PRESS-ENTERPRISE.COM 10:07 PM PST on Tuesday, February 7, 2006 The worldwide flap over a series of cartoons published in a Danish newspaper was avoidable had all sides approached the issue wisely. A Danish newspaper published cartoons that depicted Islam’s most revered personality, Prophet Muhammad, in a light that was inaccurate, derogatory and...

DALLAS MORNING NEWS, PROVIDENCE JOURNAL, FREDERICKSBURG.COM AND OTHERS. http://fredericksburg.com/News/FLS/2006/032006/03302006/175209 WASHINGTON–The recent hyste ria surrounding the approval of a Dubai firm to manage parts of several American ports demonstrates how fear of Islam, or “Islamophobia,” can overpower rational discourse and harm our...

http://www.utne.com/pub/2005_132/features/11859-1.html November / December 2005By David Schimke, Utne magazine In the wake of the terrorist attacks that shook London’s transit system on July 7, a proclamation against all things extremist was drafted by a group of North American Muslim scholars and signed by some 250 Islamic organizations. It was not the first...

Tampa Tribune, 11/6/06 The Hillsborough County School Board’s recent vote to drop Christian and Jewish holidays from the school calendar creates a very negative precedent for reasonable religious accommodation in the state’s education system. The Council on American- Islamic Relations, which has been at the forefront of the Muslim community’s...

WORK WITH MAINSTREAM MUSLIMS TO DEFEAT EXTREMISM by Dr. Parvez Ahmed Star Tribune, 8/19/05 http://www.startribune.com/stories/1519/5567821.html Why are some Muslims willing to kill in the name of their faith, despite clear Islamic injunctions against committing such heinous acts? The debate usually boils down to “they hate us” versus “they hate...