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Islamic center opens its doors near ground zero USA Today NEW YORK (AP) – An Islamic cultural center near the site of the terrorist attacks that destroyed the World Trade Center held its first exhibit Wednesday evening, the enthusiasm at the opening belying its troubled beginnings. ... See all stories on this topic » USA Today

CAIR Calls for Reform of FBI's Training on Islam, Muslims PR Newswire (press release) 21, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) today joined a coalition of other civil rights and advocacy organizations in calling on the FBI to eliminate anti-Muslim bias from the system used to train its agents. ... See all stories on this topic »

Islamic radio station gives AK-47s to children as a prize Daily Mail To celebrate the holy month of Ramadan the country's al-Shabab Islamist group ran the competition and said the guns were offered so youths can use them 'to defend Islam'. Andulus radio, based near capital Mogadishu, gave groups of youngsters aged ... See all stories on this topic » Daily Mail

In Egypt, Islamists Reach Out to Wary Secularists New York Times Less conservative Islamic players have entered the fray as well. Sheik Ahmed el-Tayeb, the grand imam of Al Azhar, the bastion of Sunni Islam scholarship that prides itself on a moderate form of Egyptian Islam, issued a document that seeks to marry ... See all stories on this topic »

AFDI/SIOA chief Pamela Geller Wins Free Speech Victory Over Lawyer Tied to ... MarketWatch (press release) Tarazi, an Ohio-based lawyer, represented the parents of Rifqa Bary, the teenage girl who fled from her home in fear for her life in 2009, after converting from Islam to Christianity. He sued Geller for $10000000 after she criticized him in a series of ... See all stories on this topic »

Voices of Faith: What faith practices would you want to change? Kansas City Star Syed E. Hasan, Ph.D., Midland Islamic Center, Kansas City, Mo.: The religion of Islam is in complete harmony with human nature and is cognizant of its potential to attain remarkable moral and spiritual heights on one hand, and sinking to the lowest ... See all stories on this topic »

Free speech, or plain old prejudice? OCRegister If this is a free-speech demonstration against an oppressive society – radical Islam – that might do him harm, why did he insert his family into it? He's not only putting one of the household providers at risk but he might be putting his family at risk ... See all stories on this topic »

Inviting Muslims to be heard Sydney Morning Herald Who represents Islam? Is it the overseas-trained imams who have a firm grip on classical Islamic jurisprudence? Is it the grassroots community leaders who may not have the training of the imams, but have their finger on the pulse of their communities? ... See all stories on this topic » Sydney Morning Herald

Rick Perry's Christian Israel policy is a gift to Islamic extremists. Slate Magazine By framing US foreign policy in terms of a religious alliance between Christians and Jews, Perry is validating the propaganda of Islamic extremists. He's jeopardizing peace, Israel, and the United States. Bush understood that the terrorists who struck ... See all stories on this topic »

Pamela Geller's New Anti-Islam Ad Invokes "Savages," Totally Not Racist Gothamist Pamela Geller is not a racist. Sure, there may be some who take the message of her group Stop! The Islamization Of America, to mean "Muslims rape babies," but by and large Geller believes that everyone who agrees with her should be treated equal. ... See all stories on this topic » Gothamist

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