For more than a decade, Mohammed Alqadhi watched the Mosque Foundation transform a slice of Bridgeview into a thriving Muslim enclave as families in search of an Islamic place to pray bought up the modest homes around the green-domed house of worship.

We have a new tactic in the struggle to understand Muslim World -- laughter, a U.S. State Department representative tells comedian Albert Brooks in the movie "Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World," which opens in Chicago this Friday.

Federal officials have admitted that air monitoring has been secretly made on several residential homes and Muslim sites in Illinois since the 9/11 attacks.

On Sept. 11, 2001, Malik Gillani was a successful information technology consultant.

Ahmed Rehab ["Discrimination fails us all," letters, Dec. 4] of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), Chicago, attacked Rep. Mark Kirk and the Sun-Times for endorsing Kirk's idea that we can make America safer by profiling people at airports who physically resemble the 19 murderers who killed 3,000 Americans on Sept. 11, 2001.

Thanks again to Dawn Trice for taking the time to reaffirm the dangers of racial and ethnic profiling ("From any angle, racial profiling is still wrong," Metro Dec. 8).

Calling it a blow against the guilt-by-association mentality that has dogged the Islamic community since Sept. 11, Muslim leaders are celebrating the acquittal of a Florida professor accused of assisting a violent Palestinian group.

A Greektown mosque and restaurant was vandalized during the weekend, leaving worshipers wondering why their house of worship was targeted.

The Hanania household has a curio cabinet adorned with a menorah and Torah, doorways with hanging mezuzahs (a tiny scroll for blessings and luck) and an elaborate ketubah marking a Jewish marriage.

Rep. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) believes peace activists from Egypt should be greeted at O'Hare Airport with a hefty dose of institutionalized discrimination. Their offense? Being of the same age group and national origin as Mohamed Atta. "I'm OK with discrimination against young Arab males from terrorist-producing states," says Kirk.

Those who portray terrorism as an "Islamic" phenomenon should pay more attention to current events. On Nov. 18, terrorists targeted worshippers at two Iraqi mosques, murdering more than 70 innocent Muslims.

Those who portray terrorism as an "Islamic" phenomenon should pay more attention to current events. On Friday, terrorists targeted worshipers at two Iraqi mosques, murdering more than 70 innocent Muslims.

WASHINGTON -- Facing mounting discrimination since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, a number of Sikh-American groups have begun a campaign to explain their religion to the American public and to differentiate their beliefs from those of Muslims.

About 3,000 activists at a Saturday rally called for a unified effort for immigrant rights, including expanded education and labor opportunities, that transcends their diverse nationalities and religions.

HE WOULD rather talk about the new Arab-American museum in Dearborn, the first of its kind in the country. But Ismael Ahmed patiently indulges questions on another topic—whether America does a better job than France of integrating Arab immigrants—even though he thinks the answers are obvious.

On Nov. 5 Congressman Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) spoke at the 2005 International Institute for Nanotechnology Symposium taking place at the Technological Institute. Although the purpose of this conference was to highlight recent advances in the field of nanotechnology, Kirk’s remarks included calling for discrimination against Arabs.

Citing examples of racial profiling, Muslim and civil rights activists told a legislative committee Thursday that police in Illinois should be required to add a category of "Middle Eastern" to those they use to track who is stopped by officers.

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Twenty-five immigrant and civil rights groups on Friday joined a Muslim organization in demanding U.S. Rep. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) apologize for remarks he made condoning discrimination against some Arabs.

Pressure is mounting on U.S. Rep. Mark Kirk to retract his recent comments he made that it is OK to discriminate against “young Arab males from terror-producing states.”