Right at home: U.S. mosques are often more Middle America than Middle East

Tucked into the corner of a series of industrial parks in West Valley City, the Khadeeja Islamic Center’s golden dome and minaret might strike some passersby as out of place, even foreign to this American suburb where the dominant architectural features are grey box stores and white church steeples. To be sure, the Islamic Center…

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Muslims celebrate the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee

8 June 2012   The largest Muslim body in the UK, the Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) has welcomed the Queen’s 60-year reign.  In a press release they praised the tolerance and equality that the Queen promoted in the country which helped the Muslim community to become a part of the society.

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Dutch Court Rules Against Lawyer’s Refusal to Shake Hands

10 April 2012   A Dutch court has ruled in favour of the Rotterdam council, after it refused a Muslim lawyer a job for his refusal to shake hands with women. Mohammed Enait had applied for the job of client manager in the social services department, noting that he would not shake hands with women…

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Hindus, Sikhs, Muslims blast Rick Santorum on ‘equality’ comment

Muslims, Sikhs and Hindus are accusing Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum of bigotry and ignorance after he said that “equality” is solely a Judeo-Christian concept. “Where do you think the concept of equality comes from?” Santorum said on the campaign trail last Friday (Jan. 20). “It doesn’t come from Islam. It doesn’t come from the…

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CAIR to Santorum: Christians, Jews, Muslims Worship the Same God

WASHINGTON, Jan. 21, 2012 — GOP presidential hopeful claims concept of equality ‘doesn’t come from Islam,’ but from ‘the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.’ WASHINGTON, Jan. 21, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s leading Muslim civil liberties organization, today condemned “inaccurate and offensive” remarks by GOP presidential hopeful Rick…

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