By Ted Regencia and Lindsay Minerva|January 23, 2012
Near the corner of Westchester Avenue and Pugsley Street in Parkchester, just off the elevated tracks of the No. 6 train, Yaakov Wayne Baumann stood outside a graffiti-covered storefront on a chilly Saturday morning. Suited up in a black overcoat with a matching wide-brimmed black fedora, the thickly bearded 42-year-old chatted with elderly congregants as they entered the building for Shabbat service.
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By AGENCIES
Published: Jan 27, 2012 16:02 Updated: Jan 27, 2012
GENEVA: At least 384 children have been killed during Syria’s 10-month uprising and virtually the same number have been jailed, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said on Friday.
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January 26, 2012
Associated Press
NEW YORK — Muslim groups are calling for New York’s police commissioner to step down because of his appearance in a film they say puts their religion and its adherents in a bad light.
About 20 activists held a news conference on the steps of City Hall on Thursday and criticized Ray Kelly for giving an interview to the producers of the movie “The Third Jihad.”
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25 January 2012
Irish actor Liam Neeson is considering converting to Islam after becoming fascinated by the religion while filming in Turkey.
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By MICHAEL POWELL, New York Times
Published: January 23, 2012
Ominous music plays as images appear on the screen: Muslim terrorists shoot Christians in the head, car bombs explode, executed children lie covered by sheets and a doctored photograph shows an Islamic flag flying over the White House.
Continue reading ‘In Police Training, a Dark Film on U.S. Muslims’
January 23, 2012
Wilfredo Amr Ruiz,
Muslim Chaplain, Attorney and Political Analyst
While America honors the legacy of civil rights color-bearer Reverend Martin Luther King Jr., it is ironic that President Obama betrays his memory. In the midst of the 2011 New Year’s Eve celebration, President Obama endorsed the ominous National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) belying epic national fights, struggles and discourses for equality, civil rights and liberties carried out by patriots including King and Malcom X, and centuries of untold heroes who made the ultimate sacrifice to pave the way for the nation to execute the historic event of electing the first black president: Barack Obama. These circumstances render it absurd that this same President has signed a contradictory and tyrannical law endorsing a worldwide indefinite detention provision. Such a provision does not exempt American citizens from indefinite military detention people without charge or trial. In other words, under this law, not only can any citizen deemed a threat to national security interests be held forever without trial, but the military, not civilian law enforcement, will be arresting those citizens.
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Saturday, 21 January 2012
CAIRO – Muslims in the Canadian city of Calgary will be moving to a new location at the center of the town, offering worshippers a larger space for prayers and more convenient location close to their work locations.
January 22, 2012
REPORTING FROM CAIRO — Human Rights Watch has urged the West to accept the new reality that Islamist parties are the rising political powers in Arab nations where secular autocratic regimes were toppled in last year’s so-called Arab Spring movement.
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January 22, 2012
BBC NEWS
Sri Lanka has reportedly ordered 161 foreign Muslim preachers to leave the country for flouting visa regulations.
A senior immigration official was quoted as saying that the clerics had no right to preach in mosques because they had arrived on tourist visas.
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Saturday, 21 January 2012
CAIRO – The grand imam of Al-Azhar has called on Arab countries to take ‘serious and urgent’ steps to halt the Syrian government’s 10-month bloody crackdown on pro-democracy protesters.
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By Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR)
Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR)
Published: Saturday, Jan. 21, 2012
WASHINGTON, Jan. 21, 2012 — GOP presidential hopeful claims concept of equality ‘doesn’t come from Islam,’ but from ‘the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob’
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By IINA – January 17, 2012
JEDDAH, 23 Safar/17 Jan (IINA)-The Ihsan and Takaful Welfare Society has started distributing about 5,000 hot meals daily among poor Makkawis, pilgrims and visitors of the Grand Mosque.
By Judson Berger
Published January 20, 2012
FoxNews.com
The Secret Service said it is looking into a recent op-ed from an Atlanta publisher that floated the idea of green-lighting Israeli Mossad agents to assassinate President Obama in order to improve Israel’s security against enemies like Iran.
By Ivan Watson and Yesim Comert
January 17, 2012
Turkey’s foreign ministry condemned Texas Gov. Rick Perry Tuesday for saying that Turkey was a “country that is being ruled by what many would perceive to be Islamic terrorists.”
Perry made the statement during a spirited debated between Republican presidential candidates in South Carolina Monday night.
By Nick Dermody, BBC Wales News
January 18, 2012
A same-day burial service is being prepared for Cardiff, aimed at meeting the cultural and religious needs of mainly Muslim and Jewish communities.
Cardiff has run a next-day burial service on request since 2004, but a survey of Muslim leaders led to calls for a same-day option.
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By Shannon Beck, The Rolla Daily News
Posted Jan 19, 201
Rolla, Mo. —
The growing Muslim community of Rolla is realizing a dream four years in the making Friday with hopes the city and surrounding area, regardless of faith, will share in their joy.
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Jan 21st 2012 | CAIRO | from the print edition
EVERY year Shia Muslims commemorate the loss of Hussein, a grandson and would-be heir to the Prophet Muhammad who was murdered in 680AD. They mark both his martyrdom on Ashura, the tenth day of the Muslim month of Muharram, and the end of the traditional mourning period 40 days later.
By Joy Lin, Published January 18, 2012 | FoxNews.com
The largest Muslim civil liberties group in the United States on Wednesday condemned Newt Gingrich for saying he would only hire Muslims to his administration if they renounced the use of Islam’s Shariah law as a tool for U.S. government.
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