By Dr. Muqtedar Khan / The Washington Post Books are repositories of histories, of identities, of values. They are the soul of civilization. A society must abandon basic decencies in order to muster the immoral courage to burn books as a celebratory act. Once it starts burning the souls of civilization, human souls will not be left behind.

Categories: al-Qur'an  Religious Bigotry  Anti-Islam  Propaganda  American Muslims  

Added: September 08, 2010

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By LAURIE GOODSTEIN / NY Times This year, Sept. 11 coincides with the celebration of Eid, the finale to Ramadan, which usually lasts three days. But Muslim leaders, in this climate, said they wanted to avoid appearing to be celebrating on the anniversary of 9/11.

Categories: American Muslims  9/11  Eid al-Fitr  Islamophobia  

Added: September 06, 2010

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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

Categories: American Muslims  Mosque  Terrorism  Islamophobia  Ramadan  

Added: September 04, 2010

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By Peter Finn / Washington Post Staff Writer Two Yemeni men who flew from Chicago to Amsterdam and were detained Monday in the Netherlands on suspicion of planning a terrorist act do not appear to be involved in any conspiracy and did not know each other before they were arrested

Categories: Terrorism  Anti-Islam  Propaganda  American Muslims  Yemen  

Added: September 01, 2010

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By STANLEY FISH / NY Times The New York Post declares, the stabbing is "the act of a disturbed individual who is now in custody," and across the fold of the page columnist Jonah Goldberg says that "one assault doesn't a national trend make" and insists that "we shouldn't let anyone suggest that this criminal reflects anybody but himself."

Categories: Double Standards  Discrimination  Islamophobia  Media Bias  American Muslims  

Added: September 01, 2010

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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

Categories: American Muslims  Mosque  Islam  Lifestyle  Ramadan  Perfumes  

Added: August 26, 2010

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By Dr. Habib Siddiqui /Countercurrents.org As noted by many experts, Islamophobia has become this century's anti-Semitism, and must be stopped by every means available. By refusing to elect the messengers and promoters of hatred and religious intolerance, American voters can start the very process of nailing a deathblow to this mortal enemy of mankind.

Categories: Islamophobia  The US  Europe  Religious Bigotry  American Muslims  

Added: August 24, 2010

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By Hina Khan-Mukhtar / muslimmatters.org Who can forget the one auntie who always hosted the Jumat-al-Wida (farewell Friday of Ramadan) iftar in her spacious home? The children could always be found congregating around the cold-coffee urns set up in her backyard, eagerly vying with one another to be the first to taste the whipped cream-filled-dates set out on silver trays.

Categories: Ramadan  Islam  American Muslims  Eid Celebrations  Traditions  

Added: August 21, 2010

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By ROSS DOUTHAT / NT Times Two Americas, one based on religious liberty and the other on cultural assimilation, are in tension again in the debate over a mosque near ground zero

Categories: American Muslims  Double Standards  Immigrants  Islamophobia  Assimilation  

Added: August 16, 2010

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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.

Categories: American Muslims  Mosque  Islamophobia  Religious Bigotry  Protests  

Added: August 10, 2010

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