• CAIR: Pakistani Exchange Student in Coma Faces Flight Back Home (Duluth News Tribune)
  The family is from Faislabad, the third-largest city in Pakistan with more than 2 million people. The brothers' father died in 2005, and they are not well off, Shahraiz said. But they've been getting help from the Council on American-Islamic Relations. Ibrahim Hooper, the group's national communications director, said CAIR normally deals with discrimination cases and civil-rights issues. But this case seemed important enough to attract the organization's attention, he said. Shahraiz first contacted CAIR's Minnesota office.
  • Duluth Hospital: State Dept. Rejected Visa Extension for Comatose Pakistani Student (Star Tribune)
    
• Some Mexican Catholics Now Find God in Islam (Denver Post)
  Evangelicals, Protestants and Jehovah's Witnesses now account for 8 percent of Mexicans who identify with a religion. And a small yet growing group of converts are seeking spiritual salvation in Islam. In fact, Pew estimates Mexico will be home to 126,000 Muslims by 2030, up from 111,000 in 2010.
  
• How Do You End Up Slaughtering Muslims? By Blaming Muslims for Religious Violence. (Slate)
  The lesson here isn't that all Muslims are innocent, or that Christians and Buddhists are dangerous, or that one religion is worse than another. The lesson is that the more you fixate on blaming one religion, the more you sink into the cycle of sectarian hatred. And when restraint and self-restraint give way, you end up with sectarian violence. 
  • Khutba vs. Khutzpa: "Islamophobia on the Internet " with Daniel Varisco
  • A Fight Over a Tennessee Mosque Has Cost One County $343,276 (So Far)
    
• Colorado Muslim Society Medical Volunteers Awarded Grant for Public Health Initiative
  • In Iowa, a Lasting Symbol of American Islam (Al Jazeera America)
    The Mother Mosque and those pieces of history lost to the waters of the Cedar River represented some of Islam's earliest roots in North America. The building is widely recognized as the continent's oldest mosque, in the sense that it was the first structure to be built from the ground up specifically as a mosque.
  • CA: $1.8 million Mosque Rising at Islamic Center in West Modesto
    
• US Ends Near Decade-long Boycott of Indian Opposition Leader Narendra Modi
  • Backgrounder: U.S. Muslims Again Seek Visa Denial for Gujarat Massacre Figure

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