Muslim-Hindu punk rock bands part of new movement

Artwork from the Punjab state of India decorates the Ray family home. A Johann Sebastian Bach statue sits on a piano. But in the basement — cluttered with wires, old concert fliers and drawings — 25-year-old Arjun Ray is fighting distortion from his electric guitar. Complete Story...

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Mich. Muslims join Jews for Christmas Day Mitzvah

Many Jews consider Christmas Day an opportunity to serve their community while Christian neighbors celebrate their holiday. This year, what's also known as Mitzvah Day in southeast Michigan is getting an added boost from Muslims.

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Report: Hasan asked about killing GIs in '08

A radical Muslim cleric claims Army psychiatrist Maj. Nidal Hasan asked him about killing American soldiers nearly a year before Hasan allegedly shot to death 13 fellow soldiers at Fort Hood.

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Lawmaker plans bill to ban all-encompassing veil

A French parliamentarian said Tuesday he would file legislation to bar Muslim women from wearing veils that hide their faces in public.

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Swiss Muslims protest minaret ban

Around 700 Swiss Muslims peacefully protested against their country's minaret ban on Saturday, with speakers denouncing what they called a hate campaign against Islam.

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Sentencing delayed in US terror-funding case

An Arizona man facing prison time for lying to authorities in a terrorism-funding investigation could have been a big help to authorities because of his past involvement with a Muslim charity that aided Hamas, an FBI agent testified Friday.

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Philippines, Muslim rebels resume peace talks

The Philippine government and a Muslim separatist group Tuesday resumed peace talks that collapsed 16 months ago, restoring formal efforts to end a decades-long rebellion that has claimed at least 120,000 lives.

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In WA, old mining town elects a Muslim mayor

Granite Falls residents are suspicious of any newcomers, let alone a Muslim native of Pakistan who moved to this rugged, blue-collar mining town to open his own bar.

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Sarkozy: No place for burqas in France

French President Nicolas Sarkozy says there is no place for full face and body veils such as the burqa, or for the debasement of women, in France.

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Canadian Muslim group calls for burka ban

A Canadian Muslim organization is urging the Canadian government to ban traditional Muslim garments designed to cover a woman's face, saying they are medieval and misogynist symbols of extremism with no basis in Islam.

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Muslims celebrate feast ending daily Ramadan fasts

A look at how Muslims around the world began celebrating Eid al-Fitr, a three-day feast that marks the end of the holy fasting month of Ramadan.

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Obama extends greetings on Muslim holiday

President Barack Obama is extending greetings to Muslims celebrating Eid al-Fitr (ayd ahl-FIH'-tur), which marks the end of the holy monthlong fasting time known as Ramadan.

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Philippine Muslim rebels warn of new fighting

The Philippines' largest Muslim rebel group warned Saturday that fighting could break out again if efforts to revive peace talks fail, saying a new truce remains fragile.

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Va. synagogue doubles as mosque during Ramadan

On Friday afternoons, the people coming to pray at this building take off their shoes, unfurl rugs to kneel on and pray in Arabic. The ones that come Friday evenings put on yarmulkes, light candles and pray in Hebrew.

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Play about Muslim life debuts on 9/11

One of the first plays about Muslim-Americans in the United States debuts in a time and place rich with symbolism: Sept. 11 in New York City.

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EEOC says Muslim workers suffered discrimination

Federal officials says a JBS Swift & Co. meatpacking plant in Colorado was wrong to fire more than 100 Muslim workers who walked out during Ramadan last year in a dispute over prayer breaks.

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Advocates: EEOC rules in Muslims' Neb. plant issue

Muslim advocates said Friday that federal officials determined a Nebraska meatpacking plant wasn't doing enough to accommodate the religious needs of its Muslim workers but stopped short of laying out specific recommendations.

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Filipino troops clash with gunmen near resorts

Philippine troops clashed with about 30 Muslim gunmen who took over a remote islet near southwestern beach resorts popular with foreign tourists, killing at least seven and capturing two, officials said Wednesday.

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Muslim ex-inmate settles prison treatment lawsuit

A former inmate who accused federal prison workers in Illinois of defiling his Quran and torturing him with a nightstick when he complained has settled his civil rights lawsuit for $48,000, one of his attorneys said Thursday.

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Georgia courts to allow religious head coverings

Georgia courtrooms will allow religious headgear after last year's arrest of a Muslim woman who refused to remove her headscarf in a west Georgia courthouse.

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Philippine rebels rule out talks despite truce

Muslim rebels said Friday they will only resume peace talks if an international body guarantees an autonomy deal with the Philippine government despite President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo's order for her troops to hold fire.

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NYC Muslims push to add holidays to school year

Moneeb Hassan remembers having to choose between a final exam in American history or celebrating the Muslim holy day of Eid al-Adha. In the end, he chose both.

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Filipino rebels claim killing hundreds of troops

Muslim rebels in the southern Philippines said Thursday they have killed more than 500 government troops in 10 months of fighting since the collapse of peace talks, a claim the military dismissed as propaganda.

