Muslims supporting congressional hopeful
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When Mohamed Ghabour heard that a Muslim candidate, Keith Ellison, was running for Congress in Minneapolis, Ghabour turned to a sister-in-law who lives in Minnesota for a scouting report. "She said he's a good man," recalled Ghabour, a Muslim pediatrician from the Tampa, Fla., area. "That's all I needed to hear."
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BAGHDAD, Dec 9  - Iraq&#39;s majority Shiite Muslims on Thursday unveiled a broad alliance ahead of next month&#39;s key elections that is backed by their highest religious leader but which excludes radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr.
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An audio tape attributed to the deputy leader of al-Qaeda has urged Muslims to organise resistance against &quot;crusader America&quot; and its allies.
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American Muslims are setting up voter   registration booths in mosques across the United States,   echoing a tactic employed by evangelical Christians to support   conservative Republican candidates.
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With more than 1,200 Muslims and Arab-Americans taken into custody after the Sept. 11 attacks, and a U.S.-led war raging in Iraq, many Muslims oppose George Bush in the November presidential election. But their voting for John Kerry is not a slam-dunk, either.
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He's a devout Muslim whose wife wears an Islamic headscarf in a nation where religious attire is banned from government buildings. He is also a champion of reforms needed for Turkey to qualify for European Union membership.
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ISTANBUL, Jul 16 (IPS) - Turkey's Islamic-rooted governing party will  soon put its record to test in a parliamentary election dominated  by the role of religion in public life and possible military  incursion into the Iraqi quagmire. It may win, but not govern.
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Keith Ellison, who could become the   first Muslim to win a seat in the U.S. Congress, is a former   Catholic who says both religions and family roots in the civil   rights movement shaped a fiery liberal philosophy.
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There are those who would say that former House member Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) could and should have a leg up in winning the open Senate seat in Oklahoma, a conservative, Christian
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Thousands of religious conservatives are in Washington today to hear from the leading Republican candidates.
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Powerful Iraqi Shiite politician Abdul-Aziz al-Hakim, headed to the White House next week, made a gesture of reconciliation to Jordan's Sunni Arabs on Friday by praying with them and saying he opposes sectarian killings and the creation of an Iraqi Shiite state loyal to Iran.
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Eight years after a lawmaker was thrown out of Turkey's parliament for wearing a Muslim-style headscarf, devout Turks are pinning hopes of more religious rights on their next president and his headscarf-wearing wife.
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Eight years after a lawmaker was thrown  out of Turkey&#39;s parliament for wearing a Muslim-style  headscarf, devout Turks are pinning hopes of more religious  rights on their next president and his headscarf-wearing wife.
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Top Al Qaeda member Ayman al-Zawahiri has pledged to fight the United States until it changes its policies regarding Muslims. &quot;We... will fight you, god willing, until the last minute,&quot; al-Zawahiri, Al Qaeda
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Osama bin Laden&#39;s deputy Ayman al-Zawahri has issued a new pledge to fight against the US. In a video aired by Arab TV station al-Jazeera, the al-Qaida leader told Americans to treat Muslims with respect and embrace &quot;an exchange of interests&quot; or else.
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The holy month&#39;s fasting culminates in the feast of Eid al-Fitr and prayers for peace, tranquility and greater understanding. Colorado Muslims, including 1-year-old Mohammad Saif Islam of Denver, gather Sunday
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ANKARA, Turkey -- A devout Muslim with a background in political Islam won the Turkish presidency on Tuesday, in a major triumph for the Islamic-rooted government after months of confrontation with the secular establishment.