2010年9月2日星期四

Yahoo! News: Religion News

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Religion News


Paris mosque slams burger chain's Muslim outreach (AP)

Posted: 02 Sep 2010 09:00 AM PDT

Consumers queue at in fast-food chain restaurant which offer Halal burgers in Fleury Merogis, south of Paris, Wednesday, Sept.1 2010.  Starting Wednesday, bacon burgers are a thing of the past in 22 outlets of French fast food chain Quick, where offerings are being tailored to meet the dietary needs of France's large Muslim community. The business decision to target an under-exploited market has unsettled some in France as the country debates what integration means and prepares to ban burqas. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)AP - Note to big companies hoping to tap into France's lucrative but long-neglected Muslim consumer market: Pitfalls may await, and not only in the form of complaints from the far-right.


John Walker Lindh seeks Ind. prison prayer ruling (AP)

Posted: 01 Sep 2010 10:42 PM PDT

FILE - In this Jan. 23, 2002, file photo John Walker Lindh is seen in a photo released by the Alexandria County Sheriff's Department in Alexandria, Va., Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2002. The American Civil Liberties Union last Thursday, Aug. 26, 2010, filed a motion in U.S. District Court in Indianapolis on behalf of Lindh, an American-born Taliban fighter to order a federal prison in Terre Haute, Ind., where they are being held, to allow them and other Muslims in their highly restricted cell block to pray as a group, in accordance with their beliefs. (AP Photo/Alexandria County Sheriff's Department)AP - American-born Taliban fighter John Walker Lindh and another Muslim inmate have asked a judge to order a federal prison to allow them and other Muslims in their highly restricted cell block to pray as a group, in accordance with their beliefs.


Builders of NYC mosque face financial hurdles (AP)

Posted: 02 Sep 2010 04:04 PM PDT

VIDEO: The proposed construction of a 100-million-dollar, 13-story mosque and Islamic center near Ground Zero in New York City, has stirred raw emotions in the United States as the country prepares to mark the ninth anniversary of the September 11 attacks. Duration: 01:00(afp.com)AP - The developers planning to build a $100 million Islamic center near the World Trade Center site still have financial hurdles to clear: They haven't finished buying all the property they want for the project and are nearly a quarter-million dollars behind on real estate taxes and late fees.


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