| | MD: Muslims ‘Shocked' by Move to Seize Islamic Center | | County residents who attend services at the Islamic Education Center in Potomac are worried their mosque could be shut down after federal prosecutors started a court process seeking forfeiture of the center's property, which is owned by the New York-based Alavi Foundation, which is alleged to have ties to the Iranian government. |
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| | NYU Students Rebut 'Going Muslim' Column | | NYU's United Muslims Association held a teach-in at the Kimmel Center yesterday afternoon to rebut "Going Muslim," a controversial column published on Forbes.com last week by Stern professor Tunku Varadarajan. |
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 | | Holder: Protect Rights of Muslims (Free Press) | | Reaching out to Arab Americans and Muslims, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said in a Detroit speech Thursday night that their full rights must be protected as the country battles security threats. |
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 | | Passenger Makes Up Islamic Terror Fantasy | | True story. A right-winger who obviously reads too many of those really hard-core Islamophobic blogs emailed around a detailed account of how he had heroically thwarted a terrorist attack on a flight from Atlanta to Houston. |
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| | CO Sheriff Calls Marines ‘Travel Agents to Allah’ | | Muslim who lives in Northern Colorado is concerned about a comment Alderden made while giving a speech at a Marine Corps Ball last month. The sheriff briefly posted a transcript of the speech on his Web site. In the speech, Alderden joked about bumper stickers and highlighted one which read, "U.S. Marines: Travel agents to Allah." |
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| | CA: Local Muslims Upset Over La Mesa Church Event | | Outside an El Cajon market, Omar told 10News he was handed a flyer for an international Christmas party, complete with a magic show. He believed it would be a celebration of the holiday spirit shared by religions. |
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 | | Muslim Prayers and Renewal Near Ground Zero | | The building has no sign that hints at its use as a Muslim prayer space, but these modest beginnings point to a far grander vision: an Islamic center near the city’s most hallowed piece of land that would stand as one of ground zero’s more unexpected and striking neighbors. |
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| | DC: Imax Re-Creates Epic Pilgrimage to Mecca | | I'd never heard of Ibn Battuta, the famed 14th-century Moroccan lawyer who at the age of 21 wanted to perform the hajj. Instead of a ride in an air-conditioned jet to Saudi Arabia, the trip in 1325 was a hazardous overland trek of 3,000 miles from Tangier to Mecca. |
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| | IL: Group Works to Counter Negative View of Muslims | | But a Chicago-based coalition wants to blunt that sort of message by sharing the real-life stories of Muslims living, working and praying in America. These community ambassadors will share their stories while volunteering in area communities. |
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| | Rep. Conyers Calls for Review of FBI Case on Imam | | While federal prosecutors were trying to protect vital evidence in a case against a group they described as Islamic extremists, U.S. Rep. John Conyers asked the U.S. Attorney General on Wednesday for a thorough investigation into the shooting death of the group's leader, Imam Luqman Ameen Abdullah. |
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| | Video: Anti-Islam Televangelist Blames Haiti Quake on 'Pact with Devil' | | NOTE: Last November, CAIR called on Virginia's Governor-elect Robert F. McDonnell to publicly repudiate anti-Islam remarks by Pat Robertson, the televangelist and gubernatorial campaign contributor who said Islam is "not a religion" and that American Muslims should be treated like members of a communist or fascist party. |
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| | MI Mosque Hosts Disaster Relief for Haiti Today | | The Flint Islamic Center will host a fundraiser at 2:30 p.m. today at the center to raise relief money for the Haitian tragedy. The local effort is part of a $1 million campaign among Islamic centers nationwide by the charity group, Islamic Relief, to help victims of Tuesday's earthquake. |
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| | PA Mosque Slates Haiti Fundraiser | | Repeating an act of kindness exhibited in times of devastation nine years ago, the Masjid Al-Madinah mosque plans to hold a fundraiser Jan. 22 for the victims of the Haiti earthquake, similar to what it did for 9/11. |
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