JACKSONVILLE TIMES UNIONhttp://www.jacksonville.com/tu-online/stories/012906/opl_vessays.shtmlLast modified Sun., January 29, 2006 – 03:39 AMOriginally created Sunday, January 29, 2006 The announcement that Rev. Jerry Vines is stepping down from the helm of First Baptist Church has elicited mixed reactions within the American Muslim community. While...

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...