ICNA Islamic Circle of North America

 
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JAMAICA, New York (January 24, 2006) – The Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA), a grassroots organization of American Muslims, has strongly condemned the wrongful abduction of American journalist Ms. Jill Carroll of Christian Science Monitor and has called for her immediate release. ICNA Houston president Hanif Harris joined Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) and Houston’s Muslim leadership in a press conference to fervently denounce this act of kidnapping of a journalist.
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By RUSSELL BERMAN, Staff Reporter of the Sun | January 13, 2006
 
The leader of a large Shiite mosque in Queens has joined the new Iranian president in disputing the Holocaust, saying the Nazi massacre of an estimated 6 million Jews during World War II “has been exaggerated.”
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ALBANY, N.Y — In the prepackaged, boxed and canned world of American food banks, fresh meat is a luxury. But what to do when two and a half tons come at once?

The Queens-based Islamic Circle of New York planned to donate hundreds of pounds of meat to local food banks.

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Press Contact: Naeem Baig
Vice President for Public Affairs
Islamic Circle of North America
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Office: (718) 658-1199 Extension: 102
Cell: (917) 202-2118

 
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JAMAICA, New York (January 1, 2006) –  The crescent was not sighted anywhere in the mainland United States on December 31, 2005. The first day of Dhul-Hijjah1426 will be on Monday, January 2, 2006.
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