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African singer criticized by Muslims plays in NYC

An African music star who ignited worldwide controversy among fellow Muslims with one of his albums was in the city Saturday to perform at an arts festival aimed at spreading a deeper understanding of Islam.

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Philippine troops seize Muslim rebel camp, kill 30

Government troops seized a Muslim separatist rebel camp Saturday following three days of fighting that left 30 guerrillas dead, a Philippine military spokesman said.

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A Muslim extremist group that is active in Britain and supports terrorism plans to have a protest march through Wooton Basset, carrying symbolic coffins to protest "the brutal British military".

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Dr Elias Akleh: "A fully pre-meditated international crime of genocide has been taking place during the last 62 years in the heart of the Arab World. The victims are the Palestinian people especially those in the Gaza Strip"

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"The Europe as you know it from visiting, from your parents or friends is on the verge of collapsing," Geert Wilders said in a speech in the United States last year.

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White House counterterrorism adviser John Brennan was briefed in October on an assassination attempt by Al Qaeda that investigators now believe used the same underwear bombing technique as the Nigerian suspect who tried to blow up Northwest Airlines Flight 253 on Christmas Day, U …

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It is true that at least 10 percent of Muslims believe in conducting jihad against people of other faiths -- especially the U.S.

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Authorities said body imagining machines would have prevented suspected underwear bomber from boarding Northwest Flight 253.

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Attorney John Galligan said he planned to meet with Maj. Nidal Hasan and one of his relatives Thursday in his room at a San Antonio military hospital, where Hasan is undergoing rehabilitation for his wounds that left him paralyzed.

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"Today is the second worst day of my life after 12-25-09. Today is the day that I realized that my own country is lying to me and all of my fellow Americans. Let me explain.

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In response to a Nigerian Muslim trying to blow up a flight from Amsterdam to Detroit on Christmas Day, the government will now prohibit international travelers from going to the bathroom in the last hour before the plane lands.

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I've recently enjoyed a debate presented by FORA between a scholar of Islamic and middle eastern studies, Daniel Pipes and Syrian born psychologist, Dr. Wafa Sultan.

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The election of the first black U.S. president led to a slew of racially charged comments that were truly shocking, but that's only the tip of the right-wing iceberg.

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"case of "dishumanitarian intervention" or "humanitarian extermination" by the United States and Israel against the Palestinians and Palestine. In today's world genocide pays so long as it is done at the behest of the US"

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President Obama...often seems mired in the past..., letting his hallmark legislation get loaded up with old-school bribes and pork; surrounding himself with Clintonites; continuing the Bushies' penchant for secrecy and expansive executive privilege; doubling down in Afghanistan …

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Briton's appalled at China for execution of heroin drug smuggler. Nine pounds of heroin found in his suitcase.

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Security from Terrorism.. Politically Correct or Safe? Should all be Screened Equally?

Should airport security strip search a 90 year old from Iceland or should they concentrate on young men from Islamic countries? On Christmas day 2009 Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab attempted to bring down the airplane he was on with a chemical explosive he carried on his body.

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The Iranian government has responded to these demonstrations with increasing violence — even on the holy day of Ashura, the culmination of the Muharram observances.

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Al-Qaeda claimed the failed December 25 bombing of a US-bound aircraft in a statement picked up by US monitors Monday as the jihadists threatened attacks on Western targets and Yemen vowed no let-up in its campaign against them.

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The right wing's predictable policy prescription in the aftermath of any terror incident is to impose greater ethnic profiling of Muslims. For instance, following the Ft.

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Nigeria bomber's home town blames foreign schooling FUNTUA, Nigeria (Reuters) - For residents in his home town, it was Umar Abdulmutallab's foreign education, not his roots in Muslim northern Nigeria, that radicalized him and led him to try to blow up a U.S. passenger plane.

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CAIRO -- An al Qaeda operative in Yemen threatened the United States and said "we are carrying a bomb" in a video posted online four days before the botched Christmas Day attempt to blow up a Northwest Airlines flight.

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KERBALA, Iraq (Reuters) - The Shi'ite Muslim religious festival of Ashura passed without major violence in Iraq on Sunday, after tight security was deployed to safeguard millions from the bloody attacks that marred past pilgrimages. World

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In his article, "The De Reys (1220-1501): The Evolution of a 'Middle-Class' Muslim Family in Christian Aragon", Brian A.

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With his wealth, privilege and education at one of Britain's leading universities, Abdul Farouk Abdulmutallab had the world at his feet – able to choose from a range of futures in which to make his mark on the world.

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The father of a Nigerian charged with trying to blow up a US jet on Christmas Day had voiced concerns to US officials about his son, it has emerged. The father, a top Nigerian banker, warned US authorities weeks ago about 23-year-old Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab's extreme religious …

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Religious groups urging civility Shouting, rudeness on TV and at public forums prompts a faith statement on discourse By BRUCE NOLAN RELIGION NEWS SERVICE First published in print: Saturday, December 26, 2009 NEW ORLEANS -- It's gotten ugly out there in the public square  …

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