Iowa company: US probe into whether it falsely labeled items as halal could damage business

IOWA CITY, Iowa — The maker of a popular brand of food for observant Muslims says it is facing a potentially crippling investigation into whether it falsely labeled meat products as processed in compliance with Islamic law. The Midamar Corp. said in federal court documents that investigators seized its main bank account and business records…

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Agent: Chemicals, other bomb-making material found in Saudi man’s apartment

AMARILLO, Texas — Federal agents who searched the Texas apartment of a Saudi man accused of gathering materials to make a bomb found sulfuric acid and nitric acid, among other things, an FBI agent testified Friday. During the first day of testimony in the trial of Khalid Ali-M Aldawsari, Special Agent Aaron Covey walked jurors…

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NYPD’s Muslim surveillance extended well beyond New York

NEWARK, N.J. — The report was stamped top secret. Inside was a confidential dossier compiled by the New York Police Department documenting “locations of concern” in Newark — the city’s 44 mosques, Muslim-owned restaurants and businesses and Islamic schools. In 2007, the NYPD began an undercover spy operation within New Jersey’s largest city to find…

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Plans for Islamic Shopping Centre

09./ 12./ 13.01.2012 Noura A. , a Muslim business woman in Hamburg/ Harburg, is planning on opening the first “Islamic Shopping Center” in a vacant property that was previously used as a restaurant. She is already advertising for business partners who want to rent parts of the property – and focuses exclusively on Muslim partners….

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Popular TV program, Little Mosque on the Prairie, cancelled

News Agencies – January 6, 2012 Little Mosque on the Prairie, the gentle CBC satire about a Muslim community in the fictional small town of Mercy, Sask., that will be entering its sixth and final season on Monday. “We all know, in this industry, that every show has a life span,” says Manoj Sood who…

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