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• Muslim US lawmaker to testify at hearings on radicals (AFP)
• Muslims, supporters protest Congressional hearing (Reuters)
• Immigrant students revive Mass. Pentecostal church (AP)
• Religious leaders rally for American Muslims (AFP)
• Special US prison units fill with Muslims (AFP)
• Pope laments Libya's "many deaths," urges aid (AP)
• Jewish groups oppose circumcision ban in US city (AFP)

Muslim US lawmaker to testify at hearings on radicals (AFP) Posted: 06 Mar 2011 04:06 PM PST AFP - A Muslim US lawmaker said Sunday he would testify at controversial hearings on American Muslim radicalization, as religious leaders blasted the congressional inquiry as Islamophobia.

Muslims, supporters protest Congressional hearing (Reuters) Posted: 06 Mar 2011 03:45 PM PST Reuters - Muslims, activists and supporters demonstrated in Times Square on Sunday to protest a Congressional hearing on radicalization of U.S. Muslims.

Immigrant students revive Mass. Pentecostal church (AP) Posted: 06 Mar 2011 03:39 PM PST AP - When Ange-Therese Akono arrived in the U.S. two years ago, the Cameroon-born student felt overwhelmed. She knew few people and was entering an intense civil engineering master's program at MIT. A fellow student suggested she visit Pentecostal Tabernacle, a nearby Cambridge church said to be welcoming to students like her.

Religious leaders rally for American Muslims (AFP) Posted: 06 Mar 2011 03:12 PM PST AFP - New York religious leaders and a legendary hip hop figure lead a rally Sunday to defend American Muslims from what they described as Islamophobia in upcoming congressional hearings.

Special US prison units fill with Muslims (AFP) Posted: 06 Mar 2011 02:53 PM PST AFP - US federal prisons for the past three years have housed special units filled disproportionately with Muslim inmates whose every communication with the outside world is strictly monitored.

Pope laments Libya's "many deaths," urges aid (AP) Posted: 06 Mar 2011 03:42 AM PST AP - Pope Benedict XVI on Sunday lamented the deaths and humanitarian crisis caused by the fighting in Libya between forces loyal to longtime strongman Moammar Gadhafi and those demanding his ouster.

Jewish groups oppose circumcision ban in US city (AFP) Posted: 05 Mar 2011 06:04 PM PST AFP - Jewish groups and others are up at arms over an attempt to outlaw male circumcision in San Francisco by putting the issue to a popular vote.

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