| Church of England vicar jailed for marriage scam
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Reuters - A Church of England vicar who oversaw hundreds of sham marriages to help migrants settle illegally in Britain was jailed for four years on Monday. |
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| Muslims tread carefully around proposed mosque near ground zero
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The Christian Science Monitor - American Muslims are treading carefully through the political minefield surrounding the proposed Islamic center near ground zero in New York â issuing warnings but not wanting to overreact to a recent series of desecrations and vandalism at mosques around the country, encouraging adherents to participate in a â9/11 National Day of Service and Remembrance,â and changing plans for celebrating the end of Ramadan. |
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| Muslims take to Minn. State Fair to repair image
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 AP - Despite the smells of fried dough and roasted meat wafting from the Minnesota State Fair, Salim and Zuleyha Ozonder were focused on the people who were leaving, not the food or festivities beckoning from across the street.
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| The man behind the mosque near ground zero: Who is Feisal Abdul Rauf?
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The Christian Science Monitor - A week after 9/11, Feisal Abdul Rauf, the imam of a mosque close to the still-smoldering World Trade Center ruins, invited other religious leaders to his regular prayer service. He was trying to show that Islam is a welcoming faith, not an angry one. |
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| CA university upholds suspension of Muslim group
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AP - The University of California, Irvine has upheld its decision to suspend a campus Muslim group after some of its members disrupted a speech by the Israeli ambassador at a campus event. |
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| EU trade chief apologizes for Jewish comments
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AP - The EU's trade chief apologized Friday for blaming Jews and the "Jewish lobby" in Washington for blocking Mideast peace as the embarrassed EU head office quickly distanced itself from his comments. |
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| NY Catholic, Jewish, Muslim police tour Holy Land
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 Reuters - Brian Reilly's visit to Jerusalem had a special touch this year because Jewish and Muslim colleagues joined him at the site believed to be where Jesus Christ was crucified and buried.
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| Back from the USSR, Judaism enjoys German renaissance
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 AFP - Judaism is making a comeback in Germany 65 years after the Holocaust, thanks largely to immigration from the ex-Soviet Union, as shown by the ordination in Leipzig this week of two rabbis.
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| Farrakhan supports planned mosque near ground zero
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AP - Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan said Thursday an Islamic community center and mosque planned near ground zero should be built because Muslims were among those of many faiths who died in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. |
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| Paris mosque slams burger chain's Muslim outreach
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 AP - Note to big companies hoping to tap into France's lucrative but long-neglected Muslim consumer market: Pitfalls may await, and not only in the form of complaints from the far-right.
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| John Walker Lindh seeks Ind. prison prayer ruling
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 AP - American-born Taliban fighter John Walker Lindh and another Muslim inmate have asked a judge to order a federal prison to allow them and other Muslims in their highly restricted cell block to pray as a group, in accordance with their beliefs.
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| Builders of NYC mosque face financial hurdles
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 AP - The developers planning to build a $100 million Islamic center near the World Trade Center site still have financial hurdles to clear: They haven't finished buying all the property they want for the project and are nearly a quarter-million dollars behind on real estate taxes and late fees.
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