-- Ahmed Rehab says members of the organization went to Iraq in January and held press conferences to plead for Carroll's realease even though they never met her:

A fifth member has resigned from the state's anti-discrimination panel amid controversy surrounding a fellow commissioner who is a Nation of Islam official.

RIGHT-WINGERS tried to fan the flames of anti-Muslim and anti-Arab hate at the University of California-Irvine (UCI) on February 28, sponsoring a meeting titled “Unveiling the Cartoons.”

The furor over the cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed, it seems to me, boils down to one thing -- freedom of expression in a world where we're never all going to agree.

CHICAGO - On the 12th floor of the federal courthouse in Chicago, a hearing is taking place in a terrorist money-laundering case that has all the intrigue of a novel, complete with Israeli agents, disguises and allegations of torture.

Why did Warner Independent Pictures pick up Albert Brooks' "Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World"? "We saw the movie, and it was clear that Albert makes fun of himself and America, not anybody else," CEO Mark Gill told L.A. Times entertainment columnist Patrick Goldstein.

When Iyas Alhomouz was sworn in as a U.S.citizen at a ceremony in Chicago last week, it should have been a day of celebration.

The Danish cartoons on Prophet Mohammed have had its reverberations in the heart of the US. Immediately after the University of Illinois' student newspaper carried them, there was uproar by Muslim students, culminating in the firing of the paper's editor-in-chief and the opinions editor.

During an event co-sponsored by the Muslim Law Student Association, the Christian Legal Society and the Decalogue Society at John Marshall, Ahmed Rehab (center), communications director of the Council on American Islamic Relations, and John Marshall Professor Michael Seng (fourth from left) addressed the logical and legal aspects of the recent controversy of the publication of 12 cartoons of the Prophet Muhammed by a Danish paper.

Seeking to dispel common misconceptions about Islam and Muslims, a Chicago-area group has hit a real vein of interest.

....Illinois Democrat [Senator Dick Durbin] says he's gratified to hear that prosecutors nabbed the terror suspects with the apparent cooperation of members of the Muslim American community.

The message Sunday from a politician, a clergyman, a rabbi and a Muslim activist to a Jewish congregation in Uptown that saw its synagogue recently defaced by anti-Semitic graffiti was the same: A hate crime against one group is a crime against all humanity.

Local Muslims remained calm and collected Saturday night as they discussed an issue that has led to dozens of deaths worldwide.

Responding to the controversy over cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad, the Chicago chapter of a prominent Islamic civil rights group is participating in a yearlong campaign to educate the public on his life and legacy.

The Chicago chapter of a prominent Islamic civil-rights group tackled the controversy over cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad on Saturday night at a town hall meeting as part of a yearlong campaign to educate the public.

Tensions among student journalists and advisers at the Daily Illini heated up Thursday with an opinion piece and a letter to newspaper alumni blaming two of its suspended editors for the publication of cartoons that depicted the Muslim prophet Muhammad.

A coalition of more than 15 organizations and community members at large held a peaceful demonstration on the main quad Tuesday in response to the six Danish cartoons printed in the Daily Illini last Thursday.

The student newspaper at Northern Illinois University this week ran the controversial Danish political cartoons of the Muslim Prophet Muhammad. The student paper at the University of Illinois is still reeling from the consequences of running them.

Linda Haase Cohen moved to Skokie in large part because schools were off for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. So she was not happy when her district began scheduling classes on the Jewish holidays just as her daughter entered elementary school.

The editorial staff of the independent daily newspaper at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign said Monday that its members were embarrassed by how the decision was made to run controversial Danish cartoons of the prophet Muhammad last week.