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KANSAS CITY, Kansas (January 24, 2012) – The Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA) Kansas City chapter issued a press release today announcing the launch of its billboard campaign as part of ICNA’s national “Defending Religious Freedom and Understanding Shariah” campaign.
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Muslim group hands out literature and discusses Islam at Rancho Santa Margarita Public Library. – By Martin Henderson

You couldn’t miss it. In red and yellow letters draped over a table outside the entrance to the Rancho Santa Margarita Public Library was an eye-popping offer: “Free Quran.”
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Hundreds of Muslims in have been meeting at hall in Good Shepherd Catholic Church in Alexandria since August to pray while their new mosque is being built.
By Carlos Hamann – ALEXANDRIA, 2011-08-31
 
In a Catholic church located in the shadow of Mount Vernon, the estate of George Washington, the first US president, a group of Muslim faithful roll out their prayer rugs each week and kneel to pray to Allah.
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By CHRISTINE PERSICHETTE

MYFOXNY.COM – While most billboards you drive by on the New Jersey Turnpike advertise things like hotels or cars, the billboards getting attention recently advertise a certain religion and are stirring up controversy.

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August 9, 2011, newsworks.org

By now, drivers on the New Jersey Turnpike may have noticed the two billboards advertising an toll free number for callers to ask Muslim volunteers about their faith.

Many of the questions so far address Sharia law, jihad or the holy month of Ramadan, said Ashfaq Parkar, the national coordinator for the Islamic Circle of North America, which runs the hotline.

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SACRAMENTO, California (July 25, 2011) – The Islamic Circle of North America Sacramento Chapter is hosting an information booth at the California State Fair, from July 14 to July 31, 2011.
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By Jennifer Garza

Visitors to the California State Fair can find booths demonstrating everything from juicers to cleaning products. For the fourth year in a row, there is also a booth about Islam.

On the first floor of Building C, next to a space that sells headphones for athletes, fairgoers can pick up free Qurans and brochures. This year, DVDs about Islam are also available. Muslim volunteers are on hand to answer questions about their religion. Read more

With the concept of Shariah cropping up in forums across the country, and states moving to ban courts altogether from the consideration or use of Shariah, the Islamic Circle of North America is taking action. The organization’s “Understanding Shariah” campaign is geared to tackle what can easily be labeled one of the most controversial and misunderstood issues in the nation today.

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by Suzanne Khazaal
 
LOS ANGELES, California (May 22, 2011) – While controversy sparked over the change of venue from UCLA to USC for the 2011 Los Angeles Times Festival of Books held last month, fortunately for the volunteers of WhyIslam, the outreach project of ICNA Southern California Chapter, traffic flow to their booth was unhindered. In fact, their booth was one of the busiest at the festival this year.
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By Hasan Zillur Rahim, The American Muslim
 
Many of us speak of Lauren Booth, a recent Muslim convert, as the sister-in-law of Tony Blair, the former Prime Minister of Great Britain. They do her injustice. She has carved out a career as a fearless broadcaster and journalist on behalf of the oppressed. In fact, it would be more appropriate to identify Mr. Blair as the brother-in-law of Lauren Booth. Given his role in the Iraq war, such identification could even help Mr. Blair recover part of his dwindling reputation.
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ALEXANDRIA, Virginia (May 10, 2011) – ICNA was featured on Comedy Central’s prime time show The Daily Show with Jon Stewart last week. They covered cooperation between the Islamic center run by ICNA and the Aldersgate United Methodist Church, both in Alexandria, VA.

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LOS ANGELES, California (May 8, 2011) – Today the Annual Fiesta Broadway Festival, billed as the world’s largest Cinco de Mayo event, attracted half a million people who converged on 24 blocks in downtown Los Angeles. Over 50,000 people visited the first ever information booth on Islam organized by ICNA Southern California Chapter’s outreach project WhyIslam.

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LOS ANGELES, California (April 22, 2011) – This weekend, WhyIslam, a project of ICNA, dedicated to eradicating misconceptions about Islam, is handing out free literature and translated copies of the Qur’an at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books at the University of Southern California (USC) on April 30 and May 1.
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JAMAICA, New York (March 9, 2011) – In a letter addressed today to the ICNA President, the Most Rev. Wilton D. Gregory, Archbishop of Atlanta and Chairman, Committee for Ecumenical and Inter-religious Affairs, US Conference of Catholic Bishops, expressed his solidarity with Muslims. See the full letter here:
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JAMAICA, New York (March 7, 2011) – The Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA) issued a press release today thanking the public for messages of support after footage from an anti-Muslim rally in Orange County became public this week.
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Piscataway, New Jersey (January 31, 2011) – Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA), a grassroots- based non-sectarian mainstream organization of North American Muslims, has launched a TV Ad campaign in order to disseminate accurate information on Islam and Muslims, through its outreach project 877-Why-Islam.
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By Bidisha Roy, Hi India

CHICAGO, IL (December 17, 2010) – GainPeace, an out-reach project of Islamic Circle of North America has launched a bold venture in its public awareness campaign by placing ads about Islam on Buses and Train Ad running through in Chicago from October to December, 2010.

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by TMO, Muslim Media Network
 
HOUSTON, Texas (December 16, 2010) – “Giving brings many rewards & blessings to a person: Giving with philanthropic spirit brings rewards & blessings to not only a person, but also brings positive change in the society around us.”
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MIAMI, Florida (Nov 30, 2010) – The Islamic Circle of North America South Florida chapter hosted a dawah booth at the Miami Book Fair from November 19-21, 2010.

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Santa Clara, California (November 7, 2010) – At the end of the two-day meeting of the ICNA National Shura (Consultative Council), a luncheon was hosted by ICNA for the community leadership of the Bay Area. Dr. Zahid Bukhari, President of ICNA addressed the gathering attended by over 70 people representing various organizations in the Bay Area.

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