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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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Aug 28, 2010 – 09:23 –
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.
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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.
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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.
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By Delinda C. Hanley
Hurricane Katrina
Florida Muslims load a truck with supplies bound for Louisiana hurricane victims in Baton Rouge (Photos courtesy Amana).
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Sam Stein stein@huffingtonpost.com | HuffPost Reporting
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.
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TOM HAYS | 08/25/10 05:40 PM |
NEW YORK — A college student who did volunteer work in Afghanistan was charged Wednesday with using a folding tool to slash the neck and face of a New York City taxi driver after the driver said he is Muslim.
By the CNN Wire Staff
August 25, 2010
(CNN) — An armed Christian organization which had pledged to protect a Florida church as it holds “International Burn a Quran Day” withdrew its support from the event Wednesday, saying it “does not glorify God,” according to a posting on its website.
Right Wing Extreme, which describes itself as a Christian conservative group, also said in the posting it is asking the Dove World Outreach Center, based in Gainesville, Florida, not to hold the event “for the reason that it may diminish the work of the Holy Spirit to witness to Muslims.” The event is planned for the ninth anniversary of the September 11 terror attacks.
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Jillian Rayfield | August 25, 2010
Former Bush and Reagan adviser Ken Adelman said today that he fully supports the planned construction of the Cordoba House Islamic center near Ground Zero, and is “a little disappointed” that former President George W. Bush hasn’t come out in support of it as well.
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Rachel Slajda | August 25, 2010
Hannah Rosenthal, the president’s special envoy to combat anti-Semitism, responded to criticism by the Anti-Defamation League that she shouldn’t have accompanied a group of Muslim-American clerics on a visit to former concentration camps in Europe.
Rachel Slajda | August 23, 2010
Earlier this month, several imams joined U.S. officials to visit the Dachau and Auschwitz concentration camps, a trip which resulted in the clerics issuing a statement condemning anti-Semitism and vowing “to make real the commitment of ‘never again.’”
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