The A.M. report.Weekly News from Muslims Across the globe!For the Week of DECEMBER 24th, 2007 Muslim Airport Employee Suspended For Refusing To Wear Knee Length SkirtHalima Muse, a practicing Muslim, was laid off without pay by the Canadian Air Transport Security Authority until she agrees to wear a standard uniform that includes either slacks or a skirt that falls at the knee. Source www.citynews.caThe LA PD Shelves plan to make map of muslim communities to profile them.LOS ANGELES (AP): A police plan to map out Muslim communities, a proposal that civil rights groups sharply criticized as racial and religious profiling, has been shelved.Source knbc.comObama says he is not Muslim.The U.S. Senator, when questioned in a cafe said he is not Muslim, but he knows how muslims think, so he can talk to quote "these folks". Was he ever a Muslim? An in-depth analisys of this question can be found in: front page magazine.comAustralia, Cops block mass Muslim protestA PUBLIC meeting opposing the development of an Islamic school in. Sydney's southwest became heated last night when locals were not allowed to enter because there were already almost 700 people crammed inside.Source news.com.auRussia's first Muslim clinic opens in Moscow. With Koranic scriptures adorning its walls, Russia's first Muslim clinic opened in Moscow this week, hailed by religious leaders as a sign of greater respect for Islam.Source news.yahoo.comMuslims in Gujarat, India hope for peace and prosperity.'The community is happy because there has been no large-scale violence during the last five years,' said Amin Sayyed, a community leader from Panigate locality of Vadodara.Source in.news.yahoo.comNon-Muslims are getting into the Muslim investment wagon. Mr. Nicholas Kaiser, founder and president of Saturna Capital in Bellingham, Wash., has managed two highly rated socially responsible mutual funds guided by Islamic tenets: Amana Growth and Amana Income.This shows the growing need for Islamic halal fund open for investment. Source mercurynews.comCatholics and muslims met for the first time in Russian conference.For the first time in Russia, representatives of the Catholic Church and Islam formally sat down to discuss their differences, and what they have in common.Source pages.infinit.netPakistan: 60 die in train accident.At least 60 people have been killed and more than 120 wounded after a train derailed at 2.30 am near Mehrabpur in Pakistan. Source muslimnews.co.ukMalaysia: is now Protecting places of worship and has organized a strategy on how to do this.Source just-international.orgGood News, HARTFORD, Connecticut. - The Muslim community in Connecticut is growing, drawing more faithful to a mosque that provides room to expand and prompting efforts to reach out to others. The growth of this community reflects the over all growth of Muslim communities all throughout the united states as convert rates to Islam in the united states have increased dramatically during the past decade. source: newsday.com

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