Man confesses to Missouri mosque and clinic fires, prosecutors say

October 22, 2013   A Missouri man has confessed to twice trying to set a Planned Parenthood Clinic on fire and also admitted to setting a blaze that destroyed a mosque in the same town in 2012, federal prosecutors said in court documents filed on Monday. When Jedediah Stout, 29, was charged Friday with two…

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Chicago is ground zero in U.S. Muslim renaissance

CHICAGO — Religious affiliation may be on the wane in America, a recent Pew study asserts, but you wouldn’t know it walking into the storefront near the corner of West 63rd Street and South Fairfield Avenue.   Inside a former bank in a neighborhood afflicted with gang violence, failed businesses and empty lots, a team…

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Dentist in Netherlands Keeps Special Ramadan Hours

August 4 2011 A dentist in the Hague is opening his clinic at night during the month of Ramadan to serve patients unable to attend his practice during the day. Fasting , including refraining from swallowing saliva, during daylight hours prevents some Muslims from attending the dentist. After speaking with a local Imam Peter Thiel…

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Arrest made in suspected central California hate crime

MADERA, Calif. — The FBI has arrested a 37-year-old school bus driver suspected of vandalizing a central California mosque and firebombing a Planned Parenthood clinic last year, authorities said.

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Dutch Hospital Preemptively Removes Paintings of Pigs

A hospital in the Dutch city of Leerdam has removed three paintings depicting pigs, on the grounds that they may offend Muslim patients. The removal followed a complaint by a non-Muslim patient that the images could be offensive. The clinic subsequently removed the pictures because “all visitors must feel comfortable in the institution.”

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