Let's start with a simple answer to a simple question: No, Androscoggin Bank is not offering interest-free loans to members of the Islamic community -- or to anyone else. The confusion was generated when the Sun Journal published a column written by a Bates College student. The opinion piece described a class project in cultural anthropology that examined issues related to banking among Muslims.
Public opinion surveys of Muslims in the Middle East and the West suggest the difficulty of countering the message of violent extremists to those inclined to hate the United States and the West for perceived oppression against Muslims.3 A survey conducted in the United Kingdom in the spring of 2006 indicated that a small but significant minority supported the July 2005 attacks there.4 It also revealed that a majority of Muslims in the Middle East still believe that the 9/11 attacks were a Mossad plot,5 even after Usama Bin Ladin publicly claimed credit. [...] Adam Gadahn (aka Azzam the American), a California native who converted to Islam and supports al Qaeda and Islamic extremism, wrote in his conversion story that Jesus was, at best, the Son of God and not someone who individuals sh...
Nafeesah Habeeb, a pioneer in the establishment of an Islamic community in West Valley more than 60 years ago, died Monday in The Pines nursing home in Machias. She was 89. Born Novella Ballard in Summerton, N.C., she migrated to Buffalo as a youngster and attended a Christian church on Clinton Avenue, across the street from where a group of Muslims met on Sundays.
Ministers, Virginia Tech administrators and everyday people reached out to the New River Valley Islamic community Friday through a number of gestures intended to quell alarming - but unconfirmed - reports of Muslim and Middle Eastern residents becoming targets of hatred. Ever since government officials began pointing toward Islamic militants as suspects in this week's terrorist attacks, Muslims and people of Middle Eastern descent have said there has been a tension in the air on Virginia Tech's campus.
Inside Displaced plane people have fond memories / 9B Post-9/ 11 wars boost Black Hawk maker / 9B Members of the local Islamic community were touched by the support they received following the tragic terrorist attacks that occurred Sept. 11, 2001.
By MARK JOHNSON Friday was Eid al-Adha, the Muslim festival of sacrifice, and Amir Khan joined several thousand local Muslims who gathered in a vast hall at the Wisconsin Exposition Center at State Fair Park for a morning of prayer and celebration.
A mosque and Islamic community center planned near ground zero in Manhattan stoked a storm of controversy. The construction of a mosque in Murfreesboro, Tenn., spawned an arson attack at the building site and a lawsuit questioning whether Islam is a religion.
Imam Talib Abdur Rashid, of the Harlem-based Mosque of Islamic Brotherhood, said that he knew [Malik P. Murray Abdul Quddus] for 20 years when he first accepted Islam. "He came by to see me after his first trip to Africa," the cleric recalled. During his tenures in Senegal, West Africa, Abdul Quddus learned to speak fluent Wolof, a principal indigenous West African language. The Imam noted that the victim worked as a librarian at Columbia University's law library. He said, "One of his colleagues there told me that he was the library's unofficial expert on Islamic law." Abdul Quddus had envisioned instituting a community Islamic library and had collected immense volumes of books, manuscripts, tapes, films and other related materials in his home.
susanwilliams@wvgazette.com The Rev. Esber Tweel's faith and his experience with martial arts help him to deal with his physical problems.
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