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Muslims in America
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A Muslim man stands outside the Islamic Society of Boston mosque in Cambridge, Mass. April 26, 2013 as a pedestrian walks by. Robert F. Bukaty/AP
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Mohamed Ali of Reston, Va., prays holding a Quran during a gathering of Washington-area Muslims at the All Dulles Area Muslim Society (ADAMS), Feb. 24, 2012, in Sterling, Va., where a senior Pentagon official apologized for the mistaken burning of Qurans at a military base in Afghanistan. Carolyn Kaster/AP
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Fatimah Popal hands out paper to participants of a MakeSpace halaqa (discussion group) in Alexandria, Va. Such ‘third spaces’ – where young Muslims gather beyond mosque walls – are forming within American Muslim communities. Melanie Stetson Freeman/Staff
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Islam Awada, a teacher at the Muslim American Youth Academy in Dearborn, Mich., helps one of her young students with her headscarf before the celebration of the Hajj at the Islamic Center of America in Dearborn, Mich., Jan. 2006. Susan Tusa/Detroit Free Press/AP
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Abdul Kareem Abdullah stands outside of his store in Newark, N.J., February 2012. Americans in New Jersey’s largest city were subjected to surveillance as part of the New York Police Department’s effort to build databases of where Muslims work, shop, and pray. The result was a 60-page report, obtained by The Associated Press. It cited no evidence of crimes. It was just a guide to Newark’s Muslims. Charles Dharapak/AP
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Ismail Samad, chef and part owner of The Gleanery in Putney, Vt., calls himself ‘100 percent Muslim.’ To succeed in business, he has found work-arounds for his religious restrictions on alcohol and credit cards. Melanie Stetson Freeman/Staff
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Henna Malik is learning the words and methods of Islam's daily prayers from her mother, Romana, in Londonderry, New Hampshire, 2010. Melanie Stetson Freeman/Staff
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The National Muslim Basketball Tour aims to teach Muslim youths about their religion through sport. Here, a group played in Chicago during the Muslim American Society Islamic Circle of North America convention in December. Ann Hermes/Staff
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Linda Amrou (r.) and Aya Khalil, who attend a local mosque, volunteer to help build a home in Holland, Ohio. 2007. Melanie Stetson Freeman/Staff
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Monique Barrett has her photo taken for her driver's license with her traditional Muslim head scarf, at the Department of Public Safety in Oklahoma City, OK, 2009. Paul Hellstern/The Oklahoman/AP
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A Muslim man prays with others at the reflecting pool at Ground Zero September 11, 2010 as family members mark the ninth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks at the World Trade Center. Andrew Mills/Reuters
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The Islamic Center of Greater Toledo had a congregation of 550 families and 23 nationalities, 40% were immigrants, 23% converts in 2007. Melanie Stetson Freeman/Staff/File
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Muslim women walk past the Polish Market in downtown Hamtramck, Mich., 2004. Paul Sancya/AP
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Mohammad (c.) is held by Haya (l.) and Ben Youcef (r.) in front of mosque after meeting at the Omar Ibbin al Katar Mosque in Los Angeles, CA. Robert Harbison/The Christian Science Monitor/File
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Police stand by as Muslims leave the Islamic Society of Boston mosque, April 26, 2013, in Cambridge, Mass. Robert F. Bukaty/AP
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USA Court dismisses fears of 'creeping Sharia law' that led to Oklahoma ban (+video)
The Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld an injunction against an Oklahoma referendum banning the use of Islamic Sharia law in courts and said there's no evidence of such influence on US courts.
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The Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled against a proposed constitutional amendment in Oklahoma that bans the use of the Islamic legal code known as Sharia, calling the popular measure discriminatory and saying there is no evidence that US courts are influenced by those Muslim legal precepts.
