Wayne Rawlins cherishes the serenity he feels as he waits for the sun to set; it fills him with a sense of piety and oneness with the Creator.
Rawlins, of Miramar, is observing Ramadan, the annual Islamic month of fasting when Muslims worldwide abstain from earthly pleasures such as food, drink and smoking between sun-up and sundown.
Continue reading ‘Muslims ready to celebrate end of month of fasting’
By Chad Smith
Published: Wednesday, September 1, 2010 at 1:20 p.m.
Last Modified: Wednesday, September 1, 2010 at 1:20 p.m.
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Muslim organizations have responded to the death threat against Dove World Outreach Center’s pastor that was mailed to The Sun by condemning any violence against the church, which plans to hold a Quran burning on Sept. 11.
Continue reading ‘Muslim groups condemn threats against Dove World’
By Chad Smith
Staff writer
Published: Thursday, September 2, 2010 at 3:05 p.m.
Last Modified: Thursday, September 2, 2010 at 3:05 p.m.
Twenty religious leaders representing three faiths and a number of denominations stood together on the steps of Gainesville’s City Hall at noon Thursday as a show of solidarity against a small church that has commanded worldwide attention for its plan to burn the Quran on Sept. 11.
Continue reading ‘Religious leaders call for solidarity against Quran burning’
By Jerry Markon
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, September 1, 2010
Muslim leaders are debating the wisdom of inviting FBI agents to mosques to provide protection at a time of rising anti-Muslim rhetoric and debate about the proposed Islamic community center near Ground Zero.
Continue reading ‘Muslim leaders debate FBI presence at mosques’
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By DAVID E. MILLER | THE MEDIA LINE
Published: Sep 1, 2010 01:53 Updated: Sep 1, 2010 01:53
CAIRO: Egyptâ??s most senior Coptic Christian cleric, Pope Shenouda III, may be summoned to court and forced to release an alleged convert to Islam.
A group of Islamist lawyers has appealed to Egyptâ??s administrative court demanding that the Coptic Church release Camillia Shehata, the wife of a Coptic preacher, whom they allege has been forcibly incarcerated by the church. The court hearing is scheduled for Nov. 2.
Continue reading ‘Coptic pope accused in convert’s incarceration’
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CARLTON — A Holley teen-ager was charged with a felony count of criminal possession of a weapon after allegedly firing a shotgun outside a mosque in Waterport on Monday night.
Continue reading ‘Holley teens charged with targeting mosque’
By Tara Bahrampour
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
As expression of anti-Muslim sentiment has risen across the United States in recent weeks, Muslim leaders say they are stepping up efforts to unify their communities and push for greater public and political engagement.
Continue reading ‘U.S. Muslim leaders make push to unify their communities’
By Howard Simon
Benetta Standly
Published: Monday, August 30, 2010 at 6:01 a.m.
The Dove World Outreach Center plans to commemorate the September 11th terrorist attacks by burning copies of the Quran in a presumably sincere, but woefully misguided belief that America is at war with the Islamic faith.
MURFREESBORO, Tenn. — Supporters from across the country have called to give encouragement to a suburban Nashville mosque where a fire was the latest setback for a planned new building, officials said Sunday.
Continue reading ‘Fire At Tennessee Mosque Construction Site Now Under Federal Arson Investigation’
Big News Network.com (ANI) Monday 30th August, 2010
US President Barack Obama has reportedly dismissed a recent poll showing that a third of Americans do not know whether he is a Christian, and blamed an online campaign of misinformation by his conservative enemies for perpetuating the myth that he is a Muslim.
“I can’t spend all of my time with my birth certificate plastered on my forehead. The facts are the facts. We went through some of this during the campaign. There is a mechanism, a network of misinformation that in a new media era can get churned out there constantly,” Politico quoted a visibly annoyed Obama, as saying.
Continue reading ‘Obama blames online “misinformation” campaign for creating myth that he is Muslim’
U.S. State Department spokesman Philip J. Crowley condemns Rabbi Ovadia Yosef’s ‘inflammatory’ statement that all Palestinians should perish.
By Natasha Mozgovaya and Haaretz Service
Tags: Israel news
Continue reading ‘State Department condemns Israeli rabbi’s remarks’
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WAM DUBAI, Aug. 28th, 2010: 122 ladies and 3 men, all expatriates from the Philippines, converted to Islam in Dubai in a lecture by popular Muslim Filipino orator and preacher Omar Penalbar.
Penalbar was lecturing on tolerance in Islam and the message of Prophet Muhammad (Peace be upon him) who is a mercy to all mankind when he was asked by the ladies to elaborate on Islam and its teachings.
By JERUSALEM POST STAFF
08/27/2010 02:45
Punishment for performance in front of “mixed audience.”
A singer who performed in front of a “mixed audience” of men and women was lashed 39 times to make him “repent,” after a ruling by a self-described rabbinic court on Wednesday.
Continue reading ‘‘Sinner’ singer given 39 lashes by rabbis’
Founding director, Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, Georgetown University John EspositoProfessor of religion, international affairs and Islamic studies.
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Brian Padden | Jakarta 27 August 2010
There is concern that protests in the United States against the construction of a mosque near the site of the 2001 terrorist attacks could bolster anti-American extremists in the Muslim world.
Continue reading ‘Indonesian Muslims React to NYC Mosque Debate with Moderation’
By SARA KUGLER FRAZIER and TOM HAYS
Associated Press Writers
NEW YORK — A Muslim cab driver whose face and throat were slashed in a suspected hate crime attack appeared with Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Thursday as city officials sought to ease tensions in the debate over a plan to put a mosque near the site of the 2001 terrorist attacks.
Continue reading ‘Mayor seeks to calm cabbie, NYC after knife attack’
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In a rousing address before a predominantly Muslim audience Tuesday night, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg reaffirmed his commitment to the controversial Islamic cultural center near the former site of the World Trade Center.
Continue reading ‘Bloomberg Launches Another Impassioned Defense Of Cordoba House’
