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A Mosque Invisible to Many Is a Target
By SHARON OTTERMAN / NY Times
For the mosque's members, who are largely American-born professionals, some of whom converted from Judaism and Christianity, the harassment has been a painful invasion of their faith
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American Muslims Mosque Terrorism Islamophobia Ramadan
Added: September 04, 2010
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Ramadan Fragrances: Of Body Odors and Perfumes & the Person Praying Besides You
By Umm Reem / muslimmatters.org
The problem arises when the people who attend the
masajid do not take care of themselves, their clothes and their body odor. Let me politely explain my dilemma without offending anyone. I have had days when I really wanted to pay attention to the recitation but couldn't do so because the person standing next to me had a stench of sweat
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American Muslims Mosque Islam Lifestyle Ramadan Perfumes
Added: August 26, 2010
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Opponents fight new mosques in U.S. heartland
By AP / USA TODAY
Muslims trying to build houses of worship in the nation's heartland, far from the heated fight in New York over plans for a mosque near the World Trade Center site, are running into opponents even more hostile and aggressive.
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American Muslims Mosque Islamophobia Religious Bigotry Protests
Added: August 10, 2010
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Broadway and the Mosque
By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN / NY Times
Personally, if I had $100 million to build a mosque that promotes interfaith tolerance, I would not build it in Manhattan. I'd build it in Saudi Arabia or Pakistan. That is where 9/11 came from, and those are the countries that espouse the most puritanical version of Sunni Islam
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American Muslims Mosque 9/11 Culture Diversity
Added: August 04, 2010
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Mosque Controversy: Signs Of Religious Intolerance?
By Dr. Habib Siddiqui / Countercurrents.org
America has been a land of immigrants. It is its religious tolerance that allowed many Jews and others to find a safe refuge here. There is no better symbol of America's tolerance than a Muslim center near the Ground Zero. Denying such rights to Muslims who now are perhaps the second largest religious community will be a slap to that very American model.
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Mosque American Muslims Islamophobia Tolerance 9/11
Added: July 28, 2010
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Heated Opposition to a Proposed Mosque
By PAUL VITELLO / NY Times
In the last few months, Muslim groups have encountered unexpectedly intense opposition to their plans for opening mosques in Lower Manhattan, in Brooklyn and most recently in an empty convent on Staten Island.
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Mosque American Muslims 9/11 Islamophobia Protests
Added: June 11, 2010
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"Little Mosque on the Tundra" - The dream of Inuvik Muslims
By Carol Sanders / Winnipeg Free Press
A 1,554-square-foot mosque is to be prefabricated in Winnipeg and then shipped more than 4,000 kilometres north to its new home in Inuvik, located near the top of the Northwest Territories.
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Mosque Canadian Muslims Arctic Circle
Added: May 13, 2010
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Many Muslims quietly working to head off radicalism
By Eileen Flynn / THE AMERICAN-STATESMAN
"What the mainstream Muslim community-based groups ... can do is strengthen family-based programs, so that the marketplace of potentially vulnerable at-risk youth who could be pulled by a recruiter's message would shrink and therefore limit the growth of the violent extremism movement".
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Radicalization American Muslims Mosque Family
Added: February 12, 2010
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Islam at the London 2012 Olympics
By iMuslim / muslimmatters.org
A clean bathroom for ablution. Maybe a book shelf for some spare mushafs? A reliable compass to work out the
qibla direction. And of course, a nice, sturdy shoe rack.
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Sports Mosque Britain Muslims Olympic Village
Added: January 26, 2010
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The Five Dysfunctions of Islamic Organizations
By ibnabeeomar / muslimmatters.org
Successful organizations must have an environment in place where people are able to call each other out for not living up to their standards. This should be the case whether positions are paid or unpaid. If this accountability is not there, then people begin to simply look out for their own self-interests over and above the interests of the organization.
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Islam Mosque Islamic Organizations Books
Added: January 25, 2010
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