McLEAN, Va. — An Oregon man who traveled by train and boat from the West Coast to England because of his apparent placement on the no-fly list has been detained in Great Britain. Michael Migliore, a 23-year-old Muslim convert, tried unsuccessfully for months to fly to Italy, where he planned to live with his mother….
In Camp Pendleton, CA, Ms. Denise Hazime, a Muslim woman, and her husband, a Marine veteran, opened an Arabic food stand on the largest Marine base on the US West Coast. The business has particularly attracted Marines returning from Iraq and the Persian Gulf.
Unease with Pope Benedict XVI’s approach to Islam has led a US Muslim group to decline to join an inter-faith event with the pope later this week. Salam al-Marayati, executive director of the Los Angels based Muslim Public Affairs Council, said that the event seemed “more ceremonial than substantive” and his organization would not participate….
