Read more Islam stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/118/islam.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 18:08:08 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/74156/gadhafi-hires-200-hot-italian-women-tries-to-convert-them.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMoammar Gadhafi hired a couple of hundred attractive Italian women for the night, headed to the Libyan ambassador's place in Rome, shepherded them into a room, and ... tried to convert them to Islam. The Libyan dictator offered $75 for the evening, causing most of the women to assume they’d be...http://www.newser.com/story/74156/gadhafi-hires-200-hot-italian-women-tries-to-convert-them.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 16 Nov 2009 14:23:06 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/73844/home-grown-islamic-terrorism-no-threat.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWhatever place religious extremism occupied in the troubled mind of Nidal Hasan, the United States—unlike Europe—has no reason to fear terrorism from its own Muslim population, says Max Fisher . American Muslims are far less vulnerable to al-Qaeda recruitment than their brethren across the pond, Fisher writes in the...http://www.newser.com/story/73844/home-grown-islamic-terrorism-no-threat.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 12 Nov 2009 8:14:54 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/73521/hasan-felt-discriminated-against-wanted-out-of-army.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagNidal Malik Hasan considered himself a victim of anti-Muslim bias and had been trying for 6 months to quit the Army, his cousin says. "I think because he’s a Muslim he didn’t want to go to Afghanistan or Iraq, and he didn’t want to expose himself to violence and death....http://www.newser.com/story/73521/hasan-felt-discriminated-against-wanted-out-of-army.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 06 Nov 2009 17:30:24 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/73506/muslim-groups-condemn-hasan-rush-to-judgment.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWith hate mail already pouring in, Muslim American groups rushed to condemn the Fort Hood shooter today as a criminal who doesn’t represent Islam. “You wouldn't take a Christian or a Jewish soldier who did something like this and look at other Christians and Jews and say, 'Can we trust...http://www.newser.com/story/73506/muslim-groups-condemn-hasan-rush-to-judgment.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 06 Nov 2009 12:28:00 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/73364/swiss-to-vote-on-minaret-ban.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSwiss government and business leaders are having a panic attack over a referendum that would ban minarets on mosques—and, they fear, make the country a target for Islamic terrorism. The handiwork of the anti-immigrant Swiss People's Party, infamous for an earlier campaign poster showing a white sheep kicking a...http://www.newser.com/story/73364/swiss-to-vote-on-minaret-ban.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 05 Nov 2009 6:47:10 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/72730/omar-bin-laden-dad-beat-me.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWhen Omar bin Laden was about to be born, his father got so excited that he lost his keys. When he finally found them after a frantic search, he tore to the hospital at reckless speed in his brand new golden Mercedes. It’s hard for Omar to imagine the scene,...http://www.newser.com/story/72730/omar-bin-laden-dad-beat-me.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 28 Oct 2009 11:26:20 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/71876/gopers-run-witch-hunt-for-muslim-spies.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFour House Republicans are using a document reprinted in a fringe book on a supposed conspiracy to “Islamize America” to call for an investigation into Muslim “spies” in Congress—spies in the form of interns in congressional offices, that is. How “repugnant” and crazy, writes Glenn Greenwald for Salon. The...http://www.newser.com/story/71876/gopers-run-witch-hunt-for-muslim-spies.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 16 Oct 2009 10:37:46 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/71210/a-quarter-of-world-is-muslim.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagA quarter of the world's population is Muslim, and nearly two-thirds of the religion's adherents live in Asia, according to an extensive new study mapping the world of Islam. Indonesia is the largest Muslim nation, and India, a majority-Hindu country, has the world's third-largest population of Muslims—more than twice...http://www.newser.com/story/71210/a-quarter-of-world-is-muslim.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 08 Oct 2009 5:31:01 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/71135/gitmo-guard-why-i-embraced-islam.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTerry Holdbrooks didn’t know anything about Islam when he was assigned to guard the Guantanamo Bay detention center. The lone son of junkie parents, raised by his ex-hippie grandparents, he liked hard drinking, hard rock, and tattoos. But once there he became intensely curious about Islam, wondering how the detainees...http://www.newser.com/story/71135/gitmo-guard-why-i-embraced-islam.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 07 Oct 2009 14:13:25 CDT