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Headlines Archive
St. Louis Muslims and Jews come together to fight discrimination with ‘Weekend of Twinning’
In St. Louis, members of Brith Sholom Kneseth Israel and the Islamic Foundation of Greater St. Louis visited one another's houses of worship to learn about the others' faith and discuss how to help each other battle ignorance about their religions that can lead to intolerance and hate.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch,
11/24/2008 |
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Southern California Jews and Muslims share a faith in each other's goodwill
The idea for the twinning campaign grew out of an interfaith meeting last November in New York, where Jewish and Muslim leaders gathered in the hope of building stronger ties. They hit upon the idea of pairing mosques and synagogues.
They’d hoped to attract 50 congregations – 25 Jewish, 25 Muslim – but wound up with double the number in cities throughout the United States and Canada, including Atlanta, Boston, Denver and Minneapolis, in addition to Los Angeles and Santa Monica.
To promote their campaign, 13 rabbis and imams appeared in a full-page advertisement in the New York Times this month; several also have been featured in a public service announcement on CNN, denouncing religious hatred and calling for peace.
A rabbi and imam who kicked off the national campaign last Monday at Temple Emanuel of Beverly Hills reiterated that message before an audience of 200.
Los Angeles Times,
11/24/2008
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Crescent Clinic serves a growing need, wants to do more
Along came the Crescent Clinic, a no-pay primary care medical facility staffed by volunteers, mainly Muslim doctors who want to pay back the community that has nurtured their careers.
The clinic is open from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. each Saturday, and doctors hope to expand hours to help meet the high demand.
St. Petersburg Times,
11/17/2008
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Pope’s Catholic-Muslim forum: L.A.’s done that
World Catholic and Muslim leaders made headlines this month when they met in a first-of-its-kind interfaith forum at the Vatican. Locally, some faithful saw the forum not as something new, but as an affirmation of efforts they have been making for years.
Los Angeles Times,
11/17/2008
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Muslim Community Taking Message To Airwaves
Clearing up misconceptions is what American Muslim Voices hopes to do.
For one hour on Sundays, two hosts -- Saad Chisty and Abu Hashim -- want to eliminate the stereotypes surrounding Islam.
CBS 11 News,
11/16/2008
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American Muslims overwhelmingly voted Democratic
For the past few months, not a day went by without the words "Muslim" and "Obama" being mentioned in the same sentence. From the divisive shouts and jeers at McCain rallies to the Op-Ed pages of The New York Times to an interview with Colin Powell on NBC's "Meet the Press," Muslims—or at least the mention of them—have been more prevalent this campaign year than "Joe the Plumber."
Newsweek, 11/7/08
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Muslims drawn to Obama: Embracing message, rejecting smears
Barack Hussein Obama's victory didn't just belie the so-called Bradley effect for black candidates. Experts say it also defied an "Osama effect"—opposition efforts to sway voters by connecting Obama to radical Islam.
In fact, experts say the scare tactic mobilized record numbers of American Muslim voters and others to forgive Obama's slights of the Muslim community and choose him as the nation's next president.
Chicago Tribune,
11/7/2008
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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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