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Headlines Archive
Smears against Obama energized Muslim voters: experts
False rumors that Barack Obama was secretly a Muslim or had ties to Islamic extremism angered Muslim-Americans, who overwhelming supported him in Tuesday's presidential election, experts said on Thursday.
Reuters,
11/6/2008
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On ballots this Nov: More Muslim American women are running for political office
More Muslims, particularly women, are running for political office, spurred by the perceived erosions of their civil liberties.
The soul searching that followed 9/11 prompted more woman to step into leadership roles, a trend encouraged by the community, said Agha Saeed, founder of the American Muslim Alliance, which has been tracking Muslim candidates since 1996. Before Sept. 11, less than 5 percent were women, Saeed said. Now about one in three are.
Associated Press,
10/30/2008
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Arab Muslims in Brooklyn find power in the voting booth
While leaders of the Arab Muslim community were skilled at running mosques, a local school and several civic groups, they were relatively unsophisticated when it came to politics, Mr. Rimawi said. But after Sept. 11, many of those leaders realized they needed to become more politically astute to gain the respect and attention of elected officials.
The New York Times,
10/19/2008
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Muslim-American voices heard in presidential race
Muslim-Americans say they are more interested than ever before in the political process, in part because their religion has been reduced to a talking point in the presidential campaign.
CNN.com,
10/21/2008
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What Colin Powell also said
Like many people before him, Mr. Powell rebuked those who have spread or fed the rumor that Mr. Obama is Muslim, and like many before him Mr. Powell reiterated that the story is false -- that Mr. Obama is and always has been a Christian.
Mr. Powell then took the issue an important step further. "But the really right answer," Mr. Powell continued on NBC's "Meet the Press," "is, 'What if he is? Is there something wrong with being a Muslim in this country?' The answer is no, that's not America. Is there something wrong with some 7-year-old Muslim American kid believing that he or she could be president?"
Washington Post,
10/21/2008
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"Allah Made Me Funny: Live in Concert"
Probably no one in the history of Islam - a history that stretches back almost 1,400 years - has been as funny as Azhar Usman in talking about the religion, its followers and the stereotypes that plague them. Usman, one of three American Muslim comedians featured in "Allah Made Me Funny: Live in Concert," says lots of people "think Muslim men are terrorists and Muslim women are oppressed. Have these people been inside a Muslim household? If they'd go inside, they'd realize that they have it exactly the opposite! Muslim women are terrorists! Muslim men are oppressed!"
San Francisco Chronicle,
10/3/2008
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Diverse nationalities gather to observe Islamic holiday
Mekki Bayachou was born in Morocco. Dr. Ahmad Jadallah traces his roots to Palestine. Although they are diverse in their nationalities, they are brothers — bound together by their Islamic faith. Their diversity is representative of the makeup of the local community at the Islamic Community Center on Steels Corners Road, where people have connections to homelands on at least five continents — Africa, Asia, Europe, North America and South America.
Today, the three men and their families will be among the 1,500 Muslims expected at the Islamic Community Center to celebrate Eid al-Fitr.
Fairfax Connection, 10/1/2008
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Inland Muslims sign on to nationwide voter registration push
Voter-registration tables were set up across the country outside Eid prayers as part of a Council on American-Islamic Relations effort to increase Muslim voter turnout.
The Press-Enterprise,
10/1/2008
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Voter profile: Muslim Americans
Over the past decade, the Northern Virginia Muslim American community has started to focus on civic engagement and gained more political clout. The commonwealth has approximately 71,000 Muslim voters and about 87 percent of them live in Northern Virginia, said Mukit Hossain, a Cascades resident who founded the Virginia Muslim political action committee in 2002. The All Dulles Area Muslim Society (ADAMS), Northern Virginia’s largest mosque, hosted more political candidates than ever, 67, during its seventh annual civic picnic last year. In 2008, ADAMS Imam Mohamed Magid became the first Muslim to oversee one of the daily opening prayers for the Virginia House of Delegates.
Fairfax Connection, 9/30/2008
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Muslim-American Comedians Bridge Cultures
Muslim comedians Azhar Usman, Mo Amer and Preacher Moss are from different cultural backgrounds, but unite to form Allah Made Me Funny, a stand-up comedy routine that entertains audiences around the world. The trio is now hoping for the success of a new film, named for the routine.
The three American Muslims joined forces in 2004, responding to negative attention at home and abroad surrounding their religious community after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
National Public Radio,
10/7/2008
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Report Seeks Engagement With Muslims by Diplomacy
The report [“Changing Course: A New Direction for U.S. Relations with the Muslim World”] recommends more diplomatic engagement, even with Iran and other adversaries, and a major investment in economic development in Muslim countries to create jobs for alienated youth. It calls on the next president to use his Inaugural Address to signal a shift in approach, to immediately renounce the use of torture, and to appoint a special envoy within the first three months to jump-start negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians.
