WASHINGTON — Congress’ two Muslim members urged the U.S. government on May 14 to lead efforts to end the violence in Sudan’s Darfur region, where more than 200,000 people have died and 2.5 million have been displaced.

WASHINGTON – Four of the country’s leading Muslim-American and Arab-American advocacy groups issued a joint letter on May 14 expressing strong reservations about a recently released Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee report on "homegrown terrorism."

The report, issued jointly by Committee Chairman Joe Lieberman (I-CT) and ranking member Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME), concludes that the threat posed by violent extremists now comes more and more from inside America’s borders.

Coach Jerry Marszalek’s contract with Fordson High School was not renewed. The decision was supported by hundreds of parents, who packed a Board of Education meeting on May 27 to support Principal Imad Fadlallah’s decision.

Six Somali women claim they were ordered by a manager to wear pants and shirts they considered immodest by Islamic standards, the Council on American-Islamic Relations said May 27. The women have filed a religious discrimination complaint with the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.