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This is a request to support a Muslim professional in the area of film-making. Lena Khan, the Producer of “A Land Called Paradise,” needs financial support in carrying out her next project targeted towards a series of Obama political commercials based on the popular Get a Mac ads.
Many filmmakers have given up early in [...]

Wow… i cant believe it took them this long to figure this out…
Nonetheless, it is great that the US Government has finally realized this and will i’A incorporate this into their language. Not only may these misappropriately used words (jihad, mujahideen, etc.) promote extremists to take on these misconstrued conceptions of these [...]

Mashallah, InFocus, a Muslim Newspaper based in Southern California has recently acquired
the means to expand and go national. They’re looking for writers and other staffers to help distribute the paper, etc. Here is the official letter from the newspaper:
Assalam Alaikum!
Hopefully, you are all familiar with InFocus, the largest Muslim newspaper in California – and [...]

Subhanallah, stories like this make me so ashamed of my country. I cannot understand how anyone in this country can justify Guantanamo Bay. Making up charges, torturing… it is an unconstitutional discrimatory prison (ALL Detainees are Muslim), and it must be shut down immediately! And to think, there are probably hundreds of cases of [...]

Illume Magazine, a rapidly growing American Muslim magazine is having a fund raising banquet on December 2nd featuring an impressive lineup of speakers including Imam Suhaib Webb and Imam Zaid Shakir, and other Muslim leaders from the media. If you are in the area, I highly recommend you attend the event and support Illume Media! [...]

Source: NYTimes (October 29, 2007)
In America’s darkest hour, Franklin Delano Roosevelt urged the nation not to succumb to “nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror.” But that was then.
Today, many of the men who hope to be the next president — including all of the candidates with a significant chance of receiving the Republican nomination — have made [...]

This week’s Newsweek Magazine features a special report on Islam in America. The cover of the magazine features several local New York Area Muslims including NYPD Chaplain, Khalid Latif!
Islam in America
Islam in America: A Special Report
The Ideals We Share
Internet Imams: Inside the Cyber-Jihad
What It’s Like to Wear the Hijab in the U.S.
On [...]

Michael Moore demands an apology from CNN for Dr. Sanjay Gupta’s biased reporting on ‘SiCKO’ and for helping the Bush administration lie us into a pointless war.

Source: Countdown with Keith Olbermann

It is nearly July 4th, Mr. Bush, the commemoration of the moment we Americans decided that rather than live under a King who made up the laws, or erased them, or ignored them—or commuted the sentences of those rightly convicted under them—we would force our independence, and regain our sacred freedoms.
We [...]

Source: NYTimes (Thanks to Sulayman for the link)
June 1, 2007
A Growing Demand for the Rare American Imam
By NEIL MacFARQUHAR
MISSION VIEJO, Calif. — Sheik Yassir Fazaga regularly uses a standard American calendar to provide inspiration for his weekly Friday sermon.
Around Valentine’s Day this year, he talked about how the Koran endorses romantic love within certain ethical [...]

Source: NYTimes
By LOUISE STORY
For years, few advertisers in the United States have dared to reach out to Muslims.
Either they did not see much potential for sales or they feared a political backlash. And there were practical reasons: Muslim-Americans come from so many ethnic backgrounds that their only common ground is their religion, a subject [...]

Update:CAIR Board Chairman Parvez Ahmed appears on Al-Jazeera (English) to discuss a recent poll on Muslim public opinion about the United States

Source: The Daily Times (Pakistan) -
Original Source: World Public Opinion (link to full report here)
* Only 3 percent of Pakistanis think Al Qaeda conducted 9/11 attacks *
LAHORE: An in-depth poll of [...]

Source: NYTimes Magazine (found on multiple blogs: Usma, Danya, Amir…])
By CARLA POWER
Published: February 25, 2007
For Muslims and non-Muslims alike, the stock image of an Islamic scholar is a gray-bearded man. Women tend to be seen as the subjects of Islamic law rather than its shapers. And while some opportunities for religious education do exist for [...]

hmm… the way things are headed in this country (The US), the thought of moving up to Canada seems quite appealing.
CANADIANS SHOW LEAST BIAS TOWARD MUSLIMS -
Survey looked at 23 Western countries
Randy Boswell, CanWest News Service, 2/8/07
Canadians are least likely among citizens of 23 Western countries to be bigoted toward Muslims, according to a new [...]