New York Times,
9/23/2008
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Ramadan fast-a-thons raise awareness about Islam
The Muslim Students Association's fast-a-thon – a riff on religious doctrine – draws hundreds of non-Muslim students who choose to fast for one day with their Muslim peers and attend the daily iftar banquet in the evening to break it.
Dallas News, 9/20/2008
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Mosque service to honor fallen soldier
The Mid-Hudson Islamic Association is held a prayer service in honor of a Newburgh soldier, Mohsin Naqvi, second lieutenant with the U.S. Army, who was killed in Afghanistan. About 350 people gathered for a Shia funeral service before his burial with full military honors in a nearby cemetery.
Poughkeepsie Journal, 9/19/2008
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Observing Ramadan
Muslim faithful throughout the world are currently observing the holy month of Ramadan. Observant Muslims participate in fasting (sawm), one of the five pillars of their faith, this entire Lunar month (this year it extends from September 1st to the 30th). Eating, drinking, smoking and sexual activity is prohibited from dawn until sunset, when the fast is broken with the evening meal called Iftar. Local customs define varying traditions, including differing types of food used to break the daily fast. The fasting is meant to teach a person patience, humility and sacrifice, to set aside time to ask forgiveness, practice self-restraint, and pray for guidance in the future. (35 photos total)
Boston Globe, 9/19/2008
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Islam's holiest month
Eight million American Muslims - practitioners of the Islamic faith - representing every race, ethnicity and culture, live in the United States. Many Muslims were born in the U.S.; others immigrated from other countries in hope of a better life. Islam, which espouses peace, mercy and forgiveness, is not only a religion but a way of life.
The Islamic religion is based on five pillars: belief in God, prayer to one God, giving to charity, fasting during the month of Ramadan and, if one can afford it, the pilgrimage to Makkah. Makkah, in Saudi Arabia, is the universal place of worship for people of the Islamic faith.
Sun-Herald, 9/19/2008
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Muslims' visibility in region grows
Marcus Johnson, a Richmond native and senior at Virginia Commonwealth University, entertains customers at a Shockoe Bottom restaurant by playing the violin.
He's also a Muslim, something that patrons of Bottoms Up Pizza, where he also works as a host, often are surprised to find out.
Richmond Times-Dispatch, 9/11/2008
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W. Deen Mohammed, 74, top U.S. Imam, dies
Imam W. Deen Mohammed, a son of the Nation of Islam leader Elijah Muhammad, who renounced the black nationalism of his father’s movement to lead a more traditional and racially tolerant form of Islam for black Muslims, died on Tuesday in Chicago. He was 74.
New York Times, 9/10/2008
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U.S. mega-mosques: Muslim tradition with U.S. convenience
As Islam makes inroads in the United States, American Muslims are setting up mega-mosques that combine religious tradition with typical American convenience.
Modelled on the huge, non-Catholic churches that offer their congregations of at least 2,000 members several different sites for worship, US mega-mosques have become a necessity in some places.
Agence France-Presse, 9/4/2008
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Muslims work around prejudice in politics
Recent sermons at Bay Area mosques - from San Francisco to Hayward to San Jose - have urged Muslims that voting in this election is their duty. Voter registration drives are being conducted around the region at mosques as well as religious or cultural events.
"The voter registration drives are an effort to counter the despondency where Muslims might feel marginalized here," said Asma Ahmad, president of the Bay Area Association of Muslim Lawyers, which is co-sponsoring numerous voter drives.
San Francisco Chronicle, 8/23/2008
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American Muslims: Not what you think
In television land, it always seems to be prayer time for Muslims. Every mention of Islam evokes rows of men bowing toward Mecca, rising and falling in robotic unison.
So pervasive is this image that many Americans think Islam alone defines the attitudes and actions of all Muslims, even those in the United States. By extension, many fear that all Muslims are a threat to U.S. democracy. We see this manifested in the hostile reactions to the persistent -- and false -- rumor that Barack Obama is a Muslim.
These attitudes cripple our debates over immigration, law enforcement, education and foreign policy. They also hide the fact that U.S. Muslims are a constituency up for grabs in the November election. Electoral swing states such as Michigan, Ohio and Virginia all have significant Muslim populations. And on some hot-button cultural issues, Muslim Americans could potentially be a strong ally to the Christian right.
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 8/17/2008
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Muslim hails tolerance among U.S. Christians
I was once again reminded this summer of the amazing degree of religious tolerance that many Christians in this country display habitually.
I had the rare honor on June 29 of giving the sermon in a Christian service at the St. Thomas Episcopalian Church in Newark, Del. I have given the Islamic sermon (Khutbah) at mosques, but giving one at a church was an extraordinary ecumenical experience.
Philadelphia Daily News, 8/16/2008
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