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Hasan Felt Discriminated Against, Wanted Out of Army

Suspect moved to
San Antonio hospital

Nov 6, 09 5:30 PM CST
(Newser) - Nidal Malik Hasan considered himself a victim of anti-Muslim bias and had been trying for 6 months to quit the Army, his cousin says. "I think because he’s a Muslim he didn’t want to go to Afghanistan or Iraq, and he didn’t want to expose himself... More »

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Islam • Muslim Americans • Muslim • San Antonio • massacre • US Army • American Muslims • mass shootings • Fort Hood • Fort Hood shooting • Nidal Malik Hasan • Brooke Army Medical Center

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Muslim Groups Condemn Hasan, Rush to Judgment

Groups preach tolerance as hate mail pours in

Nov 6, 09 12:28 PM CST
(Newser) - With hate mail already pouring in, Muslim American groups rushed to condemn the Fort Hood shooter today as a criminal who doesn’t represent Islam. “You wouldn't take a Christian or a Jewish soldier who did something like this and look at other Christians and Jews and say, 'Can... More »

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Islam • American Muslims • hate mail • Fort Hood • Fort Hood shooting • Nidal Malik Hasan • Muslim Armed Forces and Veterans Affairs Council • American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee

 Swiss to Vote 
 on Minaret Ban 

Referendum this month sparks fear of Muslim backlash

Nov 5, 09 6:47 AM CST
(Newser) - Swiss government and business leaders are having a panic attack over a referendum that would ban minarets on mosques—and, they fear, make the country a target for Islamic terrorism. The handiwork of the anti-immigrant Swiss People's Party, infamous for an earlier campaign poster showing a white sheep kicking a... More »

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Islam • Switzerland • minarets • mosque • Swiss People's Party • Swatch • religious persecution

Book Excerpt

 Omar bin Laden: Dad Beat Me 

Terrorist's fourth son describes his childhood in Growing Up bin Laden

Oct 28, 09 11:26 AM CDT
(Newser) - When Omar bin Laden was about to be born, his father got so excited that he lost his keys. When he finally found them after a frantic search, he tore to the hospital at reckless speed in his brand new golden Mercedes. It’s hard for Omar to imagine the... More »

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Islam • Osama bin Laden • book • Omar bin Laden

Glenn Greenwald

GOPers Run 
'Witch Hunt' for Muslim Spies

Advocacy group tries to place Muslim interns in Congress. So?

Oct 16, 09 10:37 AM CDT
(Newser) - Four House Republicans are using a document reprinted in a fringe book on a supposed conspiracy to “Islamize America” to call for an investigation into Muslim “spies” in Congress—spies in the form of interns in congressional offices, that is. How “repugnant” and crazy, writes Glenn Greenwald... More »

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Congress • Islam • House of Representatives • spy • American Muslims • spies • Paul Broun • intern • John Shadegg • Sue Myrick • Council on American-Islamic Relations • David Gaubatz • Trent Franks

 A Quarter of World Is Muslim 

Asia, not Middle East, is center of the world of Islam

Oct 8, 09 5:31 AM CDT
(Newser) - A quarter of the world's population is Muslim, and nearly two-thirds of the religion's adherents live in Asia, according to an extensive new study mapping the world of Islam. Indonesia is the largest Muslim nation, and India, a majority-Hindu country, has the world's third-largest population of Muslims—more than twice... More »

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Islam • Middle East • Christianity • Muslims • religion • Southeast Asia

Interview



 Gitmo Guard: Why 
 I Embraced Islam 

Terry Holdbrooks sympathized with the detainees, and was soon bounced from the army

Oct 7, 09 2:13 PM CDT
(Newser) - Terry Holdbrooks didn’t know anything about Islam when he was assigned to guard the Guantanamo Bay detention center. The lone son of junkie parents, raised by his ex-hippie grandparents, he liked hard drinking, hard rock, and tattoos. But once there he became intensely curious about Islam, wondering how the... More »

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Islam • Guantanamo Bay • soldier • Muslim convert • Terry Holdbrooks

Iranian Clerks Warned to Dress Mannequins in Hijabs

Shopkeepers also told to hide curves

Sep 23, 09 5:21 AM CDT
(Newser) - Iranian shopkeepers have been ordered to dress female mannequins in Muslim hijab head scarves,  and to keep any curves strictly under wraps, reports the BBC. The edict is part of a continuing crackdown on "Western style" dress. The sale of bowties and neck ties, as well as the... More »

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Iran • Islam • clothing • hijabs • mannequin • store

 Houses of Worship 
 Adapt to Swine Flu 

Synagogues, churches, mosques get ready for H1N1

Sep 20, 09 5:56 PM CDT
(Newser) - Places of worship across the country are adjusting holy rituals to head off swine flu, CBS News reports. On the Jewish New Year, one Massachusetts synagogue is skipping handshakes and promoting the use of hand sanitizer—and, in a substantial break from tradition, allowing worshipers to not kiss the Torah.... More »

