tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21928174663796004092011-11-27T17:37:13.753-08:00precisiontextnoreply@blogger.comBlogger11100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2192817466379600409.post-37770057595881480442009-10-19T20:54:00.000-07:002009-10-19T21:00:23.417-07:00<span style="font-size:100%;">The home of a Muslim woman running for US city council elections was vandalized after a picture of her wearing an Islamic headscarf was published. </span><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" ><a href="http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=109052&amp;sectionid=3510203">Continue reading...</a></span> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Young French Rapper Diam’s has converted to Islam, explaining to the French Press, "Medicine was not able to heal my soul, so I turned toward religion." </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" ><o:p></o:p><a href="http://www.saudigazette.com.sa/index.cfm?method=home.regcon&amp;contentID=2009101951948">Continue reading...</a></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;font-family:verdana;"><span class="bodycontent" style="font-size:100%;">Signaling its keenness to keep up with the needs of a growing number of veiled women, <st1:place st="on"><st1:country-region st="on">Egypt</st1:country-region></st1:place> will organize its first hijab (headscarf) contest soon. </span><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.islamonline.net/servlet/Satellite?c=Article_C&amp;cid=1254573334088&amp;pagename=Zone-English-ArtCulture/ACELayout">Continue reading...</a></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-size:100%;">An Iraqi bank has opened a branch entirely dedicated to and operated by women in the holy Shiite Muslim city of <st1:place st="on"><st1:city st="on">Najaf</st1:city></st1:place>, its chief, who admitted even he could not enter, told AFP Monday. </span><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5h25MItOXHqRc-Ji6TuAgAACeYPfw">Continue reading...</a></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Police have questioned a man who admits to writing derogatory remarks about Muslims on the walls of a mosque inside a southwest <st1:place st="on"><st1:city st="on">Houston</st1:city></st1:place> cultural center, but no charges will be filed at the request of the center's leadership. </span><span style=""><o:p></o:p><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" ><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/6671518.html">Continue reading...</a></span><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2192817466379600409-3777005759588148044?l=muslimnewsandviews.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>precisiontextnoreply@blogger.com0