of the clouds of smoke, carrying a looted green flag with the crescent of Islam. '...

Source: Khaleej Times

http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle.asp?xfile=data/theworld/2004/March/theworld_March409.xml&section=theworld

On March 18, 2004 the Khaleej Times ran a Reuters article that reported, "Malaysia’s retired veteran leader Mahathir Mohamad revisited the storm of controversy surrounding his final days, by saying on Thursday that Muslims should reject terror and learn...

Source: Khaleej Times

Source: Deutsche Welle

http://www.dw-world.de/english/0,,1433_A_1146159_1_A,00.html

On March 18, 2004 Deutsche Welle reported, "Though Islam is woven into the fabric of the country's history, Moroccans and other Arabs living there today are struggling to find their place in society as well as their role in the Muslim world. Mustafa Bougrine is a Moroccan who has lived in Spain for 19 years. He's married to a Spanish woman and runs a restaurant. He fears that a...

Source: Reuters

Source: The Kansas City Star

http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascitystar/news/local/8200747.htm?ERIG

On March 17, 2004 The Kansas City Star reported, "Mahnaz M. Shabbir of Stilwell was honored by the YWCA of Greater Kansas City on Friday with its annual Hearts of Gold award... Shabbir, 44, received national attention in 2002 when she detailed her experiences as an American Muslim woman in an opinion piece for The Kansas City Star. She is the...

Source: The Herald Tribune

http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20040315/NEWS/403150371/1060

On March 17, 2004 The Herald Tribune reported, "Diversity. That's what Hytham Bakr said he thought Sarasota was all about. But since county commissioners imposed restrictions on the mosque he attends that other houses of worships don't have to follow, he questions whether diversity is just talk. 'Are they truly interested in...

Source: Los Angeles Times

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-nomosque17mar17,1,6768953.story

On March 17, 2004 the Los Angeles Times reported, "Muslims in the Greek capital can pray in a small room at a crowded cultural center, wedged between a clinic and a schoolroom, or in one of several makeshift basement venues. But government promises to build an official mosque for the city's growing Islamic community remain...

Source: Muslim Wake Up!

http://www.muslimwakeup.com/mainarchive/000642.php#more

On March 17, 2004 Muslim Wake Up! ran an article by Arshad Alam, a research scholar at the Department of Muslim Religious and Cultural History at the University of Erfurt, Germany, in which he revisits the 2002 Gujarat riots in the face of the upcoming elections in India. He writes, "Two years later, the same party is back in power in Gujarat, and the same Prime Minister is being...

Source: Los Angeles Times

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-mosques17mar17,1,6774683.story?coll=la-home-headlines

On March 17, 2004 the Los Angeles Times reported, "The chink and scrape of stonecutters echo through the gray-domed mosque that rises like a glimmer of misplaced architecture in a city where the Muslim call to prayer is a widening whisper...Anxious Berliners sometimes peek into the...

Source: The Times of India

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/566535.cms

On March 17, 2004 The Times of India reported, "The VHP would support only those political parties which respected the sentiments of Hindus and agreed to their main demands, including construction of a Ram temple at Ayodhya, a common civil code and a law to ban religious conversions, VHP leader Dr Pravin Togadia said on Wednesday. One of the VHP's main demands, he said, was...