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Islam • Jews • Muslims • Judaism • Catholicism • mosque • synagogue • Catholics • swine flu • H1N1 virus

(AP) - President Barack Obama praised the contributions of American Muslims tonight at a White House dinner to celebrate the Islamic holy month of Ramadan. Muslim community leaders, Cabinet secretaries, ambassadors and members of Congress were on hand as Obama paid tribute to "a great religion and its commitment to justice... More »

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Islam • White House • Ramadan • American Muslims • President Obama • dinner


 Facebook: Defining 
 Religion in 100 Characters 

From agnostics to Jedis, users wonder how to sum up views

Aug 30, 09 1:08 PM CDT
(Newser) - It could be a quick question: What's your religion? But Facebook’s request for that information has led many to review and revise their beliefs to fit into a 100-character space, the Washington Post reports. Answers range from Christian, Facebook’s most popular belief system, to a professed belief in... More »

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social networking • Islam • Internet • Christianity • religion • Facebook • atheism • agnostic

OPINION

Yale Sides With Dictators by Censoring Cartoons

Muhammad decision
is short-sighted

Aug 29, 09 10:57 AM CDT
(Newser) - Yale University has “handed a victory to extremists” by deciding to pull images of the prophet Muhammad from its upcoming book on the Danish cartoon controversy, writes Mona Eltahawy in the Washington Post. Eltahawy is a Muslim living in Denmark, and she knows full well that the cartoons... More »

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Islam • Yale University • censorship • cartoon • Muhammad • Danish Mohammed cartoons

(Newser) - With the Muslim population in the US booming, the start of Ramadan this weekend will see many worshippers overflowing into borrowed space, from ballrooms to synagogues, the Washington Post reports. The DC area's mosques are bursting at the seams; with the Koran's injunction against borrowing money at interest slowing new... More »

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Islam • mosque • synagogue • Ramadan

(Newser) - An Orlando judge will hear arguments today in the case of Rafqa Bary, a 17-year-old ethnic Sri Lankan who ran away from her Muslim home because she feared her family would punish her for converting to Christianity. The judge will decide whether she should remain in state custody in Florida... More »

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Islam • Christianity • court • Orlando • runaway • convert • Columbus

(Newser) - A Malaysian model sentenced to caning for drinking beer wants her punishment carried out in public, CNN reports. Kartika Sari Dewi Shukarno, 32, will be the first woman to be flogged for alcohol consumption in the Muslim-majority nation. "Let's be transparent" about the punishment, Kartika has insisted. Her father... More »

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Islam • beer • Islamic Sharia law • Malaysia • alcohol consumption • caning • models

(Newser) - A debate on freedom of religion featuring ultra-nationalist zealots is playing out in the most unlikely of places: a sleepy hamlet in Switzerland. A group is trying to block the construction of a 30-foot tall minaret on a mosque in Langenthal (pop. 14,000) because it's a symbol of Islam's... More »

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Islam • religion • Switzerland • minarets • Muslim • mosque • referendum

 Under the Veil, 
 Plastic Surgery 
 Soars in Saudi Arabia 

Clerics, surgeons say Islam approves certain procedures

Aug 3, 09 12:47 PM CDT
(AP) - Does Islam frown on nose jobs or breast implants? Three years ago, clerics and surgeons said certain procedures were sanctioned. The results may not see much light of day in a kingdom where women cover up from head to toe, yet cosmetic surgery is booming. Plastic surgery centers were rare... More »

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Islam • plastic surgery • Saudi Arabia • cosmetic surgery

 Pakistan Muslims 
 Torch Christian 
 Houses; 6 Dead 

Crowd avenges alleged Koran desecration

Aug 2, 09 9:36 AM CDT
(Newser) - Six people are dead after Muslim protesters torched houses in a Christian neighborhood of Pakistan’s Gojra City yesterday, CNN reports. The demonstrators, who were protesting an alleged desecration of the Koran at a Christian wedding last weekend, set fire to between 40 and 50 houses. A crowd burned 15... More »

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Islam • Pakistan • sectarian violence • Muslim • Koran • Christians

(Newser) - A former UN worker who faces possible lashing in Sudan for wearing pants blasted flogging as an "insult" to humans that has nothing to do with Islam and everything to do with "men mistreating women," she tells the Guardian. Lubna Ahmed Hussein and 12 other women were... More »

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Islam • crime • dress code • Sudan • Muslims • Islamic dress code • indecent exposure • court • Koran • flogging • Lubna Ahmed Hussein

(Newser) - The leader of an uprising set on introducing Islamic law in Nigeria died in custody today, the BBC reports. Mohammed Yusuf was captured in his in-laws’ goat pen in Maiduguri—and was later seen standing and with no visible injuries by a Reuters reporter. “He has been killed,”... More »

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Islam • Africa • Nigeria • violence • Islamic law • Shariah • Mohammed Yusuf • police custody

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