Imams kicked off U.S. flight sue for discrimination
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Six Muslim clerics have filed a discrimination suit against U.S. Airways Group Inc. for removing them from a flight last November after passengers reported "suspicious behavior."
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Two Moroccan men were taken off a flight from Paris bound for Washington after officials determined one of the men was on the U.S. no-fly list.
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Six Muslim imams were removed from a US Airways flight at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport on Monday and questioned by police for several hours before being released, a leader of the group said.
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Canadian Muslims may launch a human rights complaint against football's governing body after a Quebec referee ordered an 11-year-old girl to quit a tournament for refusing to remove her hijab.
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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.
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The case of a Muslim woman fined for wearing a veil has created a dispute involving politicians, civil rights groups and a fashion designer.
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BAGHDAD, Aug. 17 (Xinhuanet) -- An eight-member team of Iraqi political and religious leaders flew to Najaf on Tuesday by a US military helicopter in a bid to end a bloody Shiite uprising there,delegates said.
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The American Civil Liberties Union said Wednesday it is suing Jeppesen Dataplan Inc., a subsidiary of Boeing Co., claiming it provided secret CIA transportation services to shuttle three terrorism suspects overseas, where they were tortured.
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Six Islamic leaders who were removed from a US Airways flight in November are suing the airline for discrimination.
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Yusuf Islam, the London-based artist formerly known as Cat Stevens, forced a Washington, DC-bound United Airlines flight to land prematurely in Maine Tuesday after his name popped up on a US terrorist watch list.
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The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission sued Merrill Lynch over its treatment of an Iranian Muslim employee.
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WASHINGTON - A London-to-Washington flight was diverted to Maine on Tuesday when it was discovered passenger Yusuf Islam - formerly known as singer Cat Stevens - was on a government watch list and barred from entering the country, federal officials said.    United Airlines Flight 919 was en route to Dulles International Airport when the match was made between a passenger and a name on the watch list, said Nico Melendez, a spokesman for the Transportation Security Administration...
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Six Islamic religious leaders have filed suit against US Airways for having them removed from a domestic flight last November.
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A civil rights group asked a judge Friday to find it unconstitutional for the federal government to exclude a prominent Muslim scholar or anyone else from the United States on the grounds that they may have endorsed or espoused terrorism.
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An Islamic civil rights group Wednesday called on President Bush to rescind the appointment of a U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum board member who criticized an incoming congressman, Keith Ellison, the first Muslim elected to Congress.
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An Egyptian imam accused of preaching violent Islamic extremism has been deported to his homeland, authorities said Tuesday.
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A United Airlines flight from London to Washington was rerouted to Bangor, Maine, to prevent Yusuf Islam, the British pop musician formerly known as Cat Stevens, from entering the United States, The New York Times reported.