A number of Islamic leaders in New York City boycott Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s annual interfaith breakfast, in protest at reports of spying on Muslims.

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Among the themes of “All-American Muslim,” a cable reality show about the daily lives of five families in Dearborn, Mich., is the suspicion and bias that ordinary Muslims face in a nation uneasy about all things Islamic after Sept. 11, 2001. As it happens, reality has caught up to reality TV. Peppered by a conservative group’s complaints about the program, the Lowe’s home-improvement chain last week pulled its sponsorship — and has been fielding countercomplaints that the company had caved in to the very prejudices faced by the program’s protagonists. Read full article > >

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Reality TV catches up to reality with Muslim show

In May 2010, Intersections International , an interfaith non-profit based in New York City, opened a one-on-one dialogue about the role the LGBT community has within Islam, with about 50 Muslim theologians, religious practitioners, academics and laypeople from U.S. cities with high populations of Muslims, including New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and Dearborn, MI.

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Queer Jihad: The Truth About How American Muslims Feel about LGBT Issues

TLC’s highly anticipated yet oddly restrained new reality series, “All-American Muslim,” approaches its subjects from a starting point of total naivete. That’s because, like most journalistic acts of enterprise regarding U.S. citizens who follow the Islamic faith, it assumes viewers know absolutely nothing about modern Muslims. Read full article > >

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‘All-American Muslim’: An inalienable right to be as dull as anybody else

Home Secretary Theresa May is banning Muslims Against Crusades, a group planning an anti-Armistice Day protest.

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Muslim protest group to be banned

MOSCOW — Tens of thousands of Muslim men knelt shoulder-to-shoulder in prayer on the freezing streets of Moscow on Sunday to celebrate the religious holiday of Eid al-Adha. Estimates of the number of Muslims living or working in the Russian capital run from 2 million to as high as 5 million, but the city only has a few mosques. Read full article > >

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80,000 Muslims pray together on the freezing streets of Moscow to celebrate Eid al-Adha

Footage of the beheading of British hostage Ken Bigley was found in the home of a Birmingham bookshop owner accused of “priming” Muslims for terrorism, a jury hears.

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Beheading films ‘found at home’

Footage of the beheading of British hostage Ken Bigley was found in the home of a Birmingham bookshop owner accused of “priming” Muslims for terrorism, a jury hears.

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Beheading films ‘found at home’

Austrian politician Gerhard Kurzmann is cleared of charges of inciting religious hatred after posting a computer game in which players shot at Muslims and mosques.

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Ahmed Faraz, a Birmingham bookshop owner, goes on trial accused of “priming” Muslims for terrorism by distributing extremist books and videos.

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Bookshop owner on terror charges

QUETTA, Pakistan — Suspected Sunni extremists executed 12 Shiite Muslims after ordering them off a bus and lining them up in southwestern Pakistan on Tuesday, ramping up a campaign of sectarian violence gripping the region, police said. Sunni militants with links to al-Qaida and the Taliban have carried out scores of bombings and shootings across the country against minority Shiites in recent years, but the past couple weeks in Baluchistan province have been particularly bloody. Read full article > >

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Suspected Sunni extremists attack Shiite Muslims in southwest Pakistan, killing 13 people

One day after al-Qaeda leader Anwar al-Awlaki was killed by a U.S. drone strike in Yemen, Northern Virginia Muslims he once worshiped alongside gathered for an event that was both a community gathering and an effort to portray a version of Islam much different from the one he espoused. The timing of Saturday’s annual Civic Picnic of the All Dulles Muslim Society (ADAMS) in Sterling, which attracted about 200 people, was purely coincidental. But in recent years, it has become an important component of the community’s outreach efforts. Read full article > >

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Picnic showcases mainstream Islam in Northern Virginia

Thousands of Muslims are expected at a peace conference at London’s Wembley Arena to condemn terrorism, organisers say.

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Thousands of Muslims are expected at a peace conference at London’s Wembley Arena to condemn terrorism, organisers say.

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For more than a century, Moscow’s Muslims have found affirmation in their Cathedral Mosque, painted in a minty pastel so evocative of the city’s cherished old buildings, with a golden crescent high above, proclaiming their identity. On Thursday, the mosque — built by Tatar Muslims who have lived in Russia for a thousand years — was a pile of splintered wood, shattered brick and billowing plaster. Read full article > >

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Moscow destroys central mosque