
Muslim Voices National Public Radio looking for US Muslim soldiers for an interview on Monday. Contact Jasmine Garsd at jgarsd@npr.org.

Muslim Voices The LAPD had law enforcement sent to area mosques, as Islamic centers have already received some hate emails.
Source: www.npr.org
Muslims say what the alleged shooter did at Fort Hood was a brutal, personal act that could not have been committed in the name of Islam.

Source: www.huffingtonpost.com
Arab and Muslim political groups are bracing themselves for a wave of anger and attacks after news broke on Thursday that the primary suspect behind the shooting deaths of twelve soldiers at Fort Hood had a Arabic and/or Muslim-sounding name. ...

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Dear MV fans: Do you think it is wrong to use the word "Allah" in the place of "God" in the Christian Bible?
Is it a matter of being deceitful, or being multi-cultural?
Source: www.npr.org
The Indonesian-language Bibles, which are still with customs, use the word "Allah" to refer to God, a banned translation in Christian texts in the Muslim-majority country. Church officials say the word "Allah" has been used for centuries to refer generally to God. ...

Muslim Voices Opposition used 30th anniversary of the storming of the US Embassy as a cover for their protests.
Source: ow.ly
Security forces clashed with protesters in Tehran, who used the anniversary of the U.S. Embassy takeover as cover for their first rally in weeks.

Muslim Voices What are some good ways to make a flim about the Prophet Mohammed without actually depicting him?
Source: www.elanthemag.com
elan: The Guide to Global Muslim Culture is the online hub for Muslim professionals to be informed and entertained by the latest in the Muslim community.

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It said the practice violated the right of parents to educate their children as they saw fit, and ran counter to the child's right to freedom of religion.

Source: www.alarabiya.net
More than 1,000 Iranians have been arrested over the past seven months in possession of drugs on their way to Mecca in Saudi Arabia to perform Ummra, or lesser pilgrimage, according to official Iranian sources. ...

Muslim Voices Apparently Mohammed is not really being portrayed according to Islamic rule.
Source: www.alarabiya.net
A film about the Prophet Mohammad backed by the producer of "The Lord of the Rings" and "The Matrix" is under discussion, a Qatar media firm said on Sunday, with the aim of creating an English-language blockbuster for the world's 1.5 billion Muslims. ...

Muslim Voices Great moment: "We're keeping it 'desert'. We're keeping it real."
Source: www.youtube.com
The Gulf state of Qatar is preparing to welcome the Hollywood glitterati onto its shores, for the country's inaugural Doha Tribeca Film Festival. The festival is just one of a host of projects in the country that are aimed at giving a boost to the arts. ...

Muslim Voices New Blog Post: Here's our round-up of the confusing Quran-burning protests.
Source: muslimvoices.org
Hundreds of students held two demonstrations in Kabul this weekend. In fact, there are demonstrations popping up all over Afghanistan this week in reaction to accusations that the U.S. military had burned a copy of the Quran. ...

Muslim Voices
"...the landlords have killed one hostage already and are threatening to
kill the others unless they drop the cases and return to work. The
landlords also abducted Amarchand Bheel, an advocate for the laborers,
as he traveled to court to plead their cause."
Source: www.time.com
As the U.S. prioritizes Islamabad's campaign against the Taliban and other extremists, will Washington press Pakistan to address the plight of its indentured poor?

Muslim Voices
Wear PINK today, ladies, and raise breast cancer awareness among Muslim women!
"In the United States, Muslim women still do not perform breast
self-examinations or seek mammograms at the same rate as the population
at large."
Muslimah Media Watch » The Pink Ladies: Islamic Activism meets Breast Cancer Awareness with Pink Hij
Source: muslimahmediawatch.org
Today is Pink Hijab Day, a day to encourage awareness of breast cancer in conjunction with National Breast Cancer Awareness Month in October. Pink Hijab Day was founded in 2007 by a group of Muslim women ...

Muslim Voices
"I don't expect the same lifestyle I had before, but I expect better than this."
Some refugees have inadequate housing, insufficient access to medical coverage.
Source: www.sltrib.com
Iraqi refugees returning to danger zone to escape poverty in Utah

Muslim Voices Captain Elizabeth Mathias, a media officer for U.S. said the Taliban were spreading the rumor.
Source: www.alarabiya.net
At least one thousand Afghans took to the streets of Kabul on Sunday to protest against what they said was the desecration of a copy of the Quran by foreign troops during a raid last week. As police fired ...






















