Muslims drift, not run, towards Kerry
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They may not face the segregation that once defined the lives of black Americans, but many Muslim Americans feel that they are fighting the civil rights battles of the 1950s and 60s all over again.
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Supporters of the anti-American cleric say reports of his flight to Iran are false. But clerics in Najaf tell TIME there are signs he has left the city
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BAGHDAD, March 6 -- Inside the tent of Ali Abbas in the central city of Hilla, Shiite men beat their chests in a feverish rhythm on Tuesday. The pilgrims were mourning the death of Imam Hussein, the  prophet Muhammad's grandson who was slain with his family in 681. They had walked dozens of miles,...
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President Bush and Democratic challenger John Kerry put their faith on display on Wednesday, as Bush linked his foreign policy to a belief that "God wants everybody to be free" and Kerry tied his faith to a fight for equality and justice.
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Though military personnel lean conservative, some support Kerry - or at least a strategy for swift withdrawal.
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SAN DIEGO - Omar Abdi Mohamed, a lanky, soft-spoken political refugee from war-ruined Somalia in East Africa, had been preaching the word of Islam in the United States for the past nine years. Two things make him unusual.
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Though military personnel lean conservative, some vocally support Kerry - or at least a strategy for swift withdrawal. WASHINGTON - Inside dusty, barricaded camps around Iraq, groups of American troops in
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Ihsan Saadeddin is proud to be an   American. But he's tired of having to prove it just because   he's a Muslim too.
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Islamic militants may be in charge, but that doesn't mean there won't be Christmas this year.
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(Baghdad, Iraq -AP, Nov. 27, 2004 1:15 PM) _ Shiite Muslim religious leaders in Iraq are rejecting any delay in holding elections.
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Religious and cultural conservatives, a political force skeptical of the leading Republican presidential candidates, are caught in a tug of war between pragmatism and ideology.
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Like others who wanted John Kerry to defeat President Bush, author Lily Tuck was in such despair after Election Day that she wondered if she should remain in the United States. She thought of returning to her native Paris, the bane of Bush supporters, or at least hanging a French flag from the balcony of her apartment overlooking Madison Avenue. Then again, there is no flag to which Tuck would truly pledge allegiance, for she has never felt at home anywhere.
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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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The Media and Society Research Group of Cornell University conducted a survey in November of Americans with respect to their attitudes towards Muslims.  Nearly half (44%) of respondents favored restricting the civil rights of Muslims in some way.    The press release, with links to the report, is available at http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=109&amp;STORY=/www/story/12-17  -2004/0002639656&amp;EDATE=
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Leaders of the mostly Shiite Muslim ticket said Monday they have no intention of establishing an Iranian-style Islamic state in Iraq if they sweep next weekend's national elections.
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Thamer and Cherif, two recently arrested 22-year-old French Muslims, won't be going to Iraq to fight American troops or to die as martyrs. Their fast track to the rebel insurgency dried up days before they were to leave.
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U.S. mosques face the challenges of adapting a conservative, foreign-grown Islamic ideology to an American setting.