Evangelist's Tsunami Efforts Stir U.S. Muslim Group
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A U.S. Muslim group on Thursday  accused evangelist Jerry Falwell of using money donated for  tsunami relief to convert people in South Asia to Christianity  and called on the Bush administration to denounce his actions.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - President Bush said U.S.  aid efforts after Asia's killer tsunami would improve the U.S.  image in the Muslim world as fears receded that diseases and  infections could kill many thousands of survivors.
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Religious leaders from around Southeast Asia and Australia are urging greater efforts to promote tolerance and understanding. They met in Indonesia to build inter-religious bridges to reduce the threat posed by extremists.
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U.S. mosques face the challenges of adapting a conservative, foreign-grown Islamic ideology to an American setting.
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U.S. aid helicopters stepped up missions on Tuesday to Indonesia's tsunami-hit Aceh province, expanding help to millions affected by the giant wave that killed 175,000 around the Indian Ocean.
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By Kyle Stock, The Post and Courier, Charleston, S.C.  Sep. 9--Water Missions International, a nonprofit group that provides  portable water-filtering devices to developing nations and disaster areas, is  seeking to tap a new leader.
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Being a young Muslim in the US got much tougher after 9/11, so a brother-sister team came up with a book to help peers in their faith.
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Private groups have reported raising more than $337 million for tsunami relief in what may be the greatest outpouring of donations for a foreign disaster in American history.
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Raising their hands to the sky, about 2 million Muslim pilgrims prayed for salvation Wednesday at Mount Arafat, where Saudi Arabia's top cleric said the greatest test for the nation of Islam comes from its sons who are "lured by the devil," a reference to violent Muslim militants.
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Members of Britain's Sri Lankan Muslim community mourn their losses as they gather to pray and raise aid for the country after the Asian quake.
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The Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development was once the largest Muslim charity in the United States, but federal prosecutors argue that underneath its surface lay an ominous goal: financing international terrorism.
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Even when America is doing something for Muslims &#151; in this case, helping mostly Muslim Indonesia and other tsunami-battered nations &#151; it comes in for criticism in the Middle East, where resentment and suspicion color thinking about the United States.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia -- In a tent near the center of town, under a banner that reads ''trauma center," volunteer ministers from the Church of Scientology administer their brand of grief counseling to tsunami victims, which includes massages.
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About one in four Americans holds anti-Muslim views, such as a belief that the religion teaches violence and hatred, according to a survey an Islamic advocacy group released Monday.
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After the Sept. 11 suicide hijackings, distraught U.S. Muslim leaders feared the next casualty would be their religion.
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The number of southern U.S. evangelical Christians is not growing as fast as the wider population, leading to a renewed effort to win converts on the domestic front from key groups like the Hispanic community.
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Two weeks after the event, the number and location of the tsunami's survivors in Banda Aceh, Indonesia, remain a mystery. The IRC, like other relief groups, is moving ahead on the assumption that its efforts will find, or attract, people who need help.