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• Foster Mom Loses Job When Muslim Charge Converts

  A Muslim teenager's conversion to Christianity has prompted British officials to strip her evangelical foster mother of all responsibilities after ten years fostering kids for the government. The woman, who has fostered eighty kids in the past decade, says she's being persecuted as a Christian. What's more - she says she tried discouraging the girl, now seventeen, from switching religions. Read More... Posted Feb 11 2009, 12:26 PM by JeanneSager with | with 5 comment(s) Filed under: foster parents, religion, christianity, foster care, islam, muslim, Jeanne Sager, christian, foster child, foster system, religious, conversion, fosther mother

• Fox Asks, “Would You Want Terrorists Living in Your Backyard?”

  In response to President Obama’s executive order to close Guantanamo, give the remaining detainees fair trials, and ban torture (you know, the kinds of basic civil liberties that have governed civilized societies since the Magna Carta), Fox News has responded with unprecedented fear mongering. Read More... Posted Feb 09 2009, 01:30 PM by Hannah Tennant-Moore with | with 7 comment(s) Filed under: pennsylvania, tolerance, Fox News, muslim, prison, terrorists, hatred, torture, president obama, magna carta, convictions, military commissions, fair trials, guantanamo detainees, maximum security prison, federal courts, american soil, criminal justice system, murtha, closing guantanamo, would you want terrorists living in your backyard, alcatraz, executive order, backyard, detainees

• Dad Finds Daughter Abducted During Bosnian War

  It's been sixteen years since Muhamed Becirovic saw his family, abducted by Serbian soldiers at the start of the Bosnian war. But the Bosnian Muslim - now living in Germany - never gave up hope.   Now Red Cross workers, using DNA samples, have reconnected the father with one of his two little girls, now living with a foster family in Serbia. Senida was nine months when last seen by her father; she's now sixteen and goes by the name Mila.  She's also a Serbian. And a Christian. Read More... Posted Jan 12 2009, 03:01 PM by JeanneSager with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: adoption, religion, war, missing children, foster care, muslim, Jeanne Sager, missing child, biological parents, christian, foster child, biological father, Bosnia, heritage, Bosnian war

• Make Your Own Religious Doll

  Doll Creation Station allows people of all religious persuasions to make dolls featuring the accoutrements of their faith.  To be fair, the site only offers Christian, Jewish and Muslim dolls, but the company suggests that you "Check back with us as we expand into other religious and ethnic markets." Read More... Posted Nov 30 2008, 12:00 PM by Brett Singer with | with 5 comment(s) Filed under: toys, religion, christianity, Catholicism, judaism, dolls, muslim, Brett Singer, catholic, jewish, christian, religious, religious doll, doll creation station

• Citing Quran, Algerian Authorities Promote Breastfeeding

  With all the anti-Muslim slurs heard around the U.S. this past summer and early fall (we're looking at you, Sarah Palin), it's nice to hear about the progressive, humane side of Islam. Apparently, breastfeeding rates among mothers in Algeria have arrived at a dismal new low -- according to a 2006 survey, just 6.9% of women studied nursed their babies for six months -- prompting the government to launch an initiative to try to increase the number of women breastfeeding their babies. And for backup, they called in the Quran (or Koran, spellings vary), Islam's holy book. Read More... Posted Nov 17 2008, 03:00 PM by Kate Tuttle with | with no comments Filed under: breastfeeding, islam, muslim, koran, quran, algeria

• Parents Freaked Over Pro-Islam Doll

  I am starting to think that some parents have far more vivid imaginatons than their children. People in Oklahoma and Pennsylvana are apparently upset about the Little Mommy Real Loving Baby Cuddle and Coo Doll. Upset? Why, are these people anti-cuddling? Concerned about cooing? No. They claim the doll utters pro-Muslim messages. Specifically, Fox News reports that the doll says, "Islam is the light." She also says, "Satan is king." Exactly what Satan's royalty status has to do with Islam remains a mystery. Read More... Posted Oct 10 2008, 08:02 AM by Jen Chaney with | with 13 comment(s) Filed under: toys, religion, islam, muslim, satan, Little Mommy Real Loving Baby Cuddle and Coo Doll, dolls pulled from shelves, Muslim doll

• Should Countries be Allowed to Ban Women from the Olympics?

  Some women’s rights activists are calling to ban Saudi Arabia and Brunei from the Olympics—unless they start allowing women to participate. Right now, Saudi Arabia and Brunei are the only two countries that forbid women from competing in the Olympics. The two countries justify the ban on the grounds that some conservative Muslims see women’s sports as a sin. But, since every other Muslim sends women to the Olympics, this view on female athletes is clearly not endemic to Islam. Read More... Posted Aug 15 2008, 08:15 AM by Hannah Tennant-Moore with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: China, women's sports, islam, olympics, muslim, Saudi Arabia, ban, beijing, female athletes, muslimah media watch, religious freedom, brunei, misogynist, sin, compete, don't allow women to participate, female participation

• Teacher Held For Teddy Bear Name

  Hey, here's a real treat of a story: A British teacher in the Sudan is being held by authorities after allowing her class of seven-year-olds to name a teddy bear they used for a class project. The name they chose by vote? Mohammad. So while the kids were learning about animals and taking turns bringing the bear home on weekends and keeping a journal about the adventures of Mohammed, they were supposedly commiting blasphemy. Or at least the teacher Gillian Gibbons was. Of course Gibbons had no idea the bear name project would enrage anyone, and her fellow teachers at Unity say she just made an innocent mistake. There are reports that young men have started gathering outside the station where Gibbons is being held, and her colleagues are afraid for her safety. She could also receive up to three months in prison and a fine.  I think the story ends like this... Read More... Posted Nov 27 2007, 06:40 PM by Kelly Mills with | with no comments Filed under: religion, muslim, fundamentalism, teddy bear, blasphemy, gillian gibbons, sudan, mohammed

• Move Over Barbie: Salma Is a Muslim Alternative

  Sukmawati Suryaman used Barbie as the inspiration to create a more modest doll for Muslim children. Salma wears long-sleeved prayer dresses, abayas, and head scarves, "making Salma's conservative clothing more familiar to [Indonesian] children than the glittering, pop-star inspired outfits donned by dolls such as Barbie and Bratz." Of course, sequined hot pants, boas, stilettos and a bra top aren't exactly familiar to my kid, but that hasn't stopped Mattel. Maybe since Salma's whole body is covered, she can just get away with a bizarrely proportioned face or something. Suryaman hopes Salma will "inspire virtue in Muslim girls."  See, now there I take issue.   Read More... Posted Oct 10 2007, 05:03 PM by Kelly Mills with | with 10 comment(s) Filed under: barbie, bratz, body image, dolls, salma, muslim