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• Feds: Man smuggled money to fund Muslim fighters (AP)
• Mormon church officials talking with Chinese (AP)
• Student indicted in Muslim cabbie attack in NYC (AP)
• Suspect in Mormon church attack was former member (AP)
• Ill. state police sued over Muslim chaplain flap (AP)
• U.S. election skews NY Muslim center debate: imams (Reuters)
• Obama says not worried by Muslim "rumors" (Reuters)
• Obama says he isn't worried about Muslim rumors (AP)
• 'Misinformation' behind mislabel as Muslim: Obama (AFP)

Feds: Man smuggled money to fund Muslim fighters (AP) Posted: 30 Aug 2010 05:34 PM PDT AP - Lawyers for the prosecution and defense outlined their cases to the jury in the trial of the founder of the U.S. branch of an Islamic charity.

Mormon church officials talking with Chinese (AP) Posted: 30 Aug 2010 05:26 PM PDT AP - The Mormon church is in talks with the People's Republic of China to improve relations for church members living in mainland China, church officials said in a statement Monday.

Student indicted in Muslim cabbie attack in NYC (AP) Posted: 30 Aug 2010 04:58 PM PDT AP - An arts student accused of slashing a Muslim taxi driver's neck has been indicted on hate-crime charges, prosecutors said Monday as the student's lawyer lashed out at media interest in a case that comes amid debate over attitudes about Muslims and a plan to build a mosque near ground zero.

Suspect in Mormon church attack was former member (AP) Posted: 30 Aug 2010 04:55 PM PDT AP - The suspected gunman in the fatal shooting of a Mormon church official in Central California was mentally ill and believed the church had wronged him when he was a member in the 1980s, family members said Monday.

Ill. state police sued over Muslim chaplain flap (AP) Posted: 30 Aug 2010 03:40 PM PDT AP - An advocacy group has filed a lawsuit against the Illinois State Police alleging discrimination when the agency revoked the appointment of the agency's first Muslim chaplain.

U.S. election skews NY Muslim center debate: imams (Reuters) Posted: 30 Aug 2010 01:51 PM PDT Reuters - A U.S. debate over plans for an Islamic center near New York's World Trade Center site has been politicized ahead of the congressional election, the Muslim cleric heading the project and other city imams say.

Obama says not worried by Muslim "rumors" (Reuters) Posted: 30 Aug 2010 12:18 AM PDT Reuters - A public opinion poll showing Americans are increasingly convinced, wrongly, that he is Muslim does not trouble him, President Barack Obama said on Sunday.

Obama says he isn't worried about Muslim rumors (AP) Posted: 29 Aug 2010 06:31 PM PDT AP - President Barack Obama said Sunday he isn't worried about a recent poll showing that nearly one-fifth of Americans believe he is a Muslim. "The facts are the facts," said Obama, who is a Christian. In an interview broadcast on "NBC Nightly News," the president blamed the confusion over his religious beliefs on "a network of misinformation that in a new media era can get churned out there constantly."

'Misinformation' behind mislabel as Muslim: Obama (AFP) Posted: 29 Aug 2010 06:16 PM PDT AFP - US President Barack Obama blamed a "network of misinformation" for keeping alive persistent rumors that he is Muslim, but he shrugged off the misconception as being out of his control.

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