Religious minorities slam retaining Islam as state religion (6-30-11)
From Anisur Rahman Dhaka, Jun 30 (PTI) Religious minorities, including Hindus, in Bangladesh today slammed the approval of the 15th constitutional amendment bill that retain Islam as the state religion as it was against the secular character of the 1972 constitution.Bangladesh's Parliament approved the 15th Amendment Bill 2011 that scraps the controversial nonpartisan caretaker system to conduct general elections and also retains Islam as the state religion.

Slaughter Ban Angers Dutch Muslims, Jews (6-29)
The Dutch parliament voted Tuesday, June 28, in favor of a proposed ban on the ritual slaughter of animals, to the anger of Muslim and Jewish minorities in the European country.

Billionaire Naguib Sawiris' Mickey tweet 'mocks Islam' (6-29)
A billionaire telecoms mogul has been accused of ‘making fun of Muslims’ after he tweeted a cartoon of a bearded Mickey Mouse and Minnie in a full-body ‘niqab’ veil.

Muslim Rep. Ellison draws anti-Muslim Tea Party challenger (6-28)
Keith Ellison, one of two Muslim members of Congress, has drawn a Tea Party challenger who says she is running because she believes Ellison is a "radical Islamist."

Egypt: Two Christian Girls Kidnapped And Forced To Convert To Islam (6-27)
Of course if these were Muslim women being kidnapped and forced to covert to Christianity we’d never hear the end of it, but since the victims are Christian there isn’t a peep out of western governments.

Sawiris criticized for displaying Islam-related cartoon on his Twitter account (6-27)
Naguib Sawiris, co-founder of the Free Egyptians Party, at his meeting with members of the Front Party on Sunday, was criticized for displaying cartoons on his Twitter account that they found disparaging to Islam.

Importing Islam from America (6-27)
When Jesus is pitched against Mohamad, the winner may be APN Outdoor billboards.

Author’s ‘Allah’ implores Muslims to think freely (6-25)
The irrepressible Irshad Manji, Islam’s enfant terrible, is at it again.

Dutch Court Acquits Anti-Islam Lawmaker (6-23)
Dutch far-right member of parliament Geert Wilders was acquitted of all charges in his hate speech trial in Amsterdam. Judges found the populist politician’s comments against Islam may be offensive to many, but that they fall within the scope of protected free speech.

Evangelical Leaders See Secularism as Greater Threat Than Islam (6-22)
Despite many who have criticized Islam, Evangelical leaders around the world say they do not see Muslims as as much of a threat to their faith as secularism and popular culture.

Bangladesh moves to retain Islam as state religion (6-21)
From Anisur Rahman Dhaka, Jun 21 (PTI) Bangladesh is likely to retain Islam as the state religion, amid growing pressure from religious minorities and civil society groups to restore the secular character of the 1972 constitution.

The three dimensions of Islam (6-20)
Muslims possess two main visions in the contemporary world: Official Islam and Civilian Islam.

Florida pastor Terry Jones returning to Michigan to protest Islam (6-17)
Terry Jones, the Quran-burning pastor from Florida, is to lead a three-hour rally against Islam today at Dearborn City Hall followed by a 2-mile walk to the Arab International Festival, where he will further speak out.

Caring Less About CAIR (6-16)
The Council on American-Islamic Relations, or CAIR, is getting a lot of face time these days.

Law Enforcement Officials at King Hearing Claim Radical Islam Infiltrating U.S. Prisons (6-15)
A former New York prisons official testified Wednesday that radical Muslims have made "sustained efforts" to indoctrinate inmates in America, at the second hearing on Islamic radicalization held by Rep. Peter King.

Islam, the ultimate obsessive-compulsive religion (6-14)
Although it has been seven years, I still have the vestiges of Islamic rituals stamped into my brain. For example, I still refuse to pet my dog before I pray. Why? Well, because in Islam, dog saliva makes all prayers null and void.

At debate, Republican candidates spar over Islam (6-13)
There weren’t too many sharp differences among the Republican presidential candidates in Monday night’s New Hampshire debate, but a crack did emerge over how Islam and Muslims ought to be treated in the United States.

Muslim supporter to Newt: Knock it off (6-9)
A longtime Muslim American supporter of Newt Gingrich tells Salon he called the presidential candidate a few months ago to object to Gingrich's statements about Shariah law and the "ground zero mosque."

Is Islam Poised to Take Over? (6-8)
The great 19th century British naturalist Charles Darwin’s singular contribution to the annals of science was his still provocative idea of “survival of the fittest.”

Hizb ut-Tahrir: This is open hostility to Islam (6-7)
Taji Mustafa, media representative of Hizb ut-Tahrir in Britain, rejects coalition's 'colonial' approach: "This policy has nothing to do with security. It is about forcing a set of values on a community simply because their beliefs do not conform to secular liberal norms, and is proof that liberals can be supremacist.

Group Says CA Textbook Hiding Truth about Islam (6-6)
A group in California says history textbooks being used in San Diego school district are covering up the truth about Islam.

USA/Islam: America’s Islamic Madrasas (6-4)
Watching his son sitting in his classroom decorated by cartoon characters, projects and artworks, Syed Shahzad, whose 13-year-old son Shayan attends Houston’s largest Islamic school, was very proud of the level his son reached in memorizing Qur`an and Islam’s true teachings, Houston Chronicle reported.

Wilders calls Islam ‘an ideology of hatred’ in demanding acquittal (6-1)
Geert Wilders, the inflammatory Dutch legislator charged with racial hate and discrimination for his anti-Islam comments, demanded he be acquitted Wednesday as his trial came to a close.