Islamic Scholar, Visa Withheld, Gives Up U.S. Post
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A prominent Swiss-based Islamic scholar  on Tuesday gave up plans to teach at a leading U.S. university  after waiting in vain for a visa and accused the Bush  administration of trying to silence him.
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The agreement clears the way for Yaser Esam Hamdi, who was born in the U.S. and raised in Saudi Arabia, to return there.
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The U.S. military dropped spy  charges against a Syrian-American airman who worked as a  translator at the anti-terror detention center at Guantanamo on  Wednesday after he agreed to plead guilty to several lesser  charges, officials said.
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A U.S. federal judge on Thursday upheld a government decision to refuse a prominent Swiss Muslim entry into the United States, saying the question of denying visas was best left to the authorities.
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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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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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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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Soliman S. Biheiri, the only person convicted in a broad probe into whether Islamic charities in Northern Virginia were financing terrorist organizations, pleaded guilty yesterday to illegally possessing and using a U.S. passport to enter the United States last year.
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Yaser Esam Hamdi, who was held as an enemy combatant for nearly 3 years, will be free to go home to Saudi Arabia. The federal government has reached an agreement with an American citizen captured on an Afghanistan
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President Bush's point man for  international counterterrorism policy has quit, the first  resignation by a senior official to be made public since Bush's  reelection, a U.S. official said on Friday.
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NEW YORK, Sept. 25 -- The government has rejected the visa application of one of Europe's best-known Muslim intellectuals, saying that he supported a terrorist group. His attorneys allege that the United States is using charitable donations he made as a pretext for stifling his views.
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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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U.S.-Iranian reporter Parnaz Azima has been given her passport back and is free to depart, after months of being prevented from leaving Tehran, her employer and Nobel Peace Laureate Shirin Ebadi said on Tuesday.
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A radical Islamic cleric accused of having links to terrorist groups has lost his appeal against deportation to Jordan, an appeals panel ruled on Monday.
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U.S.-Iranian reporter Parnaz Azima has left Iran for the United States after more than eight months of forced stay in the country, her employer said on Tuesday.
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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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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