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  • Civil rights lawyers: NYPD spying violates rules

    February 4, 2013 6:43 AM

    WASHINGTON - Civil rights lawyers are telling a judge that the New York Police Department's surveillance of Muslim communities violates federal guidelines established to stop the NYPD from conducting political surveillance. The lawyers say in a court motion the NYPD has renewed such scrutiny in its post-9/11 focus on Muslims.... more »
  • Actress files second suit in anti-Muslim film case

    September 27, 2012 12:41 PM

    LOS ANGELES - An actress who appeared in an anti-Muslim movie trailer that sparked violence in the Middle East has filed a federal lawsuit in Los Angeles against the filmmaker and YouTube to have the clip taken down. The complaint filed Wednesday by Cindy Lee Garcia cites copyright infringement and... more »
  • Obama condemns violence tied to anti-Muslim film

    September 25, 2012 11:54 AM

    UNITED NATIONS - President Barack Obama is condemning an anti-Muslim film and the violence in the Middle East that has followed its release, saying there is "no speech that justifies mindless violence." Obama says in a speech Tuesday before the U.N. General Assembly that "there are no words that excuse... more »
  • Muslim world expecting more violent protests

    September 21, 2012 8:52 AM

    PESHAWAR, Pakistan - Muslim countries are expecting more violent protests today against the anti-Islam film produced in the U.S. Pakistani police have opened fire on rioters who were torching a move theater. One man reportedly was killed. The theater was one of two in Peshawar that rioters ransacked and... more »
  • Judge denies request to stop anti-Muslim film clip

    September 20, 2012 12:50 PM

    LOS ANGELES - A judge has denied a request to force YouTube to remove an anti-Muslim film trailer that has been blamed for causing deadly violence in the Muslim World. Judge Luis Lavin rejected the request from Cindy Lee Garcia, an actress who appears in the clip, in part because... more »
  • Egypt to try 7 Copts, US pastor over Prophet film

    September 18, 2012 12:42 PM

    CAIRO - Egypt's general prosecutor has issued arrest warrants for seven Egyptian Coptic Christians and a Florida-based American pastor and referred them to trial on charges linked to an anti-Islam film that has sparked riots across the Muslim world. The prosecutor's office says the seven men and one woman, all... more »
  • Film protests lead to clashes across Muslim world

    September 14, 2012 12:09 PM

    CAIRO - It's been a day of sometimes-violent anti-American demonstrations across the Middle East and elsewhere in the Muslim world -- with demonstrators scaling the walls of U.S. embassies in Tunisia and Sudan. They also torched part of a German embassy, and clashed with security forces at an American fast-food... more »
  • Probation department looking at filmmaker

    September 14, 2012 10:56 AM

    WASHINGTON - A federal probation office is looking into the case of the anti-Muslim filmmaker whose work is inflaming the Middle East. The probation department in the central district of California is reviewing the case of Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, who was previously convicted on bank fraud charges and was banned... more »
  • Hundreds of Afghans protest anti-Islam film

    September 14, 2012 8:51 AM

    KABUL, Afghanistan - Hundreds of Afghans - some shouting "Death to America" - have held a protest against an anti-Islam film in the eastern city of Jalalabad. The film depicts the Prophet Muhammad as a fraud, a womanizer and a madman. Since it surfaced on the Internet, it... more »
  • Protesters storm US Embassy in Yemen

    September 13, 2012 7:26 AM

    SANAA, Yemen - A protest at the U.S. Embassy in Yemen's capital is the latest demonstration of its kind in response to an anti-Muslim film. Hundreds of protesters chanting "death to America" stormed the embassy grounds today and burned the American flag, but didn't enter the main building. ... more »
  • White House helps pay for NYPD Muslim surveillance

    February 27, 2012 7:54 AM

    WASHINGTON - Millions of dollars in White House money is helping pay for New York Police Department programs that put entire American Muslim neighborhoods under surveillance. The money is part of a little-known grant intended to help law enforcement fight drug crimes. Since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, the Bush... more »
  • Operator of radical Muslim site to plead guilty

    February 9, 2012 3:31 AM

    ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A Muslim convert from Brooklyn who ran a website that posted threats against the creators of the television show "South Park" for supposedly insulting the prophet Muhammad is expected to enter a guilty plea. Jesse Curtis Morton, also known as Younus Abdullah Mohammad, was charged last year... more »
  • Muslim group claims new Nigeria attacks

    December 25, 2011 1:21 PM

    MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) - A radical Muslim group that has killed nearly 500 people this year in Nigeria has struck again on Christmas Day. It's claiming responsibility for an explosion that ripped through a Catholic church during Christmas Mass near Nigeria's capital, killing at least 25 people. The group also... more »
  • Police: NY cabbie is asked if he is Muslim, stabbed

    August 25, 2010 1:32 PM

    Police say a suburban New York man hailed a taxi in the city, asked the driver if he was Muslim and then stabbed him when the driver said yes. Police arrested Michael Enright on Tuesday night on charges including attempted murder as a hate crime. He was expected... more »
  • White House says Obama is Christian, prays daily

    August 19, 2010 1:09 PM

    The White House says President Barack Obama is a Christian who prays daily. White House spokesman Bill Burton made the remark Thursday, hours after a poll showed 18 percent of Americans think Obama is Muslim, up from 11 percent who thought so last year. A third think he's... more »
  • Army considers rescinding invitation to Franklin Graham

    April 21, 2010 12:57 PM

    The Army says it's considering whether to rescind an invitation to evangelist Franklin Graham to appear at the Pentagon on the National Day of Prayer after a religious liberty group complained about his description of Islam as "evil." Col. Tom Collins says Army leaders were meeting Wednesday and that... more »
  • Former LSU, NBA star playing basketball in Japan

    April 2, 2010 1:11 PM

    Two important things haven't changed for Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf in the 14 years since he set off a firestorm of criticism by refusing to stand for the national anthem before NBA games. He's still a devout Muslim and playing basketball. Abdul-Rauf is now in Japan, the latest stop of... more »

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