U.S. rejects visa for Muslim scholar
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The government has rejected a prominent Muslim scholar's application to enter the country, contending that he gave support to a terrorist group, but his attorneys allege the U.S. is using charitable donations he made as a pretext for stifling his views.
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An Islamic civil rights group Wednesday called on President Bush to rescind the appointment of a board member of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum who criticized an incoming congressman, Keith Ellison, the first Muslim elected to Congress.
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Major American Muslim groups gave what they called a "qualified endorsement" Thursday to Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry, urging Muslims to vote for him while calling his platform on civil rights inadequate.
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Unlike Muslim minorities in many European countries, U.S. Muslims are highly assimilated, close to parity with other Americans in income and overwhelmingly opposed to Islamic extremism, according to the first major, nationwide random survey of Muslims.
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A prominent European Muslim scholar has  been prevented from taking up a post at Notre Dame University  in Indiana after U.S. authorities revoked his visa, the  university said on Tuesday.
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The United States is stepping up a  preelection crackdown on visa violators suspected of posing a  terrorism risk, an immigration spokesman said on Monday, but he  denied the sweep singled out any ethnic or religious groups.
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Lawyers for jailed Muslim cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri tell a court he should not be extradited to face US charges.
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The State Department is turning to Rep. Keith Ellison, the first Muslim elected to Congress, to help burnish the country's image in the Muslim world &#151; despite Ellison's outspoken criticism of the Bush administration's foreign policy.
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An immigration judge Wednesday rejected an asylum application from a Guinean man whose case has attracted international support and who says his life will be in danger if he is deported to his homeland.
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The United States rejected a  Saudi plan for an all-Muslim force to protect U.N. election  staff in Iraq because the force would not have been under U.S.  command, New York daily Newsday reported Monday.
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Officials of some Muslim nations complain that the United States is failing to provide meaningful export opportunities because of protectionist pressure from U.S. industries.
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Cuban scholars charged Wednesday that the U.S. government denied visas to more than 60 Cubans seeking to attend conference on Latin America in the United States.
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The archbishop of Canterbury on Thursday called for a limited application of Islamic law in Britain. Muslims praised the proposal but the government rejected it.
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A controversial Muslim scholar has been declined a visa to visit Britain, the Home Office said Thursday, triggering criticism from Islamic groups.
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Malaysia's top civil court on Wednesday rejected a woman's appeal to be recognized as a Christian, in a landmark case that tested the limits of religious freedom in this moderate Islamic country.
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The U.S. government rejected a request Monday from Muslim groups to draw up a list of Islamic charities to which they could donate without being suspected of terrorist ties.
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An Egyptian cleric based in Qatar and often described as a moderate has ruled that it is a religious duty for Muslims to fight Americans in Iraq, including U.S. civilians, his office director said Thursday.